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  • Brooke Shaden

    Brooke Shaden

    Brooke Shaden was born in March of 1987 in Lancaster, PA, USA. She grew up near the “Amish Country” until attending Temple University. Brooke was photographically born in December 2008 after graduating from Temple with Bachelor degrees in Film and English. She now resides in Los Angeles, California, with her husband and two cats.

    She began creating self-portraits for ease and to have full control over the images, and has since grown into a self-portrait artist. Self portraiture for her is not autobiographical in nature. Instead, she attempts to place herself within worlds she wishes we could live in, where secrets float out in the open, where the impossible becomes possible.

    Brooke works to create new worlds within her photographic frame. By using painterly techniques as well as the square format, traditional photographic properties are replaced by otherworldly elements. Brooke’s photography questions the definition of what it means to be alive.

  • James Nachtwey

    James Nachtwey

    James Nachtwey grew up in Massachusetts and graduated from Dartmouth College, where he studied Art History and Political Science (1966-70). Images from the Vietnam War and the American Civil Rights movement had a powerful effect on him and were instrumental in his decision to become a photographer. He has worked aboard ships in the Merchant Marine, and while teaching himself photography, he was an apprentice news film editor and a truck driver.

    In 1976 he started work as a newspaper photographer in New Mexico, and in 1980, he moved to New York to begin a career as a freelance magazine photographer. His first foreign assignment was to cover civil strife in Northern Ireland in 1981 during the IRA hunger strike. Since then, Nachtwey has devoted himself to documenting wars, conflicts and critical social issues. He has worked on extensive photographic essays in El Salvador, Nicaragua, Guatemala, Lebanon, the West Bank and Gaza, Israel, Indonesia, Thailand, India, Sri Lanka, Afghanistan, the Philippines, South Korea, Somalia, Sudan, Rwanda, South Africa, Russia, Bosnia, Chechnya, Kosovo, Romania, Brazil and the United States.

  • Sebastiao Salgado

    Sebastiao Salgado

    Sebastião Salgado was born on February 8th, 1944 in Aimorés, in the state of Minas Gerais, Brazil. He lives in Paris. Having studied economics, Salgado began his career as a professional photographer in 1973 in Paris, working with the photo agencies Sygma, Gamma, and Magnum Photos until 1994, when he and Lélia Wanick Salgado formed Amazonas Images, an agency created exclusively for his work.
    He has travelled in over 100 countries for his photographic projects. Most of these, besides appearing in numerous press publications, have also been presented in books such as Other Americas (1986), Sahel: l’homme en détresse (1986), Sahel: el fin del camino (1988), Workers (1993), Terra (1997), Migrations and Portraits (2000), and Africa (2007). Touring exhibitions of this work have been, and continue to be, presented throughout the world.

    Sebastião Salgado has been awarded numerous major photographic prizes in recognition of his accomplishments. He is a UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador, and an honorary member of the Academy of Arts and Sciences in the United States.

  • Annabelle Breakey

    Annabelle Breakey

    Annabelle Breakey is a San Francisco editorial and commercial food photographer specializing in product/still life, lifestyle and food photography, San Francisco. Natural light and studio light, in-studio or on location, locally and internationally. She is very skilled in natural light studio still life photography.

    Annabelle has just completed a campaign for Starbucks in additions to well-known names such as Sunset Magazine, Beringer, Glade, Silk Pure Almond, Sharpie, and Lindsay Olives. She has just opened a brand new San Francisco studio, and is prepping for shoots in India, Africa and Central America.

  • Massimo Gammacurta

    Massimo Gammacurta

    Massimo Gammacurta is a still life conceptual photographer and multimedia artist based in New York.

    Conceptual still life photographer Massimo Gammacurta was born in Rome, Italy. Influenced by the futurist art movement, the graffiti culture, and Fellini and Pasolini films, he has shot stills and portraits for a host of publications and advertising such as Details, Forbes, Style Montecarlo, XXL, Nike, Lexus, Wieden & Kennedy, and Surface Magazine.

    “Movement and sensuality are the dynamos that drive my creative engine.
    As a photographer, I strive to reveal the hidden facets of mundane
    objects and circumstances. Like actors in a play, my still life subjects
    act out the daily struggle for emotional balance within the frame and
    lens”.

  • Nicholas Duers

    Nicholas Duers

    Nicholas Duers is a New York city based still-life photographer, specializing in fashion accessories,beauty products as well as luxury goods. he earned his degree from the Rochester Institute of Technology and currently operates out of his photo studio in midtown Manhattan.

    His work has been recognised by Graphis, Art Directors Club, Surface Magazine, Advertising Photographers of America, Int’l Photography Awards, Photo District News, Prix de la Photographie, Racie Awards and the London Photographic Awards, among others.

    His work is immaculate in it’s precise and creative execution.