Feng Li is a Chinese photographer from Chengdu. He is known as a street photographer, and more recently has worked in the fashion industry. He also practices photography as a civil servant for the Sichuan province. His work about his country, and about the spectacle of its fast-paced march towards an emphatic modernity, oscillates between official imagery and a personal point of view.
White Night, Feng Li's first book (published by Jiazazhi) was shortlisted for the Aperture / Paris Photo « First Book Award 2017 ».
In 2022, Jizazhi Released Li's second book "Good Night", of black & white photography this time.
© Self-portrait of the artist taken from the Rencontres d'Arles festival website, where Feng Li exhibited his series "White Night" in 2018.
Pixy Liao is a Chinese artist and photographer based in New York.
She is mostly known for her "Experimental Relationship" series where she stages moments of her life with her male partner, moments of daily or unusual life, often with an awkward twist where she questions gender, sexuality and representation of women in the media.
The photobook "Experimental Relationship Vol. 1" is published in 2018 by Jiazazhi, and the work is displayed during the 2019 Rencontres d'Arles festival.
© Portrait taken from the artist's website
Ken Light is an American documentary photographer, working mostly on social subjects. He is a faculty member at the U.C. Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism.
He documented, as a student in sociology, the social and students movements in the early seventies: Richard Nixon's campaign visit to Ohio University, the protests and demonstrations against the Vietnam war and against the invacion of Cambodia, etc.
He has published numerous photobooks, including "Coal Hollow" (University of California, 2006) about the rual life in Appalachia, and more recently "Midnight La Frontera" (TBW Books, 2020) about a project shot between 1983 and 1987 when he followed the US Border Patrol looking for illegal immigrants at the Mexican border.
© Portrait by Christopher Michel taken from Ken Light's Wikipedia page
Born in 1974, Baptiste Lignel knew at the age of 13 that he wanted to be a photographer. For this he studied history in Paris, and photography in New York.
Photo: ©baptiste lignel, facealavie
Yu Chih Lin is a Taiwanese photographer. He began taking photographs at the age of 16 when he was fascinated by the film development process in the darkroom.
His work, with a documentary and sensitive edge, is adressing elements of history, with a focus on culture and the people.
He has published two photobooks with Origini Edizioni : "Fearless" in 2018 and "Tiny Christs" in 2019.
Rita Lino is a Portuguese photographer based in Berlin.
Her personal photography work is mainly dedicated to self-portraits, through exercises that explore a « natural obsession » with the self and the persona, producing a continuous « work-in-progress » that uses the body as primer matter to be re-created and beautifully exorcised.
Lino describes her photography as « animal, instinctive, intimate, narcissistic, filled with emotions and sensations, a diary with a thousand possible interpretations, a spiritual place, a self-sustained rehab outlined by the brutal transparency of [her] own life. »
Rita Lino has published four photobooks: "All the Lovers" (Sauna, 2012), "Entartete" (Editions du LIC, 2015), "Kingdom" (Stolen Books / Inferno Books, 2018) and "Replica" (APE - Art Paper Editions, 2021).
© Self-portrait from the "Replica" series
Sandrine Lopez is a photographer focusing - with great humanity - on characters of life, and her work is mostly portraits. Moshé is her first book; she has also documented for another long-term project (in a very intimate setting, similar to the one seen for Moshé) the life of a middle-aged man called Dominique who suffered a severe head trauma.
Sandrine Lopez' website.
Portrait © Cédric Gerbehaye
Markéta Luskačová is a Czech-born photographer based in the United Kingdom.
Her first well-known series "Pilgrims", shot between 1964 and 1971 in Slovakia was exhibited at the V&A Museum in London and was published as a book of the same name on the occasion.
Luskačová lives in England since 1975 and visited Chris Killip in North-East England in 1976; she fell in love with Whitley Bay on this occasion. She often returned to these shores where she started the series named "By The Sea" published in 2019 by RRB Photobooks.
Her work has been the subject of over 40 international solo exhibitions, and his present in the collections of the most famous institutions : V&A and Tate Britain (Londres), MoMA (New York), SF MoMA (San Francisco), Bibliothèque Nationale (Paris), etc.
© Portrait by Martine Franck / Magnum
MA TE is a photographer who does not communicate much about her person, she is based in Beijing.
The Chinese characters she uses to represent herself and that she calls CAI is « a symbol of destruction but also rebirth ».
MA TE self-published in 2017 a zine and a book in limited editions, both handmade and both titled "City of Dust", then in 2018 a large Leporello book with a cement cover titled "The Concrete Dream", and a second zine "I Often Be Asked How I Get Models" in 2019.
In 2021, a new handmade title is released: "Papersky", which is - like "City of Dust" - a book and a zine.
Jurgen Maelfeyt is a Belgian designer, publisher and photographer.
He has founded several structures around graphic design (Jurgen Maelfeyt Studio, agence 6'56") and books (publishing house A.P.E / Art Paper Editions, RIOT bookstore & space in Ghent, Belgium).
As part of his work with A.P.E, he has also published as an author photographer and / or as a collector / image editor since 2010. His own publications, and to a certain extent those of A.P.E at large, have often as subject the body, and the female body in particular, sensuality, and eroticism.
He has published under his name with A.P.E, among other photobooks : "The Game" (2010), "Breasts" (2013), "Les Pierres" (2014), "ATTACK" (2016), "LIPS" (2018), et "WET" (2021).
© Portrait taken from an article on the website Subbacultcha