Keith Aggett is self-taught in photography and software manipulation, he has presented his images on Flickr to invite comments and criticism in order to continue to learn and progress. His enthusiasm to date has been focussed on landscape and macro photography. He specialises in long exposures using assorted filters.
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Roger Ballen
Roger Ballen is a well-known photographer who resides in Johannesburg, South Africa. Ballen has produced a wide range of works and his photographs have been showcased in some of the most prestigious institutions around the globe. In addition, his images have been included in collections of institutions such as the Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France; Victoria and Albert Museum, London, England and the Museum of Modern Art in New York, USA. During his career as photographer Ballen has won many prestigious awards, such as the Best Solo Exhibition at the Sani Festival in Greece in 2000, Best Photographic Book of the year at PhotoEspana in Spain 2001, Photographer of the Year at Rencontres d’ Arles in 2002, and the Art Directors Club Award Photography in 2006.
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Patrick Demarchelier
The portraits, fashion and fine art images of photographer Patrick Demarchelier. Patrick Demarchelier is a French fashion photographer, born in 1943, he was raised in the small town of La Havre, near Paris. His love of photography began aged 17 when he was given his first camera by his stepfather and began to take pictures. Aged 20, he moved to Paris and began working for a photography lab, printing newspaper photographs. He has no formal qualifications, instead he claims he has learned from his mistakes.
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Xavi Fuentes
Xavi Fuentes is a Fine art landscape photographer from Spain and currently lives in Terrassa,Barcelona.
He discovered photography a bit late, despite having contact with images in his work life for several years. He understands photography as a combination of lights, shapes and lines…plays with them, and an image is born.
He has been nominated for many different awards, including; Black and White Spider Awards, PX3 PRIX DE LA PHOTOGRAPHIE PARIS and IPA AWARDS.
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Steve McCurry
Steve McCurry has been a one of the most iconic voices in contemporary photography for more than 30 years, with scores of magazine and book covers, over a dozen books, and countless exhibitions around the world to his name.
His work spans conflicts, vanishing cultures, ancient traditions and contemporary culture alike – yet always retains the human element that made his celebrated image of the Afghan Girl such a powerful image.
McCurry has been recognized with some of the most prestigious awards in the industry, including the Robert Capa Gold Medal, National Press Photographers Award, and an unprecedented four first prize awards from the World Press Photo contest, to name a few.
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James Mollison
James Mollison was born in Kenya in 1973 and grew up in England. After studying Art and Design at Oxford Brookes University, and later film and photography at Newport School of Art and Design, he moved to Italy to work at Benetton’s creative lab, Fabrica. Since August 2011 Mollison has been working as a creative editor on Colors Magazine with Patrick Waterhouse. In 2009 he won the Royal Photographic Society’s Vic Odden Award, for notable achievement in the art of photography by a British photographer aged 35 or under. His work has been widely published throughout the world including by Colors, The New York Times Magazine, the Guardian magazine, The Paris Review, GQ, New York Magazine and Le Monde. His latest book Where Children Sleep was published in November 2010- stories of diverse children around the world, told through portraits and pictures of their bedroom. His third book, Disciples was published in 2008 – panoramic format portraits of music fans photographed before and after concerts. In 2007 he published The Memory of Pablo Escobar- the extraordinary story of ‘the richest and most violent gangster in history’ told by hundreds of photographs gathered by Mollison. It was the follow-up to his work on the great apes – widely seen as an exhibition including at the Natural History Museum, London, and in the book James and Other Apes (Chris Boot, 2004). Mollison lives in Venice with his wife and son.