Emi Anrakuji is a Japanese artist and photographer.
From the biography on the artist's website : « She studied oil painting in Tokyo. Soon after her graduation, she was diagnosed with a cerebral tumor which caused a severe degradation of her eyesight. (...) In the course of a decade-long recovery, she discovered that a camera can be a replacement of her eyes and began teaching herself photography. Anrakuji's obsession with the human body is a result, in part, from her long periods spent in a hospital. »
She has published several books, including "e hagaki / One Picture Book #40" (Nazraeli Press, 2007), "Ipy" (Nazraeli Press, 2008), and "Balloon Position" (Akaaka, 2019).
© Self-portrait taken from an article on Medium / Exposure Magazine
Japanese photographer/visual artist Takashi Arai (b.1978) first encountered photography while he was a university student of biology. In an effort to trace photography to its origins, he encountered daguerreotype, and after much trial and error mastered the complex technique. Arai has made it his own personal medium, finding it a reliable device for storing memory that is far better for recording and transmitting interactions with his subjects than modern photography.
Photo: ©Anton Orlov
Nobuyoshi Araki is a contemporary Japanese fine art photographer known for his prolific works and erotic imagery. While his photographs are often interested in the daily activities and traditional practices of his homeland, it is Araki's sexual imagery that provokes controversy and fascination.
Photo: © self-portrait
This generic "author" is created for photobooks that are based on thematic archives, archives based on several artists' works and / or archives of various media collected or assembled either by established artists or in vernacular fashion.
© The first image ever captured: "Point de vue du Gras" by Nicéphore Niépce (1827)
Denisse Ariana Pérez is a Caribbean-born copywriter and photographer based in Barcelona.
According to her own description: « I am obsessed with words, people and imagery and finding ways to make them speak to one another. »
In 2021, she publishes her first photobook of portraits titled "Agua" with Guest Editions.
© Self-portrait taken from the artist's website
Israel Ariño is a photographer, workshop teacher and publisher at Ediciones Anómalas.
Israel Ariño has a personal universe where subtlety and dreaminess often have a mysterious edge. His work is mostly Black & White, he has published several photobooks, including "Le nom qui efface la couleur" (Filigranes / Ediciones Anómalas, 2014), "La Gravetat del Lloc" (Ediciones Anómalas, 2017) and "Voyage en pays du Clermontois" (Ediciones Anómalas, 2019).
Israel Ariño is represented by Galerie VU in Paris.
© Portrait taken form the Agence VU website.
Olivia Arthur (born 1980) is a British documentary photographer, based in London. She studied mathematics at Oxford University and photojournalism at the London College of Printing. Her work focuses on women and the East-West cultural divide.
Photo: ©Olivia Arthur
Who is this photographer? A short explanation.
The name of this virtual photographer has been generated - wink-wink - from the first name of the author of the oldest photograph to have reached our times, Nicéphore Niépce, and the last name of the creator of the first book to ever use photography, Anna Atkins (book "British Algae").
The process of adding books to our website can be time demanding as we need to create a page for each photographer and a page for each publisher (in both French and English) before creating the new book, and connecting it to its author and publisher. Consequently, it can happen, in super busy times, that we will create a new book and use "Nicéphore Atkins" as the photographer attached to this book.
Of course, this is not out of lack of respect for the artists, and we ask for your forgiveness, for THEIR forgiveness, that we are sometimes taking this easy route. We will limit the use of this pseudonym as much as possible, and we will try to create the missing pages as quickly as possible, in order to re-attribute the books to their righteous creators.
Thank you for your understanding.
© Portrait of artist Stromae by Benjamin Brolet during the shooting of a video for the album "Racine carrée".