Paul Gaffney (born 1979) [1] is an Irish landscape photographer. His book We Make the Path by Walking was made on long distance walks across southern Europe. [2] [3]
Gaffney gained a diploma in documentary photography from the University of Wales, Newport and an MFA in photography from Ulster University in Belfast. [4]
His first book, We Make the Path by Walking (self-published, 2013), is a collection of landscape photographs made on walking trips through rural Spain, Portugal, and France. long-distance walking, as a form of meditation and personal change, was integral to his creative practice. [2] In total Gaffney walked more than 3,500 kilometres. [5] [6] The book Stray (2016) was photographed in a dense pine forest in almost total darkness. The book Perigee (2017) was also made in forests, photographed by the light of the full moon. [7]
Daidō Moriyama is a Japanese photographer best known for his black-and-white street photography and association with the avant-garde photography magazine Provoke.
Paul Seawright is a Northern Irish artist. He is the professor of photography and the Deputy Vice Chancellor at Ulster University in Belfast/Derry/Coleraine. Seawright lives in his birthplace of Belfast.
Aesthetica Magazine is a publication focusing on art and culture. Established in 2002, the magazine provides bi-monthly coverage of contemporary art across various disciplines, including visual arts, photography, architecture, fashion, and design. It has a readership of over 550,000 globally.
Roger Tiley is a Welsh documentary photographer. His work on documenting the coal mines of Wales and America has been used extensively in publications. Specifically during the UK miners' strike (1984–1985).
Stephen Gill is a British experimental, conceptual and documentary photographer. His work has been exhibited internationally along with his books that are a key aspect of his practice.
Peter Fraser is a British fine art photographer. He was shortlisted for the Citigroup Photography Prize in 2004.
Ffotogallery is the national development agency for photography in Wales. It was established in 1978 and since June 2019 has been based in Cathays, Cardiff. It also commissions touring exhibitions nationally and internationally. Its current director is David Drake. From 2003 to 2019 Ffotogallery used Turner House Gallery in Penarth as its gallery.
Pieter Hugo is a South African photographer who primarily works in portraiture. He lives in Cape Town.
Ken Grant is a photographer who since the 1980s has concentrated on working class life in the Liverpool area. He is a lecturer in the MFA photography course at the University of Ulster.
Preston is My Paris Publishing (PPP) is a photography-based project that creates publications, site-specific installations, live events, digital applications, education, writing, talks and workshops. It was started in 2009 by Adam Murray and Robert Parkinson as a photocopied zine with the intention of encouraging the exploration of Preston as a subject for creative practice and to focus more attention on the city. It has been described as "politically and photographically aware", "photographing and publishing a view of a disregarded, ordinary Britain" "in a playful way".
Corinne Silva is a British artist whose work is a reflection on landscapes throughout the world, including conflict zones. Her photographs include images of Almería, Morocco, Israel, and Palestine. Silva is a senior lecturer at the Photography and the Archive Research Centre, University of the Arts London.
John Myers is a British landscape and portrait photographer and painter. Between 1973 and 1981 he photographed mundane aspects of middle class life in the centre of England—black and white portraits of ordinary people and suburbia within walking distance of his home in Stourbridge.
Niall McDiarmid is a Scottish photographer. His work is primarily about documenting the people and landscape of Great Britain. McDiarmid has had solo exhibitions in the UK at Oriel Colwyn in Colwyn Bay, at Museum of London in London and at the Martin Parr Foundation in Bristol. His work is held in the collection of the National Portrait Gallery, London.
Rafał Milach is a Polish visual artist and photographer. His work focuses on the tension between society and power structures. Author of protest books and critical publications on state control. He is a full member of Magnum Photos and lectures in photography at the Krzysztof Kieślowski Film School at the Silesian University in Katowice
Raymond Meeks is an American photographer. "Much of his work focuses on memory and place, and captures daily life with his family." He has published a number of books including Pretty Girls Wander (2011) which "chronicles his daughter's journey from adolescence to adulthood"; and Ciprian Honey Cathedral (2020), which contains symbolic, figurative photographs taken in and around a new house, and of his partner just before waking from sleep. Meeks is co-founder of Orchard Journal, in which he collaborates with others.
Jack Latham is a British documentary photographer. His books include A Pink Flamingo (2015), made along the route of the Oregon Trail in the USA at a time of national financial hardship; and Sugar Paper Theories (2016) about the Guðmundur and Geirfinnur case in Iceland—a case of memory distrust syndrome in which six people confessed to murders they did not commit.
Michal Iwanowski is a Polish photographer and writer currently living in Cardiff, Wales.
Alexandra Lethbridge is a Hong Kong-born conceptual artist working with photography and installation, living in the UK. She self-published The Meteorite Hunter in 2014, work from which was exhibited at The Photographers' Gallery in London. The Path of an Honest Man was exhibited at Format Festival in Derby and work from Other Ways of Knowing exhibited at The Lumiere Brothers Center for Photography in Moscow.
Martin Bogren is a Swedish documentary photographer, living in Malmö. He has made "understated books full of quietly observed moments shot in grainy black and white."
Justyna Mielnikiewicz is a Polish photographer, based in Tbilisi, Georgia. She works as a documentary photographer and on long-term personal projects about post-Soviet states. She has published Woman with a Monkey (2014) and Ukraine Runs Through It (2019). She won the W. Eugene Smith Grant in 2016.