Sergio Larrain was a Chilean photographer (1931-2012); he his most famous for his emblematic work of the cities and the streets of Valparaíso and Santiago. This work was published in two very important books: "El rectángulo en la mano" (Cadernos Brasileiros, 1963) and "Valparaíso" (Hazan, 1991 - A collaboration with poet Pablo Neruda).
Editions Xavier Barral (today Atelier EXB) published a facsimile version of "El rectángulo en la mano" in 2018, and a new edition of "Londres 1959" in 2020.
© Portrait by René Burri / Magnum
Stéphane Lavoué is a French photographer, mostly known for his portrait work. His images are often published in the French press. He also works on more personal series, such as the one included in the 2017 exhibition & book project called ''La France vue d'ici'' (France as seen from here).
Photo: © Ouest-France
Robbie Lawrence is a Scottish photographer, based between London and Berlin, who both pursues personal projects and works as a freelance photographer, mainly for news and magazines. His work is both sensitive and documentary; having worked as a photo editor early in his career, he indicates « I try to a make a photograph that, in that particular moment, tells as much of a story as possible. »
Robbie studied painting and recognizes the Dutch Masters and the Fauvists as references and influences in his photography work. (see "It's Nice That" interview.)
In 2019, he publishes "Blackwater River" withStanley / Barker, a journey and encounters on the American Atlantic coast, between South Carolina and Georgia. Then in 2020, still with Stanley / Barker, "A Voice Above the Linn", where he travels to the west coast of Scotland and meets an old gardener that has been cultivating plants from all over the world in this region's subtropical climate.
© Portrait taken from another interview on the FvF website (Freunden von Freunden)
Géraldine Lay is a French photographer who participated in several collective projects (exhibitions Un mince vernis de réalité wioth Céline Clanet, François Deladerrière and Geoffroy Mathieu in 2003; exhibition Les pépinières du Réverbère with the gallery Le Réverbère in 2005; exhibitions I see Europe in several European cities in 2013) and also personal projects for which she has received several grants and awards.
Géraldine Lay has published several books with Filigranes, Diaphane, Actes Sud and Poursuite.
Christophe Le Toquin is a French photographer whose work focuses on urban landscape. He has published several books and participated in a photographic observatory of landscape in Loir-et-Cher. He teaches at the School of Nature & Landscape of Blois.
Photo: © self-portrait
Massimo Leardini is an Italian photographer based in Norway since 1987. His work is mostly dedicated to the female body; he works with a limited number of models on extended collaborations. His photos are often set in timeless landscapes, expressing his feelings, his melancholy and nostalgia.
He has published several books with Editions du LIC : "Scandinavian (2013), Catarsi (2015), "Primitive" (2016) and "In Between" (2017). In 2020, he publishes "ELV" with Stanley / Barker.
© Portrait taken from the artist's Instagram profile
Antoine Leblond is a young photographer with a strong focus on Japan in his work.
Personal website displaying his photographic work : http://donotcompute.jp/
Jungjin Lee (born 1961) is a Korean photographer and artist. She studied calligraphy in childhood and majored in ceramics at Hongik University in 1984. After graduating Lee worked as a photo journalist and later as a freelance photographer.
Photo: ©St. Moritz Art Masters
Saul Leiter (1923, Pittsburgh - 2013, New York, USA), is a contemporary American photographer. He is considered one of the pioneers of color photography.
Photo: © Pierre Belha
Anne Leroy is a French photographer and writer.
In 2019 she publishes the photobook "Mioveni" with Editions Loco, result of a 3-year project with journalist Julia Beurq about the workers' daily lives in the industrial city of Mioveni in Romania.
© Portrait taken from the artist's social media
Les Associés is a French collective of six photographers: Elie Monférier, Olivier Panier des Touches, Sébastien Sindeu, Alexandre Dupeyron, Joël Peyrou, and Mickaël Parpet.
Presentation by Les Asssociés:
" Friends, we became partners. Sort of as a joke. Chance presented us with the opportunity of writing a story, and we jumped on that possibility, without discussing goals, structure, or statement. Since 2015, we enjoy meeting, exchanging, thinking about projects in today's photography, that has become a theater of constant changes.
The members of Les Associés come from the tradition of documentary photography. However, each of their practices has evolved following their personal aspirations, each photographer illustrating in the evolution of his work the transformations of the medium and the shifts in its uses. "
In 2020, Les Associés published with Le Bec en l'Air the photobook "D'ici, ça ne paraît pas si loin" ["From here, it doesn't seem so far"], from a four-year work in the French region of Nouvelle-Aquitaine on a project initially titled "The Map and the Territory".
Robert Leslie was born in England but he spent his teenage years in Canada. As an adult, he returned to the UK and currently lives in London. One of his major works, Stormbelt, involved two road trips, one in 2009 and the other in 2011, across the Sun belt, documenting what he saw and the changes that occurred between the two journeys.
Namsa Leuba is a Swiss-Guinean photographer and art director.
She studied at ECAL, University of Art and Design in Lausanne, Suisse.
Her photography work has been on display in many countries around the world, including Nigeria, Spain, Greece, France, Sout Korea, and is represented in the collective exhibition "The New Black Vanguard" that was presented in New York in 2019 and at the Rencontres d'Arles festival in 2021.
She wroks regularly for the press, web and paper, magazine and newspapers, including The New Yorker, I-D, Foam, Vice Magazine, New York Magazine, Libération.
In 2021, Italian publisher Damiani releases the first monograph covering Namsa Leuba's young career and titled "Crossed Looks", a photobook that accompanies her first solo exhibition in the United States, at the Halsey Institute of Contemporary Art in Charleston, South Carolina, running August 27th to December 11th, 2021.
© Portrait (uncredited) taken from the website Hangar, Photo Art Center, Brussels