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Winant, Carmen
Carmen Winant is an American artist and writer (she contributes to several publications, including Aperture), assistant professor in "Visual Studies and Contemporary Art History" at the "Columbus College of Art and Design", Ohio.
© Portrait taken from the Colombus College of Art and Design website
Winship, Vanessa
Vanessa Winship (1960) is an English photographer living in London and Istanbul. Member of Agence VU. After studying film and photography at Westminster University (Polytechnic of Central London), Vanessa Winship began teaching photography and then worked for the National Science Museum in London. She then becomes an independent photographer, working both at home and abroad.
Photo: © henricartierbresson.org
Wolf, Michael
Michael Wolf was a photographer who was a "citizen of the world" : born in 1954 in Germany, he spent earlier parts of his adult life in the United States, and then was mainly based between Hong-Kong and France. He died suddenly in April 2019.
Photo: © Michael Wolf
Wolff, Barbara
Barbara Wolff is a German photographer, teacher, and graphic designer.
In addition to a position as a photographer and graphic designer for the brand of large-format cameras Linhof since 1990, Barbara Wolff has developped a personal practice and work, using large-format cameras as well as a "regular" cameras or a smartphone.
She has also been a photography teacher and has given many workshops in Germany and in several countries (China, Vietnam, Brazil, etc.)
Barbara is represented by the gallery Collection Regard, Berlin, and her series Metropolis has been on display at the Rencontres d'Arles festival in 2021 ("Arles associated" section / Fotohaus, inside the Manuel Rivera-Ortiz foundation). The book Metropolis published in 2020 by Lunik gathers this series of smartphone images of Berlin.
© Portrait taken from the artist's website
Wolukau-Wanambwa, Stanley
Stanley Wolukau-Wanambwa is a British writer and photographer; he also contributed essays for monographs by Paul Graham and Vanessa Winship.
As indicated on the LightWork website : « His photographic work addresses questions of patriarchy, race, history, and identity. »
His book "One Wall a Web" (Roma Publications, 2018) about the divisions and violences, today and in history, within the American society received the « First Photobook » Award from Paris Photo / Aperture Foundation in 2018.
© Portrait taken from the Georgia State University website
Wood, Tom
Tom Wood is an Irish photographer considered one of the pionneers of modern color photography. He is known for his work of portraits, street photography and landscape photography, mainly through the daily life and social life in England (and more specifically Liverpool and Merseyside) in the 70's, 80's, and 90's, in pubs, public transportation, markets, workplaces, on football pitches, etc.
Tom Wood has published several books, in particular "All Zones Off Peak" (Dewi Lewis, 1998), "Photie Man" (Steidl, 2005), "Termini" (GwinZegal, 2018), "Women's Market" (Stanley / Barker, 2018), "Mères, Filles, Soeurs" (Textuel, 2019) and "101 Pictures" (RRB Publishing, 2020).
© Portrait taken from an article on the BBC website (uncredited)
Woodman, Francesca
The American photographer Francesca Woodman (1958–1981) created a body of fascinating photographic works in a few intense years before her premature death. Her oeuvre has been shown in number of major exhibitions in recent years, and her photographs have inspired artists all over the world.
Photo: ©Self portrait
Woon, Shyue
Shyue Woon is an architect from Singapore, who is developping a photography work where his original training is very present.
His project "Dark Cities" - self-published in collaboration with IPA (Invisible Photographer Asia) - is a set of 3 books, 3 perceptions of Singapore, Tokyo and Seoul through the « lens » of a specific and unusual location: a carpark, a run-down tower, an old city quarter.
© Screenshot from the documentary "Making Personal Projects Video Series" on the IPA website.
Woudt, Bastiaan
Bastiaan Woudt is a young self-taught Dutch photographer, who started photography when he was about 25.
Bastiaan Woudt makes rather classical photography, often images with a simple yet refined construction and special attention to details and the use of light and shadows. He is a sophisticated user of post-production techniques.
© Portrait taken from the artist's website (cropped)
Yamada, Natsumi
Yamamoto, Masaki
Masaki Yamamoto is a Japanese photographer; he publishes Guts with Zen Foto Gallery in 2017.
Yamamoto, Masao
Masao Yamamoto is a Japanese photographer, originally trained as an oil painter.
His work of portraits, landscapes and still lifes are silver prints that are delicately toned and sometimes overpainted or dyed
He has self-published several artist books and also published multiple collaborations with various publishers, including: "Nakazora" (Nazraeli, 2002), "Omizuao" (Nazraeli, 2004), "Where We Met" (Lannoo, 2012), "Small Things in Silence" (Editorial RM / Seigensha, 2015), "Tori" (Radius Books, 2017), "Bonsai - Microcosms Macrocosms" (T&M Projects, 2019) and "Sanasami" (IIKKI Books, 2020).
© Portrait by unknown photographer taken from the artist's Wikipedia page
Yang, Luo
Luo Yang is a Chinese photographer, working mainly on female portraits and nudes, in a series called "Girls". Women in Luo Yang's photography are free, confident, proud, simple... in one word maybe just normal... and these portraits participate in deconstructing the stereotypes - however old and less pregnant now - about Chinese women.
© Luo Yang / Taken from the Edition Lammerhuber website
Yang, Yuanyuan
Yuanyuan Yang is a young Chinese artist trained in photography at the London "University of the Arts". She usually works from collected documents and creates narratives using facts and fiction.
She publishes ''10 Days in Krakow'' in 2014 with Jiazazhi.
© Self-portrait taken from the artist's Instagram feed
Yatromanolakis, Yorgos
Yorgos Yatromanolakis is a Greek photographer working on long-term projects that he turns into books. He is also co-founder of the artist-run space "Zoetrope" in Athens.
His series "The splitting of the chrysalis & the slow unfolding of the wings" was exhibited and generated a lot of interest in 2018, it was published under the same title by VOID.
© Portrait taken from the artist's Instagram profile
Yogananthan, Vasantha
Vasantha Yogananthan is a French photographer and publisher. He co-founded the publishing House Chose Commune in 2014.
The artist's website states: « Yogananthan's strong interest in painting led him to work around the genres of portrait, still life and landscape. Using these traditions as a starting point, he refined his photographic approach to produce photographs that expand the traditional genres and are united by a distinctively muted colour palette, achieved solely using natural light. »
Vasantha has received numerous awards for his images (among them Prix Levallois 2016 and ICP Infinity Award for Emerging Photographer of the Year 2017) and the books published by Chose Commune ("Sobras" by Geraldo de Barros, Prix Nadar Gens d'Images 2017, French photobook of the year).
He has published his own work with Chose Commune: "Piémanson" in 2014, and the project "A Myth of Two Souls", a photographic narration of the Ramayana epic, over a series of seven photobooks (in progress) : "Early Times" (2016), "The Promise" (2017), "Exile" (2017), "Dandaka" (2018), "Howling Winds" (2019) and "Afterlife" (2020). The final book in the series titled "Amma" is published in 2021.
© Portrait taken from the website Photographic Museum of Humanity
Yokonami, Osamu
Osamu Yokonami is a Japanese photographer. He is mainly known for his group portraits of young women, usually dressed in identical fashion and taking the same pose. Often, the faces of the models remain hidden.
He is also known for his series "Primal", where he portraits young children with an apple held between their left ear and their left shoulder.
Yokonami recently published 3 photobooks with Libraryman : "Mizugi" (2018), "Primal" (2019) and "Kumo" (2020).
© Portrait taken from the website Art Loft Asia
