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Margaret Bourke-White was born in New York City and attended the Clarence H. White School of Photography in 1921-22. After graduating from college in 1927, she pursued a career in photography and opened a photography studio in Cleveland. The industrial photography she did there brought her work to the attention of Henry Luce, the publisher of Fortune, who hired her in 1929, and the next year sent her to the Soviet Union, where she was the first foreign photographer to make pictures of Soviet industry. She photographed the Dust Bowl for Fortune in 1934; this project led to the publication of You Have Seen Their Faces (1937), which documented the human aspects of the Depression and featured text by Erskine Caldwell. In the fall of 1936, Henry Luce again offered Bourke-White a job, this time as a staff photographer for his newly conceived Life magazine. Bourke-White was one of the first four photographers hired, and her photograph Fort Peck Dam was reproduced on the first cover.

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Oleksandr Rupeta’s “Someone in Your Corner” captures the intimate and special relationships between humans and animals. His photography exemplifies the interdependent relationship that forms between the two living beings. He claims that this type of relationship creates a new meaning and depth to the life we live. Rupeta states that “the technological development improved the overall standard of living. Human attitudes towards animals are becoming of increasing importance and less pragmatic.” He got on to say, “The idea for the project was to explore the mutuality and relationship of the human-animal bond in the modern world, to see and pay attention to the conditions of their interaction and coexistence.”

https://www.rupeta.com/someone-in-your-corner

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Alex MacLean is a pilot and photographer who travels over the United States capturing the landscapes he encounters. He possesses a studio and resides in Lincoln, Massachusetts. According to the article, MacLean was “trained as an architect, he has portrayed the history and evolution of the land from vast agricultural patterns to city grids, recording changes brought about by human intervention and natural processes. His powerful and descriptive images provide clues to understanding the relationship between the natural and constructed environments.”

http://www.alexmaclean.com/about/biography/

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Milos Nejezchleb is a Czech photographer who focuses his work on current social topics. “These stories are narrated by people. He works on such series on his own and ensures the entire Art direction. He himself designs styling, looks for locations and carries out post-production. Besides conceptual art, where he points out currently discussed topics, Miloš has 3 long-term thematic photographic cycles which document stories of real people. The most famous of them is photographic cycle “Stronger”, in which Milos takes photos of people who have gone through hard times in their lives, and thanks to this experience they have become stronger personalities.”

http://www.nejmil.com/about/

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“Pieter Hugo (born 1976 in Johannesburg) is a photographic artist living in Cape Town. Hugo has participated in numerous group exhibitions at institutions including Tate Modern, the Folkwang Museum, Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian, and the São Paulo Bienal. Hugo received the Discovery Award at the Rencontres d’Arles Festival and the KLM Paul Huf Award in 2008, the Seydou Keita Award at the Rencontres de Bamako African Photography Biennial in 2011, and was shortlisted for the Deutsche Börse Photography Prize 2012.Through his images, Hugo confronts issues of race and injustice in South Africa.”

https://www.photoawards.com/top-10-prominent-portrait-photographers-you-should-know/

https://pieterhugo.com/WILD-HONEY-COLLECTORS

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“Lee Jeffries lives in Manchester in the United Kingdom. Close to the professional football circle, this artist starts to photograph sporting events. A chance meeting with a young homeless girl in the streets of London changes his artistic approach forever. Lee Jeffries recalls that, initially, he had stolen a photo from this young homeless girl huddled in a sleeping bag. The photographer knew that the young girl had noticed him but his first reaction was to leave. He says that something made him stay and go and discuss with the homeless girl. His perception about the homeless completely changes. They become the subject of his art. The models in his photographs are homeless people that he has met in Europe and in the United States: «Situations arose, and I made an effort to learn to get to know each of the subjects before asking their permission to do their portrait.» From then onwards, his photographs portray his convictions and his compassion to the world.”

https://www.photoawards.com/top-10-prominent-portrait-photographers-you-should-know/

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“Acclaimed humanitarian photographer Lisa Kristine creates more than images, she inspires change. A master storyteller, Lisa documents indigenous cultures in more than 100 countries on six continents, instinctively identifying the universal human dignity in all of us. Awakening compassion and igniting action in a worldwide audience with powerful, broad-sweeping images of courage and tender, intimate portrayals, Lisa elevates significant social causes—such as the elimination of human slavery and the unification of humanity—to missions. Her work resonates in the heart and moves us to act.”

https://www.photoawards.com/top-10-prominent-portrait-photographers-you-should-know/

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“Sarah Moon is a French fashion photographer who rose to prominence in London during the 1970s. Characterized by her painterly, ethereal aesthetic, Moon’s photographs are often saturated with jewel tones and feature romantic, magical imagery. “For me, photography is pure fiction,” she has said. “I don't believe that I am making any defined statement. Instead, I am expressing something, an echo of the world maybe.” She was born Marielle Warin on November 17, 1939 in Vichy, France and she and her Jewish family fled occupied France for England when she was still a teenager. Moon began modelling in Paris and London under the name Marielle Hadengue, and in 1970, she took up photography in earnest, adopting the moniker Sarah Moon. She worked extensively with Barbara Hulanicki of the London clothing brand Biba, and later the French label Cacharel. She has also produced photographs for Voguemagazine, Comme des Garçons, Chanel, and Dior. In 1972, she became the first woman to shoot the Pirelli calendar, and since 1985, has focused on gallery and film work. Her accolades include New York’s Clio Award in 1984 and France’s Grand Prix National de la Photographie in 1995. The artist currently resides in Paris, France.”

http://www.artnet.com/artists/sarah-moon/

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“Bruce was born and raised just outside Pittsburgh, in the farming and coal-mining town of Greensburg, PA. His love affair with the camera started early—Bruce would often spend Sunday afternoons doing art projects and making 8mm films in the backyard with his father, a businessman, and his sister Barbara. In 1966, after a couple of years studying art at Denison College in Ohio, Weber transferred to New York University to study acting. His first apartment was a fifth-floor walkup between Little Italy and Chinatown—freezing in the winter, blazing in the summer.  It was there that Bruce built his first small darkroom and started taking headshot portraits for actors and actresses just starting out. In many ways, this proved to be great training for his future as a fashion and portrait photographer. Bruce would talk endlessly with each person about what they wanted their headshot to express, and how to communicate that feeling through the clothes they would wear and the lighting he would use.”

https://www.bruceweber.com/about

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“Hannah Altman is a Jewish-American artist from New Jersey. She holds an MFA from Virginia Commonwealth University. Through photographic based media, her work interprets relationships between gestures, the body, lineage, and interior space.

She has recently exhibited with the Virginia Museum of Contemporary Art, Blue Sky Gallery, the Pittsburgh Cultural Trust, and Photoville Festival. Her work has been featured in publications such as Vanity Fair, Carnegie Museum of Art Storyboard, Huffington Post, New York Times, Fotoroom, Cosmopolitan, i-D, and British Journal of Photography. She was the recipient of the 2019 Bertha Anolic Israel Travel Award and included in the 2020 Critical Mass and Lenscratch Student Prize Finalists.

She has delivered lectures on her work and research across the country, including Yale University and the Society for Photographic Education National Conference. Her first monograph, published by Kris Graves Projects, is in the permanent collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art Thomas J Watson Library.”

https://www.hannahaltmanphoto.com/about

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“Olivia Malone divides her time between both Los Angeles and New York. Whether it be the backdrop of desert rock formations or the concrete and metal of urban spaces, Olivia chases after newfound combinations of light and texture to reflect the beauty of her subjects through the particularity of their environments. Never one to back down from a challenge, she added director of photography and directing to her resume, shooting Robin Thicke's "Blurred Lines" and Miley Cyrus's "We Can't Stop" music videos as well as directing films for several brands and recording artists. Her first book, “Tonal,” was released in 2020 with distribution worldwide by Libraryman Books.”

https://www.oliviamalone.com/about

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“Arrival, Farah Al Qasimi’s third solo exhibition at The Third Line. Using the language of horror cinema, Al Qasimi reveals a new body of work featuring jinn folklore across the UAE.   The show premieres Farah’s first feature-length film; a 40 minute horror-comedy titled Um Al Naar (Mother of Fire). In it, a fictional Reality TV network has produced a segment on Um Al Naar, a Ras Al Khaimah-based Jinn. Um Al Naar narrates the region’s changes from its occupation by Portuguese and British naval forces to its current adoption of a national identity based around tolerance and a drive to generate culture. She pays close attention to these changes in their day-to-day iterations: the gendered pastimes of the country’s youth, waning trust in traditional forms of spirituality and medicine, and the loss of history in an urgent bid for novelty.   The photographs in the exhibition are moments pulled from the world she describes. She follows a baker with an Instagram business making buttercream roses, dance parties in which the only participants are men, and moves throughout homes looking at indicators of bodies and their personal style. Um Al Naar laments the formalities and social constructs of modern-day life, longing for a more fluid, interconnected world in which there is ample space for the paranormal, the unseen, and the absurd.   The film is peppered with found footage of various moments of release: exorcisms gone wrong, ecstatic dancing, and effervescent first-person storytelling. But as we lose our sense of collective release, Um Al Naar asks: ‘how do we attain bodily transcendence in a modern world?’   In many horror films, the antagonist we fear the most is invisible; not a spooky ghost or monster, but a figment of our collective unconscious manifested as immaterial danger. Many of Farah’s photographs contain a looming sense of dread or entrapment, even as the world they depict is full of color and cheer. A woman takes photographs in an aviary filled with live birds, their movement curtailed by a drop ceiling with fluorescent lights. A figure is reflected in a picture frame, her ghost trapped within its confines.Um Al Naar provides a space where these fears can be confronted—and where specters can move freely in bodily release.”

https://farahalqasimi.com/Arrival

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“I am from London. I am a Fetish Screenwriter and Photographer. I use 35mm film. My fetishes are probably obvious to anyone who sees my photos. I love deep bold colour. I love intense eyebrows. I love the textures of blonde hair. I love cities lit up at night.But there’s not much point trying to explain what I do or why, because I honestly don’t know. I point my camera in the direction of things and people I find interesting to look at. Sometimes a decent picture comes out, sometimes it doesn’t.I’ve never studied photography, so I don’t know the rules. I just do what feels right. I want my photos to look edible.” - Toby Harvard

https://opendoors.gallery/artists/toby-harvard

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“Brooklyn-based photographer Tess Mayer has been photographing her younger sister, Ava, since they we 14 and 11, respectively. What began as a fun way to try out new camera settings and emulate photographers like Sally Man and Mike Bailey Gates, gave way to a more intentional ritual as Mayer began to take photography more seriously in college. “I would come back home during breaks and try and take photographs that felt more like a ‘project’,” she explains. “Sometimes the photos are more for Ava—she’ll post some on her social media. Recently we’ve had to balance and talk about why I might love pictures that she hates and vice versa.”The project has spawned lots of thinking for Mayer about the intention behind the making of a photograph, or “why we take photos when we do”. While Ava is now in her senior year of college—an illustration major at Pratt—the two plan to continue with the project, hopefully coming to understand more about the work and each other as their lives continue to shift.”

https://www.booooooom.com/2020/12/08/ava-by-photographer-tess-mayer/

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“Cassandra Klos (b. 1991) is a fine art photographer currently living between Durham, North Carolina and Boston, Massachusetts. Her projects focus on challenging the validity of photography and creating dual realities that breathe life into situations where visual manifestations may not be available.  Born and raised in New Hampshire, she earned her BFA in 2014 from the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston at Tufts University. She has exhibited both within the United States, including solo exhibitions at the Griffin Museum for Photography and the Boston Public Library, as well as internationally in festivals such as the Bienne Festival of Photography and the Lagos Photo Festival. From 2015 to 2017, she was the artist-in-residence of the Mars Desert Research Station in Hanksville, Utah and led the first mission of compiled of artists as Commander of Crew 181. She is a Critical Mass finalist, the recipient of the Yousuf Karsh Prize in Photography, a United States Emerging Photographer Award from the Magenta Foundation, as well as a Traveling Fellowship Grant from the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. Her work has been seen in TIME, National Geographic, Wired, The Atlantic, and Bloomberg Businessweek, among others. She is currently a MFA candidate in Duke University's Experimental and Documentary Arts program.”

https://www.cassandraklos.com/cv

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“Rosie Matheson is a London-based documentary film photographer. She focuses her work on portraiture. Rosie’s latest project, Boys, challenges the notion of masculinity through intimate portraits of young men.

Looking at life through a viewfinder from an early age, Rosie’s work is about connection, about seeing the depth within a person’s story, and capturing it in a frame.”

http://www.rosiematheson.com

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“Leannes journey is of a personal nature, her work explores themes of loneliness, nostalgia, anxiety & light.Her main photographic focus is self-portraiture, starting out simply through curiosity. Capturing self-portraits has become a major part of her life & work; it has enabled her to overcome anxiety and fears over life & mortality. Using the photographic practice as a calming mechanism, and a form of escapism.Leanne works predominantly with analog and instant cameras. Her process involves her in every stage of development making Leannes work deeply personal. The aesthetic of shooting film plays a major part within her work, exploiting the use of soft focus, colour casts, as well as the apparent dust and scratches that appear on her negatives. These are all a part of the process and a part of the documentation of her identity, and her surroundings.”

https://www.leannesurfleet.co.uk/about