Frans Lanting
Frans Lanting (born 1951) is a Dutch wildlife photographer who lives in Santa Cruz, California. For more than three decades he has photographed animals and wild places for National Geographic, from the Amazon to Antarctica.
David Muench
David Muench (born 1936) is an American landscape photographer. For more than seventy years he has photographed the wild places of the American West, many of them for Arizona Highways magazine.
Sebastião Salgado
Sebastião Salgado (1944–2025) was a Brazilian photographer who trained as an economist. For fifty years he worked on long black-and-white projects about workers, migrants, untouched nature and the peoples of the Amazon.
Andreas Gursky
Andreas Gursky (born 1955) is a German photographer who grew up in Düsseldorf. He is known for very large color photographs of architecture, landscapes and contemporary life, often taken from a high viewpoint.
Cindy Sherman
Cindy Sherman (born 1954) is an American artist from New Jersey who works with photography. For about fifty years she has been the only model in her own pictures.
Herb Ritts
Herb Ritts (1952–2002) was an American photographer from Los Angeles. He made black-and-white portraits of film stars, musicians and supermodels, and fashion pictures for Versace, Armani and Calvin Klein.
David LaChapelle
David LaChapelle (born 1963) is an American photographer and director. He started at Andy Warhol’s Interview magazine in the 1980s and became one of the best-known magazine photographers of the 1990s.
Galen Rowell
Galen Rowell (1940–2002) was an American photographer, writer and mountaineer. He carried a light 35mm camera up walls and peaks around the world and made color photographs of mountains in rare light.
Diane Arbus
Diane Arbus (1923–1971) was an American photographer from New York. After ten years in fashion photography with her husband, she began her own work in 1956.
Yousuf Karsh
Yousuf Karsh (1908–2002) was an Armenian-Canadian portrait photographer. He came to Canada as a young refugee and opened a studio in Ottawa in 1932.
Irving Penn
Irving Penn (1917–2009) was an American photographer. For more than sixty years he made fashion pictures, portraits and still lifes for Vogue, in a calm and simple style.
Bieke Depoorter
Bieke Depoorter (born 1986) is a Belgian photographer and a member of Magnum Photos. She is known for asking strangers if she can spend the night in their homes, first in Russia, then in the United States and Egypt.
Annie Leibovitz
Annie Leibovitz (born 1949) is an American portrait photographer. She began at Rolling Stone in 1970 and has worked for Vanity Fair since 1983 and for Vogue since 1998.
Richard Avedon
Richard Avedon (1923–2004) was an American photographer from New York. At Harper’s Bazaar and later Vogue, he let fashion models move, jump and laugh.
Ansel Adams
Ansel Adams (1902–1984) was an American landscape photographer and conservationist. His black-and-white pictures of Yosemite and the national parks are among the best known in photography.
Jonas Bendiksen
Jonas Bendiksen (born 1977) is a Norwegian documentary photographer and a member of Magnum Photos. His books look at community, faith and technology, from forgotten corners of the former Soviet Union to seven men who say they are the Messiah.
Martin Parr
Martin Parr (1952–2025) was a British documentary photographer and a member of Magnum Photos. His bright, close and funny colour photographs of the seaside, shopping and tourism changed British documentary photography.
Dotan Saguy
Dotan Saguy (born c. 1971) is a street and documentary photographer based in Los Angeles. Born in Israel and raised near Paris, he left a career in high tech in 2015 to photograph full time.
Mary Ellen Mark
Mary Ellen Mark (1940–2015) was an American documentary photographer from the Philadelphia area. For more than four decades she photographed people many others overlooked, often staying with them for weeks or returning for years.