Sanne Katainen is a Finnish photographer
She published ''Peace Dance'' in 2018 with The Angry Bat.
© Portrait taken from the artist's Instagram profile
Mari Katayama is a Japanese photographer and artist.
Born with only two fingers on her left hand and tibial hemimelia, a rare deficiency in which one leg bone is absent, Katayama amputated both her legs at the age of nine, and has since then transcend her condition by works she creates with her prosthetics, intricately embroidered objects and also self-portrait photography, using her own body as a living sculpture.
She publishes her first book "GIFT" with United Vagabonds in the spring of 2019 concurrently with her first solo exhibition in Europe, at the White Rainbow Gallery, London, between January 24th and March 2nd.
In 2021, Fondation Antoine de Galbert, based in Paris, dedicates the first issue of its collection of monographs "Un certain désordre" to the work of Mari Katayama.
© Self-portrait taken from the artist's Facebook page
Kikuji Kamada is a Japanese photographer born in 1933.
Kikuji Kawada is one of the co-founders of the Vivo collective with Eikoh Hosoe, Ikko Narahara, Akira Sato, Akira Tanno and Shomei Tomatsu. He was one of the 15 photographers selected for the exhibition "New Japanese Photography" at the MoMA (Museum of Modern Art) in New York in 1974.
He is the author of one of the most important Japanese photobooks : Chizu [The Map] (Bijutsu Shuppan-sha, 1965), about the experience of the atomic bomb in Hiroshima, which has since been re-pulished in different formats, including a facsimile of the orginal edition by Akio Nagasawa in 2014. The most recent edition, published by Mack Books in 2021, is closer in format and design to the original dummy created by the artist.
Among other books published: The Last Cosmology (Mack, 2015) and Remote Past a Memoir 1951-1966 (Case Publishing, 2016).
© Portrait (uncredited) taken from the GR blog emanating from the Ricoh company.
Rinko Kawauchi (川内伦子, born in 1972 in Shiga Prefecture) is a Japanese poetic photographer. Her work is characterized by a serenity, a poetic style, illustrating ordinary moments in life.
Kawauchi became interested in photography while studying at Seian College of Art and Design. She first worked in advertising for several years before embarking on a career as an art photographer. She mainly uses a 6 × 6 format for her photographs.
Michael Kenna is an English photographer working almost exclusively in black & white with a medium format camera (for his published and exhibited work). He is a reknowned photographer, with a real liking in the general audience for his refined landscapes and his numerous books, usually focused on aspecific location (e.g. Venice, the Huangshan mountains in China, Easter Island, the Mont Saint-Michel, etc.)
He has published a large number of photobooks, and among the more recent ones a series of nudes titled "Rafu" (Nazraeli, 2019), "Holga" (Prestel, 2017) of images made with this pared-down plastic camera, and "One Sunday in Beijing" (Editions Bessard, 2018) which presents for the first time a published color image by Kenna (on the cover of the book).
His most recent book "Northern England 1983-1983", an older seires created in his early career in his home country, was published by his long-time partner Nazraeli in 2021.
© Portrait by Song Xiangyang
Ingvar Kenne is a Swedish photographer based in Australia. His work has been exhibitied throughout the workd and selected for many awards and grants.
Kenne is mostly a portrait photographer but he has also published about his travels ("Chasing Summer", Bird Press, 2004), and more recently about the Australian parties called "Bachelor & Spinster Ball" where adults party like crazy under the heavy influence of alcohol ("The Ball", Journal, 2019).
© Portrait taken from the Format Festival website (uncredited).
Portrait taken from the website of Mois de la Photo in Montréal:
" As an exhibition curator, editor, collector, graphic designer, advertising manager, and artist, Erik Kessels exemplifies the versatile creator of the digital age who engages in the full range of creative activities. Kessels pays close attention to the popular and trivial forms of photography (family albums, commercial documentation, pornography ads, etc.) which would normally be rejected by canon-defining museums and institutions. Kessels sifts and recycles cast-off materials, like a waste-picker in search of overlooked treasures. The photographs thus recovered, displaced from their original function in a Duchampian gesture, reveal, through their new mise en valeur, an unexpected aesthetic and programmatic background that points toward an ecology of the image. "
Among his photobooks, one of the most famous project is "In Almost Every Picture", a series of publications each with a unique subject, self-published through KesselKramer: issue number 17 was published in 2021.
Also, Erik Kessels is engaged in a long-term collaboration with French publisher RVB Books : "Album Beauty" (2012), "Mother Nature" (2014), "Unfinished Father" (2015), "Shit" (2018) and "Muddy Dance" (2021).
Hajime Kimura is a Japanese photographer. He studied architexture and anthropology before starting a career as a photographer in 2006.
Hajime has published several books included "Kodama" (Mado-sha, 2012) which won the IPA Photo Book Asia Award in 2013 and "Scrap book" (Kettler, 2015), both about the Matagi community in Japan. He also self-published two photobooks, both in collaboration with the RPS residency program (Reminders Photography Stronghold) by Yumi Goto : "In search of lost memories" and "Snowflakes Dog Man". The latter saw a new edition published by Ceiba in 2019.
© Portrait by Samson Yee
William Klein (1928, New York) is a multidisciplinary photographer and artist (painter, visual artist, graphic designer and director). He lives and works in Paris.
Photo: © self-portrait