Nicholas David Gordon Knight OBE is a British fashion photographer and founder and director of SHOWstudio.com. He is an honorary professor at University of the Arts London and was awarded an honorary Ph.D. by the same university. He has produced books of his work including retrospectives Nicknight (1994) and Nick Knight (2009). In 2016, Knight's 1992 campaign photograph for fashion brand Jil Sander was sold by Phillips auction house at the record-breaking price of HKD 2,360,000.
Seydou Keïta was a Malian photographer known for his portraits of people and families he took at his portrait photography studio in Mali's capital, Bamako, in the 1950s. His photographs are widely acknowledged not only as a record of Malian society but also as pieces of art.
Albert Watson OBE is a Scottish fashion, celebrity and art photographer. He has shot over 100 covers of Vogue and 40 covers of Rolling Stone magazine since the mid-1970s, and has created major advertising campaigns for clients such as Prada, Chanel and Levis. Watson has also taken some well-known photographs, from the portrait of Steve Jobs that appeared on the cover of his biography, a photo of Alfred Hitchcock holding a plucked goose, and a portrait of a nude Kate Moss taken on her 19th birthday.
Stephen Gill is a British experimental, conceptual and documentary photographer, whose work has been exhibited internationally along with his books that are a key aspect to Gill’s practice.
Foam or Fotografiemuseum Amsterdam is a photography museum located at the Keizersgracht in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. The museum has four different exhibitions at any given time in which different photographic genres are shown, such as documentary, art and fashion. Next to large exhibitions by well-known photographers, Foam also shows the work of young and upcoming photographers, in shorter running exhibitions.
W.M. Hunt is a photography collector, curator and consultant who lives and works in New York.
Erik Madigan Heck is an American artist and photographer. Heck is the founding editor of art and fashion publication Nomenus Quarterly. In 2013, Heck was awarded the Infinity Award for Applied/Fashion/Advertising by the International Center of Photography. He is also the youngest person to photograph Neiman Marcus' prestigious "Art of Fashion" campaign, which he shot in 2012. In its April 2011 issue, Photo District News magazine named Heck one of the 30 "new and emerging photographers to watch." Heck was also awarded with the renowned "30 Under 30" award by Forbes Magazine.
Miles Aldridge is a British fashion photographer and artist.
Jun Ahn (안준) is a South Korean photographer, known primarily for her Self-Portrait series of photographs taken from atop high buildings. She has worked extensively in the United States, particularly in New York, as well as South Korea.
Alex Prager is an American photographer and filmmaker, based in Los Angeles. She makes staged color photographs.
Mikhael Subotzky is a South African artist based in Johannesburg. His installation, film, video and photographic work have been exhibited widely in museums and galleries, and received awards including the KLM Paul Huf Award, W. Eugene Smith Grant, Oskar Barnack Award and the Discovery Award at Rencontres d'Arles. He has published the books Beaufort West (2008), Retinal Shift (2012) and, with Patrick Waterhouse, Ponte City (2014). Subotzky is a member of Magnum Photos.
Thijs groot Wassink and Ruben Lundgren are two Dutch photographers who work together as WassinkLundgren. Their photography and film projects shift mundane, often unnoticeable, everyday occurrences into visually compelling and gently amusing observations of the world around us.
Noémie Goudal is a French visual artist who currently resides in London. She works with photography, film and installation.
Daniel Sannwald is a German photographer and director based in London.
Andrey Bogush is a Russian born artist living and working in Helsinki, Finland. Bogush is known for his photography-based works, large installations and readings. For his recent exhibition “When Everything Is Over So We Can Discuss", "Bogush renders quotidian photographs —shot while working at home or in nature— with digital patterns and hazy swaths or scribbles of color. Pulling these images off the screen and into sculptural space, Bogush printed them on industrial vinyl and has hung them as rippled curtains lining the walls or as flat carpets on the floor".
Gus Powell (1974) is an American street photographer. He was a member of the In-Public street photography collective.
Foley Gallery is a contemporary art gallery in Manhattan, New York City, owned by Michael Foley. Since opening in 2004, Foley Gallery has moved from the Chelsea neighborhood to the Lower East Side in 2014. Among the artists Foley represents are Joseph Desler Costa, Wyatt Gallery, Sage Sohier, Martin Klimas, Simon Schubert, Henry Leutwyler and Ina Jang. Foley has previously shown work by Rosalind Solomon, Polixeni Papapetrou, Rachell Sumpter and Hank Willis Thomas.
Livia Corona Benjamin is a Mexican artist that centers her work on the relationship of human experience and the man-made. Her recent work is artisanal but combines multi genre practice of the developing world and new innovations.
Rachel de Joode is a Berlin-based sculptor, photographer, and installation artist.
Joseph Maida is an artist, writer and educator. Best known for his photography, Maida's work is a visual representation of the intersections between identity and culture. Maida's most significant projects include New Natives; Things R Queer; and Born Free and Equal: The Story of Loyal ________-Americans. Maida earned an MFA from Yale University in 2001 and currently serves as chair of the BFA Photography and Video Department at School of Visual Arts (SVA).
