The focus of the German photographer Michael Wolf’s work is life in mega cities. Many of his projects document the architecture and the vernacular culture of metropolises. Wolf grew up in Canada, Europe and the United States, studying at UC Berkeley and at the Folkwang school with Otto Steinert in Essen, Germany. He moved to Hong Kong in 1994 where he worked for eight years as contract photographer for Stern magazine. Since 2001, Wolf has been focusing on his own projects, many of which have been published as books. Wolf’s work has been exhibited in numerous locations, including the Venice Bienniale for architecture, Aperture gallery, New York; Museum centre Vapriikki, Tampere, Finland, Museum for work in Hamburg, Germany, Hong Kong Shenzhen Biennial, Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago. His work is held in many permanent collections, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, the Brooklyn museum, the San Jose museum of art, California; the Museum of Contemporary photography, Chicago; Museum Folkwang, Essen and the German museum for architecture, Frankfurt. he has won first prize in the World Press Photo award competition on two occasions (2005 and 2010) and an honorable mention (2011.) In 2010, Wolf was shortlisted for the Prix Pictet photography prize.
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Tom Munro
Tom Munro is a noted fashion and celebrity photographer. English by birth, Tom moved to New York in 1990. In 1997 Tom embarked on his own career as a photographer, immediately in demand and achieving overnight success and recognition from his early fashion shoots for British Vogue and Harpers Bazaar. During the last ten years Tom has contributed to some of the world’s most prestigious magazine publications including Vogue USA, Italian Vogue, Russian Vogue, Japanese Vogue and Details. Tom’s dedication and passion towards his craft has attracted some of the fashion and beauty industries most prestigious names, including Armani, Banana Republic, Burberry, Calvin Klein, Chloe, Converse, Estee Lauder, Givenchy, Hugo Boss, Lacoste, Lancome, L’Oreal, Maybelline and some of the Music industries most iconic figures, such as Beyonce, Justin Timberlake and Madonna as well as his extensive celebrity archive of many highly acclaimed Hollywood actors, Dustin Hoffman, Hugh Jackman, Kate Winslett, Leonardo Dicaprio, Scarlett Johansson and Tom Cruise, to name a few.
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Lachlan Bailey
Lachlan Bailey is a fashion and portrait photographer currently based in New York City. Originally from Australia where he studied both film and photography Lachlan moved to London in 2001 then to New York in 2008. After assisting other photographers he broke out on his own in 2004 with work in Vogue, i-D, POP and Arena Homme+. Influenced by great filmmakers, his beautifully lit fashion images capture great drama and storytelling. His campaigns and editorials include Avon, Audi, Burberry, DKNY, Ebel, Endless, Louis Vuitton Mens, Cerutti Fragrance, J Crew, Jaeger London, Paul Smith Fragrance, Links Of London Jewelry, Joe Cosmetics, Saks Fifth Avenue, Tory Burch, Uniqlo, Victoria’s Secret, Vidal Sassoon, American Vogue, British Vogue, French Vogue, China Vogue, The Last Magazine, Muse, Harpers Bazaar US, and Twin Magazine.
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Brad Feinknopf
Mark Bradly Feinkopf’s career started out by assisting famous photographers such as Richard Avedon, Robert Mapplethorpe, Arnold Newman and Joyce Tenneson, and beacause he is also the son and grandson of architects, this might be part of a logical explanaition for his understanding of the architectural photography genre. Feinkopf studied design at Cornell University in New York City. In 1988 Feinkopf returned from working in New York, to his hometown of Columbus, Ohio to establish a photographic studio that would excel in providing its clientele the utmost of quality and service in architectural, interior and corporate photography. An approach to photography, that is both traditional in process yet cutting edge in technology, Feinkopf photography utilizes some of the top digital equipment and superior retouching services available in the industry today. Feinkopf is also a frequent writer and lecturer on architectural photography.
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Iwan Baan
Dutch photographer Iwan Baan is known primarily for images that narrate the life and interactions that occur within architecture. He has challenged a long-standing tradition of depicting buildings as isolated and static by representing people in architecture and showing the building’s environment, trying “to produce more of a story or a feel for a project” and “to communicate how people use the space”. Born in 1975, Iwan grew up outside Amsterdam, studied at the Royal Academy of Art in The Hague and worked in publishing and documentary photography in New York and Europe. He is one of the most widely published architectural photographers in the world.
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Balthazar Korab
Balthazar Korab (1926–2013) — architect and photographer, has documented the places where we live and work. His photographs have been exhibited in prominent museums such as; The Museum of Modern Art–New York, The Detroit Institute of Arts, Centre Canadian d’Architecture–Montreal and The Venice Biennale. His work is included in many collections such as; The Chase Manhattan Collection, The Menil Collection and The United States Library of Congress. Korab has authored and contributed to a vast number of publications including; Genius Loci: Cranbrook, I Tetti di Roma, Gamberaia, Columbus Indiana, Encyclopedia of American Architecture, The Saarinen House, and multiple volumes on the works of Frank Lloyd Wright. He is an architect with a passion for natures lessons and mans interventions. His images are born out of a deep emotional investment in their subject. Their content is never sacrificed for mere visual effects, nor is a polemic activism intended to prevail over an aesthetic balance.