Paola Franqui, also known as Monaris, is a Puerto Rico-born American photographer based in New Jersey.
Her website bio states « Combining her passion for visual storytelling and photography, Monaris has developed a distinct creative style focused on composition and color theory that lives to transform brief instances of reality into movie-like scenes. »
In 2021 she published her first photobook "Momentos" with Setanta Books.
© Portrait taken from the artist's website (all rights reserved)
Élie Monférier is a self-taught French photographer.
After obtaining a graduate degree in literature, he focused his energy towards photography. He found his way in presenting his work through self-published zines and books.
In 2018, he joins the Bordeaux-based collective LesAssociés and takes part in producing the series and work published in the collective's book "D'ici, ça ne paraît pas si loin" (le bec en l'air, 2020).
After self-publishing several zines, he self-publishes his first (handmade) book "Sang Noir" [Black Blood] - around the hunting culture in the southwestern French region of Les Landes - which was later awarded "Best self-published photobook" at PHotoESPAÑA 2020.
In 2021, he publishes "Fable" with Italian publisher Origini Edizioni.
In 2021 as well, the series "Sang Noir" is part of the exhibitions at the "Circulation(s)" festival in Paris, and the series "Fable" is exhibitied at the "Promenades photographiques" festival in Vendôme, France.
© Self-portrait of the artist
Nuno Moreira (born in 1982) is a Photographer and Art Director from Portugal. He studied Cinema but has always worked as photographer, educator and designer, being most importantly a self-taught image creator.
Photo: ©Antonio Bracons
Daidō Moriyama (森山大道) is a Japanese photographer, born October 10, 1938 near Osaka. His photographs testify to the evolution of customs in Japan in the second half of the twentieth century.
Photo: © Sebastian Mayer
Yan Morvan is a French photographer and photojournalist. He publishes his first images in the 1970s in the daily newspaper Libération.
He covers many wars and conflicts in the 1980s and 1990s: Iran-Iraq, Lebanon, Northern Ireland, Kosovo, Rwanda. Yan Morvan is also known for having followed over long period of times the gangs and underground (often criminal) communities in France, especially in and around Paris.
He has published many books, including "Le Cuir et la Baston" (Ailleurs, 1976), "Mondosex" (Contrejour, 1995), "Gangs Story" (La Manufacture de Livres, 2012), "Bobby Sands" (André Frère, 2018).
Richard Mosse is an Irish photographer and artist based in New York City.
Among his published photobooks: "Incoming" (Mack, 2017), "The Castle" (Mack, 2018) and "Broken Spectre" (Loose Joints, 2022).
Myr Muratet is a French photographer of the urban and the surburban.
Excerpt of the presentation / biography on the artist's website:
" « He was born in Paris. His work involves cities, both those he lives in and those he visits, and he carries it out from within their very sinews. The comings and goings in the places that he observes multiply according to his encounters with the people he photographs. This work has been under way for several years and has no determinate duration; in this way, he has created Paris-Nord, a series of photographs begun in 2003, about the people who use the Gare du Nord and about the mechanisms put in place to coerce and contain them. »
-- Manuel Joseph "
In 2020, his first photobook "Paris Nord" is published by Building Books.
© Portrait (uncredited) taken from an interview on the French website d'a (d'Architectures)
Pino Musi is an Italian photographer, based in Paris. A self-taught photographer, his practice uses only black and white.
Pino's work is mainly centered around architecture and urbanism. He published in 1997 "Mario Botta seen by Pino Musi" (Daco Verlag, 1997).
Since then, he has published many books, including self-published ones, and among them "Libro" (Biblioteca Civica, 2002), "Roma Antiqua" (FMR Edizioni, 2010), "_08:08 Operating Theatre" (Self-published, 2013), "ACRE" (Editions Gwinzegal, 2017) and "Border Soundscapes" (Artphilein Editions, 2019).
© Portrait taken from the artist's Facebook profile (uncredited)