Aaron Siskind
1903–1991 · United States
Reading walls as images.
AbstractionBlack and white
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Adolphe Braun
1812–1877 · France
From flowers to works of art: precision as a resource.
Still lifeBlack and whiteHeritageLandscape & place
8 works to explore ↗Alan Schaller
Contemporary photographer · United Kingdom
The human figure on the scale of the metropolis.
ArchitectureBlack and whiteStreet photography
Read the profile ↗Albert Renger-Patzsch
1897–1966 · Germany
The structure of things, from plant to factory.
ArchitectureStill lifeBlack and whiteLandscape & place
Read the profile ↗Alec Soth
Born in 1969 · United States
Encounters as the substance of a photographic narrative.
ColourDocumentaryPhotobookBlack and white
Read the profile ↗Alex Webb
Contemporary photographer · United States
Whole worlds within a single frame.
ColourDocumentary
Read the profile ↗Alexander Gardner
1821–1882 · Scotland / United States
Photographing the places and consequences of war.
DocumentaryBlack and whitePhotojournalismPortraiture
Read the profile ↗Alexander Rodchenko
1891–1956 · Russia / USSR
Changing the angle to change the way we see.
Avant-gardeBlack and white
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Alfred Stieglitz
1864–1946 · United States
Establishing photography as an art.
Avant-gardeBlack and white
14 works to explore ↗Alvin Langdon Coburn
1882–1966 · United States / United Kingdom
From Pictorialist atmospheres to abstract forms.
AbstractionArchitectureBlack and whitePictorialism
Read the profile ↗André Kertész
1894–1985 · Hungary / France / United States
The poetry of small distances.
Black and whiteStreet photography
Read the profile ↗Andreas Gursky
Born in 1955 · Germany
Making the structures of the contemporary world visible.
ArchitectureColourLandscape & placeConceptual photography
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Anna Atkins
1799–1871 · United Kingdom
Botany in blue.
Botany & scienceCyanotypeHistoric processesCamera-less photography
12 works to explore ↗Annie Leibovitz
Born in 1949 · United States
The portrait as a cultural stage.
ColourStaged photographyFashionBlack and white
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Ansel Adams
1902–1984 · United States
Interpretation at the heart of the print.
Black and whiteLandscape & place
2 works to explore ↗Arthur Rothstein
1915–1985 · United States
The agricultural crisis told at the scale of everyday life.
ColourDocumentaryBlack and whitePhotojournalism
Read the profile ↗August Sander
1876–1964 · Germany
A society seen through its faces.
Black and whitePortraiture
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Ben Shahn
1898–1969 · Lithuania / United States
A painter’s eye for the gestures of the street.
DocumentaryBlack and whiteStreet photography
2 works to explore ↗Berenice Abbott
1898–1991 · United States
Making a changing city legible.
ArchitectureBlack and white
Read the profile ↗Bernd and Hilla Becher
1931–2007 / 1934–2015 · Germany
Comparing industrial structures, one image after another.
ArchitectureBlack and whiteConceptual photographyTypology
Read the profile ↗Bieke Depoorter
Born in 1986 · Belgium
Turning an encounter into a photographic relationship.
ColourDocumentaryIntimacy & diaryPhotobook
Read the profile ↗Brassaï
1899–1984 · Hungary / France
The nocturnal lives of Paris.
Black and whiteNight photographyStreet photography
Read the profile ↗Bruce Davidson
Born in 1933 · United States
Staying long enough to meet people.
ColourDocumentaryBlack and white
Read the profile ↗Candida Höfer
Born in 1944 · Germany
Shared spaces when their users are absent.
ArchitectureColourTypology
Read the profile ↗Carl Mydans
1907–2004 · United States
From social reportage to history in the making.
DocumentaryBlack and whitePhotojournalismPortraiture
Read the profile ↗Carleton Watkins
1829–1916 · United States
The American West on the scale of a large negative.
ArchitectureBlack and whiteLandscape & place
Read the profile ↗Carol M. Highsmith
Born in 1946 · United States
A photographic portrait of America intended for the public.
ArchitectureColourDocumentaryBlack and white
Read the profile ↗Carrie Mae Weems
Born in 1953 · United States
Questioning who creates the narratives.
ColourStaged photography
Read the profile ↗Cecil Beaton
1904–1980 · United Kingdom
The art of portraiture between setting, theatre and society.
ColourStaged photographyFashionBlack and white
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Charles Marville
1813–1879 · France
Paris between disappearance and transformation.
ArchitectureBlack and white
7 works to explore ↗Chris Killip
1946–2020 · Isle of Man / United Kingdom
Staying close to people in a changing world.
DocumentaryPhotobookBlack and whitePortraiture
Read the profile ↗Cindy Sherman
Born in 1954 · United States
Deconstructing the roles that images offer us.
ColourStaged photography
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Claude Cahun
1894–1954 · France / Jersey
Shifting visible identities.
Self-portraitureStaged photographyBlack and whitePortraiture
1 works to explore ↗Claudia Andujar
Born in 1931 · Switzerland / Brazil
Photography connected to the defence of the Yanomami people.
ColourDocumentaryExperimentationBlack and white
Read the profile ↗Cristina de Middel
Born in 1975 · Spain / Belgium
Questioning the stories that images make believable.
ColourDocumentaryPhotobookStaged photography
Read the profile ↗Cristina García Rodero
Born in 1949 · Spain
Collective rituals and the intensity of bodies.
ColourDocumentaryBlack and whitePortraiture
Read the profile ↗Daidō Moriyama
Born in 1938 · Japan
The street as a field of sensation.
ExperimentationBlack and whiteStreet photography
Read the profile ↗David Goldblatt
1930–2018 · South Africa
Reading social structures in everyday details.
ArchitectureColourDocumentaryBlack and white
Read the profile ↗David Seymour
1911–1956 · Poland / United States
The human consequences of events.
Black and whitePhotojournalism
Read the profile ↗Dayanita Singh
Born in 1961 · India
Making the book and the archive into living forms.
ArchivesColourPhotobookBlack and white
Read the profile ↗Diane Arbus
1923–1971 · United States
The unsettling encounter.
Black and whitePortraiture
Read the profile ↗Dimpy Bhalotia
Contemporary photographer · India / United Kingdom
Movement held in suspension.
Movement & sportBlack and whiteStreet photography
Read the profile ↗Don McCullin
Born in 1935 · United Kingdom
Looking at the consequences of violence.
Black and whitePhotojournalism
Read the profile ↗Dora Maar
1907–1997 · France
Everyday reality touched by strangeness.
ExperimentationBlack and whiteStreet photographyPhotomontage
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Dorothea Lange
1895–1965 · United States
The crisis on a human scale.
DocumentaryBlack and white
10 works to explore ↗
Eadweard Muybridge
1830–1904 · United Kingdom / United States
Separating what the eye cannot distinguish.
Botany & scienceMovement & sportBlack and white
7 works to explore ↗Édouard Boubat
1923–1999 · France
Attention to quiet encounters.
Black and whiteStreet photographyHumanist photography
Read the profile ↗Edward S. Curtis
1868–1952 · United States
A vast body of work to read with an awareness of its staging.
DocumentaryBlack and whitePortraiture
Read the profile ↗Edward Steichen
1879–1973 · Luxembourg / United States
From the authored image to the exhibition.
FashionBlack and whitePortraiture
Read the profile ↗Edward Weston
1886–1958 · United States
Form in the things close at hand.
Still lifeBlack and whiteNudeLandscape & place
Read the profile ↗Eikoh Hosoe
1933–2024 · Japan
The body becomes a theatre.
BodyStaged photographyBlack and white
Read the profile ↗Elliott Erwitt
1928–2023 · United States
The unexpected in everyday life.
ColourBlack and whiteStreet photographyPhotojournalism
Read the profile ↗Ernst Haas
1921–1986 · Austria / United States
Making colour a language.
ColourMovement & sport
Read the profile ↗Erwin Blumenfeld
1897–1969 · Germany / France / United States
Making fashion photography a laboratory.
ColourExperimentationFashionBlack and white
Read the profile ↗Esther Bubley
1921–1998 · United States
Ordinary lives in the foreground.
DocumentaryBlack and whitePhotojournalismPortraiture
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Eugène Atget
1857–1927 · France
The inventory becomes a memory.
ArchitectureBlack and white
8 works to explore ↗Fan Ho
1931–2016 · China / Hong Kong
Sculpting the city with shadow.
Black and whiteStreet photography
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Felice Beato
1832–1909 · Italy / United Kingdom / Japan
The beginnings of conflict and travel photography.
DocumentaryBlack and whitePortraitureTravel
9 works to explore ↗Florence Henri
1893–1982 · United States / Switzerland / France
Mirrors and framing that unsettle familiar space.
AbstractionAvant-gardeExperimentationStill life
Read the profile ↗Frances Benjamin Johnston
1864–1952 · United States
From portraits to buildings: preserving traces.
ArchitectureDocumentaryBlack and whitePortraiture
Read the profile ↗Francesca Woodman
1958–1981 · United States
Turning presence into apparition.
Self-portraitureBodyBlack and whiteNude
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Francis Frith
1822–1898 · United Kingdom
From distant monuments to photographic publishing.
ArchitectureBlack and whiteLandscape & placeTravel
12 works to explore ↗Garry Winogrand
1928–1984 · United States
Apparent disorder as a question.
Black and whiteStreet photography
Read the profile ↗Gauri Gill
Born in 1970 · India
Making images through a long-term relationship.
ColourDocumentaryStaged photographyBlack and white
Read the profile ↗Gerda Taro
1910–1937 · Germany / France
A distinctive voice in war reportage.
Black and whitePhotojournalism
Read the profile ↗Germaine Krull
1897–1985 · Germany / Netherlands / France
Modernity seen at an angle.
Avant-gardeBlack and whitePhotojournalism
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Gertrude Käsebier
1852–1934 · United States
Intimacy as an artistic ambition.
Black and whitePortraiture
4 works to explore ↗
Gordon Parks
1912–2006 · United States
Photographing against barriers.
ColourDocumentaryBlack and white
1 works to explore ↗Graciela Iturbide
Born in 1942 · Mexico
Connecting everyday life and the sign.
DocumentaryBlack and white
Read the profile ↗Gregory Crewdson
Born in 1962 · United States
The quiet strangeness of ordinary spaces.
ArchitectureColourStaged photographyPortraiture
Read the profile ↗Gueorgui Pinkhassov
Contemporary photographer · France / Russia
Light as an event.
Colour
Read the profile ↗Gulnara Samoilova
Contemporary photographer · United States
Taking photographs and opening doors.
ColourStreet photography
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Gustave Le Gray
1820–1884 · France
Composing with sea and sky.
Black and whiteLandscape & place
10 works to explore ↗Guy Bourdin
1928–1991 · France
Fashion images as visual riddles.
ColourStaged photographyFashionStill life
Read the profile ↗Harry Callahan
1912–1999 · United States
Returning to the same subjects to see differently.
ColourExperimentationBlack and white
Read the profile ↗Harry Gruyaert
Born in 1941 · Belgium / France
Colour as a way of inhabiting a place.
ColourLandscape & placeStreet photographyTravel
Read the profile ↗Helen Levitt
1913–2009 · United States
The everyday theatre of the street.
ColourBlack and whiteStreet photography
Read the profile ↗Helmut Newton
1920–2004 · Germany / Australia / France
Fashion as a theatre of power relationships.
ColourStaged photographyFashionBlack and white
Read the profile ↗Hengki Koentjoro
Born in 1963 · Indonesia
Water, mist and the nuances of black and white.
MinimalismBlack and whiteLandscape & placeUnderwater photography
Read the profile ↗Henri Cartier-Bresson
1908–2004 · France
Forms meet the event.
Black and whiteStreet photographyHumanist photographyPhotojournalism
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Henry Peach Robinson
1830–1901 · United Kingdom
Composing a photograph as a narrative scene.
Staged photographyBlack and whitePhotomontagePictorialism
8 works to explore ↗
Hippolyte Bayard
1801–1887 · France
Inventing, then staging.
Black and whiteHistoric processes
4 works to explore ↗Hiroshi Sugimoto
Born in 1948 · Japan
Giving time a form.
ExperimentationBlack and white
Read the profile ↗Horst P. Horst
1906–1999 · Germany / United States
Studio lighting as architecture.
ColourFashionStill lifeBlack and white
Read the profile ↗Ilse Bing
1899–1998 · Germany / France / United States
A small camera for shifting the viewpoint.
ArchitectureAvant-gardeFashionBlack and white
Read the profile ↗Imogen Cunningham
1883–1976 · United States
A curiosity that moves across subjects.
Botany & scienceStill lifeBlack and whiteNude
Read the profile ↗Inge Morath
1923–2002 · Austria / United States
Curiosity before the photograph.
DocumentaryBlack and whitePortraiture
Read the profile ↗Irving Penn
1917–2009 · United States
Precision in the service of presence.
FashionStill lifeBlack and whiteNude
Read the profile ↗Ishiuchi Miyako
Born in 1947 · Japan
Traces of history in places and objects.
BodyColourDocumentaryStill life
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Jack Delano
1914–1997 · Ukraine / United States / Puerto Rico
Work, railways and collective life.
ColourDocumentaryBlack and whitePortraiture
8 works to explore ↗Jacob Riis
1849–1914 · Denmark / United States
Photographing the housing a city would rather ignore.
ArchitectureDocumentaryBlack and white
Read the profile ↗Jacques Henri Lartigue
1894–1986 · France
The diary of a life in pictures.
ColourMovement & sportBlack and white
Read the profile ↗James Barnor
Born in 1929 · Ghana / United Kingdom
Connecting Accra and London.
ColourBlack and whitePhotojournalismPortraiture
Read the profile ↗James Van Der Zee
1886–1983 · United States
Elegance and social life in photographs of Harlem.
DocumentaryStaged photographyBlack and whitePortraiture
Read the profile ↗Jeff Wall
Born in 1946 · Canada
Photographic scenes at the intersection of art and cinema.
ColourStaged photographyBlack and whiteConceptual photography
Read the profile ↗Joel Meyerowitz
Born in 1938 · United States
From the energy of the street to the time of the landscape.
ColourStreet photography
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John Collier Jr.
1913–1992 · United States
Observing human relationships in their surroundings.
ColourDocumentaryBlack and whitePortraiture
2 works to explore ↗
John Vachon
1914–1975 · United States
Ordinary streets as a portrait of a country.
ColourDocumentaryBlack and whiteStreet photography
1 works to explore ↗Jonathan Daniel Pryce
Born in 1988 · United Kingdom
Clothing as the starting point for an encounter.
ColourFashionBlack and whiteStreet photography
Read the profile ↗Josef Koudelka
Born in 1938 · Czechia / France
Making movement a way of seeing.
DocumentaryBlack and whiteLandscape & place
Read the profile ↗Joshua K. Jackson
Contemporary photographer · United Kingdom
Night reinvents the street.
ColourNight photographyStreet photography
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Julia Margaret Cameron
1815–1879 · United Kingdom / India
The portrait as an apparition.
Black and whitePortraiture
8 works to explore ↗
Karl Blossfeldt
1865–1932 · Germany
The hidden architecture of plants.
Botany & scienceStill lifeBlack and white
12 works to explore ↗
László Moholy-Nagy
1895–1946 · Hungary / Germany / United States
Light as a material.
AbstractionExperimentationBlack and whiteCamera-less photography
14 works to explore ↗Lee Miller
1907–1977 · United States / France / United Kingdom
Moving across roles and genres.
Black and whitePhotojournalismPortraiture
Read the profile ↗Lewis Baltz
1945–2014 · United States / Europe
The impersonal surfaces of modern development.
ArchitectureColourBlack and whiteLandscape & place
Read the profile ↗Lewis Hine
1874–1940 · United States
Making working conditions visible.
DocumentaryBlack and whitePortraiture
Read the profile ↗Lisette Model
1901–1983 · Austria / United States
Presence without embellishment.
Black and whiteStreet photographyPortraiture
Read the profile ↗Lorna Simpson
Born in 1960 · United States
Unravelling assigned identities.
ColourImage & text
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Louis Daguerre
1787–1851 · France
A unique image on a plate.
Black and whiteHistoric processes
1 works to explore ↗Louise Dahl-Wolfe
1895–1989 · United States
Fashion in the light of the outside world.
ColourFashionBlack and whitePortraiture
Read the profile ↗Lucia Moholy
1894–1989 · Prague / Germany / United Kingdom
Making modern architecture and its objects legible.
ArchitectureAvant-gardeStill lifeBlack and white
Read the profile ↗Luigi Ghirri
1943–1992 · Italy
Seeing the images that already inhabit the world.
ColourLandscape & place
Read the profile ↗Malick Sidibé
1936–2016 · Mali
The gestures of a generation in motion.
DocumentaryBlack and whitePortraiture
Read the profile ↗Man Ray
1890–1976 · United States / France
The image as a laboratory.
ExperimentationFashionBlack and whiteNude
Read the profile ↗Manuel Álvarez Bravo
1902–2002 · Mexico
Letting strangeness surface in the real.
DocumentaryBlack and white
Read the profile ↗Marc Riboud
1923–2016 · France
Moving through the world with attention.
Black and whitePhotojournalism
Read the profile ↗Margaret Bourke-White
1904–1971 · United States
Industry and a world in upheaval.
Black and whitePhotojournalism
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Marion Post Wolcott
1910–1990 · United States
Everyday America, between poverty and leisure.
ColourDocumentaryBlack and whiteStreet photography
3 works to explore ↗Martin Parr
1952–2025 · United Kingdom
Examining habits of consumption.
ColourDocumentary
Read the profile ↗Martine Franck
1938–2012 · Belgium / France
Making room for gestures and connections.
DocumentaryBlack and whitePortraiture
Read the profile ↗Mary Ellen Mark
1940–2015 · United States
Building a lasting relationship.
DocumentaryBlack and whitePortraiture
Read the profile ↗Masahisa Fukase
1934–2012 · Japan
Turning personal experience into sequences of images.
AnimalsColourIntimacy & diaryPhotobook
Read the profile ↗Mathew Brady
c. 1823–1896 · United States
The photographic studio and the memory of war.
DocumentaryBlack and whitePortraiture
Read the profile ↗Melissa O’Shaughnessy
Contemporary photographer · United States
The theatre of passers-by.
ColourStreet photography
Read the profile ↗Minor White
1908–1976 · United States
Photographing an inner experience.
AbstractionBlack and white
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Nadar
1820–1910 · France
Presence before setting.
Black and whitePortraiture
9 works to explore ↗Nan Goldin
Born in 1953 · United States
Telling a history from within.
ColourIntimacy & diary
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Nicéphore Niépce
1765–1833 · France
Making light endure.
Black and whiteHistoric processes
1 works to explore ↗Nobuyoshi Araki
Born in 1940 · Japan
Photography as a continuous diary.
ColourIntimacy & diaryBlack and whitePortraiture
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Oscar Rejlander
1813–1875 · Sweden / United Kingdom
Photographic invention through combined images.
ExperimentationStaged photographyBlack and whitePhotomontage
6 works to explore ↗Paola Franqui · Monaris
Contemporary photographer · Puerto Rico / United States
Everyday life as a scene from a film.
Colour
Read the profile ↗Paolo Roversi
Born in 1947 · Italy / France
The studio, slowness and the presence of a face.
ColourStaged photographyFashionBlack and white
Read the profile ↗Paul Strand
1890–1976 · United States / France
Clarity of form, the presence of people.
AbstractionArchitectureDocumentaryBlack and white
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Peter Henry Emerson
1856–1936 · Cuba / United Kingdom
The lived landscape rather than picturesque scenery.
DocumentaryBlack and whiteLandscape & placePictorialism
11 works to explore ↗Peter Lindbergh
1944–2019 · Germany / France
Faces and gestures at the heart of fashion.
ColourStaged photographyFashionBlack and white
Read the profile ↗Phil Penman
Contemporary photographer · United Kingdom / United States
The city between snow, silence and presence.
ArchitectureBlack and whiteStreet photographyPortraiture
Read the profile ↗Philip Jones Griffiths
1936–2008 · United Kingdom
Describing war through its human consequences.
Black and whitePhotojournalism
Read the profile ↗Raghu Rai
1942–2026 · India
Describing the lives and upheavals of India.
Black and whitePhotojournalism
Read the profile ↗Raghubir Singh
1942–1999 · India
Giving form to the density of everyday life.
ColourStreet photography
Read the profile ↗Raymond Depardon
Born in 1942 · France
Searching for the right distance.
ColourDocumentaryBlack and white
Read the profile ↗René Burri
1933–2014 · Switzerland
Bringing figures and architecture into dialogue.
DocumentaryBlack and whitePortraiture
Read the profile ↗Richard Avedon
1923–2004 · United States
An encounter under tension.
FashionBlack and whitePortraiture
Read the profile ↗Rineke Dijkstra
Born in 1959 · Netherlands
The portrait at a moment of change.
ColourPortraitureTypology
Read the profile ↗Rinko Kawauchi
Born in 1972 · Japan
Small perceptions connected with the cycles of life.
ColourIntimacy & diaryPhotobookStill life
Read the profile ↗Robert Adams
Born in 1937 · United States
What remains of the landscape as the city expands.
ArchitecturePhotobookBlack and whiteLandscape & place
Read the profile ↗Robert Capa
1913–1954 · Hungary / United States
Close to history.
Black and whitePhotojournalism
Read the profile ↗Robert Doisneau
1912–1994 · France
Social life in a detail.
Black and whiteStreet photographyHumanist photography
Read the profile ↗Robert Frank
1924–2019 · Switzerland / United States
Unsettling the American narrative.
DocumentaryBlack and white
Read the profile ↗Robert Mapplethorpe
1946–1989 · United States
Studio rigour in the presence of bodies and flowers.
BodyStaged photographyStill lifeBlack and white
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Roger Fenton
1819–1869 · United Kingdom
The beginnings of wartime reportage.
Black and whiteLandscape & placePhotojournalism
10 works to explore ↗Romain Laprade
Contemporary photographer · France
Ordinary places become mental images.
ArchitectureColour
Read the profile ↗Roy DeCarava
1919–2009 · United States
Giving depth to shadows.
DocumentaryMusicBlack and white
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Russell Lee
1903–1986 · United States
Describing a community through accumulated details.
ColourDocumentaryBlack and whitePortraiture
2 works to explore ↗Sabine Weiss
1924–2021 · Switzerland / France
The encounter as a way of photographing.
Black and whiteStreet photographyHumanist photography
Read the profile ↗Sally Mann
Born in 1951 · United States
Family, memory and the landscape of the South.
Intimacy & diaryBlack and whiteLandscape & placePortraiture
Read the profile ↗Samuel Fosso
Born in 1962 · Cameroon / Nigeria / Central African Republic
Transforming oneself to tell stories of identity.
Self-portraitureColourStaged photographyPortraiture
Read the profile ↗Santu Mofokeng
1956–2020 · South Africa
Lived experience beyond the expected images of apartheid.
ArchivesDocumentaryBlack and whiteLandscape & place
Read the profile ↗Sarah Moon
Born in 1941 · France
Images between apparition, memory and fable.
ColourExperimentationStaged photographyFashion
Read the profile ↗Saul Leiter
1923–2013 · United States
The city as a painting.
ColourStreet photography
Read the profile ↗Sebastião Salgado
1944–2025 · Brazil / France
Connecting human destinies and landscapes.
DocumentaryBlack and whiteLandscape & place
Read the profile ↗Sergio Larrain
1931–2012 · Chile
Finding the city in its passages.
Black and whiteStreet photographyPhotojournalism
Read the profile ↗Seydou Keïta
Early 1920s–2001 · Mali
The studio as a space of self-assertion.
Black and whitePortraiture
Read the profile ↗Shōmei Tōmatsu
1930–2012 · Japan
Reading the postwar era in traces of the present.
ColourDocumentaryBlack and white
Read the profile ↗Stephen Shore
Born in 1947 · United States
Describing the places we pass through.
ColourLandscape & place
Read the profile ↗Susan Meiselas
Born in 1948 · United States
Keeping images alive with their protagonists.
ColourDocumentary
Read the profile ↗Tavepong Pratoomwong
· Thaïlande
Revealing coincidences in the movement of the street.
ColourVisual humourStreet photography
Read the profile ↗Thomas Ruff
Born in 1958 · Germany
Examining what a photograph allows us to see.
AbstractionColourExperimentationBlack and white
Read the profile ↗Thomas Struth
Born in 1954 · Germany
Looking at places, then at those who look at them.
ArchitectureColourDocumentaryBlack and white
Read the profile ↗Timothy O’Sullivan
1840–1882 · United States / Ireland
The landscape as a visual experience.
Black and whiteLandscape & placePhotojournalism
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Tina Modotti
1896–1942 · Italy / Mexico
Rigorous forms, an engaged eye.
Avant-gardeDocumentaryBlack and white
6 works to explore ↗Vineet Vohra
Contemporary photographer · India
Chance, composed with precision.
ColourStreet photography
Read the profile ↗Vivian Maier
1926–2009 · United States / France
An archive far from recognition.
ColourBlack and whiteStreet photographyPhotojournalism
Read the profile ↗W. Eugene Smith
1918–1978 · United States
Constructing a narrative to bear witness.
Black and whitePhotojournalism
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Walker Evans
1903–1975 · United States
Describing precisely, leaving an enigma.
DocumentaryBlack and white
9 works to explore ↗Weegee
1899–1968 · United States
The city under the flash.
Black and whiteNight photographyStreet photographyPhotojournalism
Read the profile ↗William Eggleston
Born in 1939 · United States
Giving importance to what seemed secondary.
Colour
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William Henry Fox Talbot
1800–1877 · United Kingdom
The image becomes reproducible.
Black and whiteHistoric processes
8 works to explore ↗William Henry Jackson
1843–1942 · United States
Building a photographic image of wide-open spaces.
ArchitectureBlack and whiteLandscape & place
Read the profile ↗William Klein
1928–2022 · United States / France
The city spills beyond the frame.
Black and whiteStreet photographyPhotojournalism
Read the profile ↗Willy Ronis
1910–2009 · France
Composing with ordinary life.
Black and whiteStreet photographyHumanist photography
Read the profile ↗Wolfgang Tillmans
Born in 1968 · Germany / United Kingdom
Bringing images into relation, without a fixed hierarchy.
AbstractionColourExperimentationStill life
Read the profile ↗Xyza Cruz Bacani
Contemporary photographer · Philippines
The city and the women who keep it alive.
DocumentaryBlack and white
Read the profile ↗Zanele Muholi
Born in 1972 · South Africa
Building an archive of presences.
Black and whitePortraiture
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