Sebastián Szyd was born in Buenos Aires in 1974. At the age of nineteen he started out on a series of trips around Latin America that were to last for more than two decades. In 1996 he worked as a photographer for a small news agency and the following year he joined the staff of
Anna Shteynshleyger was born in Russia in 1977. She came to the United States in 1992. She received a B.F.A. from the Maryland Institute College of Art (1999) and an M.F.A. from Yale University School of Art (2001). In 2004 a solo exhibition of her work was held at the Museum of Contemporary Art in
Suzanne Opton’s work has been exhibited worldwide, and is included in the permanent collections of the Austin Museum; Biblioteque Nationale; Brooklyn Museum; Cleveland Museum; Chrylser Museum; Library of Congress; Michener Museum; Musee de l’Eysee, Lausanne; Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; and the Portland Art Museum. Ms. Opton has been the recipient of grants from the Cummings Foundation,
Osamu James Nakagawa was born in New York City and raised in Tokyo. He returned to the United States, moving to Houston, Texas, at the age of 15. He received a Bachelor of Arts from the University of St. Thomas Houston in 1986 and a Master of Fine Arts from the University of Houston in 1993.
Working solely with an 1898 Agfa field camera, Thomas Joshua Cooper has established himself as one of the foremost photographers of our time. He photographs only outdoors, but his pictures are far from nature “shots”: they are images he makes, or finds, each unique, with each site captured in a single exposure, and then rendered
I was born in 1952. My first foray into photography came when I was eighteen years old. My father had a small darkroom in the basement and he showed me the basics of how to print a black-and-white negative. About six years later, between my undergraduate degree and graduate school, the glowing ember that was
Nic Nicosia was born in 1951 in Dallas, Texas. He currently lives and works in Santa Fe, New Mexico. In 1974 Nic received a B.S. in Radio-TV-Film from the University of North Texas with a concentration in motion pictures. Working as a conceptual artist who uses a camera, Nic subsequently applied his cinematic mindset to
Pablo Helguera (born in Mexico City in 1971) is a New York–based artist working with installation, sculpture, photography, drawing, and performance. Considering the relationship between history, cultural production, and language, Mr. Helguera fictionalizes the real, generating commentary and discussion about our surrounding cultural reality and our relationship to time. His work often adopts the format
Charles Lindsay’s career trajectory advances from scientist, adventurer, photojournalist, and environmental activist to now working as an artist exploring a unique photographic process of his own invention. He has a B.Sc. in Geology from the University of Western Ontario in Canada and speaks conversational Japanese, Indonesian, and Mentawai. For Twenty-five years he has photographed at
I collaborate long term with small groups of people most often using photography, video and writing. As artist, my role changes depending on the particular collaboration and the work I want to achieve within it. In some projects I make formal images meant for the gallery, using a 4 X 5 view camera for example.
Paul Graham (born UK, 1956) studied Microbiology at Bristol University (1975-78, UK), where he found and embraced fine-art photography. Following graduation, he dedicated himself to pursuing his own work and in 1981-82 released A1—The Great North Road, a series of color photographs from along the length of the British A1 road, that had a transformative
Based in Istanbul, Turkey, American-born photographer Carolyn Drake is best known for her unique body of work that brings the history, topography, culture, and peoples of Turkey, China, and the former Soviet republics to the Western world. After earning a bachelor’s degree in media culture and history at Brown University and spending several years in
Livia Corona was born in Ensenada, Baja California. She is a graduate of Art Center College of Design and works out of New York and Mexico City. Her current project, Two Million Homes for Mexico, focuses on the surge of mass-scale neighborhood developments in Mexico, exploring their role in the ongoing transformation of the
Brian Wood’s paintings, drawings, prints, and photographs are exhibited in galleries and museums internationally and are held in many private and public collections. Wood is in the permanent collections of the Museum of Modern Art, the Brooklyn Museum, the Metropolitan Museum, the Corcoran Gallery of Art, the Los Angeles County Museum, the Houston Museum of
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