Type | Cooperative |
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Industry | Photography |
Founded | 2011 |
Founders | Dominic Bracco II, Melanie Burford, Brendan Hoffman, Charlie Mahoney, Lance Rosenfield, Max Whittaker |
Area served | Worldwide |
Products | Photojournalism, photo agency |
Website | www.primecollective.com |
Prime Collective is an international cooperative of documentary and news photographers, filmmakers, and visual artists focused primarily on social and environmental justice issues including conflict, violence, gender, and climate change. It was founded in 2011 with the initial goal of providing professional support and guidance for its members in the challenging freelance photography market. [1] [2]
Prime’s member photographers are based around the world and known for their collaborations with major media organizations including National Geographic Magazine, [3] The New York Times, [4] The New Yorker, [5] The Washington Post, [6] Smithsonian Magazine, [7] and Harper’s Magazine, [8] and photography awards from organizations such as World Press Photo, [9] Pictures of the Year International, [10] and the Pulitzer Prize. [11]
Prime currently counts the following seven photographers as members: [12]
Prime has primarily been active participating in or helping to organize several photography festivals. In 2011 and 2013, it held informal exhibition events in connection with the Look3 Festival of the Photograph in Charlottesville, Virginia. [13] In 2014, Prime was a co-organizer of the Oso Bay Biennial at Texas A&M University–Corpus Christi. [14] In 2016, member photographers offered portfolio reviews and a workshop at San José Foto, a festival in San José de Mayo, Uruguay, [15] a festival that was founded and directed at the time by then-member Christian Rodriguez. [16]
Corpus Christi is a coastal city in the South Texas region of the U.S. state of Texas and the county seat and largest city of Nueces County, it also extends into Aransas, Kleberg, and San Patricio Counties. It is 130 miles (210 km) southeast of San Antonio. Its political boundaries encompass Nueces Bay and Corpus Christi Bay. Its zoned boundaries include small land parcels or water inlets of three neighboring counties.
Marcus Bleasdale is a British photojournalist, born in the UK to an Irish family.
Ellis (Eli) Reed is an American photographer and photojournalist. Reed was the first full-time black photographer employed by Magnum Agency and the author of several books, including Black In America. Several of the photographs from that project have been recognized in juried shows and exhibitions.
David Solomons is a British street photographer. He is known for his photographs in London, where he has made a trilogy of self-published books: Underground (2009), Up West (2015) and Kippers and Curtains (2018). He was a member of the In-Public street photography collective.
Penelope Umbrico is an American artist best known for her work that appropriates images found using search engines and picture sharing websites.
Dulce Pinzón is a Mexican artist currently living in Brooklyn, New York, Mexico City, Mexico, and Montreal, Canada. In 2015 she was named by Forbes Magazine as "One of the 50 most creative Mexicans in the world", and Vogue magazine identified her as one of the "8 Mexican female photographers who are breaking through at a global level." In 2020, the Voice of America characterized her as having "earned a prestigious place in the world of fine arts photography."
Narelle Autio is an Australian photographer. Autio is a member of the In-Public street photography collective and is a founding member of the Oculi photographic agency. She is married to the photographer Trent Parke, with whom she often collaborates.
Tomas van Houtryve is a Belgian visual artist, director and cinematographer working mainly with photography and video. He is an Emeritus member of the VII Photo Agency, and a Contributing Artist for Harper's Magazine.
Matt Black is an American documentary photographer whose work has focused on issues of poverty, migration, and the environment. He is a full member of Magnum Photos. Black's first book, American Geography, was published in 2021 and was exhibited at Deichtorhallen in Hamburg, Germany.
Laia Abril is a Catalan artist whose work relates to bio-politics, grief and women rights. Her books include The Epilogue (2014), which documents the indirect victims of eating disorders; and a long-term project A History of Misogyny which includes On Abortion (2018), about the repercussions of abortion controls in many cultures; and On Rape (2022) about gender-based stereotypes and myths, as well as the failing structures of law and order, that perpetuate rape culture.
In-Public is an international group of street photographers that operates as a collective. It was established in 2000 by Nick Turpin with the intention of bringing together like minded photographers to hold exhibitions, produce books and conduct workshops and promote street photography.
Blake Andrews is an American street photographer and blogger based in Eugene, Oregon. Andrews was a member of the In-Public street photography collective.
Virginia Morales is a Mexican photographer and member of the Salón de la Plástica Mexicana.
Muhammed Muheisen is a two-time Pulitzer Prize winning photographer and the recipient of numerous international awards. He is a National Geographic photographer and the founder of the Dutch non-profit organization Everyday Refugees Foundation.
Austin Irving is an American contemporary artist and photographer.
Addis Foto Fest is a photography festival held biennially in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. It takes place over a week in December.
Sohrab Hura is an Indian photographer based in New Delhi. He is a full member of Magnum Photos.
Susana Raab is an American fine art and documentary photographer based in Washington, D.C. She was born in Lima, Peru.
Nadia Huggins was born in 1984 in Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago. She now resides in Saint Vincent and the Grenadines. Nadia Huggins is a self-taught photographer and graphic designer who has worked extensively throughout the Caribbean. She was awarded the Festival Caribbeen de L'image du Mémorial Acte Jury Prize in Guadeloupe in 2015.
Ala Kheir is a Sudanese photographer, cinematographer and mechanical engineer. He became known as one of the founders of the Sudanese Photographers Group in Khartoum in 2009 and through international exhibitions of his photographs, as well as for networking and training for photographers in Africa.