Greg Girard is a Canadian photographer whose work has examined the transformations of the social and physical landscape in Asia.
Greg Girard has lived, worked and travelled for more than four decades in Asia. He has produced a number of books on cities in Asia, most notably City of Darkness (Watermark / Berlin, Ernst & Sohn, 1993) and City of Darkness Revisited (Watermark, 2014)about Hong Kong’s infamous Kowloon Walled City, and the monographs Phantom Shangai (Magenta Foundation, 2007) and Hanoi Calling (Magenta Foundation, 2010).
Julie Glassberg is a French photographer who initially studied graphic design and trained in photography at the ICP in New York. Her work has been published in many newspapers and magazines, especially in the United States (NY Times, Wall Street Journal) and France (Le Monde, L'Equipe).
She has received many grants and awards: Getty Images Grant, POYi Award, IPA Award, etc.
In 2018, she publishes her first book with CEIBA: Bike Kill about the bik culture and the jousting organized among the members of the "Black Label Bike Club", a club created in Minneapolis in 1992 with chapters in cities nationwide in the US.
© Portrait by Rami Hanafi taken from the artist's website
Geert Goiris is a Belgian photographer who recently published several books with Roma Publications : Prolifération (2014), Prophet (2015) and Peak Oil (2017).
Photo : © self-portrait
Jim Goldberg is an American photographer based in San Francisco, he is a member of Magnum Photos since 2006.
His work was on display alongside Robert Adams and Joel Sternfeld in the exhibition "Three Americans" at the MoMA in New York in 1984; an exhibition then described as "a show of politically charged and socially conscious images".
His most important photobooks are:
- "Rich and Poor" (Random House, 1985 and Steidl, 2014), a series of portraits - of rich and poor people - accompanied by handwritten notes by the people he photographed, reflections on their life, their condition, their aspirations.
- "Raised by Wolves" (Scalo, 1995), a chronicle of the life of teenagers living in the streets of California. In 2020, the English publisher Stanley / Barker released "Fingerprint", a boxed set of 45 unbound images, a project by the artist revisiting the corpus of images made during the shooting of "Raised by Wolves".
© Portrait by Alessandra Sanguinetti, Magnum Photos
Andres Gonzalez is an American artist and educator based in California.
From the artist's website : « His current work synthesizes in-depth research with the poetics of photography, looking for truths behind the fictional, mythic aspects of American history. »
In 2019, he publishes "American Origami" with Fw:Books, following a six-year research work on mass shootings in the USA.
© Portrait by Carolyn Drake (as shared on FB)
John Gossage is an American photographer, born in 1946 in Staten Island (New York, NY). He is known for his artist's books and other publications in which he uses his photographs to explore under-appreciated topics in the urban environment such as litter, leaflets, debris, graffiti. He also explores the themes of surveillance, memory and the relationship between architecture and power.
Paul Graham (born 1956) is an English fine-art and documentary photographer. His portraits and street scenes share a common subject matter, but also underly issues such as racial and social inequality, the texture of everyday life, and the nature of sight, perception, and photography itself.
Photo: © self-portrait
Gary Green is an American photographer and teacher.
His work has been exhibited in many American institutions and beyond.
He documented extensively the burgeoning downtown New York rock scene (Max's Kansas City, CBGB, Lou Reed, The Ramones, Patti Smith, etc.) starting in 1976. This work has been published in 2020 under the title "When Midnight Comes Around" by Stanley / Barker.
In 2020 as well, with L'Artiere, he published "The River Is Moving, The Blackbird Must Be Flying", meditations about nature around a small river near his home in Maine.
© Portrait taken from an interview on the Urbanautica website
Alexander Gronsky (Александр Гронский, born Tallinn, Estonia, 1980) is a landscape photographer, currently based in Riga, Latvia. He is known for his photographs of the Russian landscape, which have received solo exhibitions, awards and were published in his book Pastoral.
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