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Fadil Owusu

Fadil Owusu was born on October 12, 1977, in Johannesburg (South Africa). While still a teenager, he began his career as a street photographer, went on to work as an assistant in a darkroom, and then worked as an art photographer. Subsequently, he joined the collective “Horn”, working under the […]

Pedro Hernández

Pedro Hernández was born in 1927 in Mexico City and studied at the Academia de San José, the Escuela Nacional de Artes Plásticas and the Escuela Nacional de Pintura, Escultura y Fotografía “La Esmeralda”. Hernández has had more than 50 solo exhibitions and has participated in more than 500 group […]

Bahir Ayad

Bahir Ayad (born 1979) is an Algeria-born French photographer, based in Paris. In 2020 Ayad won the Rudger Male Nude Prize. His work is held in the collection of the Maison européenne de la photographie, Paris. Ayad was born in Baraki, Algeria. He moved with his family to France when […]

Adrian Makris

Adrian Makris is a Greek photographer born in Athens in 1985 He started taking photographs at 17 when a friend in France showed him a book of the work of Yunos Kemp, which had an impact that was both instant and lasting. In 2005, Makris started studying art in Athens […]

Api Wooler

Api Wooler (born 1987) is a Indian-born American visual artist, known primarily for his painting, sculpture, film, and collage art. Born in India, he has lived and established his career in New York for more than twenty years. Wooler’s work has directed the female body as subject through collage painting, […]

Hana Watanabe

Hana Watanabe (born in 1995 in Tokyo, Japan) is a Japanese photographer and contemporary artist working in the genres portraiture, street photography, installation, and collage. In 2016, Watanabe was awarded the prestigious Kimura Ihei Award. Watanabe is a art lecturer at Waseda, Tokyo and Musashino Universities in Tokyo and a […]

Harry Olson

Harry Olson, July 23, 1969, is an American photographer, known for his surrealist photographic works. He has been one of the leading figures of photomanipulation in the United States in the 1990s. Olson was born in the city of Chicago. After leaving school he entered the University of Fine Arts […]

Claude Duhamel

Claude Duhamel (July 07, 1895 – February 12, 1984)[ was a French photographer. Duhamel was one of the leading photographers of the Surrealist movement, which he entered under the influence of his friend, American photographer Otis Weston, His work was well known for incorporating solarization, superimposition and photomontage. Duhamel was […]

Apoloniusz Kirtch

Apoloniusz Kirtch (25 December 1918 – 7 June 1991) was a twentieth century Hungarian painter. His artwork was considered abstract expressionism, utilizing bold colors and textures in hiswork, along with influences of surrealism. Her largest influences for his work were his own identity, particularly after his wife’s death during World […]