Valérie Belin is a French artist and photographer; her education includes the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Paris and philosophy studies.
After a first part of her career where she focused on memory and traces, she since then has developed what her publisher Editions Xavier Barral's website calls: « a work that blurs the boundaries on the idea of gender, identity and on the ambiguous status of real and virtual worlds. »
In 2019, she publishes "Painted Ladies" with Editions Xavier Barral.
© Portrait by Liza Rose, taken from the France Culture radio website (on the occasion of an interview in november 2019)
Jonas Bendiksen is a Norwegian photographer, a member of the Magnum Photos agency since 2004 (« Full member » in 2008).
Bendiksen works on long-term projects and gives an important place to the photobook form in his work, usually publishing a photobook at the end of each project.
Among his important publications are "Satellites - Photographs from the Fringes of the former Soviet Union" (Aperture, 2006) after a 3-year stay in several separatist republics from the former USSR; "The Places We Live" (Aperture, 2008) where he documents the life of populations in slums in several countries (Venezuela, Kenya, India, Indonesia, etc.), "The Last Testament" (Aperture, 2017) about several people - again in different countries - who pretend to be the second-coming of Jesus, and finally "The Book of Veles" (GOST, 2021) which made a loud bang as Bendiksen revealed - after garnering numerous accolades and awards, including at the important "Visa pour l'Image" festival in Perpignan, France - that all the images of the project had been created with a software tool used in the CGI (Computer-Generated Imagery) cinema industry, when the subject of the book is about the creation and propagation of "fake news".
© Portrait (uncredited) taken from an article about "The Book of Veles" on the website of French radio France Culture
Gilles Berquet is a French photographer who considers the he produces "images of the mind" rather that reproduces reality...
Gilles Berquet is a photographer of the body, in the nude, sexualized, queer, often staged. His worked includes a long collaboration with drawing artist and model Mirka Lugosi.
The book "Le fétiche est une grammaire" published by Editions Loco in 2018 is an overview of the artist's carrier. Several other books - most of them sold out - have been published of his work since the late 80's.
© Portrait Gilles Berquet
Pierre Bessard, born in 1960, is a French artist, photographer and director of documentaries. He lives and works between Paris and Beijing. He has published three books on China, where "iconic images of a great mutant country face an adventure and individual emotions." Through portraits of men at work rooted in modernity, he shows another China, engaged in a world of globalization with a human mutation.
Dawoud Bey is an American photographer and educator.
He is known in particular for his black & white street portraits of the American youth and young adults, sometimes marginalized, in their daily environment.
He has published several photobooks since 1995, and in particular more recently "Seeing Deeply" (University of Texas Press, 2018) and "Street Portraits (Mack, 2021).
© Portrait by Mike Majewski taken from an article on artnet (in English)
Andreas H. Bitesnich (b. Austria 1964) has given the world perfectly crafted images celebrating the human form touched with a fragrance of eroticism.
Photo: © Manfred Schmid / Getty Images
Judith Black is an American photographer and teacher.
She is mostly known for having documented her family life since the end of the sixties with a Black & White Polaroid (Type 55), recording, with precision and humor, the strange and the marvelous in the veryday life.
Her work has been exhibited in many American institutions and beyond.
In 2020, Stanley / Barker published a selection of images from this body of work under the title "Pleasant Street", then in 2021 they published another photobook from her work, called "Vacation", this time focused on a family travel across the United States, undertaken following the reception of a Guggenheim Fellowship.
© Self-portrait « 1997.02.07.Self (with Mom and Aunt Edie) » taken from the artist's website
Matt Black is an American photographer, member of the Magnum Photos agency since 2015 (« Full Member » in 2019). He received a World Press Photo in 1994 and a grant from the W. Eugene Smith Memorial Fund in 2015.
Black is from California's Central Valley, a rural, agricultural area in the heart of the state where he still resides. He started photography working at his hometown newspaper.
His work is centered on the themes of geography, inequality, migrations, agriculture and the environment, in his native region and in related or neighboring places such as Mexico. His photography essays have been published in importants magazines and websites such as The New Yorker, TIME Magazine, VICE, or Mother Jones.
In 2015, he published in newsprint format his series "Geography of Poverty". In 2021, he published his first photobook "American Geography", with Thames & Hudson (English version) and Atelier EXB (French version).
© Portrait (uncredited) taken from the Magnum Photos website
Delphine Blast is a French portrait and documentary photography, she is based between South America and Paris.
She published in 2017 the book "Cholitas", portraits of women in Bolivia, with Editions Bessard.
© Portrait : Jacob Khrist