Stephen Gill

Chronicler, visual poet, anthropologist, sociologist, alchemist and conceptual artist: Stephen Gill is a unique maker of images who is constantly putting the photographic medium to the test and is able to create a visual language where documentary photography, coincidence, experiment

Robert Doisneau

Robert Doisneau (1912 – 1994) was a French photographer. In the 1930s he used a Leica on the streets of Paris. He and Henri Cartier-Bresson were pioneers of photojournalism. Doisneau was known for his modest, playful, and ironic images of

Zoe Strauss

Born in 1970 in Philadelphia and the first member of her immediate family to graduate from high school, Zoe Strauss was given a camera for her 30th birthday and started taking pictures of life in the city’s marginal neighborhoods. She

Michael Wolf

The focus of the german photographer Michael Wolf’s work is life in mega cities and documents the architecture and the vernacular culture of metropolises. Wolf grew up in Canada, Europe and the United States, studying at UC Berkeley and at

Levi van Veluw

Levi van Veluw’s series Origin of the Beginning consists of photographs, installations and videos in which he draws from his own childhood memories to thematically and narratively develop his own brand of self-portraiture. Portrayed in the piece Family is a

Christy Lee Rogers

Christy Lee Rogers is a self-taught photographer from Kailua, Hawaii. Her obsession with water as a medium for breaking the conventions of contemporary photography has led to her work being compared to Baroque painting masters like Caravaggio. With an eye

Interview: Alex Prager

Born in 1979, Alex Prager is a self-taught American photographer and filmmaker who lives and works in Los Angeles. Copypasteculture met up with her to talk about her show in Foam photography museum in Amsterdam. copypasteculture: Hi Alex, thank you

Nan Goldin

As a teenager in Boston in the 1960s, then in New York starting in the 1970s, Nan Goldin has taken intensely personal, spontaneous, sexual, and transgressive photographs of her family, friends, and lovers. In 1979 she presented her first slideshow

Richard Kern

Richard Kern, photographer and filmmaker remains, first and foremost, a portraitist. For more than two decades Kern has sought to unravel and illuminate the complex and often darker sides of human nature. Kern makes the psychological space between the sitter,

Arthur Sakhkalyan

Arthur Sakhkalyan (1982) is from Yerevan, Armenia. Originally he studied as a radio engineer at State Engineering University of Armenia from 1999 until 2005. He started photography in 2003 and continued on to directing, filming, editing and producing (documentary) films

Helmut Newton

Helmut Newton (1920 – 2004) was a German-Australian fashion photographer. Newton was born in Berlin and being Jewish fled Nazi Germany at the age of 18. After arriving in Singapore he found he was able to remain there, first and

Mikael Kennedy

Mikael Kennedy is a photographer living and working in New York City. He is the author of the internationally acclaimed Polaroid travel blog: Passport to Trespass and his Polaroid work is represented by the Peter Hay Halpert Fine Art Gallery