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Elinor Carucci (born 1971) is an Israeli American photographer and educator living in New York City. She is noted for her intimate portraits of her family's lives. She has published four monographs: Closer (2002), Diary of a Dancer (2005), Mother (2013), and Midlife (2019). She teaches at the  in New York. Shortly after RBG’s passing in September 2020, Time magazine commissioned Carucci to write and photograph a commemorative piece on the late justice, focused on the stories behind her...
Published 03/23/24
Barbara Peacock is a photographer and director living in Portland, Maine. Since having started American Bedroom in 2016, she has won the Getty Editorial Grant, the Women Photograph/Getty Grant, three LensCulture Awards, four Top 50 Critical Mass Awards, and was named one of the Top 100 Photographers in America 2020. American Bedroom is an unfiltered poetic photographic journey viewing Americans in their most intimate dwelling: the bedroom. The nature of the project is unguarded portraits of...
Published 03/15/24
Nick Carver is a working photographer and photography instructor based in Southern California with over eighteen years shooting experience and a professional career spanning more than a decade. Although his teaching and commercial work hinges primarily on digital photography, his passion is fueled by a love for analog film and creating fine art prints. Nick has sought to educate, entertain, and inspire other photographers both in the classroom and through his YouTube videos where he takes...
Published 02/28/24
Robbie Quinn is an award-winning, New York–based commercial photographer specializing in environmental portraits. His work, which has brought him to more than a dozen countries, speaks to current issues, including race, immigration, gender identity, and sexual orientation, with an emphasis on promoting diversity and inclusion. In a world where stores, clothes, and trends have become increasingly standardized, fashion is one of the most powerful ways to explore and express our personalities,...
Published 02/05/24
Rachelle Steele is a Master Photographer based out of Northern California. She is most known for dynamic black and white environmental portraiture and her ability to fill a single frame with design elements of intense storytelling and passionate compositions. Her unique background brings depth and power to her images, communicating something from the eye, heart, and mind. After 9 years in the US Navy, Rachelle circled back to her original love and has been pursuing black and white photography...
Published 01/05/24
Joel Meyerowtiz is an award-winning photographer whose work has appeared in over 350 exhibitions in museums and galleries worldwide. Celebrated as a pioneer of color photography, he is a two-time Guggenheim Fellow, a recipient of both the National Endowment for the Arts and National Endowment for the Humanities awards and The Royal Society’s Centenary Medal. He has published over 53 books. His latest release is titled. The Pleasure of Seeing Resources Joel Meyerowitz Websites Sponsors...
Published 12/23/23
Kirsten Elstner is the founder and director of National Geographic Photo Camp, whose mission is to work with youth from diverse communities worldwide, guiding them as they use photography to tell their own stories and develop meaningful connections with others. Since 2003, she has worked in over 35 countries and designed over 145 programs, intending to inspire and encourage young people to see the power of their own voices. Elstner has been a photographer and teacher since completing her...
Published 12/12/23
George Lange is a photographer whose pictures have appeared in almost all major magazines, ranging from Entertainment Weekly to Esquire. George has shot advertising photos for many movies and TV shows, including; Seinfeld, The Today Show, Cake Boss, and Jim Carrey’s movies. Most recently, he has worked with Norwest Venture Partners, Twilio, the Richard King Mellon Foundation, and the Grammy Award-winning Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra. George is known for his ability to see everyone - from...
Published 11/24/23
Michael Honegger is a visual artist born in Germany with a B.A. in History & Spanish from Duke University, a M.S. in Foreign Service from Georgetown University, and a Professional Certificate in Visual Arts from Maine Media College. His practice as a fine art and documentary photographer explores the performative nature of self-portraiture, the complexities of memory and family, and an investigation of the ironies of American culture with an expatriate’s eye. He has exhibited his work in...
Published 11/06/23
Barbara Mensch is a fine art photographer who probes her subject matter with the curiosity and stamina of a detective. Born in Brooklyn, New York, she began to draw at an early age, attending classes at The Brooklyn Museum Studio School and the Art Students League as a teenager. Mensch has published two books on New York’s legendary Fulton Market, which she photographed under the scrutinizing eyes of federal law enforcement and organized crime.  Mensch’s monograph, New York Photographs, was...
Published 10/18/23
James Payne is a social documentary photographer based in Los Angeles, California. He is fascinated by how people interact with the places they inhabit, particularly in their homes and on the streets. He has been capturing images of both for decades. American Portraits (in 3D) is a unique series of environmental portraits rendered in three dimensions using his approach to showcasing these images. Payne grew up in the midwestern United States, he was born and raised near Chicago, IL. He...
Published 10/07/23
Jorge Delgado-Ureña is a photographer and the co-founder of The Raw Society. Originally a commercial and fashion photographer, an assignment in Nepal opened up a whole new world of photography to him and sparked the inspiration to found The Raw Society. Christelle Enquist is a photographer and co-founder of The Raw Society. She speaks four languages and was raised in Singapore, her curiosity about other cultures and passion for travel started at an early age, instigated by her mother and...
Published 09/20/23
Sandy Sugawara and Catiana Garcia Kilroy collaborate on a book project titled Show Me the Way Home. It is an immersive, visual journey through the incarceration camps that held 120,000 Japanese Americans during World War 2. Sugawara and Kilroy tell the story of each camp through original and archival photographs, personal stories, and government documents. It’s a frightening tale of a society that failed to protect its vulnerable. Sandy Sugawara is a Maryland-based photographer and...
Published 09/01/23
Jason Langer is an American photographer best known for his psychological and noirish visions of contemporary photography of urban life. Langer apprenticed with renowned photographers, including Ruth Bernhard, Arthur Tess, and Michael Kenna. Langer is known his fine-art black-and-white photography. His latest book is titled Berlin. Resources Jason Langer Roy DeCarava Brea Souders Websites Sponsors Charcoal Book Club Frames Magazine Education Resources: Momenta Photographic Workshops ...
Published 08/15/23
Richard Sandler is a street photographer and documentary filmmaker. He has directed and shot eight non-fiction films, including “The Gods of Times Square,” “Brave New York” and “Radioactive City.” Sandler’s still photographs are in the permanent collections of Brooklyn Museum, Center for Creative Photography - University of Arizona, Houston Museum of Fine Art, Museum of the City of New York, New York Historical Society, New York Public Library. He was awarded a New York Foundation for the...
Published 07/31/23
Nina Welch-Kling is a New York City-based photographer originally from a small town in southern Germany. Her background in fine art and architecture combined with a love for roaming the city streets inform her photographic depictions of everyday life. Welch-Kling holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (1990) and a Master of Architecture from The University of California, Los Angeles (1993). Since 1995 she has lived in New York City raising her two, now...
Published 07/11/23
Raquel Natalicchio is a photographer from Los Angeles, CA, now based in Houston, TX as a staff visual journalist for The Houston Chronicle. Raquel documents social issues, community-driven stories, political mobilization, and migration across the US/Mexico border. Her work focuses on the universality of humanity, including themes of love, struggle, resilience, and community. She is working on a long-term project called “Borderlands” that explores the rich diversity of experiences in border...
Published 06/21/23
Bob Patterson is the founder and publisher of Street Photography Magazine. For the past 10 years, Bob has produced a magazine dedicated to showcasing a diverse range of street photography and documentary photographers. An early adopter of digital publications, Bob combined his savvy for web design with his personal love for photography. After a successful business career, Bob reinvented his life to revolve around his passion for photography, journalism, and good conversations. Bob has...
Published 06/03/23
Larry Niehues is a French-born author and photographer who immigrated to the United States in 2010. While working as a commercial photographer for a variety of brands and publications, Mr. Niehues has tended to his passion for motorcycles, music, and the open road, traveling intensively over the last seven years creating the images that compose Nothing Has Changed, a photographic journey across America that connects the present with the past in ways that make us contemplate our collective...
Published 05/24/23
After graduating from California State University, Los Angeles with a Master of Arts Degree in Pictorial/Documentary History, Mark Edward Harris started his professional photography career doing the stills for the Merv Griffin Show and various television and movie companies. When the show ended in 1986 he set off on a four-month trek across the Pacific and throughout Southeast Asia, China and Japan. His numerous accolades are CLIO, ACE, Impact DOCS Award of Excellence, Aurora Gold, and IPA...
Published 05/09/23
Matthew Jordan Smith is an American photographer based in Tokyo, Japan, and works between Tokyo, New York City, and Los Angeles. He has photographed some of the world's most famous celebrities, including Oprah Winfrey, Queen Latifah, Angela Bassett, Tyra Banks, and more. His advertising clients include Olay, Pantene, Revlon, Showtime, and HBO. Matthew focuses on personal projects, photo exhibits, and book projects in his spare time. Smith has published three books, Sepia Dreams, Lost &...
Published 04/26/23
KyeongJun Yang is a photographer from South Korea. Born and raised in Jinhae, South Korea. Yang came to the United States at 18 and studied journalism and philosophy at the University of Texas at Austin. His works focus on how individuals and small communities are impacted by society and culture. His ongoing personal project, Men Don't Cry, is an intimate exploration of his complicated relationship with his father, who lives with depression and a history of childhood trauma. Resources...
Published 04/03/23
Rollence Patugan is an American Photographer based out of Los Angeles, CA. Identity, diversity, and visibility are undercurrents of Rollence’s work. Having originally come from Baldwin Park, CA, a small but diverse town in the San Gabriel Valley of Los Angeles. Rollence wants his work to serve the underrepresented. Growing up in the 1980s as an Asian-American of Chinese and Filipino descent, he did not see a reflection of himself or his Latino friends in government, sports, entertainment, and...
Published 03/19/23
Born and raised in France, Anouk Krantz moved to the United States in the late 1990s. Living in New York City, she completed high school at the Lycee Francais and earned her bachelor’s degree while working for a lifestyle magazine. Following college, she worked at Cartier’s corporate office in New York that, oversees the Americas. Anouk later studied at the International Center of Photography and has received wide acclaim for her bestselling Wild Horses of Cumberland Island (2017) (second...
Published 03/07/23