Photo Photography

Tag: photography

  • Koichiro Doi

    Koichiro Doi

    Koichiro Doi, born in Tokyo, studied fashion design before shifting his focus to photography. His main passion was for still life, but he acquired technical techniques and skills in beauty photography as well.
    He studied fashion at Parsons School of Design before realizing that it was actually photography he aspired to pursue. Upon his return to Tokyo he began to shoot and develop his own techniques, without any formal training. Seeing his portfolio and the roster of cutting edge brands and companies he has worked with, it is easy to see he has mastered the craft of beauty and still life photography.

    Doi shoots for numerous magazines such as Vogue Nippon, Harpers Bazaar Japan, Frech Magazines, Numéro and Spur. Doi now works between Tokyo and Paris.

  • Mario Gerth

    Mario Gerth

    Mario Gerth is a Dutch journalist and a photographer. He has travelled to more than 75 countries on five continents. Throughout his travels he has witnessed the beauty of many cultures, as well as civil war, violence and poverty. His photographs have been exhibited international and published in numerous magazines.

    “Beautiful and dynamic portraits by Dutch photographer Mario Gerth. Beautiful is an understatement in this case, Mario’s subjects span from different regions across Africa, from countries such as Namibia, Niger, Kenya, Mali and Ethiopia”, (African Digital Art Newtork 2013).

  • Eric Lafforgue

    Eric Lafforgue

    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.

  • Cristina de Middel

    Cristina de Middel

    Cristina de Middel is a Spanish born photojournalist, who is now based in London. De Middels work deliberately questions the viewer and is a reconstruction or archetype which blurs the line between fiction and reality. She has been selected for five solo exhibitions and received numerous awards between 2009 and 2013.

    Her most recent and well known series entitled “Afronauts,” where De Middel stages photographs of the Zambian Space program in 1964. “Astronauts” in training in an African landscape with colourful space suits. De Middel creates imagery representing cultural identity by assigning a futuristic appearance of how this space program could have been. De Middel states, Not only because the story is positive, in terms of African people having dreams, but also evidencing what we expect from Africa in terms of aesthetics and behaviour, (2013).

  • Carol Beckwith and Angela Fisher

    Carol Beckwith and Angela Fisher

    Carol Beckwith is an American author and photographer known for her photojournalism, partnered with Australian photographer Angela Fisher, documenting indigenous African tribes. Together they have published fourteen books and films. Their photography has also featured in Time, Life, Marie Claire, Elle and National Geographic magazines. The Beckwith-Fisher images have been captured through many journeys and deep relationships which they have formed with various tribal groups.
    Sadly the traditional African cultures are disappearing quickly, therefore this duo are working hard to get their third volume of African ceremonies ready for publication in 2013. They still have thirteen African cultures to cover and the book is entitled, “African Twilight.”

    “Beckwith and Fisher have done more than anyone to awaken the world’s appreciation of everything African, from adornment to the rapidly vanishing ceremonies”.
    — Peter Keller, PhD, President of the Bowers Museum, Santa Ana, California

    Books Available in our Library:
    Beckwith, C. Fisher, A. 1945. African Ceremonies. New York: Abrams
    Beckwith, C. Fisher, A. 1990. African Ark: People of the Horn. London: Collins and Harvell

  • Jim Marshall

    Jim Marshall

    Celebrated music photographer Jim Marshall is acclaimed for his photography of music icons from the 1950s to the present day, including Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin, The Beatles, Rolling Stones, Johnny Cash, The Doors, Jefferson Airplane. Based in San Francisco, Jim Marshall died in 2010, at the age of 74. He had extended access to numerous musicians through the 1960s and 1970s, including being the only photographer allowed backstage at The Beatles last concert, and chief photographer at Woodstock.

    While still in high school he purchased his first camera and began documenting musicians and artists in San Francisco. He was known for his forceful personality that became something of a celebrity of its own. Not having any children, he used to say “I have no kids, my photographs are my children”.