Gallery BIoGRAPHY Newsha Tavakolian began working as a photographer for the Iranian press at the age of 16, covering wars in Iraq and a range of social issues in her native Iran. Over the years, her focus shifted away from journalistic photography to photography as art. Through her lens, Tavakolian explores social experiences in her...

Gallery BIoGRAPHY At the turn of the twentieth century, few figures cast as large a shadow across the landscape of photography as Alvin Landon Coburn (1882-1966). In a career that spanned six decades – he began photographing at eight years of age – he was one of a handful of leading pictorialists who successfully shifted...

Gallery   BIoGRAPHY Chien-Chi Chang manifests in his work the abstract concepts of alienation and connection. “The Chain,” a collection of portraits made in a Buddhist psychiatric institution in Taiwan, caused a sensation when it was shown at La Biennale di Venezia (2001) and the Bienal de Sao Paolo (2002). The shocking, nearly life-sized photographs...

Gallery BIoGRAPHY Marcos Zimmermann was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina, in 1950. He studied cinematography at the Instituto Nacional de Cinematografía in Buenos Aires and started his professional career as still photographer for feature films. For several years he lived in Rome, where he worked as a freelance photographer, his work being exhibited in various...

Gallery BIoGRAPHY Born 1955 in Choisy-le-Roi, France, and currently living in Paris, Patrick Zachmann began as a freelance photographer in 1976 and became a member of Magnum Photos in 1990. Zachmann has dedicated himself to long-term reportages that bring to light the complex identities and cultures of social groups and communities in various countries. His...

Gallery BIoGRAPHY Winner of the European Publishers Award for Photography 2009, of the Leica Prize (2004) and of the Niépce Prize, main French prize in photography, (2000), Klavdij Sluban is a French photographer of Slovenian origin born in Paris on 3.3.63. He develops a rigorous and coherent body of work, never inspired by immediate and...

Gallery BIoGRAPHY CHIM picked up his camera the way a doctor takes his stethescope out of his bag, applying his diagnosis to the condition of the heart. His own was vulnerable.  (Henri Cartier-Bresson, 1996) David Seymour was born 1911 in Warsaw, Poland as David Syzmin. He studied graphic arts in Leipzig, and turned to photography...

Gallery BIoGRAPHY Boris Savelev is one of the most important and well-known photographers working in Russia today. He first came to the attention of the art-world in the west with the publication of Secret City by Thames and Hudson in 1981. This established Boris Savelevs´s reputation as one of the most serious artists of a...

Gallery   Recognition “Images that give a chilling indication of what it must be like to live in perpetual trauma.” (Sarah Kent Time Out, 1989) “There are no Northern Ireland jokes, because you can’t joke about something that never ends.’ Impossibility of resolution creates a mental distancing. One artist who is prepared to collapse that...

Gallery   Images from Inge Morath: First Color (Steidl, 2009) BIoGRAPHY Photography is a strange phenomenon. In spite of the use of that technical instrument, the camera, no two photographers, even if they were at the same place at the same time, come back with the same pictures. The personal vision is usually there from...