Martin Kollár (born 23 November 1971) is a Slovak photographer and cinematographer. He was awarded the

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in 2014.Winner 2014: Martin Kollar
, Leica Oskar Barnack Award. Accessed 20 January 2017. Kollár has had solo exhibitions at the

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, Paris; Le Château d'eau, Toulouse;

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, Mannheim;

Slovak National Gallery The Slovak National Gallery (, abbreviated SNG) is a network of galleries in Slovakia. It has its headquarters in Bratislava. The gallery was established by law on 29 July 1949. In Bratislava, it has its displays situated in Esterházy Palace (' ...

, Bratislava;

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, Athens; and Musée de l'Élysée, Lausanne.

Early life and education

Kollár was born in

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. He studied cinematography in the Film and Television faculty of the

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Career

In 2003 he joined Agence VU, (which he appears to have left in late 2013Kollár appears in VU's list of photographers as archived by the

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br>on 11 August 2013
he is absent from it as archive
on 21 December 2013
(His profile and photograph selection as of 11 August 2013 are archive
here
)). He worked on documentary and fiction films, including ''Autoportrait'' (director), ''Ball'' (producer) and as a cameraman for ''Velvet Terrorists'', ''Cooking History'', ''Across the Border: Five Views from Neighbours'', ''66 Seasons'', ''Ladomirova Morytates and Legends'', and the animated film ''In the Box''. His numerous photographs of everyday life in Slovakia are published in newspapers and magazines worldwide, such as '' Le Monde 2'', ''

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'', ''

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'' and ''

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''. ''Slovakia 001'', a survey of Slovakia in colour photographs, was prompted by a contest held by the Slovak Institute for Public Affairs. Kollár avoided looking for the exceptional and instead concentrated on oddities seen in everyday life.Eugen Gindl,
Exploring the exoticism of the everyday
, Fotofo. Accessed 25 January 2017. The photographs were exhibited and also published as a book.Marek Grygiel,
Martin Kollar: Raport o stanie kraju 001
, Fototapeta. Accessed 25 January 2017. ''Television Anchors'' is a series showing television news reporters in incongruous situations. It was prompted by the sudden cancellation of an assignment to photograph

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after

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: although

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had escaped most of the damage, it was the standard television backdrop thanks to its ease of access. Allowing more into the frame around the reporter than normally permitted by a television news broadcast presents a very different picture. In the series ''Nothing Special'', begun around 2000, Kollár explored the environment of countries that had been in the Warsaw bloc. He traveled nearly 13,500 km, "looking for moments that portrayed the chaotic and often humorous moments"; examining "clashing cultures, tradition versus modernity, and sometimes situations that are simply perplexing". The photographs were all unstaged. In order to participate in the project '' This Place'', launched by

Frédéric Brenner Frédéric Brenner (born 1959) is a French photographer known for his documentation of Jewish communities around the world. His work has been exhibited internationally, among others, at the International Center of Photography in New York, the Mu ...

, Kollár was expected to spend six months photographing in Israel. He based himself in Tel Aviv, and visited many sites made available thanks to much preparation and persuasion by his assistant, Talia Rosin. He concentrated on Israel's future rather than its past or even present, and thus on sites of preparation or prevention. security- and surveillance-related sites and activities in Israel. The book has no captions, and the photographs go unexplained.Jana Liptáková,
Kollár's time capsule of Israel is now on display at the SNG
, The Slovak Spectator, 14 December 2015. Accessed 25 January 2017. "Every image in this Slovakian photographer's depiction of Israel is a photograph of unintelligible secrets," commented

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. "At the end of 'Field Trip''I'm more confused than I was at the beginning, making the book a wonderful example of photography's inability to be able to explain very much at all", wrote

Mark Power Mark Power (born 1959) is a British photographer. He is a member of Magnum Photos and Professor of Photography in The Faculty of Arts and Architecture at the University of Brighton.Roberta Smith,
Capturing human moments amid chaos in Israel and the West Bank
, ''New York Times'', 18 February 2016. Accessed 8 February 2017. It was named one of

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's favorite books of 2013. For the 15th in its series of ''European Eyes on Japan: Japan Today'', in which photographers cover Japan

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by prefecture, the

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Japan Committee invited Kollár and Olivier Metzger to photograph Chiba. Kollár stayed in Japan for a month in spring 2013. The resulting work was exhibited in Arles as part of

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and published in book form.Photograph exhibition ''European Eyes on Japan / Japan Today vol.15''
, EU–Japan Fest Japan Committee. Accessed 24 January 2017.'Rester partir, le voyage impossible: Une exposition de la programmation coproduite par Marseille-Provence 2013
, Voies Off. Accessed 24 January 2017.

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writes that "It is state of impermanence that Martin Kollar sets out to explore in his latest book, ''Provisional Arrangement'', which attempts to map out a psychogeography of uncertainty and stasis.O'Hagan's article accompanies a page of photographs:
Road to nowhere: Martin Kollár's deadpan travel diary – in pictures
, ''The Guardian'', 26 September 2016. Brad Feuerhelm calls the book, with its "cinematically constructed images", "a work of soft genius".

Awards

*Les Pépinières européennes pour jeunes artistes (stipend), Luxembourg, June–September 1999. *Annual Country Report, year's stipend awarded by the Institute for Public Affairs, 2001. *FujiFilm Euro Press Photo Awards, national level: 1st prize, 2001. *

, 2014. *Prix Élysée,

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, 2016Martin Kollar: Provisional Arrangement
, Prix Élysée. Accessed 20 January 2017. *Backlight Photography Ward (Finland)

Exhibitions

Solo exhibitions

*''Martin Kollár: Europe'', Galéria Profil, Bratislava, October 2000. *''Slovakia 2001: A Pictorial Report on the State of the Country'',

Johann Pálffy Palace Johann Pálffy Palace ( or ''Pálfiho palác'') is a late Classicism-style building in the Old Town, Bratislava, Slovakia, on the Panská street, near the Hviezdoslav Square. The palace is standing on the site of a former building, which was unti ...

, Bratislava, 2001. *''2001: Správa o stave krajiny'', Dom Fotografie,

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, February 2002. *''Martin Kollar: Raport o stanie kraju 001'', Mała Galeria ZPAF-CSW, Warsaw, November 2002. An exhibition of ''Slovakia 001''. *''Nothing Special'', , Hamburg, August–October 2005. *''Nothing Special'', Batagianni Gallery, Athens, 13th International Month of Photography, October 2006. *''TV Anchors'',

, Paris, 2007 *''Nothing Special'', Le Château d'eau, Toulouse, June–September 2008 *''Tranzit'', Tranzit Gallery, Bratislava, November 2012 – *''Field Trip'', , Vevey, March–April 2014. *''Field Trip'', Zephyr – Raum für Fotografie,

, Mannheim, March–June 2015. *''Field Trip'', Robert Capa Contemporary Photography Center, Budapest, September–October 2015. *''Martin Kollar: Field Trip / Exkurzia''.

, Bratislava, October 2015 – January 2016. *''Field Trip'', Athens Photo Festival 2016,

, June–July 2016. *''Provisional Arrangement'', Musée de l'Élysée, Lausanne, September–December 2016.

Other exhibitions

*''Report from the Country'', Centre for Contemporary Art,

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, Warsaw, 2002Martin Kollar
, Prix Élysée. Accessed 20 January 2017. *''Ihmisiä itärajoilla'' = ''People in the Eastern Border Country'', Imatra Art Museum,

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(Imatran valokuvataiteen biennaali 2003, the first Imatra Biennale of Photographic Art), June–August 2003. Together with András Fekete, , Boris Missirkov, Georgi Bogdanov, , Kati Koivikko, , Marja Pirilä, , Sanni Seppo, ; Krisztina Erdei; ;

Jindřich Štreit Jindřich Štreit (born 5 September 1946 in Vsetín) is a Czechs, Czech photographer and pedagogue known for his documentary photography. He concentrates on documenting the rural life and people of Czech villages. He is considered one of the most ...

. *''Slovak Photography 1925–2000'', Městská Knihovna (municipal library), Prague, March 2003. * ''Parallele Avantgarden – Gibt es eine "europäische Fotografie"?'' Artspace, Vienna, April–May 2003. With Irena Blühová, Ladislav Foltyn, , , Marek Kvetán, , OHO, Tobias Putrih,

Shirana Shahbazi Shirana Shahbazi (; born 1974) is an Iranian-born photographer who now lives in Switzerland. Her work includes installations and large prints of conceptual photography. Biography Born in Tehran, Shahbazi moved to Germany in 1985, studying photogr ...

, Janko Skerlep. * ''Stadt in Sicht. New Art from Bratislava'',

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, Vienna, May–July 2003. With 19 other artists. * ''Check Slovakia!'',

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, Berlin, May–June 2004. With Erik Binder, Cyril Blažo, Tomáš Agat Błoński, Pavlína Fichta Čierna, Bohdan Hostiňák, Ilona Németh, Milan Tittel, and Emőke Vargová. * Exhibition of finalists for the Oskár Čepan prize. Mirbach Palace gallery, Bratislava, May–August 2004. With Mário Chromý, Svätopluk Mikyta and Boris Sirka. * ''Fotografie aus Tschechien und Osteuropa'', /Kunstverein Glückstadt,

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, August–September 2004. With Jindřich Štreit. * ''Slowakei durch die Linse von Dokumentarfotografen'', Fluss, Wolkersdorf, October–November 2004. With , , Alan Hyža, Martin Marenčin, Lucia Nimcová, , Jaro Sýkora. *''Bitte lächeln, Aufnahme!'',

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, Berlin, December 2004 – February 2005. Together with Mart Viljus, Andrejs Grants, , Agostino Baldacchino, , Kollár, ,

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, Imre Benkő, Ioannis Yerou. *''Leica Oskar Barnack Preis 2004'', Leica Galerie Solms,

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, January 2005. With Peter Granser and

Alex Majoli Alex Majoli (born 1971) is an Italian photographer known for his documentation of war and conflict. He is a member of Magnum Photos. Majoli's work focuses on the human condition and the theater within our daily lives. Life and work Majoli was bor ...

. *''Leica Oskar Barnack Award 2004'', Leica Ginza Salon,

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, Tokyo, September–October 2005. With Peter Granser and Alex Majoli. *''Un/Mill à 2.8: Rip Hopkins, Martin Kollar et Tiane Doan Na Champassak'',

, Paris, November 2006. Work by Kollár, Rip Hopkins, and Tiane Doan Na Champassak. * ''Slovakia: Through the lens of documentary photographers'', Photography Gallery Prospekto, Vilnius. December 2006 – January 2007. With Andrej Bán, Pavol Breier, Alan Hyža, Martin Marenčin, Jozef Ondzik, Jaro Sýkora. *''Unseen: An exhibition of International Photography'',

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, 2008. Together with

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, Camille Vivier,

Charles Fréger Charles Fréger (born 1975) is a French portrait photographer. Education Fréger was a student at the École supérieure d'art et design Le Havre-Rouen in Rouen. Life and work He is best known for his series of photographic portraits of people i ...

, Jacob Aue Sobol, ,

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, Rafał Milach,

Lieko Shiga Lieko Shiga (志賀理江子; born 1980) is a Japanese photographer. She is best known for her "Rasen Kaigan" (spiral coast) series. Career Shiga was born in Okazaki, Aichi in 1980. After graduating from high school she enrolled in Tokyo Polytec ...

and Simon Roberts. *

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, Prague, 2009 *''Backlight 08 – Tickle attack'', ,

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, June–July 2009. With , Anne Guest, Marco Lanza & Saverio Lanza, Paula Muhr, , Mai Yamashita & Naoto Kobayashi. *''European Eyes on Japan / Japan Today vol. 15'',

, Voies Off Gallery, Arles, September–October 2013. Photographs by Kollár and Olivier Metzger of

Chiba prefecture is a Prefectures of Japan, prefecture of Japan located in the Kantō region of Honshu. Chiba Prefecture has a population of 6,278,060 (1 June 2019) and has a geographic area of . Chiba Prefecture borders Ibaraki Prefecture to the north, Saitama ...

. *''Prix Elysée 2014'', Musée de l'Elysée, Lausanne, January–May 2015. Photographs by Kollár and Anoush Abrar, Mari Bastashevski, Philippe Chancel, Annabel Elgar, Agnès Geoffray, Marco Poloni, Kourtney Roy. *''This Place'', , Prague, October 2014 – March 2015. *''This Place'',

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, May–September 2015. *''From Room to Roam.'' Albumarte, Rome (Fotografia – International Festival of Rome). October–December 2015. Photographs of Ukraine, with . *''This Place'',

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, Palm Beach, Florida, October 2015 – January 2016. *''This Place'',

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, February–June 2016.

Film credits

*''Hey, You Slovaks'', 2003 (cinematographer) *''Autoportrait'' = ''Autoportét – Martin Kollár'', 2012 (writer, director and cinematographer)A ten-minute version is availabl
here
at

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. *''Ball'' (producer) *''Velvet Terrorists'' = ''Zamatoví teroristi'', 2013 (cinematographer) *''Cooking History'' = ''Ako sa varia dejiny'', 2009 (cinematographer) *''Across the Border: Five Views from Neighbours'' (cinematographer) *''66 Seasons'' = ''66 sezón'', 2003 (cinematographer) *''Ladomirova Morytates and Legends'' = ''Ladomirovské morytáty a legendy'', 1998 (cinematographer) *''In the Box'' (cinematographer) *''

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'' = ''Koza'', 2015 (cinematographer) *''5 October'' = ''5. október'', 2016 (writer, director, cinematographer) *'' Wishing on a Star'', 2024 (cinematographer)

Publications

Books by Kollár

* ''Slovensko 001: Obrazová správa o stave krajiny'' = ''Slovakia 001: A Pictorial Report on the State of the Country''. Bratislava: Institute for Public Affairs, 2001. . With text in Slovak and English. * ''Nothing Special.'' Colour photographs of Europe (mostly Slovakia and the Czech Republic) from 2001 to 2004, each captioned with the place and year; text by and

Peter Kerekes Peter Kerekes (born 3 April 1973) is a Slovak film director, documentarist and screenwriter. Life and career Born in Košice, the son of a television director, in 1998 Kerekes majored in documentary direction from the Academy of Performing Ar ...

. ** ''Nothing special: Photographies de Martin Kollar''. Arles:

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, 2007. .Actes Sud's page about ''Nothing Special''
** ''Nothing special: Fotografien von Martin Kollar.'' Heidelberg: Braus, 2008. . Text in German. * ''Cahier''. Montreuil-sur-Brèche: Diaphane, 2011. Collection of uncaptioned colour photographs of

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, made during a

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in July and August 2011. .Diaphane's page about ''Cahier''
* ''Field Trip''. London: Mack, 2013. . Collection of uncaptioned colour photographs of Israel, made as part of '' This Place'', with a short afterword by Kollár in English.Mack's page about ''Field Trip''
* ''Martin Kollar: Catalogue''. Bratislava:

, 2015. . With text in Slovak and English by Aurel Hrabušický.SNG's page about ''Catalogue''
* ''Provisional Arrangement''. London: Mack, 2016. . Colour photographs, without captions. Texts in English by Lydia Dorner, Tatyana Franck and Pascal Hufschmid, and Michel Parmigiani.Mack's page about ''Provisional Arrangement''
"This book is published in the context of the Prix Elysée". * ''After''. London: Mack, 2021. .Mack's page about ''After''

Books with contributions by Kollár

*Päivi Eronen, ed. ''Ihmisiä itärajoilla'' = ''People in the Eastern Border Country.'' Imatra: Imatran kaupunki, 2003. . Photographs by András Fekete, , Boris Missirkov, Georgi Bogdanov, , Kati Koivikko, Kollár, , Marja Pirilä, , Sanni Seppo, ; Krisztina Erdei; ;

. Accompanying the exhibitions at Imatran valokuvataiteen biennaali 2003 = Imatra Biennale of Photographic Art 2003, June–August 2003; Suomalaista valokuvataidetta = Contemporary Photography in Finland, Dom fotografie Poprad, Slovakia, October–December 2003. * ''À l'Est de l'Ouest'' = ''East of the West''. 16°24′: Europe de l'Est 2005. Paris: Unistrat Coface, 2005. . Photographs by Kollár, text (in French and English) by Guy-Pierre Chomette. * Mart Viljus and Borut Peterlin. ''Bitte lächeln, Aufnahme!: Fotokunst aus den zehn neuen EU-Ländern.'' Heidelberg: Braus im Wachter, 2005. . Accompanying an exhibition at Martin-Gropius-Bau Berlin, 2004–2005; with photographs by Mart Viljus, Andrejs Grants, , Agostino Baldacchino, , Kollár, ,

, Imre Benkő, Ioannis Yerou. * Magali Jauffret. ''Vu' à Paris.'' Saint-Laurent-du-Var: Panini, 2006. . Photographs by

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, , Aniu, Philip Blenkinsop, Bruno Boudjelal, , , ,

Claudine Doury Claudine Doury (born 1959) is a French photographer living in Paris. She has been a member of Agence Vu since 1991."Claudine Doury: Meetings and encounters: Explorations for a creative notebook",Photo workshops of Rencontres d'Arles 2008 (PDF), ...

, ,

JH Engström JH Engström (born 1969) is a Swedish photographer, filmmaker and artist based in Paris. Biography Born in 1969 in Karlstad, Sweden, JH Engström has been developing for two decades a major work that questions the conditions of our existence in ...

, Gilles Favier, Stanley Greene, Rip Hopkins, Martin Kollár, Anders Petersen, Ian Teh,

Lars Tunbjörk Lars Tunbjörk (15 February 1956 – 8 April 2015) was a Swedish photographer known for his "deadpan portraits of office spaces and suburban lifestyles". Background Tunbjörk was born in the Swedish town of Borås, a place which was a big influe ...

, Guillaume Zuili; text in French and English. * ''Y'a de la joie''.

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Union Financière de France, 2009. Four booklets, one by each of four photographers (Kollár, Claudine Doury, Denis Darzacq and Bertrand Desprez) in a slipcase. Kollár's booklet is of photographs he took along the French coast in 2009. * ''Sylt: Im Spiegel zeitgenössischer Fotografie.'' Ostfildern bei Stuttgart: Hatje Cantz, 2012. . Photographs of

Sylt Sylt (; ; Söl'ring North Frisian: ) is an island in northern Germany, part of Nordfriesland district, Schleswig-Holstein, with a distinctively shaped shoreline. It belongs to the North Frisian Islands and is the largest island in North Fris ...

by Julia Baier, Peter Bialobrzeski, Jörg Brüggemann, Denis Brudna, Tine Casper, Christian Diehl, Christoph Engel, Hans Hansen, Volker Hinz, Britta Isenrath, Martin Kollár, Ingar Krauss, , Robert Lebeck, Julia Maria Max,

Dita Pepe Dita Pepe (née Hornsteinerová; born 5 September 1973) is a Czech photographer. She teaches photography at the Institute of Creative Photography (ITF) of the Silesian University in Opava and is known particularly for her staged portrait photogra ...

, Christian Popkes, , Anja Schaffner, Evzen Sobek, Grit Schwerdtfeger, Susanne Schleyer/Michael J. Stephan, Thomas Wrede; text in German. *Anna Shpakova and Andreǐ Zuev. ''The Russian Moment: 20 Leading World Photographers' Expedition to Russia, July 2013.'' Moscow: RIA Novosti, 2013. . Kollár contributes a section, "Stuntmen". * = ''European Eyes on Japan: Japan Today.'' Vol. 15, ''Martin Kollar, Olivier Metzger.'' Tokyo:

Japan Committee, 2013. Photographs by Kollár and Olivier Metzger of

; text (in Japanese and English) by Mayumi Asakura. *Sam Stourdzé and Pascal Hufschmid, ''Prix Elysée 2014: Livre des nominés = Nominees' Book.'' Lausanne: Musée de l'Elysée, 2014. . With photographs by Anoush Abrar, Mari Bastashevski, Philippe Chancel, Annabel Elgar, Agnès Geoffray, Kollár, Marco Poloni, Kourtney Roy. * Charlotte Cotton, ed. ''This Place''. London: Mack, 2014. . Photographs of Israel and the West Bank by

, Wendy Ewald, Kollár,

Josef Koudelka Josef Koudelka (born 10 January 1938) is a Czech-French photographer. He is a member of Magnum Photos and has won awards such as the Prix Nadar (1978), a Grand Prix National de la Photographie (1989), a Grand Prix Henri Cartier-Bresson (1991) ...

, Jungjin Lee,

Gilles Peress Gilles Peress (born December 29, 1946) is a French photographer and a member of Magnum Photos. Peress began working with photography in 1970, having previously studied political science and philosophy in Paris. One of Peress' first projects exa ...

Fazal Sheikh Fazal Sheikh (born June 27, 1965 in New York City) is an artist who uses photographs to document people living in displaced and marginalized communities around the world. Life and career Fazal Sheikh is an artist who uses photographs to documen ...

Stephen Shore Stephen Shore (born October 8, 1947) is an American photographer known for his images of scenes and objects of the banal, and for his pioneering use of color in art photography. His books include ''Uncommon Places'' (1982) and ''American Surfaces ...

Rosalind Fox Solomon Rosalind Fox Solomon (April 2, 1930 – June 23, 2025) was an American photographer based in New York City. In 2007, the University of Arizona's Center for Creative Photography acquired Solomon's archive, which includes her photographic archive ...

Thomas Struth Thomas Struth (born 11 October 1954) is a German photographer who is best known for his ''Museum Photographs'' series, black and white photographs of the streets of Düsseldorf and New York taken in the 1970s, and his family photographs series. ...

Jeff Wall Jeffrey Wall, Order of Canada, OC, Royal Society of Canada, RSA (born September 29, 1946) is a Canadian photographer. He is artist best known for his large-scale back-lit Cibachrome photographs and art history writing. Early in his career, he h ...

and

Nick Waplington Nick Waplington (born 1965) is a British / American artist and photographer. Many books of Waplington's work have been published, both self-published and through Aperture, Cornerhouse, Mack, Phaidon, and Trolley. His work has been shown in sol ...

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