Takuma Nakahira was a Japanese photographer and photography critic.
After beginning his career as the editor of a contemporary art magazine, he quit his job to become a photographer. In 1968, he was one of the founders of the Provoke magazine, with Koji Taki, Yutaka Takanashi and Takahido Okada.
Marilyn Nance is an American visual artist and photographer.
As indicated on the artist's website : « Marilyn Nance has produced exceptional photographs of unique moments in the cultural history of the United States and the African Diaspora, and possesses an archive of images of late 20th century African American life. »
In addition to her photography work, Nance has been involved in using the Internet has a broadcasting, communicating and archiving tool.
One of her most important body of work is the documentation of the Second World Black and African Festival of Arts and Culture in Lagos, Nigeria, also known as FESTAC’77. This work has been published by Fourthwall Books in association with CARA (The Center for Art, Research and Alliances) an emergent arts nonprofit, research center, and publisher based in New York, USA under the title "Last Days in Lagos" (2022).
© Portrait taken from the artist's Linktree page
Mark Neville is a British social documentary photographer.
In 2004, following a one-year residency in Port Glasgow, Scotland, he publishes "Port Glasgow Book Project"; the book is distributed as a free gift to all members of the community.
In 2017, his photobook "Fancy Pictures" (Steidl), including images from six of his projects and a discussion with David Campany, is shortlisted for the "Photobook of the Year" award by Paris Photo / Aperture Foundation.
In 2019, he is shortlisted for the "Deutsche Börse Photography Foundation Prize".
In 2020, he moves to Kyiv, Ukraine, and publishes in 2022 with Nazraeli "Stop Tanks with Books"; 750 copies are distributed for free to policy-makers. The photobook, released just weeks from the invasion of Ukraine by Russia during the winter 2022, is immediately sold out. A second augmented edition is published during the summer 2022.
© Self-portrait of the artist taken from an article in The Guardian
Sina Niemeyer is a German photographer.
She published in 2018 the photobook Für Mich with Ceiba Editions, a very personal project about healing from sexual abuse during her childhood.
© Marlena Waldthausen (portrait taken from the Ceiba website)
Kate Nolan is an Irish visual artist based in Dublin, Ireland, focused on extended photographic stories that examine the nature of identity. Drawn to "in-between" places, she is intrigued by the effects of shifting histories of areas in flux. Nolan collaborates with local communities over extended periods to give a voice to these changes.
Photo: ©katenolan.ie
Claude Nori is a French publisher and photograher.
He created in 1975 the publishing house Contrejour, which will be until the 90's the prominent photography publisher in France, releasing many important titles: Kodachrome by Luigi Ghirri, Le Voyage Mexicain by Bernard Plossu, Trois secondes d'éternité by Robert Doisneau, Telex Persan by Gilles Peress, Autres Amériques by Sebastião Salgado, etc.
Among the books published of his own photography work: Vacances à l'italienne (Contrejour, 1987) and An Italian Summer (Stemmle, 2001), Géométrie du flirt (Contrejour, 2011), and the re-publishing of his work on the summer in Italy: French version as Vacances en Italie by Contrejour, and English version Italian Holidays by Sturm & Drang.
© Portrait Isabelle Nori
Michael E. Norhtrup is an American photographer.
On his website, he states: « I love irony... not exclusively, but I have a particular appreciation for it. And it underlies a lot of my work. (...) My whole family was great at extracting humor out of tragedy and that has given me a way of seeing. For me creating images is all about my daily life, those meaningful pictures I'm able to extract from it, and the personal vision I bring to those visual narratives. »
He published "Beautiful Ecstasy" (J&L Books, 2003), "Babe" (J&L Books, 2012) and "Dream Away" (Stanley/Barker, 2018).
© Portrait taken from the website Uprise Art
Kazuma Obara (Japan, 1985) is a photojournalist based in the UK and Japan. Focusing on hidden victims in society is a theme he explores in his projects. Just after the tsunami and nuclear disaster in 2011, he began documenting the disaster area, photographing from inside Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant.
Momo Okabe is a Japanese photographer
Her photography work is centered around gender transition. She documented and chronicled the transition of two of her friends, including explicit images of the surgeries, in her first two photobooks: "Dildo" (2013) and "Bible" (2014), both published by Session Press. In 2015, she receives the FOAM Paul Huf Award for these works.
In her third photobook "Ilmatar", the first published in Japan (Mandarake, 2020), she widen the gaze and looks into the intimacy of her circle of close friends, many of them transgender, in contemporary Japan.
Koji Onaka was born in Fukuoka prefecture in Japan in 1960. In 1982, When he was 22 years old, after graduating from Tokyo Photography College, he participated in an independent gallery called "CAMP" that was founded by Daido Moriyama, he had his first exhibition at "CAMP" in 1983. Whether in Japan or abroad, Onaka has always "wanted to find his lost childhood memories" in the places he visited and photographed.
Goria Oyarzabal is a Spanish photographer, director and teacher.
Her work is mostly centered around the African continent (she herself has lived 3 years in Mail), the marks of colonization and the history of decolonization, as well as the place of women in African societies.
In 2017 she wins the "Landskrona Dummy Award", which allows her to publish her first photobook "Picnos Tshombé" (Witty Books, 2018). Then in 2019 she wins the "Prix du Livre Images Vevey 2019/2020", which in turn allows her the publication of her second photobook "Woman Go No'Gree" (Editorial RM / Images Vevey, 2020) along with an exhitibiton during the "Images Vevey" festival in Switzerland.
In December 2020, the book "Woman Go No'Gree" is awarded the "Book of the Year" award by Paris Photo & Aperture Foundation in collaboration with Delpire & Co.
© Portrait (uncredited) taken form the website of Der Greif.