Eric Lafforgue, born in France 1964, is a travel photographer. Working with digital and film (Hasselblad H4D-50, Canon EOS-1Ds Mark III, Canon 5D Mark III, Leica M6), he travel’s to share his encounters, through the perception of an ethnologist and of course his love of photography. He started taking photographs in 2006 and he quickly became known. His imagery have appeared both printed and digitally in publications such as National Geographic’s, The CNN traveller, BBC, The Blue Planet, New York Times, Lonely Planet, GEO and numerous more.
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Todd Owyoung
Todd Owyoung is a freelance photographer based in St. Louis specializing in live music photography and band portraits. He graduated from Washington University in St. Louis magna cum laude with a BFA in Visual Communications. Throughout the year, on average, Owyoung photographs four to six bands a week and drinks tea everyday.
His work has appeared in publications such as Rolling Stone, the New York Times, SPIN, Billboard, Entertainment Weekly, Alternative Press, The Wallstreet Journal, The Boston Globe, The Village Voice and Harper’s Bazaar. From sold out stadium shows to smoky basement gigs, compelling band portraits, or creative for a national campaign, if it rocks and rolls, Todd Owyoung can photograph it.
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Max Vadukul
Max Vadukul is a leading image maker best known for his portrait photography. He follows in the tradition of what he calls “art reportage” photography, which he describes as “taking reality and making it into art”. He has also had a lifelong affinity with grainy high contrast black and white, a foundation of much of his early work. He has long standing relationships with magazines such as The New Yorker, French Vogue, Italian Vogue, L’Uomo Vogue, and Rolling Stone. He shoots regularly for W Magazine, T: The New York Times Style Magazine, Vogue China, and others.From 1996 to 2000 he was the New Yorker’s staff photographer, a title previously occupied by Richard Avedon. He photographed hundreds of subjects for the magazine, including Mother Theresa, Al Gore, Mick Jagger, Donald Trump, 40 Nobel laureates at once. In 1997 he photographed much of the magazine’s celebrated Indian Fiction issue. After the New Yorker, he became photo Editor-At-Large for Tina Brown’s Talk magazine. He established himself in the 1990’s with a large body of work for French Vogue – a large portion of which was created with his wife, the eminent fashion editor Nicoletta Santoro. They have collaborated often through the years. In the mid 1980s Max photographed several prestigious Yoji Yamamoto advertising campaigns, introducing many to his signature dynamic movement-filled black and white images for the first time.
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Warren Du Preez and Nick Thornton Jones
Warren du Preez is regarded as one of the creative industry’s leading artists within image making and film. Du Preez’s Unique process of painting with light and form combined with performance lead the viewer to share their landscapes of imagination. The resulting imagery can be described as as hyper-visual and painterly. His future/past philosophy informs levels of abstraction and mystery that resonate and challenge notions of beauty. Du Preez’s subconscious homage to classicism and surrealism convey his vision of ‘dreams in reality’ illustrated by his unique artistic processes which show photography in a completely new light.
Du Preez has created editorial for V magazine, Nowness, New York Times magazine, Numero, i-D, Big Magazine, Dazed and Confused, Muse and GQ Style. His visual innovation has led to commisiona to create advertising campaigns for: Lancome, Shu Uemura, Issey Miyake, Cartier, Boucheron, Hermes, Elizabeth Arden, Thierry Mugler, Shiseido, Cacharel, Nike, Levi’s, Absolut, BMW, Sony and Mercedes Benz.
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Sarah Silver
Sarah Silver studied both classical and modern dance from an equally young age, so has always had an appreciation of movement. After completing her first degree in Middle East studies from Vassar College, she found that her true calling was to combine both of her passions: photography and movement. She applied for graduate studies in photography at the School of Visual Arts in New York City. Sarah was chosen to shoot for Surface Magazine’s Avant Guardian issue and this fashion shoot marked the true beginning of Sarah’s professional career as a photographer. Using dancers as models in high fashion, Sarah’s style gelled. Next, Sarah shot her graduate thesis, two fashion stories, using the modern dance group Stephen Petronio Dance in clothing by Prada and Imitation of Christ. These photographs have since appeared in several magazines including PDN, Italian Vogue, Elle and Time Out NY and the New York Times. She is shooting with a medium format digital back.
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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.