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Agustí Centelles Ossó was a Catalan photographer, working on the Republican side of the Spanish Civil War. As a refugee from the Franco regime he was interned in France where he recorded life in the camp at Bram. #AgustíCentellesOssó

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Onésipe Aguado. A wealthy amateur photographer and a familiar figure at the French imperial court, the viscount Onésipe-Gonsalve Aguado de Las Marismas joined the Société Française de Photographie in 1858. With his better-known brother Olympe, a founding member of the society. #onésipeaguado

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Elisa González Miralles, master in documental photography from EFTI Madrid (2007), received the FotoPres 07 and Unicaja 08 first prizes. She received a grant from World Press Photo, Asian Europe Foundation and the Philippine Centre of Photo-journalism to take part in the Urban Youth project in Manila (Philippines, 2007), and participated in Darkside II in the Fotomuseum Winterthur (Switzerland, 2009). In 2009, Elisa founded the MADPHOTO academy (Madrid) together with fellow photographers Damián González and Manolo Yllera. During recent years, Elisa has exhibited her work in the Rome International Festival, the Art Photography Show in San Diego, the Lishui Festival in China, and the RayKo’s camara show in San Francisco amongst others. Moreover, she has participated in different workshops with remarkable authors like Antoine D’Agata, Carl de Keyzer, Christopher Anderson, and Guy Tillim. In 2014, she was a finalist in NEXOFOTO (Madrid), Descubrimientos PHE (Madrid), VOIES OFF (Arles), Encontros da Imagem (Braga), FULL CONTACT (Tarragona), and the JAAL Project (Madrid). In 2015, she received the TINA PRIZE (Berlin), she was shortlisted for the BIPA prize (Barcelona), took part in the “Más cerca” exhibition at the MadisMad gallery (Madrid) and the JAAL PHOTO Fair (Madrid). WANNABE is her latest project and it was exhibited at Blank Paper (Madrid) coinciding with PHE15. It has also been exhibited at PhotoIreland 16. #ElisaGonzálezMiralles

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Todd Hido (born 25 August 1968, Kent, Ohio, United States) is an American contemporary artist and photographer. Currently based in San Francisco, much of Hido's work involves photographs of urban and suburban housing across the U.S.. He has produced a number of well received books, had his work exhibited widely and included in various public and private collections. #toddhido

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Ed Wheeler has researched hundreds of paintings and finds that certain compositions beckon to him for a “Santa intervention.” Often Santa replaces a main figure in a painting; sometimes he is added to a group composition or may even be the single human presence in a landscape. Ed’s intent is to pay homage to the original paintings while offering art lovers an additional reason to smile. Once a painting is selected, he embarks on a multi-step process to fully integrate Santa into the lighting, brushstrokes and tonal values of a particular painting while maintaining the fidelity of the original. It is this attention to detail, lighting and relationships between figures, which lead to another kind of art experience. For the past thirty years, Ed has photographed people, places and things for some of the most important corporations in America. Ed has shot in 35 countries on five continents. He has shot in a coal mine two miles down, a helicopter 2,000 feet up, on an oil rig far out to sea, and on top of Mt. Whitney. Ed was educated at the Wharton School of Business, and has learned to work through the barriers of language, culture and politics. #edwheeler

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Suzanne Opton, a photographer based in New York, has created a series of intimate and disturbing portraits of young American soldiers who had recently returned from wars in Iraq or Afghanistan (or both), and who were scheduled to return again to war after a brief stint of more training at an Army base in the United States. The soldiers, who had volunteered to join the Army, also volunteered to be part of Opton’s project without really knowing what it was about. The portraits were made at an Army base, using a very unconventional pose, in a close-up manner. Opton asked each soldier to put his or her head down on a hard table, facing sideways toward the camera. She asked them to remain still while she made the photograph. No further words or directions were exchanged between photographer and subject. As the photographer silently fiddled with her large 4 x 5 camera, adjusting the focus, moving the lights, taking her time, the soldiers tended to let down their guard and get lost in the noise of their own thoughts and memories. She waited for that kind of unguarded moment to capture her picture. The portraits are stripped down, raw, and revealing. Except for the haircuts, there is nothing in the photographs to suggest that these people are soldiers. We see no uniforms or medals or guns or camouflage. Instead we see large disembodied heads, and the intimate details of faces of very young people who look stunned or numb. “Some of them look serene and some of them look shell-shocked,” says Opton. “They’re all terribly vulnerable.” Another thing that is disquieting about these portraits is that we rarely personally see people in positions like these, close up, unless we are in bed with them, side by side, heads resting on a pillow. So, we are forced into an uncomfortably intimate proximity with someone who appears to be traumatized. It is hard to shake that feeling. #suzanneopton

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Charles H. Traub is an American photographer and educator. He founded the MFA program in photography, video, and related media at the School of Visual Arts in New York City, and has been chair of the program since 1988. #charlestraub

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Karin Michele Dailey captures stunning natural light portraits, and also feels at home in the studio. she makes models feel comfortable on set with her humor, storytelling, killer dance moves and spot-on fake british accent. the result is very genuine, almost lifestyle-like images. karin continues to experiment creatively with photoshop, producing digital art pieces that mix beauty and fashion with paint and sketching. karin worked in-house for an online, invitation-only shopping destination site, shooting their editorial, social and product content - executing dynamic creative concepts and showcasing a wide range of brands and designers. she likes pugs and will make you watch HBO's series: the wire. she is a proud fan of the 4x world champion new england patriots. she's really into drawing and feeds the squirrels in her backyard. her concerns about climate change and all the plastic in the ocean keeps her up at night. save the whales.

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Ewa Partum is a poetry artist, performance artist, filmmaker, mail artist, and conceptual artist. Her involvement with feminist movements and themes includes the WACK! Art and the Feminist Revolution in Los Angeles in 2007. #ewapartum

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Born in Chile. Had a modeling career, is a professional dancer and video artist. Tout Contre is Huidobro’s first real photo project. In 2014, the series was presented at photo festivals in Vichy and Arles. A year after, it was exhibited by a French gallery, Les Filles du Calvaire. In 2016, it was presented during the 11th International Month of Photography in Moscow PHOTOBIENNALE-2016. #claudiahuidobro

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Rinko Kawauchi Hon FRPS (川内 倫子, Kawauchi Rinko, born 1972) is a Japanese photographer. Her work is characterized by a serene, poetic style, depicting the ordinary moments in life. #rinkokawauchi

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Lynn Hershman Leeson (born 1941) is an American artist and filmmaker. Her work combines art with social commentary, particularly on the relationship between people and technology. Leeson's work in media-based technology helped legitimize digital art forms. #lynnhershmanleeson

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ISABELLE WENZEL is a German photographer. She studied photography and fine arts at the Fachhochschule Bielefeld in Germany and at the Gerrit Rietveld Academie in Amsterdam where she graduated in 2010. She has exhibited in group and single shows in Germany and the Netherlands. She was awarded the Leica Prize in 2007 and her photography has also been published in several book projects. In 2010 she received a grant from Virtual Zoom for a photo project which was presented in the Virtual Museum Zuidas, Amsterdam. She lives and works in Amsterdam.

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Nick DeWolf was a MIT graduate, engineer, entrepreneur, and prolific amateur photographer. He co-founded Teradyne in 1960, a Boston based company that manufactured automatic test equipment. In his spare time he was also cataloging his life with a camera. His son-in-law Steve Lundeen has taken on the job of archivist and has posted more than 45,000 of DeWolf’s photos on Flickr. #nickdewolf

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In 2011, after two decades of taking pictures of myself in private, I began a series of self-portraits in which I staged myself as a fictional character named Joyce. Without knowing how to explain what I was doing at the time, I used my grandmothers’ houses, or rented bedrooms online, and took pictures of myself while the hosts were asleep. Once alone I used Joyce to reenact the private underlife of a woman consumed by the laboured construct of femininity, carried out to the point of ritualised absurdity. ‘The Honeymoon’ is a continuation of the ‘Joyce’ series. In the spring of 2015 I spent a week alone at a couples-only honeymoon resort in Pennsylvania, USA. With a suitcase concealing wigs and wedding lingerie, I posed as a travel writer and was granted keys to every suite in the resort, which I used as stages for new self-portraits. In each room we find Joyce in solitary moments of preparation and anticipation. Seduction has begun in secrecy. A green clay body-mask beauty routine becomes a science-fiction metamorphosis. Joyce appears alone, absorbed and exhausted by her own reflection. #junocalypso

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Sarah Mei Herman was born in Amsterdam in 1980. She studied photography at the Royal Academy of Fine Art in The Hague, from which she received her BA in 2005. In 2010 she completed her MA in Photography at The Royal College of Art in London. Sarah Mei Herman has received several grants from Mondriaan Fund and Prins Bernard Cultuur Fund. Her work has been shown internationally, among others at The National Portrait Gallery in London and at Le Chateau d’Eau in Toulouse. In 2010 her ongoing series Julian and Jonathan was selected for the Talent issue of Foam Magazine. #sarameiherman

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Ben Hassett is an English photographer based in New York City. He trained as an art and landscape photographer but early in his career transitioned to fashion and beauty photography. After relocating to Paris from London, he began to fine-tune his technique, experimenting with shadow and light — color and form — to create the visceral, highly polished beauty images that are the hallmark of his work today. #benhassett