Terri Weifenbach is an American fine-art photographer, [1] living in Paris. She has published a number of books of landscape photography, often of plants and animals, gardens and parks. Her work is held in the collections of the Center for Creative Photography in Tucson [2] and North Carolina Museum of Art. [3] She is the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship. [4]
Weifenbach was born in New York City and raised in Washington, D.C. [5] She graduated from the University of Maryland, College Park in 1978. [6] Since then she has lived in New Mexico, California and again in Washington, D.C., [5] and now lives in Paris. [7]
Weifenbach photographs plants and animals and "uses the richness of gardens and parks as the site for her landscape images". [6] Bookmaking is central to her artistic practice. [5] Parr and Badger include In Your Dreams (1997) in the second volume of The Photobook: A History. [8]
She worked as a photographic printer from 1983 to 2006. [9] She was married to John Gossage for 14 years, from 1992. [9] [10]
Martin Parr is a British documentary photographer, photojournalist and photobook collector. He is known for his photographic projects that take an intimate, satirical and anthropological look at aspects of modern life, in particular documenting the social classes of England, and more broadly the wealth of the Western world.
Daidō Moriyama is a Japanese photographer best known for his black-and-white street photography and association with the avant-garde photography magazine Provoke.
Robert Adams is an American photographer who has focused on the changing landscape of the American West. His work first came to prominence in the mid-1970s through his book The New West (1974) and his participation in the exhibition New Topographics: Photographs of a Man-Altered Landscape in 1975. He has received two Guggenheim Fellowships, a MacArthur Fellowship, the Deutsche Börse Photography Prize and the Hasselblad Award.
Stephen Shore is an American photographer known for his images of scenes and objects of the banal, and for his pioneering use of color in art photography. His books include Uncommon Places (1982) and American Surfaces (1999), photographs that he took on cross-country road trips in the 1970s.
John Gossage is an American photographer, noted for his artist's books and other publications using his photographs to explore under-recognised elements of the urban environment such as abandoned tracts of land, debris and garbage, and graffiti, and themes of surveillance, memory and the relationship between architecture and power.
Alec Soth is an American photographer, based in Minneapolis. Soth makes "large-scale American projects" featuring the midwestern United States. New York Times art critic Hilarie M. Sheets wrote that he has made a "photographic career out of finding chemistry with strangers" and photographs "loners and dreamers". His work tends to focus on the "off-beat, hauntingly banal images of modern America" according to The Guardian art critic Hannah Booth. He is a member of Magnum Photos.
Christian Patterson is an American photographer known for his Sound Affects and Redheaded Peckerwood series which have received solo exhibitions and been published as books. Redheaded Peckerwood was awarded the Rencontres d'Arles Author Book Award in 2012 and Patterson has been awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship and the Vevey International Photography Award.
Jim Goldberg is an American artist and photographer, whose work reflects long-term, in-depth collaborations with neglected, ignored, or otherwise outside-the-mainstream populations.
Kikuji Kawada is a Japanese photographer. He co-founded the Vivo photographic collective in 1959. Kawada's books include Chizu and The Last Cosmology (1995). He was included in the New Japanese Photography exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art, New York in 1974 and was awarded the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Photographic Society of Japan in 2011.
Todd Hido is an American photographer. He has produced 17 books, had his work exhibited widely and included in various public collections. Hido is currently an adjunct professor at the California College of the Arts in San Francisco.
Jacob Aue Sobol is a Danish photographer. He has worked in East Greenland, Guatemala, Tokyo, Bangkok, Copenhagen, United States and Russia. In 2007 Sobol became a nominee at Magnum Photos and a full member in 2012. His work has been published in a number of monographs and many catalogues, and is held in the collection of the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.
John Divola is an American contemporary visual artist and educator, living in Riverside, California. He works in photography, describing himself as exploring the landscape by looking for the edge between the abstract and the specific. He is a professor in the art department at University of California Riverside.
Gerald David "Gerry" Badger is an English writer and curator of photography, and a photographer.
Nazraeli Press is a publisher of books of photography. It was founded in 1989, in Munich, Germany, by Chris Pichler and has been based in the US since 1996.
Leon Borensztein is an American photographer whose work reflects long-term and in-depth projects. His areas of focus are in psychological portraiture and documentary.
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.
Mark Christopher Steinmetz is an American photographer. He makes black and white photographs "of ordinary people in the ordinary landscapes they inhabit".
Monica Moses Haller is an American photographer. She produced the book Riley and His Story with Riley Sharbonno and Matt Rezac, part of the Veterans' Book Project which she co-runs, both of which are about the U.S led wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. Haller is an Assistant Professor in the University of Minnesota's Art Department and a 2010 recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship.
Jamey Stillings is an American photographer and artist known primarily for his aerial photography of renewable energy projects around the world, documenting the human impact on the environment. Stillings presents at photo festivals, universities, and professional conferences globally. His work is exhibited and published widely in Asia, Australia, Europe, and North and South America. His award-winning book, The Evolution of Ivanpah Solar, documents the Ivanpah Solar Electric Generating System in the Mojave Desert of California. His photographs are in private and public collections, including the United States Library of Congress, Museum of Fine Arts - Houston, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, and Nevada Museum of Art.
Emi Anrakuji is a Tokyo-based legally blind Japanese photographer who makes self-portraits. She has produced a number of books with Nazraeli Press and her work is held in the collection of the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. In 2006 Anrakuji won the New Photographer Prize of the Higashikawa Prize in Higashikawa, Japan.