Alessandra Sanguinetti is an American photographer member of the Magnum Photos agency since 2007. She grew up in Argentina.
Her work is mostly documentary projects, often long-term projects, rooted in daily life.
She is most famous for her work with two kids, two young girls, and today two women, two cousins living in rural Argentina: Guillermina and Belinda. This project gave birth to two photobooks: "The Adventures of Guille and Belinda and the Enigmatic Meaning of their Dreams" (Nazraeli, 2010) and "The Adventures of Guille and Belinda and The Illusion of an Everlasting Summer" (Mack, 2020).
© Self-portrait taken from the Magnum Photos website for the HOME project.
Lise Sarfati, born in Oran on April 12, 1958, is a French photographer. She grew up in Nice and studied at the Sorbonne, where she graduated with a master's degree in Russian in 1979. Her thesis was about Russian photography in the 1920s.
Photo: Royalty free portrait, Eys in Progress
Viviane Sassen is a Dutch photographer, born July 5, 1972 in Amsterdam. After a childhood in Kenya, she studied fashion and then photography.
Photo: © Duy Vo
Michael Schmidt was a German photographer (1945-2014) who's work revolved mainly around the city of Berlin and German identity. He was part of the Düsseldorf School of Photography. He was also a photography teacher in Berlin.
His book "Waffenruhe", initially published by Nishen Verlag in 1987 is considered one of the most important books about Germany, and of German photography; it is included in the Martin Parr & Gerry Badger "The Photobook: A History - Vol. 1".
In 2014, he is awarded the Prix Pictet.
For the 75th anniversary of his birth in 2020, an important retrospective exhibition of his work is organized and travels to Jeu de Paume in Paris, to Hamburger Bahnhof - Museum für Gegenwart in Berlin, to Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía in Madrid an to the Albertina in Vienna. On this occasion the large retrospective photobook "Michael Schmidt Photographs 1965-2014" is published by Koenig Books.
© Portrait by Maurizio Gambarini / Picture Alliance
Ursula Schulz-Dornburg is a German photographer and conceptual artist.
Her initial training is in journalism. She has traveled extensively in the Middle-East and Asia. In her work, she is most interested in architecture, history, and traces.
In 2019 / 2020, the Maison Européenne de la Photographie in Paris held a large exhibition named "Zone Grise / The Land In-Between". Mack published on this occasion the photobook "Zone Grise / The Land-In-Between", with texts in French.
Mack had previously published a larger book titled "The Land In-Between", with a German and an English versions; that book won the "Catalogue of the Year" Award at the 2018 Paris Photo / Aperture Foundation Awards (the exhibition was at Städel Museum, Frankfurt, Germany).
© Portrait taken from the Gallery Luisotti Facebook page (not credited)
Paul Seawright (born 1965) is a Northern Irish artist. Seawright is the professor of photography and the Executive Dean of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences at Belfast School of Art at Ulster University in Belfast. He lives in his birthplace of Belfast.
Photo: ©Joel Seawright
Brian Sergio is a Filipino artist, initially trained as a painter before fully dedicating is art to photography.
His work, focused mainly on the street and the daily life, on society and the hardships people have to face, has no filter, and can be seen as transgressive and violent at times.
He has self-published several zines and also the photobooks "Pak!" with Dienacht (2017) and "A Bastard Son" with Zen Foto (2018).
© Portrait taken from the artist's profile on LensCulture
Jérôme Sessini is a French-Italian documentary photographer and photojournalist, member of Magnum Photos.
Jérôme Sessini is one of the most renowned war and conflict zone photographer; he has covered many countries of the Middle-East (Palestine, Iraq, Liban, Syrie) and has covered the drug-related violence in Mexico, the protests in Ukraine, the opioid crisis in the United States, etc.
He has published two photobooks: "The Wrong Side - Living on the Mexican Border" (Contrasto, 2012) and "Inner Disorder - Ukraine 2014-2017" (Editorial RM, 2021).
© Portrait by Dennison Bertram taken from the Magnum Photos website
Nick Sethi is an AMerican photographer from Indian extraction.
He published several self-published books between 2013 and 2017; then in 2018 Khichdi (Kitchari) with Dashwood Books.
Nicolas Seurot is a French photographer.
After studying in art school, and a career as art director in advertisement, he changed paths and became a photographer.
He has published several photobooks: "Westland" (atteret, 2020) created while traveling the American West, "Les confinés" (atteret, 2021), where he photographed his friends in their homes during the lockdown of the spring 2020, and "Le bassin romantique" (self-published, 2021), a series about the « bassin d'Arcachon » area near Bordeaux, France, with a technique that creates images that looks likes paintings, another passion of the artist.
© Portrait taken from the artist's website
Yusuf Sevinçli was born in 1980 in Zonguldak, Turkey. He lives and works in Istanbul.
Photo: © centre-intermondes