Maki is a French photographer and publisher with a strong relationship to Japaan and Tokyo, where he carries a long term project since the early 2000s that he calls an "infinite work in progress".
As a publisher with "Média Immédiat", he published small photobooks with works by Morten Andersen, Koji Onaka or Ed Templeton.
As a photographer, he published among others Gûyu - Allegory (Timeshow Press, 2016) and Japan Somewhere (Zen Foto Gallery, 2018).
© Self-portrait by Maki
Man Ray, born Emmanuel Radnitzky is American photographer, painter and film director; he is a figure of the Dada and Surrealist movements.
© Carl Van Vechten - Van Vechten Collection at Library of Congress
Wendy Marijnissen is a documentary photographer from Belgium.
In 2009 she traveled to Pakistan for the first time and worked there the following 3 years, focusing mainly on photographing the hardships of pregnancy and childbirth there. A part of this work was used for the « End fistula campaign » of the UNFPA (United Nations Population Fund).
In 2015 she returned to Pakistan twice to continue working on what now is her first book "Always the guest" (self-published, 2018).
She also traveled and produced photography & video on projects in Afghanistan and Tajikistan.
© Portrait taken from the website dedicated to the project Always the Guest.
Mary Ellen Mark was an American photographer, mostly famous for her documentary work troughout the United States, but also in India for instance. Mary Ellen Mark has published work in important magazines such as Life, The New Yorker and Vanity Fair, and she was a member of Magnum Photos from 1977 to 1982.
Her work, mostly made in black and white, is characterized by a social approach and the importance of portrait work. Her empathetic eye and the often classical construction of her images, combined with the sometimes strange, unusual or quirky subjects or moments she has photographed could place her work at the crossroads of French humanist photographers (Cartier-Bresson, Doisneau, etc.) and Diane Arbus.
Throughout her career, she was also a set photographer on many movies, including Coppola's "Apocalypse Now".
Among the important photobooks she has published: "Passport" (Lustrum Press, 1974), "Ward 81" (Simon & Schuster, 1979), "Falkland Road, Prostitutes of Bombay" (Knopf, 1981), and the retrospective of her work "American Odyssey 1963-1999" (Aperture, 1999).
In 2020, German publisher Steidl releases an imposing box set of 3 volumes in a slipcase, conceived and edited by her husband and collaborator of 30 years Martin Bell, simply titled "The Book of Everything".
© Selfportrait
Chris Marker was a French artist, director, photographer, writer, translator.
He is mainly known in the image realm for his movies "La jetée" and "Sans soleil".
In the photobook world, he is mainly known for "Coréennes", initially published in 1959 by Editions du Seuil and re-published in 2018 as a facsimilé (with additional texts) by L'Arachnéen, and "Le dépays" (Herscher, 1982).
''Portrait de Chris Marker et de Guillaume-en-Egypte, son avatar-chat'' (© Les Films du jeudi) taken from an article on Libération Next.
Dmitri Markov is a russian documental photographer, social worker, volunteer and journalist from Pskov. His only camera is a cell phone, with a sharp eye he documents life in the ex-URSS without any artifice.
In 2019 he publishes "Cut Off" with IIKKI Books.
© Portrait by Ludovic Carême for French magazine Télérama.
Marco Marzocchi is an Italian photographer. He is part of the "galaxy" of the fluid collective Temps Zéro.
According to Marco's website introduction: « Marco Marzocchi's photography is the search for people, atmospheres and places of the past that mix with the present in order to define it and make sense of it. (...) His work alternates impulsiveness and rationality, both in shooting and editing. »
In 2019, he publishes his first photobook "Oyster" with VOID, then in 2020 "How to Destroy Everything" with studiofaganel.
© Portrait taken from the artist's website
Massao Mascaro is a French photographer based in Brussels.
He is also a teacher the Brussels Royal Academy of Fine Arts.
His first photobook "Jardin" was co-published in 2019 by Witty Kiwi and L'éditeur du Dimanche.
In 2021, his project "Sub Sole" received the Prix Roederer (presented by Foundation A. Stichting) and was exhibited at the Rencontres d'Arles festival. The project was later that year published as a photobook by Chose Commune.
© Portrait taken from the Rencontres d'Arles website, realised by Jade Varidel
Paul McDonough is an American photographer, mostly known for his street photography work. He received a « Guggenheim Fellowship » grant in 1981.
He has published "New York Street Photographs 1968-1978" (Umbrage, 2010), "Sight Seeing" (Sasha Wolf Gallery, 2014) and "Headed West" (Stanley / Barker, 2021).
© Portrait with his wife author Yona Zeldis McDonough taken from the blog of Blake Andrews, to illustrate an interview with her about the work of Paul McDonough