Anna Skladmann

Born in 1986 in Bremen, Germany. Anna is a freelance photographer that lives and works between New York and Moscow. She graduated with a B.F.A in Photography from Parsons School of Design in 2008 where she studies partly in Paris and New York.

Anna's documentary of Russian life is somehow uplifting and celebritory rather than the usual grim portrayal. Each one of her portraits is more powerful than the next and the cumulitive effect is of a sympathetic admirer who respects her subjects and only wishes to record their strength of character. Refreshing and moving work.

Personal website: http://annaskladmann.com/

David Denny

Personal: http://www.david-denny.com/

Katherine Wolkoff

Personal: http://www.katherinewolkoff.com/ and Representation: http://www.helloartists.com/

Katherine Wolkoff's photographs have been widely exhibited including exhibitions at Danziger Projects, the New York Photo Festival and Women in Photography.  Her photographs are included in the collections of the Addison Gallery of Art and the Norton Museum of Art.  Wolkoff photographed a one-year cycle of the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina that was featured in Aperture magazine. Born in 1976, Wolkoff graduated from Barnard College and received her MFA in photography from Yale School of Art in 2003.  She lives in Brooklyn, NY.

Massimo Vitali

Personal: http://www.massimovitali.com/ and Representation: http://www.billcharles.com/

Massimo Vitali is a photographer, born in Como, Italy in 1944. Vitali studied photography in London; he first worked as a photojournalist in the 1970s and then worked later as a moviecamera operator. His more recent work is fine art photography.

For many of his works, Vitali stands on a podium four or five meters high, and uses large-format film cameras to capture high-resolution details over a broad expanse in locations such as beaches. Care of Wikipedia.

Nick and Warren

Nick Thornton Jones and Warren Du Preez

 Personal: http://www.wnstudio.tv/ Representation: http://www.armanagement.org.uk/

Acclaimed photographers and self-styled “painters with light” Warren Du Preez and Nick Thornton Jones – who have collaborated with Bjork, UNKLE, Massive Attack, Kasabian and Alexander McQueen – tell IdeasMag about their creative processes… Interview continues on Ideas Tap.

Mark Steinmetz

http://www.marksteinmetz.net/

Mark Steinmetz resides in Athens, Georgia.

Nick Knight

http://nickknight.com/  and http://showstudio.com/contributor/nick_knight

Knight's first book of photographs, 'Skinheads', was published in 1982, whilst a student at Bournemouth.^[2] He was then commissioned by i-D editor Terry Jones to create a series of 100 portraits for the magazine's fifth anniversary issue. As a result of those black-and-white portraits, his work caught the attention of art director Marc Ascoli, who commissioned Knight to shoot the 1986 catalogue of avant-garde Japanese designer Yohji Yamamoto in collaboration with renowned graphic designer Peter Saville.^[2] Since this first foray into fashion photography, he has shot both editorial and advertising projects for clients including Alexander McQueen, Audi, Calvin Klein, Christian Dior, Shiatzy Chen, Jil Sander, Lancôme, Levi Strauss, Martine Sitbon,Mercedes-Benz, Royal Ballet, Royal Opera House, Swarovski and Yves Saint Laurent.^[2]

Nick Knight directed back in 2001 his first music video ever, the controversial Pagan Poetry video, for avant-pop star Björk.^[3] In 2011 he directed the video for Lady Gaga's single "Born This Way".^{[4] Care of wikipedia.}

James Pomerantz

Personal Website http://www.jamespomerantz.com/ Gallery http://features.instituteartistmanagement.com/

Wouter van de Voorde

Personal Website http://woutervandevoorde.com/

I am essentially a landscape painter. When I started making images I was painting outside with my easel in the middle of the night, trying to capture the darkness in oil-painting. I explore(d) my urban environment by foot or by bike, carefully mapping my battleground. From day one it was all about capturing places that had an atmospherical charge to it.

Through a shit-storm of soul-searching and surrealist detours in painting, photography has brought me back to the essence of my love for image making: portraying fragments of (urban) reality, attempting to construct images strong enough to carry the mood I wish to create. I can’t restrict myself to one particular concept, although the vowels and consonants of the landscape’s alphabet dictate my phrases.

Moving from Belgium to Australia has made me into a photographer (painter) in exile. As a permanent tourist, an alien, I capture things on this side of the world. I seek refuge in my images, trying to create a sense of belonging for myself.

I live and work in Canberra, Australian Capital Territory

for all inquiries mail to woutervandevoorde@gmail.com

Adam Bartos

Personal Website http://www.adambartos.com/Home.html  Gallery www.gittermangallery.com

n-a-m.org

Personal Website http://n-a-m.org/

NAM is a Tokyo based graphic/art collective formed in 2006, currently a team of 10 artists, NAM creates works with a hint of fantasy fusing graphic design point of view with photographic expression.

Estelle Hanania

 

Photographer Estelle Hanania is a lyrical storyteller, weaving tender and sometimes perplexing plots into her fashion photo series. Her fashion stories develop beyond the confines of a studio or location shoot by integrating still life and landscape images, creating visual rhythm and narrative complexity. 

The Paris-based photographer has a background in graphic design, art direction and fine art. She graduated 
in 2006 from the Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts de Paris and, in the same year, won 
the ‘best photographer’ prize at the highly prestigious Hyeres Festival in Southern France. 
Her photography has been exhibited in several galleries in France and her work, both commissioned 
and personal, has appeared in magazines including Another, Modern Painters, 032c and Capricious.

Bio c/o Angharad Lewis

Personal Site: http://www.estellehanania.com/

Agent: http://www.tinker-street.com/

Simon Norfolk

Simon Norfolk was born in Lagos, Nigeria, in 1963 and educated in England, finishing at Oxford and Bristol Universities with a degree in philosophy and sociology.

After leaving a documentary photography course in Newport, South Wales, Norfolk worked for far-left publications specializing in work on anti-racist activities and fascist groups, in particular the British National Party. In 1994 he gave up photojournalism in favor of landscape photography.

His book For Most of It I Have No Words: Genocide, Landscape, Memory, about the places that have witnessed genocide, was published in 1998. The work was exhibited at many venues, including the Imperial War Museum in London, the Nederlands Foto Instituut, and the Holocaust Museum in Houston, Texas. Photographs of the war in Afghanistan in 2001, published as Afghanistan: Chronotopia, won the European Publishers' Award for Photography and an award from the Foreign Press Club of America and was nominated for the Citibank Prize.

In 2004, Norfolk won the Infinity Award from the International Center of Photography in New York and in 2005 Le Prix Dialogue in Arles. His most recent book, Bleed, about the aftermath of war in Bosnia, was published in 2005. His work appears regularly in the New York Times Magazine and the Guardian Weekend.

Personal Website: www.simonnorfolk.com

Management: www.peterbailey.co.uk

Taryn Simon

Taryn Simon was born in New York in 1975. Her most recent work, Contraband, which includes 1075 photographs of items detained or seized from passengers and express mail entering the U.S. from abroad, exposes the desires and demands that drive the international economy as well as the local economies that produce them. Her previous work, An American Index of the Hidden and Unfamiliar, reveals that which is integral to America's foundation, mythology and daily functioning, but remains inaccessible or unknown to a public audience. Her earlier work, The Innocents, documents cases of wrongful conviction in the United States and investigates photography's role in that process. Simon's photographs have been exhibited nationally and internationally, including solo shows at: Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; Museum Fur Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt; P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, New York; High Museum of Art, Atlanta; and Kunst-Werke Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin. Permanent collections include: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; Tate Modern, London; Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; Centre Pompidou, Paris; Museum Fur Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt; and Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles. She is a graduate of Brown University and a Guggenheim Fellow. Simon has been a visiting artist at Yale University, Bard College, Harvard University and Columbia University. Her photography and writing have been featured in numerous publications and broadcasts including The New York Times Magazine, The New Yorker, Ted.com, CNN, BBC and Frontline. Steidl published An American Index of the Hidden and Unfamiliar as well as Simon’s most recent work, Contraband, which was released in September 2010. Additionally, Simon is currently working on a global project that will be exhibited and published in Spring 2011 at the Tate Modern, London and the Neue Nationalegalerie, Berlin. Simon will be exhibiting a new work at the Venice Biennale 2011. She is represented by Gagosian Gallery & by Almine Rech Gallery in Paris and Brussels.

Personal Website: www.tarynsimon.com

Commercial Management: www.artistcommissions.com/