Rob Hornstra is a Dutch photographer working manly on projects with a social edge. He is best known for leading a long-term project with scholar & writer Arnold van Bruggen about the preparation of the Sochi 2014 Olympic Games in Russia for which they released a large number of publications, including an imposing monography titled The Sochi Project (Aperture, 2013) at the end of their work process.
Rob Hornstra has an extensive knowledge of all aspects of the photobook and he is often self-publishing his work. He leads workshops on a regular basis on conducting photography projects and developing photobook projects.
© Marieke Wijntjes
Frank Horvat was an Italian photgrapher, mostly famous for his innovating work in the fashion industry since the sixties, and working for magazines such as Elle, Harper's Bazaar and Vogue.
Frank Horvat is among the modern photographers that started using color film since the early seventies.
Among his photobooks: "Arbres" (Imprimerie Nationale, 1997), "Le Bestiaire d'Horvat" (Actes Sud, 1999), "Side Walk" (Atelier EXB, 2020).
© Portrait by Mlle Ben Said, taken from the website of VIF - Vincennes Images Festival
Esther is a Dutch artist and photographer.
Her work is mostly centered around the place of humans in the city, the planning and use of public space.
In 2017, she received the Edward Steichen Award. Her work has been on display in many places, including C/O Berlin, Festival Circulation(s) in Paris and FOAM Amsterdam.
In 2017 she publishes "False Positives" with Fw: Books.
© Portrait taken from the Wipplay website (author not mentioned).
Nicolai Howalt is a Danish artist photographer whose work spans across documentary, conceptual and installatory art. In his practice he works with dualities, connections and temporality as central aspects.
In Howalt's earlier works mortality has been predominant, as part of an ongoing investigation of life and its fragility. Howalt's work challenges the boundaries of the photographic medium, by reinventing traditional techniques. This encounter between chemistry, science and artistic investigation become reminiscent of alchemistic tradition as well as an exploration of fragility and the state of constant change.
Nicolai Howalt co-founded the publishing house Fabrik Books, through which he published "Old Tjikko" in 2019.
© Portrait taken from the artist's website
Xiaoliang Huang is a young Chinese photographer based in Beijing. He works on memories, and the daily life, using techniques similar to that of the Chinese shadow puppetry... He stages cutouts, creating a proximity to the playful imagination of childhood.
He publishes his first photobook Mais La Nuit Ne Part Pas Pour Autant with La Maison de Z in 2018.
© Xiaoliang Huang (taken from the artist's Facebook profile)
Alan Huck is an American photographer, writer and educator.
His photography work is often contemplative and text is usually associated in equal importance, with an underlying sense of narration and cinematography feel.
In 2019, he published his first photobook "I walk toward the sun which is always going down" with Mack Books; the book was then shortlisted for the Photo-Text book award at the Rencontres d'Arles festival 2020.
© Portrait taken from the website Latitude (link to an interview with the photographer)
Peter Hujar was an American photographer, famous for his portrait work, and also for male nudes and erotic and pornography work.
Peter Hujar was in the galaxy revolving aroung Andy Warhol's "Factory", and was himself part of Warhol's series "The Thirteen Most Beautiful Boys".
Hujar prematurely died of AIDS in 1987, and his work was not fully acknowledged until it was "rediscovered" in the early 2000s. His works are now part of the most famous collections (MoMA, Art Institute, etc.)
Among the posthumous photobooks published about his work: "Peter Hujar: Animals and Nudes" (Twin Palms, 2002), "Peter Hujar: Love & Lust" (Fraenkel Gallery, 2014), "Peter Hujar: Lost Downtown" (Steidl, 2016).
© Self-portrait taken from the website of the Maureen Paley gallery, representing Peter Hujar's work.
Sohrab Hura is an Indian photographer, member of the agency Magnum Photos since 2014.
He works both on documentary projects, with a focus on bringing attention to difficult human situations, and on personal projects. For the latter, he created his own imprint Ugly Dog to publish his photobooks. He has published the "Sweet Life" tryptich: "Life is Elsewhere" (2015), "A Proposition for Departure" (2017) and "Look, It's Getting Sunny Outside" (2018) in which he tells of his own life, his family, his mother and her dog, his friends.
In 2019 he self-publishes "The Coast", a strange story / fiction that includes manipulation of the storyline, created from moments seized along the Indian Coast. Then in 2020, still self-published, he releases "The Levee", the story of a trip in the Southern United States, where he focuses on the ever-present levees along the Mississippi and Ohio Rivers, and on their symobolic meaning.
© Portrait taken from the Magnum website
Giulia Iacolutti is an Italian photographer and visual artist.
She works mainly on personal projects in Mexico and Italy. Her work explores social and political issues that are strongly related to the construction of identity; she mixes different languages, combining conceptual, documentary and sociological domains.
In 2019, she publishes "Caza Azul" with the(M) Editions, a project about five transgender women incarcerated in a men hospital in Mexico City.
© Portrait taken and text adapted from the artist's website