Raymond Depardon is a French photographer and film director.
He founded the Gamma press agency in 1966 with fellow French photographer Gilles Caron, and later joined Magnum Photos in 1978.
He was a photojournalist covering war zones in the 60's, 70's and 80's (Algeria, Vietnam, Afghanistan, Chad, Lebanon, etc.)
He directed many documentary films, in the political world ("1974, une partie de campagne" about the presidential election of Valéry Giscard-d'Estaing), the industrial world ("Numéros Zéros", about the creation of the newspaper "Matin de Paris") and the judicial and carceral system ("Faits Divers", "Délits Flagrants", "10ème chambre, instants d'audience") before turning his camera to rural France and the disappearing world of very small farmers with his triptych "L'Approche", "Profils Paysans" and "La Vie Moderne".
The list of his publications is very long, Raymond Depardon being one of the French photographers to have published the most photobooks (on a side note, he is still far from Bernard Plossu's count...) A short version could include: "Notes" (Arfuyen, 1979), "Correspondance New-Yorkaise" (Libération / L'Etoile, 1981), "San Clemente" (CNP, 1984), "La Ferme du Garet" (Editions Carré, 1995), "Désert, un homme sans occident" (Le Seuil, 2003), "La Terre des Paysans" (Le Seuil, 2008), "Méditerranée" (Editions Xavier Barral, 2014), "Glasgow" (Le Seuil, 2016), "Depardon USA" (Editions Xavier Barral, 2018), "Rural" (Fondation Cartier pour l'Art Contemporain, 2020), "La Chambre" (Atelier EXB, 2020).
© Self-portrait, 1992.
Luca Desienna is an Italian photograher, also art diretor (creator of the now closed Radical Matter platform) and publisher (Gomma Books).
As a photographer, he has published recently the book "My Dearest Javanese Concubine" (Gomma / VOID, 2018).
© Portrait taken from the Gomma Grant website
Chloe Dewe Mathews is a British documentary photographer.
She works on long-term projects and explains "I am exploring ways in which to project the past on to the present".
Her project "Shot at Dawn" about the soldiers executed for desertion during World War I has been exhibited at the Tate Modern in London, when "In Search of Frankenstein", a project concerned with contemporary environmental and social issues via the themes of Shelley's novel, has been on display at the British Library.
In 2021, Loose Joints publishes the photobook "Thames Log", conclusion of a five-year project about the variety of people's relationships to the Thames river.
(Elements of biography taken from the artist's Wikipedia page.)
© Portrait by Alice Zoo taken from an article on the British Journal of Photography
Alberto di Lenardo is an Italian photographer whose work was only published, by his granddaughter Carlotta, after his passing.
This "vernacular" work is a joyous cross-section of life in the 20th Century over a period of about 50 years.
This work in colors, published under the title "An Attic Full of Trains" by Mack (2020), is precursor to some of Italy's best-loved photographers, such as Luigi Ghirri.
Deanna Dikeman is an American photographer.
Deanna started photography after leaving a corporate job. Her work is mostly known for the family portrait work, of her parents in particular.
After making the shorlist of the Mack Book Award 2020, she publishes her first photobook "Leaving and Waving" with Chose Commune in 2021.
© Portrait taken from the artist's website
John Divola is an American visual artist, professor and photographer.
He describes is own work as an exploration of the landscape by looking for the edge between the abstract and the specific.
His most recent photobook is "Chroma" (Skinnerboox, 2020). Among is other published photography work are "Dogs Chasing My Car in the Desert" (Nazraeli, 2004), "Three Acts" (Aperture, 2006), "As Far as I Could Get" (Prestel, 2013), and "Vandalism" (Mack, 2018).
© Portrait taken from an article on FK Magazine (in English, uncredited)
Tiane Doan na Champassak (born in 1973) is a French visual artist. His photographic work explores the themes of sexuality and gender identity.
Photo: © Adam Carroll
Riccardo Dogana is an Italian photographer.
In 2021 he publishes his first photobook "Panopticon", about surveillance in our societies and "big data", with Origini Edizioni.
© Portrait taken from the artist's website
Robert Doisneau (1912 - 1994), is a French master of photography, whose popularity lives on since the late 40's. His clichés of couples in the streets of Paris are famous worldwide.
Photo: © self-portrait
Born in Tianshu, Gansu, in 1978, Cai Dongdong joined the People’s Liberation Army at a young age, taking up a role as a portrait photographer for enlisted soldiers. This job became his formal training in the medium, developing into a career path as he returned to Beijing and opened his own studio.
Photo : ©Cai Dongdong Facebook profile pic
Caudine Doury is a French photographer, member of the agency L'Agence VU'.
Claudine Doury has worked extensively in the former-USSR geographic area (mostly Russia and Ukraine), and also in Mongolia.
She has published many photobooks, including: "Peuples de Sibérie" (Le Seuil, 1999), "Artek : un été en Crimée" (Le Martinière, 2004), "Loulan Beauty" (Le Chêne, 2007), "Sasha" (Le Caillou Bleu, 2011), "L'homme nouveau" (Filigranes, 2016) and "Amour" (Chose Commune, 2019).
© Portrait by Patrick Charton taken from the Académie des Beaux-Arts website
Eamonn Doyle is a DJ and electronic music producer through the label D1 he founded and manages since 1994. He also came to prominence as a photographer when he self-published the trilogy "i" (2014), "ON" (2015) and "End." (2016) of his images of the streets of Dublin. This trilogy was made into a large exhibition at the Rencontres d'Arles festival in 2016 and was also the center of a large retrsopective of his work at Fundacion Mapfre, Madrid in 2019.
Eamonn also self-published, through D1, the photobooks "K" in 2018 about the passing of his mother and "O" in 2020, « incidental objects of memory » of his youth in Dublin, where is stilll resides today.
Carolyn Drake is an American photographer; she is a member of Magnum Photos.
Her projects are centered around a community, and are usually unfolding over several years.
Her first two photobooks are based in Central Asia : "Two Rivers" (self-published, 2013) explores the recent history of the valleys of the Amu Darya and Syr Darya rivers, and "Wild Pigeon" (self-published, 2014) where she meets and exchanges with Uyhur populations. She then self-publishes again, in 2017, "Internat" made from long exchanges with women living in a former Soviet orphanage.
He first book with a publisher is "Knit Club" (TBW Books, 2020), a project about an enigmatic community of women in Mississippi that give themselves this name.