Maria Plotnikova

Maria Plotnikova was born in Moscow, Russia, in 1984. In 2007 she graduated from Moscow State University after studying photojournalism. Between 2006 and 2010 she worked as a sports photographer for various media outlets in Moscow. The result of this work in sports photography were different awards in Russian contests of photojournalism. She currently lives in Buenos Aires, after moving there in 2010. In South America Maria works as a freelance artist and has developed her interest in the genre of street photography. Having the opportunity to travel around the continent, she doesn’t stop shooting in search of her own style of street photography. In 2012 Maria was short-listed in the London Festival of photography and became a finalist of the Moscow Festival of street photography. Recently she joined Street Photographers collective.  (more…)

Harold Feinstein

Harold Feinstein was born in Coney Island, New York, USA in 1931. He began his career in photography in 1946 at the age of 15 and within four short years, Edward Steichen, an early supporter, had purchased his work for the permanent collection of the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA). He joined the Photo League at 17 and became a prominent figure in the vanguard of the early New York City street photography scene where he exhibited at Helen Gee’s Limelight Gallery. He was one of the original inhabitants of the legendary “Jazz Loft” which he later turned over to his long-time collaborator and colleague W. Eugene Smith for whom he designed the original lay-out of the famous Pittsburgh Project. Feinstein had his first exhibition at the Whitney Museum of American Art in 1954 and his first exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art in 1957. He is best known for his six-decade engagement with Coney Island, which has resulted in a collection unsurpassed by any other photographer.

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The new crowd by Misha Gordin

Misha Gordin is worldwide known conceptual photographer. For him conceptual photography is the way of artistic expression, which is on the same level as painting, sculpture, poetry or music. He explains this: “A bad concept, even if perfected, still leads to a poor, poor pictures.” For Misha Gordin the creation of photo is the same as “writing poems.” He uses the old, traditional techniques of fine art for the transmission of fine dark worlds and mysterious allegories. Through a conceptual picture Gordin raises important questions in art and life as birth, death and the nature of existence.  (more…)

The Beauty of Family by Sally Mann

Sally Mann was born in Lexington, Virginia, USA in 1951. She has photographed in the American South since the 1970s, producing series on portraiture, architecture, landscape and still life. But She is the best known for her intimate portraits of her own family, her young children and her husband. Her work has attracted controversy at times, but it has always been influential, and since her the time of her first solo exhibition she has attracted a wide audience. Sally Mann explored various genres as she was maturing in the 1970s: she produced landscapes and architectural photography, and she blended still life with elements of portraiture. But she truly found her metier with her second publication, a study of girlhood entitled “At Twelve: Portraits of Young Women” (1988).

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Joel Meyerowitz

Joel Meyerowitz is an award-winning photographer whose work has appeared in over 350 exhibitions, museums and galleries around the world. Born in New York in 1938, he began photographing in 1960s, becoming a “street photographer” in the classical traditions of those years. However, Meyerowitz works exclusively in colour. A year long trip to Europe in the mid 1960s sparked a turning point for Meyerowitz as he began to find his own voice, working equally in color and black and white. The use of color began to have a tremendous impact on his work, as he craved its inherent descriptive qualities.  (more…)

Cole Thompson

Cole Thompson’s goal is simple, to produce fine art photography in black and white.  As a teenager, Cole Thompson would spend hours looking at photos of the great masters of photography. While over the years Cole Thompson has broadened his subject matter, he has never abandoned those photographic ethics that he developed as a youth.  In 2004 Cole Thompson took the radical step of converting to digital and had to wrestle with new ethical questions that arose from the advances in technology.  At the time, digital was not considered appropriate for fine art black and white photography.  And yet, almost all of the Cole Thompson photographsare digital, captured and printed digitally and now you have possiblity to decide if Cole Thompson has maintained that classic tradition.  (more…)

Gustavo Minas

Gustavo Minas is Brazilian street photographer. Born in November 4th, 1981 in Cassia. Nowadeys based in Sao Paulo, Brazil. Today he is a journalist and dedicated amateur photographer who publishes his daily work at flickr social network. Gustavo studied photography for one year with Carlos Moreira, probably the most influential classic street photographer in Brazil. After that, he decided to dedicate himself to two never-ending projects: photographing the streets of Sao Paulo and Cassia, his hometown, in sunny early mornings or late afternoons. He is also a member of SelvaSP, a recently launched collective of street photographers of Sao Paulo and Street Photographers colective. Gustavo Minas’ photography is well combined mix of light and shadows, colors of Brazil and barely perceptible, elusive moment of the life well captured and saved for the years.  (more…)

Abstract expressionism by Aaron Siskind

Aaron Siskind (December 4, 1903 – February 8, 1991) was an American abstract expressionist photographer. Aaron Siskind’s work focuses on the details of nature and architecture. He presents them as flat surfaces to create a new image out of them, which, he claimed, stands independent of the original subject. Photographer and educator Aaron Siskind holds a preeminent place in the history of American photography. As the sole photographic member of the American Abstract Expressionist movement, Aaron Siskind is regarded as one of the most influential photographic-based artists of the 20th century.  (more…)

Jeanloup Sieff

Jeanloup Sieff born Paris, France to parents of Polish origin in November 30, 1933 was a fashion photographer. Jeanloup Sieff’s work is unmistakable. The clean modern elegance of his images is combined with a cool sensuality influenced by the “new wave” film-makers of the 50s. A personal erotic vocabulary in his nudes and fashion photography is evident; long bare backs, delicate curves and lingerie. Sieff’s landscapes are almost surreal with rocks and grasses isolated in desolate terrain’s, in contrast to his portraits which convey real human warmth.  Jeanloup Sieff (1933–2000) was one of the most highly regarded art, fashion, portraiture photographers of his generation, who worked mainly in black and white.  (more…)

Bruno Barbey

Bruno Barbey is a Moroccan-born French photographer (born 1941). A prolific author who likes to express himself through the form of books, Barbey is known particularly for his free and harmonious use of color. Throughout his four-decade career he has traveled across five continents, photographing many wars. Over four decades, Bruno Barbey has journeyed across five continents and numerous world conflicts, though he does not consider himself a war photographer, he nevertheless covered the civil war in Nigeria, Vietnam, the Middle East, Bangladesh, Cambodia, Ireland, Iraq and Kuwait.

His work has appeared in most major magazines in the world. A prolific author who often exposes and expresses himself in book form, Barbey is especially known for his free and harmonious use of color and has frequently worked in Morocco, the country of his childhood. In 1999, the Petit Palais (Musee des Beaux Arts) of the city of Paris, produced a large exhibition of his photographs taken in Morocco during the past 30 years. He has received numerous awards for his work, including the French “National Order of Merit”, the “Oversees Press Club Award”, and the “University of Missouri Photojournalism Award”.  (more…)