Kenro Izu is a Japanese photographer based in the United States, he is also the founder of the children's charity "Friends Without a Border".
His personal photography work is mainly dedicated to ancient monuments, in particular in contexts where they are in peril. He has worked on this theme in Egypt, Syria, Mexico, Chile (Easter Island), China and all of South-East Asia.
Among the photobooks he has published: "Sacred Places" (Arena, 2001), "Bhutan Sacred Within" (Nazraeli Press, 2007), "Songs of Lao" (Nazraeli Press, 2016), "Seduction" (Damiani, 2018), "Requiem" (Nazraeli Press, 2019) and "Fuzhou, the Forgotten Land" (Nazraeli Press, 2021).
© Portrait by Yumiko Izu, Kenro Izu's wife, taken from the English Wikipedia page for the artist
Short bio from the Rencontres d'Arles festival's website:
" Daniel Jack Lyons is an American artist and anthropologist whose work focuses largely on marginalized youth, whether occupying spaces on the periphery of society or in the face of conflict.
He has exhibited his work internationally, most recently in Los Angeles, New York, Milan, Amsterdam, Warsaw, London, and Mozambique. His work has appeared in numerous publications including The New York Times, i-D, The New Yorker, and Vogue Italia. "
In 2022, his series "Like a River", born out of an invitation to join a youth center in the middle of the Amazon rainforest in Brazil for a residency, was exhibitied at the Rencontres d'Arles festival, and a photobook was published with Loose Joints later that year.
© Portrait by Nino Muñoz taken from the Rencontres d'Arles website
Claudia Jaguaribe is a Brazilian artist (1955, Rio de Janeiro) who studied in the United States and works mainly with photography and video, usually on subjects and reflections related to the contemporary world and life.
Portrait © Mauro Almeida (taken from the Bolsa de Arte website)
Nicolas Janowski is an Argentinian photographer working mainly in Argentina. His work has been on display in many festivals and spaces dedicated to photography in Latin America, Europe and beyond.
His first book Fin del Mundo is based on his project Adrift in Blue shot in the island of Tierra del Fuego.
Libuše Jarcovjáková is a Czech photographer, her work is often compared to Nan Goldin's.
She photographed her life and encounters, especially the nightlife, in the Prague and West Berlin of the 1970's and 1980's. Her very straightforward style and approach to the street, to sexuality, drugs and depression is highly recognizable.
A large retrospective of her work was held at the Rencontres d'Arles 2019 festival. The monography "Černe Roky (The Black Years)", also covers her career, it was published in 2016 (Nakladatelství wo-men)
© Self-portrait taken from the the publisher Nakladatelství wo-men's website
The Swedish photographer Gerry Johansson, born in 1945, has produced in 18 years a series of books on Sweden, the USA, Mongolia and Germany, in which he always uses black and white pictures with a square format of uninhabited places.
Photo: © Pressfoto
Dafydd Jones is a British photographer, mostly known as a "society photographer" as he started his career working for magazines, especially Tatler in London, then Vanity Fair after he moved for several years to New York.
In 2018, publishes "The Last Hurrah", on newsprint paper and in tabloid format, with Stanley / Barker, about the years he photographed the Hunt Balls, society weddings and debutante dances of the British upper class season.
© Portrait (Alamy - uncredited) taken from an interview on The Times.
Clay Maxwell Jordan is an American photographer and musician.
His work has been exhibited widely internationally.
His first photobook, "Nothing's Coming Soon", about the American southern states, was published in 2019 by Fall Line Press.
© Portrait taken from the artist's IG profile
Ron Jude is an American photographer and teacher.
His works is at the crossroads of rural and urban influences that permeates in his images.
He has published many books including "Lick Creek Line" (Mack, 2012), "Lago" (Mack, 2015), "Vitreous China" (Libraryman, 2016), "Nausea" (Mack, 2017) and "12 Hz" (Mack, 2020).
In 2019, he was the recipient of a "Guggenheim Fellowship".
© Ron Jude
Dragana Jurisic is an Croatia-born (former Yugoslavia) artist based in Ireland.
« The story of me as a photographer begins on the day when our family apartment got burned down together with thousands of prints and negatives my father, an ardent amateur photographer, had accumulated. »
Dragana's work is mainly along two axes: memory, and the body and the representation of the female body. One of her artwork called "Tarantula" has entered the collections of the Irish National Gallery. She has received numerous awards, and has developed projects within several residencies, the latest in 2019 at the landmark 14 Henrietta Street building in Dublin.
She has published two photobooks: "YU: The Lost Country" (Oonagh Young Gallery, 2015) and "Museum" (Dublin City Council, 2019), the latter as a collaboration with poet Paula Meehan.
© Portrait taken form the artist's Facebook profile
Miho Kajioka is a Japanese photographer and journalist.
In 2018 she published "And, Where Did the Peacocks Go?" with the(M) éditions, an intimate project about the Tōhoku tsunami and the Fukushima nuclear disaster in 2011.
In 2019, she publishes "So it Goes", a project around time and memory, still with the(M) éditions and in collaboration with IBASHO Gallery; that book was awarded the photobook-of-the-year "Prix Nadar" in France in 2019. A second simplified edition titled "So it Goes So it Goes" was published in 2020.
In 2021, she publishes "Flowers Bloom, Butterflies Come" with IIKKI Books, a project that includes a music collaboration with the British artists Ian Hawgood et Craig Tattersall.
© Portrait taken from the artist's website
Réza Kalfane is a photographer specialized in the Arctic Circle destinations, and in particular in Iceland.
Susan Kandel is an American photographer, mostly known for her work started in 1979 when she photographed for a period of over 10 years several families in the Boston area (Everett, Revere Beach, etc.), in Massachusetts.
In 2021, British publisher Stanley / Barker released the photobook "At Home" covering this long-term project and important body of work, sharing the intimacy of American families throughout the eighties.
© Portrait taken from an article in The Guardian around the release of the book.