Ben Hassett is a photographer and filmmaker now living in NYC. He studied Fine Art in England, and began his career in landscape and art photography. His life and work have been profiled in The British Journal of Photography and Playboy Magazine. A regular contributor to Vogue magazines worldwide, Ben also shoots for W, Numero, and American Harpers Bazaar and he is best known for his striking and sometimes disturbing beauty images. German Vogue labeled him “the Penn of his generation”.
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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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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.
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David LaChapelle
David LaChapelle (born March 11, 1963) is an artist and photographer known for combining a hyper-realistic aesthetic with social messages. LaChapelle’s photography career began in the 1980s when he began showing his artwork in New York City galleries. His work caught the eye of Andy Warhol, who offered him his first job as a photographer at Interview magazine. His photographs of celebrities in Interview garnered positive attention, and before long he was shooting for a variety of top editorial publications.
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Lara Jade
She discovered her interest in photography when she was fifteen; ever since then, she has worked towards defining her own style, honing her skills, and expanding her business. She began by shooting Fine art photography and experimental self-portraiture in her hometown of the West Midlands, England before she transitioned into the ever-changing world of fashion photography. At seventeen, she started her own photography business and soon found herself shooting for portrait clients, book publishers and music labels throughout the UK. She moved to London to connect with creatives in the photography industry and to push her boundaries as a photographer. She is influenced by past and present style; whenever she shoots she likes to create stories with an underlying sense of narrative. She is inspired by elements of influential style, film noir, old masters in painting and photography, Romanticism and untouched beauty. In 2011, she moved to New York.
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Arnold Newman
Arnold Newman (1918 – 2006) was born in New York City. Generally acknowledged as the pioneer of the environmental portrait, he is also known for his still life and abstract photography, and he is considered as one of the most influential photographers of the 20th Century.