David Seymour, also known as Chim (a nickname stemming from his true last name Szymin), was a Polish photographer and founding member and former president of the Magnums Photos agency, during the golden era of photojournalism.
As a photographer, he is mostly known for his coverage of the Spanish Civil War, and his project "Children of War" under assignment by UNICEF that documented the lives of children in the aftermath of WWII.
He published many photo-reportages in the big-name news magazines before, during and after World War II (Life, Paris Match, etc.) He is also known for portraits of celebrities (Ingrid Bergman, Audrey Hepburn, Pablo Picasso).
His work was not published in the book form before his untimetly death in 1956 in the aftermath of the Suez Canal conflict.
© Portrait by Elliott Erwitt
Daniel Shea is an American photographer; publishing photobooks is an important part of the presentation of his work.
His series on the city of Blisner in Illinois received high acclaim; it was originally self-published in 2012 under the title Blisner, Ill. then published in a different editing under the name Blisner, IL (fourteen-nineteen, 2014 - quickly sold out). Daniel also published - among others - Warehouse Condo in 2016 and 43-35 10th Street (Kodoji, 2018).
© Chantal Webber (taken from the artist's FB profile)
Toshio Shibata is a Japanese photographer who studied photography in Belgium.
He is specifically interested in imposing architectural constructions and their integration in their surroundings, often natural landscape: simple and geometric shapes such as dams or bridges, of which he usually captures architectural details, in a way that infuses both life and a strange quality in these landscapes.
He has published, among other photobooks, "Contacts" (Poursuite, 2013), "Japanscapes" (The Velvet Cell, 2017) and "Painting" (Chose Commune, 2021).
© Portrait taken from the website of AZITO Online gallery of Japanese Contemporary Art (not credited)
Lieko Shiga is a Japanese photographer, she studied photography at the Chelsea College or Arts, in LOndon.
In 2007, she publishes "Canary" with Akaaka, and her work was most noted in 2013 with the release of the critically acclaimed "RASEN KAIGAN", with Akaaka as well. Then, she published "Blind Date" in 2017 with T&M Projects.
© Portrait by Gui Martinez
Stephen Shore is an American photographer, mainly known for his color work. He is famous for both anecdotal elements and important contributions.
Aged 14, he is already a photographer and manages to meet Edward Steichen, then DIrector of Photography at the MoMA, New York, and the legend buys 3 prints from him. A few years later, from 1965 to 1965, he documents life at Andy Warhol's Factory as he is barely 18. Then in 1971, at the age of 24, the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York offers him a solo exhibition!
It is in 1972 that he will switch from B&W to color photography, at about the same time as his contemporary William Eggleston. His photographs speak of day to day America, may it be nature, the city or the "suburbia"; but he also photographs the trivial or insignificant things of daily life, may it be motel interiors, a phone booth or a meal on a table...
Stephen Shore is also famous for his photobooks, most importantly "Uncommon Places" (Aperture, 1982) and "American Surfaces" (Schirmer/Mosel, 1999) and also the theory book "The Nature of Photographs" (John Hopkins University Press, 1998 / Phaidon, 2007). More recently, he published with Mack "Transparencies: Small Camera Works 1971-1979" (2020), and "Steel Town" (2021).
© Portrait by Raphaël Labbé
Lin Shu, (林舒) born in Fujian Province, China, now lives and works in Beijing.
Michał Siarek is a Polish photographer; he studied in Lodz.
His first photographic project named Alexander, about the Macedonian national identity (in the country now called « North Macedonia ») and the will of the sate to put forward the connection with Alexander the Great, was awarded the « New East Photo Prize 2016 » by Calvert 22 Foundation and several other awards on Poland, France and the UK.
The photobook Alexander was self-published in 2018.
© Portrait taken from the artsit's website
Senta Simond is a Swiss photographer; her work has a strong focus on femininity and an intimate approach of the female body and portrait.
Her first photobook "Rayon Vert" published in 2018 by Kominek was quickly sold out, and a second edition was released in 2019.
© Portrait taken from the website La Prairie (uncredited)
Sébastien Sindeu is a French photographer based in Bordeaux, member of Divergences.
A natural attraction draws him regularly to the ocean coastlines and the realm of the seas, but he is also passionate about the matters of flows and mobility. His work about the main European straits was published as "Détroits" (Le Bec en l'air, 2012). In 2023, he publishes the photobook "La montagne qui marche" ["The Mountain that Walks"] (Studio Kochab) about the erosion of the coastline along the Atlantic coast in the Médoc region.
Sébastien Sindeu was part for several years of the collective LesAssociés with whom he published "D'ici ça ne paraît pas si loin" (Le Bec en l'air, 2020), a survey of the new French region of Nouvelle-Aquitaine in the times of the fusion of regions in France and arrival of the fast-train TGV line in Bordeaux.
© Portrait taken from the Divergences website
Klavdij Sluban French photographer whose family origins are from the territiories of former Yugoslavia. Sluban is a travelling photographer who follows long-term projects working essentially in black & white.
Illus : Klavdij Sluban
Donavon Smallwood is an American photographer.
In 2021, he is awarded the Aperture Portfolio Prize, for a series of portraits and landscapes made in Central Park, New York, later that year published by Trespasser Books as "Languor".
© Portrait taken from the artist's website