This is a list of notable

photographer A photographer (the Greek φῶς (''phos''), meaning "light", and γραφή (''graphê''), meaning "drawing, writing", together meaning "drawing with light") is a person who makes photographs. Duties and types of photographers As in oth ...

Africa

Algeria

Hocine Zaourar Hocine Zaourar (born 18 December 1952), also known by the mononym Hocine, is an Algerian photojournalist. His photograph of a woman grieving after the Bentalha massacre in Algeria, dubbed the "Madonna of Bentalha", won both the World Press Photo ...

(born 1952)

Benin

Mayeul Akpovi Mayeul Akpovi (born January 5, 1979) is a Beninese photographer.France 3br>Mayeul Akpovi, photographe du mouvement/ref> Biography Passionate about photography since late 2011 in Besançon (France), Akpovi specialized in the time-lapse techni ...

(born 1979)

Cameroon

Joseph Chila Joseph Chila is a Cameroonian photographer from Mbouda in the West Region of Cameroon. For most of his working life he was based in Mayo-Darlé in Adamawa Region. Early life Joseph Chila was born in 1948 near Mbouda in the West Region of Cam ...

(born 1948) * Angèle Etoundi Essamba (born 1962) *

Samuel Fosso Samuel Fosso (born July 17, 1962) is a Cameroonian-born Nigerian photographer who has worked for most of his career in the Central African Republic. His work includes using self-portraits adopting a series of personas, often commenting on the his ...

(born 1962) *

Jacques Toussele Jacques Toussele was a Cameroonian photographer from Bamessingué near Mbouda in the Western Region of Cameroon. There are several variant spelling of his Bamiléké name: Toussile, Tousellé, Tousselle and Touselle are all attested. The spelli ...

(1939–2017)

Democratic Republic of the Congo

* Gosette Lubondo (born 1993) * Joseph Makula (1929–2006)

Egypt

* W. Hanselman *

Sherif Sonbol Sherif Sonbol (born December 6, 1956) is an Egyptian photographer specializing in architecture, scenic fine arts and photojournalism. Early life Sonbol was born in Giza, Cairo, Egypt. He studied insurance at Cairo University and attended the C ...

(born 1956) * Ayman Lotfy (born 1968)

Eritrea

* Senayt Samuel (born 1969)

Ethiopia

* Aïda Muluneh (born 1974)

Gambia

Khadija Saye Khadija Mohammadou Saye (30 July 1992 – 14 June 2017), also known as Ya-Haddy Sisi Saye, was a Gambian-British photographer. Her photography explored her Gambian-British identity and was exhibited in the Diaspora Pavilion at the Venice Bien ...

(1992–2017)

Kenya

Mohamed Amin Mohamed Amin (29 August 1943 – 23 November 1996) was a Kenyan photojournalist. Amin's filming of Michael Buerk's report of the 1984 Ethiopian famine brought international attention to the crisis and eventually helped start the charity wave ...

(1943–1996) * Mimi Cherono Ng'ok (born 1983) * Priya Ramrakha (1935–1968)

Mali

* Alioune Bâ (born 1959) *

Seydou Keïta Seydou Keïta (1921/23 – 21 November 2001) was a Malian photographer known for his portraits of people and families he took at his portrait photography studio in Mali's capital, Bamako, in the 1950s. His photographs are widely acknowledged not ...

(1921–2001) *

Malick Sidibé Malick Sidibé (1935 – 14 April 2016) was a Malian photographer noted for his black-and-white studies of popular culture in the 1960s in Bamako. Sidibé had a long and fruitful career as a photographer in Bamako, Mali, and was a well-known fig ...

(1935–2016)

Namibia

Margaret Courtney-Clarke Margaret Courtney-Clarke (born 1949) is a Namibian documentary photographer and photojournalist, living in Swakopmund. Her work "frequently explores the resilience of communities enduring the rapidly shifting landscapes of Namibia." Courtney-Clarke ...

(born 1949)

Nigeria

George Da Costa George S. A. Da Costa (1853–1929) was a Nigerian photographer who was active in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. He documented government projects including railway construction in the colony. Life George S. A. Da Costa, an Amaro, was ...

(1853–1929) *

Herzekiah Andrew Shanu Herzekiah Andrew Shanu (1858 – July 1905) was an African photographer notably recognized for his involvement in the campaign against inhumane abuses in the Congo Free State. Early years He was a Yoruba man, originally from Lagos in what is now ...

(1858–1905) *

Solomon Osagie Alonge Chief Solomon Osagie Alonge (1911–1994) was a self-taught photographer and pioneer of Nigerian photography. He was the first official photographer for the royal court of Benin City, Nigeria, and a chief in the Iwebo palace society. Alonge's r ...

(1911–1994) *

J. D. 'Okhai Ojeikere Johnson Donatus Aihumekeokhai Ojeikere (10 June 1930 – 2 February 2014), known as J.D. 'Okhai Ojeikere, was a Nigerian photographer known for his work with unique hairstyles found in Nigeria. Biography Ojeikere was born on 10 June 1930 in ...

(1930-2014) *

Tidiani Shitou "El Hadj" Tidiani Shitou (1933–2000) was a Nigerian photographer best known for his pioneering photographs of Yoruba celebrations and his portraits of doubles in Nigeria. Personal life Shitou was born in Shaki, in the Oyo region of Nigeria i ...

(1933–2000) * Tam Fiofori (born 1942) * Rotimi Fani-Kayode (1955–1989) *

Kelechi Amadi-Obi Kelechi Amadi-Obi (born December 29, 1969) is a Nigerian creative photographer, painter, artist and the publisher of Mania Magazine. His work in photography and visual art has earned him international renown featuring in many international exhib ...

(born 1969) *

Akintunde Akinleye Akintunde Akinleye (born April 19, 1971) is a photojournalist whose images centre around photo-activism and trial narrative subjects. A former Reuters photographer covering West Africa, his photography has documented Nigeria's postcolonial hist ...

(born 1971) *

James Iroha Uchechukwu James Iroha Uchechukwu is a Nigerian photographer. He was born in 1972 in Enugu. He is known for his photography, his support to young photographers, and the passing on of his knowledge to the young. He is also regarded at the beginning of the 21 ...

(born 1972) * Andrew Esiebo (born 1978) * Toyin Sokefun-Bello (born 1978) *

Aisha Augie-Kuta Aisha Augie-Kuta (born 11 April 1980) is a Nigerian photographer and filmmaker based in Abuja. She is an Hausa from Argungu Local Government Area in northern Nigeria. She won the award for Creative Artist of the year at the 2011 The Future Awa ...

(born 1980) *

Anny Robert Anietie “Anny” Robert (born 28 October 1990) is a Nigerian portrait photographer and creative director in Niger State, Nigeria. Education Robert studied computer science at the Covenant University. Career Robert transitioned from g ...

(born 1990) * David Uzochukwu (born 1998)

Sierra Leone

Alphonso Lisk-Carew Alphonso Sylvester Lisk-Carew (1887–1969) was a Sierra Leone Creole photographer, active from around 1905, to 1920 to 1925. Life and work Alphonso Lisk-Carew founded his business in 1905. His brother Arthur was his assistant. Lisk-Carew advert ...

(1887–1969)

South Africa

Omar Badsha Omar Badsha (born 27 June 1945) is a South African documentary photographer, artist, political and trade union activist and an historian. He is a self-taught artist. He has exhibited his art in South Africa and internationally. In 2015 he won the ...

(born 1945) *

Steve Bloom Steve Bloom (born 1953) is a South African photographer and writer. Son of journalist, novelist, and political activist Harry Bloom, he is best known for his photography books and essays as well as his large scale outdoor exhibitions called '' ...

(born 1953) * Steven Bosch (born 1978) * Kevin Carter (1960–1994) * James Chapman (1831–1872) * Ernest Cole (1940–1990) *

Vera Elkan Vera Elkan (1908–2008) was a South African photographer who is remembered for her images of the International Brigades in the Spanish Civil War. Biography Of mixed South African and German parentage, Elkan trained as a photographer in Berlin ...

(1908–2008) * Arthur Elliott (1870–1938) * Abrie Fourie (born 1969) * Caroline Gibello (born 1974) *

David Goldblatt David Goldblatt HonFRPS (29 November 1930 – 25 June 2018) was a South African photographer noted for his portrayal of South Africa during the period of apartheid.Weinberg, Paul.David Goldblatt: Photographer Who Found the Human in an Inhuman ...

(1930–2018) *

Bob Gosani Bob Gosani (1934–1972) was a South African photographer. Career Gosani started off at ''Drum'' magazine as a messenger but soon moved to the photographic department where he became Jürgen Schadeberg's darkroom assistant. He later became one o ...

(1934–1972) * Anton Hammerl (1969–2011) *

Sam Haskins Samuel Joseph Haskins (11 November 1926 – 26 November 2009), was a British photographer, born and raised in South Africa. He started his career in Johannesburg and moved to London in 1968. Haskins is best known for his contribution to in-came ...

(1926–2009) *

Pieter Hugo Pieter Hugo (born 1976) is a South African photographer who primarily works in portraiture. He lives in Cape Town.Leah Ollman (9 February 2007)Photography that goes only skin deep''Los Angeles Times''. Hugo has had four monographs published. ...

(born 1976) *

Phumzile Khanyile Phumzile Khanyile (born 1991) is a South African photographer, living in Johannesburg. Her series ''Plastic Crowns'' is about women's lives and sexual politics. The series has been shown in group exhibitions at the Palace of the Dukes of Cadaval ...

(born 1991) *

Alf Kumalo Alfred Khumalo (5 September 193021 October 2012), better known as Alf Kumalo, was a South African documentary photographer and photojournalist. Overview Kumalo was born in Utrecht near Newcastle in the province of KwaZulu-Natal. He first worked ...

(1930–2012) * Carla Liesching (born 1985) * Ambrose Lomax (1867–1943) * David Lurie (born 1951) * Peter Magubane (born 1932) * Michael Meyersfeld (born 1940) *

Eric Miller Eric, Erik, or Erick Miller may refer to: Arts and entertainment * Eric Miller (record producer) (c. 1941–2017), American record producer and Norman Granz's protégé *Eric Miller (photographer) (born 1951), South African photographer during and ...

(born 1951) * Nandipha Mntambo (born 1982) *

Santu Mofokeng Santu Mofokeng (October 19, 1956 – January 26, 2020) was a South African news and documentary photographer who worked under the alias ''Mofokengâ''. Mofokeng was a member of the Afrapix collective and won a Prince Claus Award.Prince Claus Fund ...

(1956–2020) *

Billy Monk William John Monk (died 31 July 1982) was a South African, known for his photographs of a Cape Town nightclub between 1967 and 1969, during apartheid. In 2012 a posthumous book was published, ''Billy Monk: Nightclub Photographs.'' Early life Not ...

(1937–1982) *

Zwelethu Mthethwa Zwelethu Mthethwa (born 1960) is a South African painter and photographer. He was convicted of murder in 2017, and is currently incarcerated at Pollsmoor Prison. Biography Mthethwa, a native of Durban, graduated from the Michaelis School of Fi ...

(born 1960) *

Zanele Muholi Zanele Muholi (born 19 July 1972) is a South African artist and visual activist working in photography, video, and installation. Muholi's work focuses on race, gender and sexuality with a body of work that dates back to the early 2000's, documen ...

(born 1972) *

Sam Nzima Sam Nzima (8 August 1934 in Lillydale, Bushbuckridge Local Municipality – 12 May 2018 in Nelspruit) was an South African photographer who took what became the widely-circulated and influential image of Hector Pieterson for the Soweto uprisi ...

(1934–2018) * Obie Oberholzer (born 1947) * Henrik Purienne (born 1977) * Andrzej Sawa (born 1941) *

Jürgen Schadeberg Jürgen Schadeberg (18 March 1931Jürgen Schadeberg
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(1931–2020) *

Thabiso Sekgala Thabiso Sekgala (1981 – 15 October 2014) was a South African photographer. His work was about "land, peoples’ movement, identity and the notion of home". Sekgala's photography was published in a book, ''Paradise'' (2014) and exhibited posthumo ...

(1981–2014) * Lindokuhle Sobekwa (born 1995) *

Austin Stevens Austin Stevens (born 19 May 1950) is a South African-born Australian naturalist, herpetologist, wildlife photographer, documentarian, television personality, and author. He is best known as the host of the Animal Planet nature documentary seri ...

(born 1950) * Richardt Strydom (born 1971) * Guy Tillim (born 1962) *

Gisèle Wulfsohn Gisèle Wulfsohn (18 March 1957 – 27 December 2011) was a South African photographer. Wulfsohn was a newspaper, magazine, and freelance photographer specialising on portrait, education, health and gender issues. She was known for documenting v ...

(1957–2011) * Paul Yule (born 1956)

Uganda

Zarina Bhimji Zarina Bhimji (born 1963) is a Ugandan Indian photographer, based in London. She was nominated for the Turner Prize in 2007, exhibited at Documenta 11 in 2002, and is represented in the public collections of Tate, the Museum of Contemporary Art i ...

(born 1963)

Asia

Armenia

Ida Kar Ida Kar (8 April 1908 – 24 December 1974) was a photographer active mainly in London after 1945. She took many black-and-white portraits of artists and writers. Her solo show of photographs at the Whitechapel Gallery in 1960 was the first of ...

(1908–1974) *

Ohannes Kurkdjian Ohannes Kurkdjian (first name sometimes spelled Onnes, Armenian spelling Hovhannes, 1851–1903) was a photographer based in Yerevan, Tiflis, Singapore and then Surabaya during the Dutch East Indies era. His namesake business (located at B ...

(1851–1903) *

Gabriel Lekegian Gabriel Lekegian (1853 – c. 1920), also known as G. Lékégian, was an Armenian painter and photographer, active in Constantinople and Cairo from the 1880s to the 1920s. Little is known about his life, but he left an important body of work und ...

(fl. 1870–1890) * Jean Pascal Sébah (1872–1947) *

Pascal Sébah Pascal Sébah (1823–1886) was a photographer in Constantinople (now Istanbul) and Cairo, who produced a prolific number of images of Egypt, Turkey and Greece to serve the tourist trade. Life and work Pascal Sébah was born in Constantinople ...

(1823–1886) *

Van Leo Van Leo (born Levon Alexander Boyadjian; November 20, 1921 – March 18, 2002) was an Armenian-Egyptian photographer who became known for his numerous self-portraits and portraits of celebrities of his time. Biography and career Born in November 1 ...

(1921–2002) *

Samvel Sevada Samvel Sevada Grigoryan (; born September 12, 1949), is an Armenian artist, photographer and poet. Biography Sevada was born in the city of Gyumri, Armenia. In 1974, he graduated from Yerevan's State Fine Arts and Theater Institute. Since 1980, ...

(born 1949)

Azerbaijan

* Rena Effendi (born 1977)

Bangladesh

Cambodia

Dith Pran Dith Pran ( km, ឌិត ប្រន; 23 September 1942 – 30 March 2008) was a Cambodian photojournalist. He was a refugee and survivor of the Cambodian genocide and the subject of the film '' The Killing Fields'' (1984). Early life D ...

(1942–2008)

China

Georgia

* Irakly Shanidze (born 1968)

Hong Kong

Basil Pao Basil Pao Ho-Yun (鲍皓昕) is a Hong Kong-based photographer. He has been the stills photographer on the BBC filming teams that made Michael Palin's television travel programmes. Early career Pao was born in Hong Kong, but started his career a ...

Ho Fan Fan Ho (; 8 October 1931 – 19 June 2016) was a Chinese photographer, film director, and actor. From 1956, he won over 280 awards from international exhibitions and competitions worldwide for his photography. Photography career Fan Ho was bor ...

(1931–2016)

India

* Darogha Ubbas Alli (19th century) *

Subhankar Banerjee Subhankar Banerjee may refer to: * Subhankar Banerjee (musician) (1966–2021), Indian classical musician and tabla player of the Farukhabad gharana * Subhankar Banerjee (photographer) Subhankar Banerjee (born 1967) is a photographic artist, edu ...

(born 1967) * Pablo Bartholomew (born 1955) * Poulomi Basu (born 1983) *

Dimpy Bhalotia Dimpy Bhalotia (born 1987) is an Indian street photographer based out of London and Mumbai. Bhalotia was Grand Prize Winner in the Photographer of the Year category at the iPhone Photography Awards in 2020 for her photograph "Flying Boys" photogra ...

(born 1987) * Sutapa Biswas (born 1962) *

Lala Deen Dayal Raja Lala Deen Dayal (; 1844–1905; also written as 'Din Dyal' and 'Diyal' in his early years), famously known as Raja Deen Dayal) was an Indian photographer. His career began in the mid-1870s as a commissioned photographer; eventually he set ...

(1844–1905) *

Dhaval Dhairyawan Dhaval Sunil Dhairyawan (19 April 1979 – 22 March 2012) was a lifestyle and automotive photographer from India. He was noted for his Photojournalism for ''The Times Journal of Photography'', TopGear India Magazine, The Times of India and Lone ...

(1979–2012) *

Sunil Dutt Sunil Dutt (born Balraj Dutt; 6 June 1929 — 25 May 2005) was an Indian actor, film producer, director and politician. Dutt was one of the major stars of Hindi cinema in the late 1950s and 1960s and continued to star in many successful film ...

(born 1939) * Sohrab Hura (born 1981) *

Atul Kasbekar Atul Kasbekar (born 22 April 1965) is an Indian fashion photographer and Bollywood film producer. He is recognised for his Kingfisher Calendar shoots.Shalini ShahSees, shoots and leaves ''The Hindu'', 23 December 2011, Retrieved 12 January 2012. ...

(born 1965) *

Yatin Patel Yatin Patel is an Orlando-based photographer and artist. He originated from India. Patel started a few internet based companies and made a career on art. Patel's belief that having a creative mindset help in the business endeavors. In 2011 Pa ...

Altaf Qadri Altaf Qadri is a Kashmiris, Kashmiri photojournalist presently working with the Associated Press. Life and work Qadri was born in Srinagar, the summer capital of Indian-administered Kashmir. He had his first freelance assignment in 2001, and ...

(born 1976) *

Raghu Rai Raghu Rai (born 1942), is an Indian photographer and photojournalist. He was a protégé of Henri Cartier-Bresson, who appointed Rai, then a young photojournalist, to Magnum Photos in 1977. Rai became a photographer in 1965, and a year later ...

(born 1942) * Dabboo Ratnani (born 1971) * Vicky Roy (born 1987) *

Benu Sen Benu Sen (26 May 1932 – 17 May 2011) was an Indian photographer from Kolkata, India. He was the second son among seven children of Manindranath and Provabati Sengupta. He was the Secretary General of the Federation of Indian Photography (FIP) ...

(1932–2011) * Raghubir Singh (1942–1999) * Swarup Chatterjee (born 1976) * Kamran Yusuf (Kamran Yousuf, born 1994) * Balan Madhavan * Jayanth Sharma (born 1980)

Indonesia

Kassian Cephas Kassian Cephas or Kassian Céphas (15 January 1845 – 16 November 1912) was a Javanese photographer of the court of the Yogyakarta Sultanate. He was the first indigenous person from Indonesia to become a professional photographer and was trai ...

(1845–1912)

Iran

* Abbas (1944–2018) *

Hoda Afshar Hoda Afshar (born 1983) is an Iranian documentary photographer who is based in Melbourne. She is known for her 2018 prize-winning portrait of Kurdish-Iranian refugee Behrouz Boochani, who suffered a long imprisonment in the Manus Island detent ...

(born 1983) *

Reza Deghati Reza Deghati (born July 26, 1952) is an Iranian-French photojournalist who works under the name Reza ( fa, رضا). Early life Reza was born in Tabriz, Iran. He is of Azerbaijani origin.Manoocher Deghati Manoocher Deghati ( fa, منوچهر دقتی, born 1954 in Urmia, Iran) is an Iranian-French photojournalist. Documenting the Iranian Revolution In the summer of 1978, Manoocher Deghati, educated as a filmmaker, returned to Iran after three ye ...

(born 1954) *

Kaveh Golestan Kāveh Golestān Taghavi Shirazi ( fa, کاوه گلستان; 8 July 1950 – 2 April 2003) was an Iranian photojournalist and artist. In 1988 he took the first pictures of the aftermath of the Halabja chemical attack during the Iran–Iraq War. ...

(1950–2003) *

Mohammad Reza Domiri Ganji Mohammad Reza Domiri Ganji (Persian: محمد رضا دومیری گنجی; born in November 1990) is an Iranian architectural, panoramic and tourist attraction photographer. He is known for his project to document mosque interiors and ancient ...

(born 1990) *

Bahman Jalali Bahman Jalali (1944 – 15 January 2010) was an Iranian photographer who played a significant role in educating a new generation of Iranian photographers. He taught photography at several universities in Iran over a 30-year period. Jalali's w ...

(1944–2010) *

Nasrollah Kasraian Nasrollah Kasraian ( fa, نصرالله کسرائیان , born 1944 in Khorramabad, Iran) is an internationally renowned Iranian photographer and has been called the "father of Iranian ethno-photography". He and his wife, anthropologist Ziba Arshi ...

(born 1944) * Mohammadreza Mirzaei (born 1986) *

Hossein Rajabian Hossein Rajabian ( fa, حسین رجبیان; born 5 July 1984) is an Iranian filmmaker, writer and photographer who was imprisoned as a political prisoner in 2015 on charges related to his filmmaking. He as an anti-censorship filmmaker and de ...

(born 1984) *

Mitra Tabrizian Mitra Tabrizian (born in Tehran) is a British-Iranian photographer and film director. She is a professor of photography at the University of Westminster, London. Mitra Tabrizian has exhibited and published widely and in major international museums a ...

(born 1954) *

Newsha Tavakolian Newsha Tavakolian ( fa, نیوشا توکلیان; born 1981) is an Iranian photojournalist and documentary photographer. She has worked for ''Time'' magazine, ''The New York Times'', ''Le Figaro'', and ''National Geographic''. Her work focuses o ...

(born 1981) *

Jahangir Razmi Jahangir Razmi ( fa, جهانگیر رزمی) (b. December 16, 1947 in Arak, Iran) is an Iranian photographer and the author of the entry that won the 1980 Pulitzer Prize for Spot News Photography. His photograph, ''Firing Squad in Iran'', was ta ...

(born 1947) *

Ali Khan Vali Ali Khan Vali ( fa, علی خان والی, 1262 - 1318 Hijri; c. 1845 CE - c. 1901 CE) was an Iranian photographer and political figure of the era of Naser al-Din Shah and Mozaffar ad-Din Shah Qajar. Biography Early life Ali Khan, son of M ...

(1845–1902) *

Alfred Yaghobzadeh Alfred Yaghobzadeh ( fa, آلفرد يعقوب زاده), is an Iranian photographer of Assyrian descent who is noted for his war photography. Early life and career Yaghobzadeh was born in Tehran, to an Armenian-Assyrian family. His photographs ...

(born 1958)

Iraq

* Alaa Al-Marjani (born 1967)

Israel

* Micha Bar-Am (born 1930) *

Rafael Ben-Ari ''Rafael Ben-Ari (Hebrew: רפאל בן-ארי b. 1971) is an Israeli-born international independent content creator master photographer and filmmaker, specializing in photojournalism and travel photography, known for his war and combat zone photos ...

(born 1971) * Michal Chelbin (born 1974) *

Nadav Kander Nadav Kander HonFRPS (born 1 December 1961) is a London-based photographer, artist and director, known for his portraiture and landscapes. Kander has produced a number of books and had his work exhibited widely. He received an Honorary Fellow ...

(born 1961) *

Ziv Koren Ziv Koren (born July 13, 1970) ( he, זיו קורן) is an Israeli photojournalist, a Canon EMEA ambassador and a representative of "Polaris Images" photo agency. Koren is most noted for documenting the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, the IDF oper ...

(born 1970) * Alex Levac (born 1944) * Roie Galitz (born 1980)

Japan

Korean

Lebanon

Nadim Asfar Nadim Asfar (born in 1976 in Beirut, Lebanon) is a French-Lebanese photographer and filmmaker. He currently lives and works between Paris and Beirut. He studied cinematography at the Académie Libanaise des Beaux-Arts ALBA Beirut and then photogra ...

(born 1976) *

Gregory Buchakjian Gregory Buchakjian (born 1971, in Beirut, Lebanon) is a Lebanese photographer, filmmaker and art historian. He studied at the Paris-Sorbonne University. He is the director of the School of Visual Arts at Académie Libanaise des Beaux-Arts ALBA an ...

(born 1971)

Pakistan

* Farah Mahbub (born 1965) *

Tapu Javeri Tapu Javeri ( Urdu: ; born Mustapha Farabi Javeri on 5 May 1965) is a Pakistani fashion and art photographer, radio host, television judge and jewellery designer. He works as a freelance photographer and was the photo editor of the Xtra m ...

(born 1965) * Zaigham Zaidi (1930–2006) *

Huma Mulji Huma Mulji (born 1970 in Karachi) is a Pakistani contemporary artist. Her works are in the collections of the Saatchi Gallery, London and the Asia Society Museum. She received the Abraaj Capital Art Prize in 2013. Life Huma Mulji was born in 1 ...

(born 1970) * Adnan Kandhar (born 1986)

Palestine

Karimeh Abbud Karimeh Abbud or Karimeh Abboud (18 November 1893 – 27 April 1940; ar, كريمة عبّود), was a Palestinian professional photographer and artist who lived and worked in Palestine in the first half of the twentieth century. She was one of ...

(1893–1940) * Yousef Khanfar (born 1956) *

Khalil Raad Khalil Raad ( ar, خليل رعد, 1854–1957) was a photographer, known as " Palestine's first Arab photographer." His works include over 1230 glass plates, tens of postcards, and as yet unpublished films that document political events and da ...

(1854–1957)

Singapore

* John Clang (born 1973) * Sim Chi Yin (born 1978) *

Teo Bee Yen Teo Bee Yen (born 1950 in Fujian, China) is a photographer from Singapore Singapore (), officially the Republic of Singapore, is a sovereign island country and city-state in maritime Southeast Asia. It lies about one degree of latitude ...

(born 1950) * Marjorie Doggett (1921–2010)

Sri Lanka

Lionel Wendt Lionel George Henricus Wendt (3 December 1900 – 19 December 1944) was a pianist, photographer, filmmaker and critic from Sri Lanka. He was the leader of ‘43 Group, a collective of Sri Lankan artists. The Lionel Wendt Art Centre is a major ...

(1900–1944)

Syria

* Bengin Ahmad (born 1986)

Taiwan

Chien-Chi Chang Chien-Chi Chang (; born 1961) is a photographer and member of Magnum Photos. Life and work Chang was born in Taichung, Taiwan. He received an MS from Indiana University, Bloomington and a B.A. from Soochow University, Taipei. He joined Ma ...

(born 1961)

Thailand

* Francis Chit (1830–1891)

Turkey

Ömer Asan Ömer Şükrü Asan (born May 28, 1961) is a Turkish Folkloristics, folklorist, photographer and writer. In 2002, he was charged with allegations that he violated Article 8 of Turkey's Anti-Terror Law by "propagandating separatism" for his book ...

(born May 28, 1961) * Bahaettin Rahmi Bediz (1875–1951) *

Ara Güler Ara Güler ( hy, Արա ԿիւլԷր; 16 August 1928 – 17 October 2018) was an Armenian-Turkish photojournalist, nicknamed "the Eye of Istanbul" or "the Photographer of Istanbul". He was "one of Turkey's few internationally known photographers ...

(16 August 1928 – 17 October 2018) * Yıldız Moran (1932–1995) *

(1823–1886) *

Uğur Uluocak Yaşar Uğur Uluocak (1962 – 2 July 2003) was a Turkish outdoorsman, mountaineer, photographer, and editor. Born in 1962 in Ankara, Turkey, Uğur attended Saint Joseph High School in Istanbul, and graduated in Mechanical Engineering from Ist ...

(1962 – July 2, 2003)

Vietnam

* Huynh Cong Ut, known professionally as Nick Ut (born 1951)

Europe

Albania

Austria

Manfred Baumann Manfred Baumann (born 1968) is an Austrian photographer. Manfred is best known for his portraits of celebrities, Landscape, wildlife and Street Photography. Life and work Born in 1968 in Vienna, Baumann grew up in Vienna's 13th district of Hi ...

(born 1968) * Lukas Beck (born 1967) * Andreas Bitesnich (born 1964) * Wilhelm J. Burger (1844–1920) * David Uzochukwu (born 1998) *

Ernst Haas Ernst Haas (March 2, 1921 – September 12, 1986) was an Austrian-American photojournalist and color photographer. During his 40-year career, Haas bridged the gap between photojournalism and the use of photography as a medium for expression an ...

(1921–1986) *

Gottfried Helnwein Gottfried Helnwein (born 8 October 1948) is an Austrian-Irish visual artist. He has worked as a painter, draftsman, photographer, muralist, sculptor, installation and performance artist, using a wide variety of techniques and media. His work is ...

(born 1948) *

Herbert Bayer Herbert Bayer (April 5, 1900 – September 30, 1985) was an Austrian and American graphic designer, painter, photographer, sculptor, art director, environmental and interior designer, and architect. He was instrumental in the development of the ...

(1900–1985) * Josef Hoflehner (born 1955) *

Lisette Model Lisette Model (born Elise Amelie Felicie Stern; November 10, 1901 – March 30, 1983) was an Austrian-born American photographer primarily known for the frank humanism of her street photography. A prolific photographer in the 1940s and a member ...

(1901–1983) *

Inge Morath Ingeborg Hermine Morath (; 27 May 1923 – 30 January 2002) was an Austrian photographer. In 1953, she joined the Magnum Photos Agency, founded by top photographers in Paris, and became a full photographer with the agency in 1955. Morath was the ...

(1923–2002) *

Willy Puchner Willy Puchner (born 15 March 1952) is an Austrian photographer, artist, painter and author. Life Puchner was born and grew up in Mistelbach an der Zaya, Lower Austria, where his parents owned a photo studio. In 1967, he moved to Vienna to atte ...

(born 1953) *

Baron Raimund von Stillfried Baron Raimund von Stillfried, also known as Baron Raimund von Stillfried-Rathenitz (6 August 1839, in Komotau, Bohemia – 12 August 1911, in Vienna, Austrian-Hungarian Empire), was an Austrian military officer and early professional photographer i ...

(1839–1911) *

Stillfried & Andersen The firm of Stillfried & Andersen, also known as the Japan Photographic Association, was a photographic studio founded by Baron Raimund von Stillfried and Hermann Andersen that operated in Yokohama, Japan between 1876 and 1885. The studio is noted ...

Belgium

* Anthony Asael (born 1974) * Jean-Marie Bottequin (born 1941) * Isidore Jacques Eggermont (1844–1923) *

Martine Franck Martine Franck (2 April 1938 – 16 August 2012) was a British-Belgian documentary and portrait photographer. She was a member of Magnum Photos for over 32 years. Franck was the second wife of Henri Cartier-Bresson and co-founder and president ...

(1938–2012) *

Harry Gruyaert Harry Gruyaert (born 1941) is a Belgian photographer known for his images of India, Morocco and Egypt as well as of the west of Ireland and for his use of colour. He is a member of Magnum Photos. His work has been published in a number of books, bee ...

(born 1941) *

Victor Guidalevitch Victor Issay Guidalevitch (Russian: 'Виктор Иссаы Гидалевич') (2 September 1892 – 19 January 1962), was a Belgian engineer of Russian origin who became an amateur photographer. Guidalevitch photographed his surroundings, st ...

(1892–1962) * Carl de Keyzer (born 1958) *

Eugene Lemaire Eugene may refer to: People and fictional characters * Eugene (given name), including a list of people and fictional characters with the given name * Eugene (actress) (born 1981), Kim Yoo-jin, South Korean actress and former member of the sin ...

(1874–1948) * Marcel Mariën (1920–1993) *

Filip Naudts Filip Naudts (born 7 December 1968) is a photographer and photography reviewer based in Belgium. Biography In 1992, Naudts began his career working for the Belgian national television and press. The following year, he was employed by the Antwerp ...

(born 1968) *

Herman van den Boom Herman van den Boom (born 1950) is a Belgian photographer, artist, and designer. Van den Boom received his education at the Eindhoven's Academy for Industrial Design (1968–1970), at the Academy for Fine Arts Enschede (now known as ArtEZ Ins ...

(born 1950) *

Germaine Van Parys Germaine Van Parys, also Van Parijs, (1893–1983) was a Belgian photojournalist. She was the first woman in Belgium to join the profession, which was very unusual to find a woman mentioned in the history of photography before 1920s. She left an ex ...

(1893–1983) *

Max Pinckers Max Pinckers (1988) is a Belgian photographer based in Brussels. He has self-published the books ''The Fourth Wall'' (2012); ''Will They Sing Like Raindrops or Leave Me Thirsty'' (2014), which won a Photographic Museum of Humanity grant); and ''R ...

(born 1988) * Wim Tellier * Stephan Vanfleteren (born 1969)

Croatia

* Tošo Dabac (1907–1970) * Damir Hoyka (born 1967) *

Viktor Đerek Viktor Đerek (born March 8, 2000) is a Croats, Croatian photographer, based in Makarska, Croatia. His work includes nature, landscape, portrait and historiographical subjects. In 2013, he collaborated on a short documentary film that was used i ...

(born 2000)

Czech Republic

* Karel Cudlín (born 1960) *

František Drtikol František Drtikol (3 March 1883 – 13 January 1961) was a Czech photographer known for his nudes and portraits. Life and work Drtikol was born in Příbram into a merchant family, the younger of three children, brother of sisters, Ema and M ...

(1883–1961) * Libuše Jarcovjáková (born 1952) *

Viktor Kolář Viktor Kolář (born 7 September 1941) is a Czech photographer. Kolář, along with Jindřich Štreit, is considered one of the most important exponents of Czech documentary photography. In his works, Kolář focuses mainly on depicting urban l ...

(born 1941) * Rudolf Koppitz (1884–1936) *

Josef Koudelka Josef Koudelka (born 10 January 1938) is a Czech-French photographer. He is a member of Magnum Photos and has won awards such as the Prix Nadar (1978), a Grand Prix National de la Photographie (1989), a Grand Prix Henri Cartier-Bresson (1991), ...

(born 1938) * Antonín Kratochvíl (born 1947) *

Rudolf Franz Lehnert Rudolf Franz Lehnert (13 July 1878 – 16 January 1948) was an Austrian photographer. He was noted for producing Orientalist images. Life Lehnert was born in Gross Aupa in Bohemia, Austria-Hungary (now Velká Úpa, part of Pec pod Sněžkou in ...

(1878–1948) * Markéta Luskačová (born 1944) *

Frank Plicka Frank Plicka (11 June 1926 – 9 December 2010 in Sydney, Australia) is a Czech-born Australian photographer, best known for his book ''Streets of Sydney'', an extraordinary tour of Sydney, documented in black & white photographs taken over ...

(1926–2010) *

Karel Plicka Karel Plicka (in Slovak: Karol Plicka) (14 October 1894 6 May 1987) was a Czechoslovak photographer, film director, cinematographer, folklorist, and pedagogue. He is considered a founder of Slovak film education and filmmaking. He helped establ ...

(1894–1987) *

Jan Saudek Jan Saudek (born 13 May 1935) is an art photographer and painter. Jan Saudek's art work represents a unique technique combining photography and painting. In his country of origin, Czechoslovakia, Jan was considered a disturbed artist and oppre ...

(born 1935) *

Ignác Šechtl Ignác Šechtl (26 May 1840 – 6 July 1911), also known as Ignace Schächtl or Hynek Šechtl, was a pioneer of Czech photography (especially photojournalism) and cinematography. He moved from Prague, to Kladno, Plzeň, Bucharest, Prachatice and ...

(1840–1911) * Josef Jindřich Šechtl (1877–1954) * Marie Šechtlová (1928–2008) * Jindřich Štreit (born 1946) *

Josef Sudek Josef Sudek (17 March 1896 – 15 September 1976) was a Czech photographer, best known for his photographs of Prague. Life Sudek was born in Kolín, Bohemia. He was originally a bookbinder. During the First World War he was drafted into the Au ...

(1896–1976) *

Miroslav Tichý Miroslav Tichý (; November 20, 1926 – April 12, 2011) was a photographer who from the 1960s until 1985 took thousands of surreptitious pictures of women in his hometown of Kyjov in the Czech Republic, using homemade cameras constructed of ...

(1926–2011) * Josef Větrovský (1897–1944)

Denmark

Mads Alstrup Mads Alstrup (1808-1876) was the first Danish portrait photographer with his own studio. For 16 years, he produced an enormous number of daguerreotypes, in Copenhagen and the provinces, before his business suffered from the financial crisis of 18 ...

(1808–1876) *

Per Bak Jensen Per Bak Jensen (born 22 April 1949) is a Danish landscape photographer. His desolate images of nature or industrial sites often convey an almost metaphysical impression. His unusual subjects include corn stubble, twigs in the snow or a few isolated ...

(born 1949) *

Reg Balch Reginald Ernest Balch (December 29, 1894 – 1994) was a Canadian photographer and scientist. Biography He was born in Sevenoaks, England, the son of the Rev. Alfred Ernest Balch and Sarah Hawkes. He was educated at Bedford School and Kingswoo ...

(1894–1994) *

Morten Bo Morten Bo (born 10 May 1945, Copenhagen), is a Danish photographer who has specialized in documentary work with a social impact. His 15 travelling exhibitions in the 1970s and 1980s proved quite controversial. In the 1980s, he turned to more abst ...

(born 1945) * Krass Clement (born 1946) * Joakim Eskildsen (born 1971) *

Frederikke Federspiel Frederikke Jakobine Federspiel (1839–1913) was the first female photographer to practice in Denmark. For many years, she ran her own photographic studio in Aalborg, always keeping abreast of the latest developments. Among her clients were the ...

(1839–1913) *

Kristen Feilberg Kristen Feilberg or Christen Schjellerup Feilberg (1839–1919) was an early Danish photographer who is known mainly for his images captured far beyond the borders of Denmark. From the 1860s until the 1890s, Feilberg participated in expeditions to ...

(1839–1919) *

Jens Fink-Jensen Jens Fink-Jensen (born 19 December 1956) is a Danish poet, author, photographer, composer and architect. Biography Fink-Jensen was born in Copenhagen, Denmark. From 1968 to 1972 he attended school in Store Heddinge where he was a classmate with ...

(born 1956) *

Jan Grarup Jan, JaN or JAN may refer to: Acronyms * Jackson, Mississippi (Amtrak station), US, Amtrak station code JAN * Jackson-Evers International Airport, Mississippi, US, IATA code * Jabhat al-Nusra (JaN), a Syrian militant group * Japanese Article Numb ...

(born 1968) * Ludvig Grundtvig (1836–1901) *

Georg Emil Hansen Georg Emil Hansen (12 May 1833, Naestved – 21 December 1891, Frederiksberg) was one of Denmark's pioneering photographers in the second half of the 19th century. He had his own studio in Copenhagen and later became a successful court photographe ...

(1833–1891) *

Keld Helmer-Petersen Keld Helmer-Petersen (23 August 1920 – 6 March 2013) was a Danish photographer who achieved widespread international recognition in the 1940s and 1950s for his abstract colour photographs. Early years Helmer-Petersen was born and grew up in ...

(1920–2013) * Ken Hermann *

Jacob Holdt Jacob Holdt (born 29 April 1947) is a Danish photographer, writer and lecturer. His mammoth work, ''American Pictures'', gained international fame in 1977 for its effective photographic revelations about the hardships of America's lower classes. ...

(born 1947) * Jesper Høm (1931–2000) *

Kirsten Klein Kirsten Klein (born 1945) is a Danish photographer who since the mid-1970s has lived on the island of Mors. She has become one of Denmark's foremost landscape photographers, developing a highly characteristic, somewhat melancholic style, frequent ...

(born 1945) *

Astrid Kruse Jensen Astrid Kruse Jensen (born 1975) is a Danish photographer and visual artist. She studied at the Gerrit Rietveld Academie in the Netherlands and the Glasgow School of Art in Scotland. Her artistic work is often characterized by its dreamy qualities, ...

(born 1975) *

Claus Bjørn Larsen Claus Bjørn Larsen (born 1963) is a Danish press photographer, now working as a freelance. He gained special recognition in 2000 when he won the World Press Photo of the Year competition for his work in Kosovo. Early life Born in 1963 in Holbæk ...

(born 1963) * Erling Mandelmann (1935–2018) *

Anton Melbye Daniel Herman Anton Melbye (13 February 1818, Copenhagen – 10 January 1875, Paris) was a Danish painter and photographer who specialized in maritime scenes. He was the brother of painters Vilhelm and Fritz Melbye. Biography His father was ...

(1818–1875) * Rigmor Mydtskov (1925–2010) *

Jacob Riis Jacob August Riis ( ; May 3, 1849 – May 26, 1914) was a Danish-American social reformer, "muckraking" journalist and social documentary photographer. He contributed significantly to the cause of urban reform in America at the turn of the twen ...

(1849–1914) *

Viggo Rivad Viggo Reinholdt Rivad (3 July 1922 – 8 February 2016) was a Danish photographer who started as an autodidact in 1946, and went on to win numerous competitions in the 1950s and 1960s. Around 1960, he adopted his so-called "essay approach", r ...

(1922–2016) * Leif Schiller (1939–2007) *

Lars Schwander Lars Schwander (born 15 December 1957) is a Danish photographer and gallerist. As a photographer he is most known for his portraits of international artists. In 1996 he founded Fotografisk Center in Copenhagen, an exhibition space for art photogr ...

(born 1957) * Jacob Aue Sobol (born 1976) *

Mary Steen Mary Dorothea Frederica Steen (28 October 1856 – 7 April 1939) was a Danish photographer and feminist. At the age of 28, she opened a studio in Copenhagen where she specialized in indoor photography. She later became Denmark's first female ...

(1856–1939) *

Rudolph Striegler Peter Ludvig Rudolph Striegler (4 October 1816 – 24 January 1876) was one of Denmark's early photographers, specialising in portrait photography. Trained as a picture-framer, Strieger opened Odense's first daguerreotype studio in 1846. With his ...

(1816–1876) * Klaus Thymann *

Sigvart Werner Sigvart Wilhelm Theodor Werner (13 June 1872 – 2 September 1959) was a Danish amateur photographer who gained fame through his artistic landscape photographs, published in book form. Encouraged by the success of his early work ''Dyrehaven og Jæ ...

(1872–1959) * Mary Willumsen (1884–1961)

Estonia

* Kaupo Kikkas (born 1983) * Jaan Künnap (born 1948) * Johannes Pääsuke (1892–1918) * Urmas Tartes (born 1963)

Finland

Elina Brotherus Elina Brotherus (born 29 April 1972) is a Finnish photographer and video artist specializing in self-portraits and landscapes. Life Brotherus was born in Helsinki. She earned an M.S. in analytical chemistry from the University of Helsinki in 199 ...

(born 1972) * Joakim Eskildsen (born 1971) * Ismo Hölttö (born 1940) * Aino Kannisto (born 1973) *

Marjaana Kella Marjaana Kella (born 1961) is a Finnish photographer. Early life and education Kella was born in Orimattila, Finland. She was a student at the Free Art School from 1985 until 1986, and moved on to study photography at the University of Art and ...

(born 1961 * Ola Kolehmainen (born 1964) * Sirkka-Liisa Konttinen (born 1948) *

Santeri Levas Benno Aleksander "Santeri" Levas (until 1936 Lehmann; 8 February 1899 – 10 March 1987) was a Finnish writer and photographer, best known for his books on the composer Jean Sibelius. Santeri Levas was born in Helsinki, Grand Duchy of Finland, i ...

(1899–1987) *

Susanna Majuri Susanna Majuri (24 November 1978 – 5 March 2020) was a Finnish fine art photographer based in Helsinki.Arno Rafael Minkkinen Arno Rafael Minkkinen (born 4 June 1945) is a Finnish-American photographer who works in the United States. Published and exhibited worldwide, Minkkinen's work can be found in the collections of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston and the Finnish ...

(born 1945) *

Jyrki Parantainen Jyrki Parantainen (born 1962) is a Finnish photographer. Life and work Parantainen was born in Tampere, Finland, and lives in Helsinki. He is part of The Helsinki School. Since autumn 2006, Parantainen has been working as a professor for photogra ...

(born 1962) *

Tero Puha Tero Puha (born 1971) is a Finnish visual artist, photographer and filmmaker. His work often studies and explores the body image, identities and consumerism in the modern world. He is known for his aesthetic body studies as well as performances a ...

(born 1971) *

Pentti Sammallahti Pentti Sammallahti (born 1950 in Helsinki) is a Finnish photographer. He is the only brother of Finnish linguist Pekka Sammallahti Pekka Lars Kalervo Sammallahti ( smn, Sevtil-Piäkká, May 21, 1947 in Helsinki) is a professor of Sámi language ...

(born 1950)

France

Germany

* Christian von Alvensleben (born 1941) *

Dieter Appelt Dieter Appelt (born 3 March 1935 in Niemegk) is a German photographer, painter, sculptor and video artist. He studied music from 1954 to 1958 in the Mendelssohn Bartholdy Akademie in Leipzig. There, he discovers and develops a strong interest fo ...

(born 1935) *

Thomas Bak Thomas Tadeus Bak is a German Visual arts, visual artist, art director, writer and composer, mainly known for his work in photography. Biography Bak was born on April 20, 1978 in Szczecin, Northern Poland. In 1981 his parents emigrated over De ...

(born 1978) *

Kristian Liebrand Kristian Liebrand (born March 3, 1973 in Rhede, Germany) is a photographer from Germany, who concentrates on nude art photography of women. Liebrand has been featured in a number of photo magazines, Lifestyle magazines, professional journa ...

Walter Ballhause Walter Ballhause (born in Hameln on 3 April 1911 – died in Plauen on 8 July 1991) was a German photographer. He was active politically and worked in social documentary photography. Biography Born in Hameln as the son of a shoemaker, Walter Ballh ...

(1911–1991) *

Uta Barth Uta Barth (born 1958) is a contemporary German-American photographer whose work addresses themes such as perception, optical illusion and non-place. Her early work emerged in the late 1980s and 1990s, "inverting the notion of background and foreg ...

(born 1958) *

Bernd and Hilla Becher Bernhard "Bernd" Becher (; 20 August 1931 – 22 June 2007), and Hilla Becher, née Wobeser (2 September 1934 – 10 October 2015), were German conceptual artists and photographers working as a collaborative duo. They are best known for their e ...

(1931–2007, 1934–2015) *

Hans Bellmer Hans Bellmer (13 March 1902 – 24 February 1975) was a German artist, best known for the life-sized pubescent female dolls he produced in the mid-1930s. Historians of art and photography also consider him a Surrealist photographer. Biography ...

(1902–1975) *

Henning von Berg Henning von Berg (born 10 June 1961) is a former German civil engineer who became a portrait photographer. His specialty is character portraits and fine art nudes. Biography Henning von Berg was born in Northern Germany into a family with ...

Sibylle Bergemann Sibylle Bergemann (29 August 1941 – 1 November 2010) was a German photographer. In 1990, she co-founded the Ostkreuz photographers agency. She is remembered for documenting developments in East Berlin during the Communist era and for her inte ...

(1941–2010) *

Laurenz Berges Laurenz Berges (born Cloppenburg, 1966) is a German photographer. He graduated from the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf as Master Student under Bernd Becher in 1996. Berges' work is held in the collections of the Museum of Modern Art in New York and th ...

(born 1966) *

Ruth Bernhard Ruth Bernhard (October 14, 1905 – December 18, 2006) was a German-born American photographer. Early life and education Bernhard was born in Berlin to Lucian Bernhard and Gertrude Hoffmann. Lucian Bernhard was known for his poster and typeface ...

(1905–2006) *

Peter Bialobrzeski Peter Bialobrzeski (born 1961 in Wolfsburg, West Germany) is a photographer and a professor of photography at the University of the Arts Bremen in Germany. Bialobrzeski originally studied politics and sociology in Germany before he studied photogr ...

(born 1961) *

Patrick Bienert Patrick Bienert (born 1980) is a German photographerJacob Charles Wilson,Photographer Patrick Bienert's Powerful Portrait of a Changing Georgia, ''Another Man'', 25 February 2020. Accessed 2 March 2021. who works on long-term projects of portrait ...

(born 1980) *

Karl Blossfeldt Karl Blossfeldt (June 13, 1865December 9, 1932) was a German photographer and sculptor. He is best known for his close-up photographs of plants and living things, published in 1929 as ''Urformen der Kunst''. He was inspired, as was his father, b ...

(1865–1932) *

Anna and Bernhard Blume Anna Blume (née Helming; 21 April 1936 18 June 2020) and Bernhard Johannes Blume (8 September 19371 September 2011) were German art photographers. They created sequences of large black-and-white photos of staged scenes in which they appeared ...

(1936–2020, 1937–2011) *

Andreas Bohnenstengel Andreas Bohnenstengel (born 9 June 1970) is a German photographer who lives and works in Munich. Biography Bohnenstengel began in 1991 as a press photographer for the regional daily newspaper ''Münchner Merkur''. Subsequently, he worked for m ...

(born 1970) *

Heinrich Brocksieper Heinrich Brocksieper (15 April 1898 – 24 April 1968) was a Germans, German photographer, experimental filmmaker and painter who was educated at the Bauhaus design school. Life and work Heinrich Bocksieper was born on 15 April 1898 in Hage ...

(1898–1968) * Max Burchartz (1887–1961) *

Edmund Collein Edmund Collein (10 January 1906 – 21 January 1992) was an East German architect and urban planner. He is also known for his photography while studying at the Bauhaus art school. As a functionary of the SED, the ruling political party of East Ge ...

(1906–1992) *

Erich Consemüller Erich Consemüller (10 October 1902 — 11 April 1957) was a German photographer and architect who studied and taught at Bauhaus art school. He worked alongside the photographer Lucia Moholy documenting life at the Bauhaus. Early life Consemüll ...

(1902–1957) *

Peter Cornelius Carl August Peter Cornelius (24 December 1824 – 26 October 1874) was a German composer, writer about music, poet and translator. Life He was born in Mainz to Carl Joseph Gerhard (1793–1843) and Friederike (1789–1867) Cornelius, actors i ...

(1913–1970) *

Elger Esser Elger Esser (born 11 May 1967) is a German landscape photographer, living in Düsseldorf. "He is primarily associated with large-format images of European lowlands with his characteristic low horizon lines, pale luminous colours and vast skies". ...

(born 11 May 1967) * Franz Fiedler (1885–1956) *

Helmut Gernsheim Helmut Erich Robert Kuno Gernsheim (1 March 1913 – 20 July 1995) was a historian of photography, a collector and a photographer. Early life and education Born in Munich, Germany, he was the third son of the academic librarian Karl Gernsheim an ...

(1913–1995) *

Wilhelm von Gloeden Wilhelm Iwan Friederich August von Gloeden (September 16, 1856 – February 16, 1931), commonly known as Baron von Gloeden, was a German photographer who worked mainly in Italy. He is mostly known for his pastoral nude studies of Sicilian boy ...

(1856–1931) *

Franz Grainer Franz Grainer (born 28 September 1871 in Bad Reichenhall, died 1948 in Munich) was a Bavarian photographer. Career Grainer created numerous portraits of the children of the last crown prince of Bavaria, Rupprecht, especially the firstborn Luitpo ...

(1871–1948) *

Andreas Gursky Andreas Gursky (born 15 January 1955) is a German photographer and professor at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf, Germany. He is known for his large format architecture and landscape colour photographs, often using a high point of view. His works ...

(born 1955) *

Peter Guttman Peter Gutmann or Guttman may refer to: * Peter Gutmann (computer scientist), computer scientist from New Zealand * Peter Gutmann (journalist) (born 1949), American journalist, writer and attorney * Peter Guttman (photographer) Peter Guttman is a ...

John Gutmann John Gutmann (1905 – June 12, 1998) was a German-born American photographer and painter. Early life and education Gutmann was born in 1905 in Breslau, Germany (now Wrocław, Poland) to an upper-middle-class Jewish family. He earned a deg ...

(1905–1998) * Esther Haase (born 1966) * Siegfried Hansen (born 1961) * Harald Hauswald (born 1954) *

John Heartfield John Heartfield (born Helmut Herzfeld; 19 June 1891 – 26 April 1968) was a 20th century German visual artist who pioneered the use of art as a political weapon. Some of his most famous photomontages were anti-Nazi and anti-fascist statements. ...

(1891–1968) * Fritz Henle (1909–1993) *

Hannah Höch Hannah Höch (; 1 November 1889 – 31 May 1978) was a German Dada artist. She is best known for her work of the Weimar period, when she was one of the originators of photomontage. Photomontage, or fotomontage, is a type of collage in which the p ...

(1889–1978) *

Heinrich Hoffmann Heinrich Hoffmann or Hoffman may refer to: Hoffmann *Heinrich Hoffmann (photographer) (1885–1957), German photographer *Heinrich Hoffmann (author) (1809–1894), German psychiatrist and author * Heinrich Hoffmann (sport shooter) (1869–?), Germa ...

(1885–1957) *

Lotte Jacobi Lotte Jacobi (August 17, 1896 – May 6, 1990) was a leading American portrait photographer and photojournalist, known for her high-contrast black-and-white portrait photography, characterized by intimate, sometimes dramatic, sometimes idiosy ...

(1896–1990) * Gottfried Jäger (born 1937) * Clemens Kalischer (1921–2018) * Thomas Kellner (born 1966) *

Alex Kempkens Alex Kempkens (born Alexander Kempkens, 24September 1942) is a German photographer, photojournalist and computer artist. He also writes articles and curates exhibitions. Kempkens is an autodidact. Life Early life Born in Linz am Rhein, Germ ...

(born 1942) * Heinrich Kühn (1866–1944) *

Karl Lagerfeld Karl Otto Lagerfeld (; 10 September 1933 – 19 February 2019) was a German fashion designer, creative director, artist and photographer. He was known as the creative director of the French fashion house Chanel, a position held from 1983 ...

(1933–2019) *

Ernst Heinrich Landrock Ernst Heinrich Landrock (4 August 1878 in Reinsdorf, Saxony – 30 April 1966 in Kreuzlingen, Switzerland) was a photographer who was based in Tunis, Leipzig and Cairo Cairo ( ; ar, القاهرة, al-Qāhirah, ) is the capital of E ...

(1878–1966) *

Hans G. Lehmann Hans Georg Lehmann (born 1939, in Dessau, Germany) is a retired German photographer who is noted for his spy shots of prototype automobiles whilst they undergo testing stages, frequenting in locations where test sessions are likely to occur. These ...

(born 1939) * Peter Leibing (1941–2008) *

Esther Levine Esther Levine (born 1970 in Frankfurt am Main) is a German born, New York based photographer. After studying photography at the City College of New York from 1994 to 1996 she enrolled in the documentary photography program at the International Cen ...

(born 1970) *

Peter Lindbergh Peter Lindbergh (born Peter Brodbeck; 23 November 1944 – 3 September 2019) was a German fashion photographer and film director. He had studied arts in Berlin and Krefeld, and exhibited his works before graduation. In 1971, he turned to photo ...

(1944–2019) * Herbert List (1903–1975) *

Loretta Lux Loretta Lux (born 1969) is a fine art photographer known for her surreal portraits of young children. She lives and works in Ireland. Life and work Lux was born in Dresden, East Germany. She graduated from the Academy of Visual Arts in Munich i ...

(born 1969) * Felix H. Man (1893–1985) *

Oliver Mark Oliver Mark (born 20 February 1963) is a German photographer and artist known primarily for his portraits of international celebrities. Life and education Mark trained as a photographer, working first in the field of fashion photography at B ...

(born 1963) *

Willy Matheisl Willy Matheisl (born 1950) in Ingolstadt, Bavaria, Germany was educated in photography in the city of Zuerich, Switzerland, Europe. He was travelling the world for decades as a freelance travel photographer photographing for stock agencies and p ...

(born 1950) *

Adolf de Meyer Baron Adolph de Meyer (1 September 1868 – 6 January 1946) was a photographer famed for his photographic portraits in the early 20th century, many of which depicted celebrities such as Mary Pickford, Rita Lydig, Luisa Casati, Billie Burke, Irene ...

(1868–1946) * Arwed Messmer (born 1964) * Karsten Mosebach (born 1969) *

Hans Namuth Hans Namuth (March 17, 1915 – October 13, 1990) was a German-born photographer. Namuth specialized in portraiture, photographing many artists, including abstract expressionist Jackson Pollock. His photos of Pollock at work in his studio increa ...

(1917–1990) *

Helmut Newton Helmut Newton (born Helmut Neustädter; 31 October 192023 January 2004) was a German-Australian photographer. The ''New York Times'' described him as a "prolific, widely imitated fashion photographer whose provocative, erotically charged black-a ...

(1920–2004) *

Josef H. Neumann Josef H. Neumann (born May 27, 1953) is a German Art Photographer, media designer and art historian. He invented the chemogram, an experimental artform involving manipulating chemicals in film photography. Life Education From 1967 to 1970 ...

(born 1953) *

Anja Niedringhaus Anja Niedringhaus (12 October 1965 – 4 April 2014) was a German photojournalist who worked for the Associated Press (AP). She was the only woman on a team of 11 AP photographers that won the 2005 Pulitzer Prize for Breaking News Photography f ...

(1965–2014) *

Hildegard Ochse Hildegard Ochse (December 7, 1935 – June 28, 1997) was a German photographer. Life and work Hildegard Maria Helene Ochse (maiden name Römer) was born at home in Bad Salzuflen, Westphalia on December 7, 1935, the daughter of Dr. phil. Emma M ...

(1935-1997] *

Walter Peterhans Walter Peterhans (12 June 1897 – 12 April 1960) was a German photographer best known as a teacher and course leader of photography at the Bauhaus from 1929 until 1933, and at the Reimann School in Berlin under Hugo Häring. In the 1930s Peter ...

(1897–1960) * Michael Poliza (born 1958) *

Guglielmo Plüschow Guglielmo Plüschow (born Wilhelm Plüschow; August 18, 1852 – January 3, 1930) was a German photographer who moved to Italy and became known for his nude photos of local youths, predominantly males. Plüschow was a cousin of Wilhelm von Gl ...

(1852–1930) *

Albert Renger-Patzsch Albert Renger-Patzsch (June 22, 1897 – September 27, 1966) was a German photographer associated with the New Objectivity. Biography Renger-Patzsch was born in Würzburg and began making photographs by age twelve. After military service in the F ...

(1897–1966) *

Leni Riefenstahl Helene Bertha Amalie "Leni" Riefenstahl (; 22 August 1902 – 8 September 2003) was a German film director, photographer and actress known for her role in producing Nazi propaganda. A talented swimmer and an artist, Riefenstahl also became in ...

(1902–2003) * Michael Ruetz (born 1940) *

Thomas Ruff Thomas Ruff (born 10 February 1958) is a German photographer who lives and works in Düsseldorf, Germany. He has been described as "a master of edited and reimagined images". Ruff shares a studio on Düsseldorf's Hansaallee, with fellow German ...

(born 1958) *

Erich Salomon Erich Salomon (28 April 1886 – 7 July 1944) was a German Jewish news photographer known for his pictures in the diplomatic and legal professions and the innovative methods he used to acquire them. Life and work Born in Berlin, Salomon studied ...

(1886–1944) *

August Sander August Sander (17 November 1876 – 20 April 1964) was a German portrait and documentary photographer. His first book ''Face of our Time'' (German: ''Antlitz der Zeit'') was published in 1929. Sander has been described as "the most important Ger ...

(1876–1964) * Jörg Sasse (born 1962) * Burkhard Schittny (born 1966) * Michael Schmidt (1945–2014) *

Stefanie Schneider Stefanie Schneider (born 1968) is a German photographer living in Berlin and Los Angeles. Schneider's photographs exhibit the appearance of expired Polaroid instant film, with its chemical mutations. It has been released in books and exhibition c ...

(born 1968) *

Katharina Sieverding Katharina Sieverding (born 16 November 1944) is a German photographer known for her self-portraiture. Sieverding lives and works in Berlin and Düsseldorf. She is a professor emeritus at the University of the Arts, Berlin. Early life and educat ...

(born 1944) *

Giorgio Sommer Giorgio Sommer (1834–1914) was one of Europe’s most important and prolific photographers of the 19th century. Active from 1857 to 1888, he produced thousands of images of archeological ruins, landscapes, art objects and portraits. He was bor ...

(1834–1914) *

Otto Steinert Otto Steinert (12 July 1915 – 3 March 1978) was a German photographer. Life and work Born in Saarbrücken, Germany, Steinert was a medical doctor by profession and was self-taught in photography. After World War II, he initially worked for ...

(1915–1978) * Thomas Struth (born 1954) *

Gerda Taro Gerta Pohorylle (1 August 1910 – 26 July 1937), known professionally as Gerda Taro, was a German Jewish war photographer active during the Spanish Civil War. She is regarded as the first woman photojournalist to have died while covering the ...

(Gerta Pohorylle) (1910–1937) *

Juergen Teller Juergen Teller (born 28 January 1964) is a German fine-art and fashion photographer. He was awarded the Citibank Prize for Photography in 2003 and received the Special Presentation International Center of Photography Infinity Award in 2018. Maj ...

(born 1964) *

Peter Thomann Peter Thomann (born 1940) is a German photographer who worked as a staff photographer for ''Stern'' magazine. Photography His photograph " The Soul of a Horse" won the 1st prize WORLD PRESS PHOTO AWARD 1963 and in 1996 entered the Guinness Bo ...

(born 1940) * Elsa Thiemann (1910–1981) * Karsten Thormaehlen (born 1965) *

Wolfgang Tillmans Wolfgang Tillmans (born 16 August 1968) is a German photographer. His diverse body of work is distinguished by observation of his surroundings and an ongoing investigation of the photographic medium’s foundations. Tillmans was the first photog ...

(born 1968) *

Herbert Tobias Herbert Tobias (14 December 1924 – 17 August 1982) was a German photographer who first became well known for his fashion photography during the 1950s. His portrait studies, his photographs of Russia during World War II and his homoerotic pictur ...

(1924–1982) *

Heinrich Tønnies Johan Georg Heinrich Ludwig Tønnies (or ''Tönnies'') (10 May 1825 – 11 December 1903) was an early German-Danish photographer who had a studio in Aalborg, Denmark. Biography Born in Grünenplan, Germany, he was trained as a glass painte ...

(1825–1903) * Ellen von Unwerth (born 1954) *

Chris von Wangenheim Christoph von Wangenheim (21 February 1942 – 9 March 1981) was a German fashion photographer of the late 1960s through the early 1980s. Biography Wangenheim was born in Brieg, during the Second World War, the son of Konrad Freiherr von Wa ...

(1942–1981) * Charles Paul Wilp (1932–2005) * Michael Wolf (1954–2019) * Otto Wunderlich (1886–1975) *

Tobias Zielony Tobias Zielony (born 1973) is a German photographer and short filmmaker, living in Berlin. He has made work about communities at the margins of society, such as young people. In 2015, Zielony's series on African refugees in Germany, ''the Citizen' ...

(born 1973)

Greece

Hungary

Brassaï Brassaï (; pseudonym of Gyula Halász; 9 September 1899 – 8 July 1984) was a Hungarian–French photographer, sculptor, medalist, writer, and filmmaker who rose to international fame in France in the 20th century. He was one of the numerous ...

(1899–1984) *

Cornell Capa Cornell Capa (born Kornél Friedmann; April 10, 1918 – May 23, 2008) was a Hungarian American photographer, member of Magnum Photos, photo curator, and the younger brother of photo-journalist and war photographer Robert Capa. Graduating from ...

(1918–2008) *

Robert Capa Robert Capa (born Endre Ernő Friedmann; October 22, 1913 – May 25, 1954) was a Hungarian-American war photographer and photojournalist as well as the companion and professional partner of photographer Gerda Taro. He is considered by some to b ...

(1913–1954) * Stephen Glass (photographer) (19??–1990) *

Zoltán Glass Zoltán Glass (26 April 1903 – 24 February 1982) was a Hungarian photographer. He was one of the renowned photographers of the 20th century. Early life Zoltán Glass, who was known to his friends as “Zolly”, was born in Budapest, Austria ...

(1903–1982) * Lucien Hervé (1910–2007) * Judith Karasz (1912–1977) *

André Kertész André Kertész (; 2 July 1894 – 28 September 1985), born Andor Kertész, was a Hungarian-born photographer known for his groundbreaking contributions to photographic composition and the photo essay. In the early years of his career, his th ...

(1894–1985) * Imre Kinszki (1901–1945) *

László Moholy-Nagy László Moholy-Nagy (; ; born László Weisz; July 20, 1895 – November 24, 1946) was a Hungarian painter and photographer as well as a professor in the Bauhaus school. He was highly influenced by constructivism and a strong advocate of the ...

(1895–1946) *

Martin Munkácsi Martin Munkácsi (born Mermelstein Márton; 18 May 1896 – 13 July 1963) was a Hungarian photographer who worked in Germany (1928–1934) and the United States, where he was based in New York City. Life and works Munkácsi was a newspaper write ...

(1896–1963) *

Nickolas Muray Nickolas Muray (born Miklós Mandl; 15 February 1892 – 2 November 1965) was a Hungarian-born American photographer and Olympic saber fencer. Early and personal life Muray was born in Szeged, Hungary, and was Jewish. His father Samu Mandl was ...

(1892–1965) *

Carol Szathmari Carol Szathmari (Romanian: ''Carol Popp de Szathmáry ''; 11 January 1812 Kolozsvár – 3 July 1887 Bucharest) was a Hungarian painter, lithographer, and photographer, who had worked most of the time in Wallachia, nowadays Romania and the ...

(1812–1887)

Iceland

* Nökkvi Elíasson (born 1966) * Ragnar Axelsson (born 1958)

Ireland

* Kevin Abosch (born 1969) *

Enda Bowe Enda Bowe is an Irish photographer that lives and works in London. His publications include ''Kilburn Cherry'' (2013) and ''At Mirrored River'' (2016). Bowe was joint winner of the SOLAS Ireland award in 2015 and won second prize in the 2018 and ...

Bob Carlos Clarke Robert Carlos Clarke (24 June 1950 – 25 March 2006) was a British-Irish photographer who made erotic images of women as well as documentary, portrait and commercial photography. Carlos Clarke produced six books during his career: ''The ...

(1950–2006) *

Eamonn Doyle Eamonn Doyle (born 1969) is an Irish photographer, electronic music producer, DJ, and owner/manager of the D1 Recordings record label. He has produced a number of records of his own music. His self-published photo-books include the trilogy ''i' ...

(born 1969) *

Tony O'Shea Tony O'Shea (born 9 May 1961) is an English professional darts player. His squat figure has resulted in the nickname "Silverback". O'Shea has reached the finals of seven British Darts Organisation (BDO) major darts tournaments, but to date ...

(born 1947)

Italy

Fratelli Alinari Fratelli Alinari is one of the world's oldest photographic firms, founded in Florence, Italy in 1852. Its archives contain 5.5 million photographs, ranging from daguerreotypes to modern digital photos from around the world. Founding In 1852, Le ...

Olivo Barbieri Olivo Barbieri (born 1954 in Carpi, Emilia-Romagna) is an Italian artist and photographer of urban environments. He is recognized for his innovative technique creating miniature still photography from actual landscapes by simulating shallow depth ...

(born 1954) *

Antonio Beato Antonio Beato (1835–1906), also known as Antoine Beato, was an Italian-British photographer. He is noted for his genre works, portraits, views of the architecture and landscapes of Egypt and other locations in the Mediterranean region. He wa ...

(1825–1905) *

Felice Beato Felice Beato (1832 – 29 January 1909), also known as Felix Beato, was an Italian–British photographer. He was one of the first people to take photographs in East Asia and one of the first war photographers. He is noted for his genre works, ...

(1825–1903) * Gianni Berengo Gardin (born 1930) *

Giacomo Brogi Giacomo Brogi (6 April 1822 – 29 November 1881) was an Italian photographer. Giacomo Brogi created his first studio in Corso Tintori, in Florence in 1864. He began traveling around Italy and later traveled to the Middle East in 1868 includi ...

(1822–1881) * Giacomo Brunelli (born 1977) *

Letizia Battaglia Letizia Battaglia (; 5 March 1935 – 13 April 2022) was an Italian photographer and photojournalist. Although her photos document a wide spectrum of Sicilian life, she is best known for her work on the Mafia. A documentary film based on her lif ...

(born 1935–2022) *

Romano Cagnoni Romano Cagnoni (Pietrasanta, Italy, 9 November 1935 – 30 January 2018) was an Italian photographer who spent most of his professional life based in London. Biography Cagnoni used to photograph sculptures in the small town of Pietrasanta, Tu ...

(1935–2018) *

Ilario Carposio Ilario Carposio (Trento 1852 – Fiume 1921) was an artistic photographer who owned an important studio in Fiume, now Rijeka in present-day Croatia. He was an Italian-speaking citizen of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. The studio opened in 1878 and ra ...

(1852–1921) *

Stefano Cerio Stefano Cerio is an Italian photographer and video artist. He is known for photographing deserted amusement parks. He has exhibited his photographic collections both in solo shows and group exhibitions. Life and work Stefano Cerio was born in Ital ...

* Elio Ciol (born 1929) *

Nicolò Degiorgis Nicolò Degiorgis (born 1985) is an Italian visual artist, publisher, photographer, and curator. He runs Rorhof, an independent publishing house in Bolzano, Italy. He has self-published a number of books, including ''Hidden Islam'' (2014). ''Hidd ...

(born 1985) *

Yvonne De Rosa Yvonne De Rosa (born 21 October 1975 in Naples), is an Italian photographer. Biography Yvonne De Rosa graduated in Political Science, then relocated to London, where she studied at Central Saint Martins College of Art & Design. She has subseq ...

(born 1975) *

Antonio Faccilongo Antonio Faccilongo (born 1979) is an Italian documentary photographer, filmmaker, and educator. He is a professor of photography at Rome University of Fine Arts. Faccilongo won the World Press Photo Story of the Year in 2021. Career Faccilongo ...

(born 1979) * Adolfo Farsari (1841–1898) *

Franco Fontana Franco Fontana (born 9 December 1933) is an Italian photographer. He is best known for his abstract colour landscapes. Biography Franco Fontana was born in 1933 in Modena. He started taking photographs in the 1950s when he was working as a dec ...

(born 1933) * Piero Gemelli (born 1952) * Luigi Ghirri (1943–1992) * Mario Giacomelli (1925–2000) * Gianfranco Gorgoni (1941–2019) * Mimmo Jodice (born 1934) *

Duccio Malagamba Duccio Malagamba (born 1960) is an Italian architectural photographer. Life and work Malagamba was born in La Spezia, Italy. In more than 25 years of professional experience he participated in several exhibitions, lectures, and juries, and four t ...

(born 1960) *

Fosco Maraini Fosco Maraini (; 15 November 1912 – 8 June 2004) was an Italian photographer, anthropologist, ethnologist, writer, mountaineer and academic. Biography He was born in Florence from the Italian sculptor Antonio Maraini (1886–1963) and Cornelia ...

(1912–2004) *

Enrico Martino Enrico Martino is an Italian photojournalist. Biography Enrico Martino was born in Turin, Italy, and has been a freelance photojournalist since 1971, He covered the Yom Kippur War in 1973, the Sahel famine in 1984, the first elections in the Ger ...

(born 1960) *

Tina Modotti Tina Modotti (born Assunta Adelaide Luigia Modotti Mondini, August 16/17, 1896 – January 5, 1942) was an Italian American photographer, model, actor, and revolutionary political activist for the Comintern. She left Italy in 1913 and moved to ...

(1896–1942) * Ugo Mulas (1928–1973) *

Pino Musi Pino Musi (born March 18, 1958 in Salerno, Italy) is an Italian photographer and visual artist currently based in Paris. His subjects have included modern architecture, classical ruins, steel mills, rural architecture and urban cityscapes viewe ...

(born 1958) * Dianora Niccolini (born 1936) * Giuseppe Palmas (1918–1977) * Dino Pedriali (1950–2021) * Paolo Pellizzari (born 1956) *

Secondo Pia Secondo Pia (9 September 1855 – 7 September 1941) was an Italian lawyer and amateur photographer. He is best known for taking the first photographs of the Shroud of Turin on 28 May 1898 and, when he was developing them, noticing that the photo ...

(1855–1941) *

Fabio Ponzio Fabio Ponzio (born September 11, 1959) is an Italian documentary photographer, winner of the "Leica Oskar Barnack Award" 1998. Biography Ponzio was born in Milan in 1959. His interest in photography began in 1976, during a trip to the Balkans ...

(born 1959) * Felice Quinto (1929–2010) *

Vittorio Sella Vittorio Sella (28 August 1859 – 12 August 1943) was an Italian photographer and mountaineer, whose photographs of mountains are regarded as some of the finest ever made. Life and career Sella was born in Biella in the foothills of the Alps an ...

(1859–1943) *

Frederick Sommer Frederick Sommer (September 7, 1905 – January 23, 1999), was an artist born in Angri, Italy and raised in Brazil. He earned a M.A. degree in Landscape Architecture (1927) from Cornell University where he met Frances Elizabeth Watson (1904–199 ...

(1905–1999) *

Alberto Terrile Alberto Terrile (born 11 March 1961) is an Italian-born Photography, photographer. Mostly known in France, Italy and the US for his work-in-progress about angels, he is also active in publishing, theatre, music, cinema and advertising. He specia ...

(born 1961) *

Oliviero Toscani Oliviero Toscani (born 28 February 1942) is an Italian photographer, best-known worldwide for designing controversial advertising campaigns for Italian brand Benetton, from 1982 to 2000. Toscani was born in Milan, and took up photography foll ...

(born 1942) * Luigi Veronesi (1908–1998) * Massimo Vitali (born 1944) * Vincenzo Laera (born 1966)

Latvia

Philippe Halsman Philippe Halsman ( lv, Filips Halsmans, german: Philipp Halsmann; 2 May 1906 – 25 June 1979) was an American portrait photographer. He was born in Riga in the part of the Russian Empire which later became Latvia, and died in New York City. Lif ...

(1906–1979)

Lithuania

Izis Bidermanas Israëlis Bidermanas (17 January 1911 – 16 May 1980 in Paris), who worked under the name of Izis, was a Lithuanian-Jewish photographer who worked in France and is best known for his photographs of French circuses and of Paris. Biography Born ...

(1911–1980) * Vytautas Stanionis (1917–1966) * Kęstutis Stoškus (born 1951) *

Antanas Sutkus Antanas Sutkus (born 27 June 1939) is a Lithuanian photographer. Sutkus is a recipient of the Lithuanian National Prize for Culture and Arts, the Order of the Lithuanian Grand Duke Gediminas, and the Dr. Erich Salomon Award. He was one of the c ...

(born 1939) * Stanislovas Žvirgždas (born 1941)

Luxembourg

Mark Divo Mark Divo (born 1966) is a Swiss-Luxembourgish conceptual artist and curator who organizes large-scale interactive art projects incorporating the work of underground artists. His work involves painting, performance, photography, sculpture, and in ...

(born 1966) art *

Marianne Majerus Marianne Majerus, born 1956 in Clervaux, Luxembourg, is one of Europe's leading specialist garden photographers. Biography After secondary education in Luxembourg, Majerus took a degree in English at the University of Essex and a degree in Econo ...

(born 1956)

Netherlands

* Hans Aarsman (born 1951) *

Emmy Andriesse Emmy Eugenie Andriesse (14 January 1914 in The Hague – 20 February 1953 in Amsterdam) was a Dutch photographer best known for her work with the Underground Camera group () during World War II. Early life and education Emmy Andriesse was ...

(1914–1953) * Iwan Baan (born 1975) * Henze Boekhout (born 1947) *

Anton Corbijn Anton Johannes Gerrit Corbijn van Willenswaard (; born 20 May 1955) is a Dutch photographer, film director and music video director. He is the creative director behind the visual output of Depeche Mode and U2,Pitman, Joanna"The silent partner"' ...

(born 1955) *

Paul Cupido Paul Cupido (born 1972) is a Dutch fine art photographer. His work revolves around the Japanese principle of mu. Cupido was born and grew up on the Dutch island of Terschelling Terschelling (; fry, Skylge; Terschelling dialect: ''Schylge'' ...

(born 1972) *

Rineke Dijkstra Rineke Dijkstra HonFRPS (born 2 June 1959) is a Dutch photographer. She lives and works in Amsterdam.Ed van der Elsken (1925–1990) * Karl Hammer (born 1959) * Carli Hermès (born 1963) *

Rob Hornstra Rob Hornstra (born 1975) is a Dutch photographer and self-publisher of documentary work, particularly of areas of the former Soviet Union. Early life Hornstra was born in Borne, Overijssel, Netherlands. Career Hornstra studied Social and ...

(born 1975) *

Ad Konings Adrianus Franciscus Johannes Marinus Maria "Ad" Konings (born 11 January 1956 in Roosendaal, Netherlands) is an ichthyologist originally trained in medicine and biology. Konings is best known for his research on African rift lake cichlids. Aft ...

(born 1956) * Jeroen Kramer (born 1967) *

Inez van Lamsweerde Inez van Lamsweerde (born 25 September 1963) and Vinoodh Matadin (born 29 September 1961) are a Dutch-American fashion photographer duo, whose work has been featured in fashion magazines and advertising campaigns. They also produce independent art ...

(born 1963) *

Frans Lanting Frans Lanting (born 13 July 1951) is a Dutch National Geographic photographer, author and speaker. Life Lanting was born in Rotterdam in Netherlands. He studied economics at the Erasmus university in Rotterdam and later immigrated to the United St ...

(born 1951) *

Erwin Olaf Erwin Olaf Springveld (born 2 July 1959), professionally known as Erwin Olaf, is a Dutch photographer from Hilversum. Time (magazine), Time magazine described his work as straddling "the worlds of commercial, art and fashion photography at once. ...

(born 1959) * Eddy Posthuma de Boer (1931–2021) *

Rahi Rezvani Rahi Rezvani ( fa, ; born 1978) is an Iranian-born photographer and film director, based in Amsterdam. Early life and education Rezvani was born and raised in Tehran. He earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts in graphic design from Tehran University ...

(born 1978) *

José Manuel Rodrigues José M. Rodrigues, born as José Manuel dos Santos Rodrigues ( Lisbon, 4 May 1951), is a contemporary Portuguese-Dutch photographer and visual artist. He lives and works since 1993 in Évora, Portugal, after more than twenty years living and ...

(born 1951) * Henricus Jacobus Tollens (1864–1936) *

Levi van Veluw Levi van Veluw (born 1985) is a Dutch contemporary artist. He currently lives and works in Amsterdam. Work Levi van Veluw has produced multi-disciplinary works that include photographs, videos, sculptures, installations and drawings. Exhibit ...

(born 1985)

Norway

Poland

Portugal

Helena Almeida Helena Almeida (11 April 1934 – 25 September 2018) was a Portuguese artist known for her work in photography, performance art, body art, painting and drawing. She represented Portugal at the Venice Biennale in 1982 and 2005 and had a solo e ...

(1934–2018) *

Joshua Benoliel Joshua Benoliel (13 January 1873 – 3 February 1932) was a Portuguese photojournalist. He was the official photographer for King Carlos I of Portugal. Biography Joshua Benoliel was born in Lisbon, to Judah Benoliel, a Gibraltar-born Jewish ...

(1873–1932) *

Daniel Blaufuks Daniel Blaufuks (born 1963) is a Portuguese photographer. Life and work Blaufuks was born in Lisbon. He is the grandson of Polish and German Ashkenazi Jews who moved to Portugal in the late 1920s and 1930s. He moved to Germany in 1976 and retu ...

(born 1963) * Ana Dias (born 1984) * Frederick William Flower (1815–1889) *

Eduardo Gageiro Eduardo Gageiro (born 16 February 1935 in Sacavém) is a Portuguese photographer and photojournalist. Beginnings Gageiro became interested in photography at a very early age whilst working at the Sacavém Factory, with the life of its workers pr ...

(born 1935) *

(born 1951)

Romania

Ioan Mihai Cochinescu Ioan Mihai Cochinescu (; born April 16, 1951) is a Romanian novelist and essayist. He is also a film script author and director, an art photographer, teacher, musicologist and composer. Childhood He was born and grew up in Timișoara, Romania. S ...

(born 1951) * Eddy Novarro (1925–2003)

Russia

Alexey Brodovitch Alexey Vyacheslavovich Brodovitch (also Brodovich; be, Аляксей Брадовіч, russian: Алексе́й Вячесла́вович Бродо́вич; 1898 – April 15, 1971) was a Russian-born American photographer, designer ...

(1898–1971) *

George Hoyningen-Huene Baron George Hoyningen-Huene (September 4, 1900 – September 12, 1968) was a fashion photographer of the 1920s and 1930s. He was born in the Russian Empire to Baltic German and American parents and spent his working life in France, England and t ...

(1900–1968) * Yevgeny Khaldei (1917–1997) *

Rafail Sergeevich Levitsky Rafail Sergeevich Levitsky (or Rafael Sergeevich Levitsky, or Raphael Sergeevich Levitsky; russian: Рафаи́л Сергее́вич Леви́цкий; 1847–1940) was a Russian Empire and Soviet genre, romantic, and impressionist artist wh ...

(1844–1930) *

Sergei Lvovich Levitsky Count Sergei Lvovich Levitsky (russian: Серге́й Льво́вич Львов-Леви́цкий; 17 August 1819 – 22 June 1898), is considered one of the patriarchs of Russian Empire photography and one of Europe's most important early ph ...

(1819–1898) *

El Lissitzky Lazar Markovich Lissitzky (russian: link=no, Ла́зарь Ма́ркович Лиси́цкий, ; – 30 December 1941), better known as El Lissitzky (russian: link=no, Эль Лиси́цкий; yi, על ליסיצקי), was a Russian artist ...

(1890–1941) * Pyotr Otsup (1883–1963) * Gueorgui Pinkhassov (born 1952) *

Irina Popova Irina Popova (born 1986) is a Russian / Dutch documentary photographer. Early life and education Popova was born in Tver, Russia. She has studied and worked as a photographer since age 16. She is a graduate of the Tver State University School ...

(born 1986) *

Sergei Mikhailovich Prokudin-Gorskii Sergius is a male given name of Ancient Roman origin after the name of the Latin ''gens'' Sergia or Sergii of regal and republican ages. It is a common Christian name, in honor of Saint Sergius, or in Russia, of Saint Sergius of Radonezh, and ...

(1863–1944) * Mark Redkin (1908–1987) *

Alexander Rodchenko Aleksander Mikhailovich Rodchenko (russian: link=no, Алекса́ндр Миха́йлович Ро́дченко; – 3 December 1956) was a Russian and Soviet artist, sculptor, photographer, and graphic designer. He was one of the founders ...

(1891–1956) *

Yuri Rost Yuri Rost (russian: Юрий Рост, born February 1, 1939, in Kiev, Ukraine) is a photographer, journalist, author and traveller. Rost’s photographic vision is closely related to the humanist tradition established by post-war photographers lik ...

(born 1939) * Nicolas Tikhomiroff (1927–2016) *

Alexey Titarenko Alexey (Aleksey, Alexis, Alexei) Viktorovich Titarenko (born November 25, 1962; russian: link=no, Алексей Викторович Титаренко) is a Soviet Union-born American photographer and artist. He lives and works in New York City. ...

(born 1962) *

Roman Vishniac Roman Vishniac (; russian: link=no, Рома́н Соломо́нович Вишня́к; August 19, 1897 – January 22, 1990) was a Russian-American photographer, best known for capturing on film the culture of Jews in Central and Eastern Eur ...

(1897–1990)

Slovakia

* Sarah Avni (born 1985) *

Irena Blühová Irena Blühová (2 March 1904 – 30 November 1991) was one of the first women Slovak photographers and one of the first photographers in Czechoslovakia to utilize photography as a means of documentary study and social commentary. During World W ...

(1904–1991) *

Yuri Dojc Yuri Dojc (/doy-dge; born May 12, 1946) is a Slovak-Canadian fine arts photographer. Dojc currently resides in Toronto, Canada, with work internationally exhibited in countries such as Brazil, Slovakia, Rwanda as well as across Canada. Life a ...

(born 1946) * Peter Frolo *

Dezo Hoffmann Dezider Hoffmann (1912 – 1986), also known as Dezo Hoffmann or Dežo Hoffmann, was a Slovak photographer, photojournalist and cameraman from Czechoslovakia. In the 1960s he photographed pop and showbiz personalities, including the Beatles. Bi ...

(1912–1986) *

Patrik Jandak Patrik Jandak (born 1977) is a Slovak photographer. From 2001 to 2004, he worked as the official photographer to President of Slovakia Rudolf Schuster and from 2004 to 2005 as the photographer of Slovak President Ivan Gasparovic. In April 2005, ...

(born 1977) * Jozef Božetech Klemens (1817–1883) *

Martin Kollar Martin may refer to: Places * Martin City (disambiguation) * Martin County (disambiguation) * Martin Township (disambiguation) Antarctica * Martin Peninsula, Marie Byrd Land * Port Martin, Adelie Land * Point Martin, South Orkney Islands Austra ...

(born 1971) * Eduard Nepomuk Kozič (1829–1874) *

Tono Stano Tono Stano (born 24 March 1960) is a Slovakia-born art photographer living and working in Prague, Czech Republic. Life and work Stano was born in Zlaté Moravce, now Slovakia. He attended the secondary school of applied arts in Bratislava from ...

(born 1960) * Silvia Vaculíková (born 1967) * Robert Vano (born 1948)

Slovenia

Spain

* Delmi Álvarez (born 1958) * Rogelio Bernal Andreo (born 1969) *

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(1920–1951) * Xavi Bou (born 1979) * Joan Colom (1921–2017) *

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(born 1955) *

Isidoro Gallo Isidoro Gallo is a Spain-based photographer. His work features photographs of travels and nature. *He has some books: ("Sueños de Viajero" – 1997; "Tras la sombra de la Luna" – Shelios 2000; Photographs of "Pobreza, Desigualdad y Desarrol ...

(born 1952) * Marcel·lí Gausachs (1891–1931) *

Chema Madoz __NOTOC__ Jose Maria Rodriguez Madoz (born 1958) better known as Chema Madoz, is a Spanish photographer, best known for his black and white surrealist and poetic photographs. Chema Madoz studied Art History at Universidad Complutense de Madrid b ...

(born 1958) * Pedro Madueño (born 1961) * Isabel Muñoz (born 1951) * José Ortiz-Echagüe (1886–1980) * Joaquín del Palacio (1905–1989) *

Lua Ribeira Lua Ribeira (born 1986) is a Galician photographer, based in Bristol in the UK. She is interested in "using the photographic medium as a means to create encounters that establish relationships and question structural separations between people." ...

(born 1986) *

Cristina García Rodero Cristina García Rodero (born 14 October 1949) is a Spanish photographer and member of Magnum Photos and Agence Vu photo agencies. Life and work Rodero was born in Puertollano, Spain, in 1949, and studied painting at Complutense University of Mad ...

(born 1949) * Txema Salvans (born 1971) *

Marqués de Santa María del Villar Diego Quiroga y Losada, ''Marqués de Santa María del Villar'', (Marquess of Santa María del Villar), was born in Madrid in 1880 and died in San Sebastián in 1976. He took pictures of many places of Spain, its landscapes, monuments and people. ...

(1880–1976)

Sweden

Sofia Ahlbom Sofia Carolina Ahlbom (25 November 1803 – 8 June 1868) was a Swedish drawing artist, engraver, lithographer, photographer, map maker, writer, poet and feminist. Life Sofia Ahlbom was born in Västerås, the daughter of a goldsmith. She ...

(1803–1868) *

Jens Assur Jens Assur (born April 29, 1970) is a Swedish photographer, director, scriptwriter, and film producer. His movie, '' Killing the Chickens, to Scare the Monkeys'', premiered at the Cannes Film Festival in 2011 and has since won a number of prizes. ...

(born 1970) *

Martin Bogren Martin Bogren (born 1967) is a Swedish documentary photographer, living in Malmö. He has made "understated books full of quietly observed moments shot in grainy black and white." Bogren has had solo exhibitions of ''Lowlands'' and ''Italia'' at F ...

(born 1967) *

Anna Clarén Anna Clarén (born 1972) is a Swedish photographer and educator. ''Holding'' (2006) won Best Photobook in the Swedish Photo Book Prize. She has had solo exhibitions at The House of Culture (Stockholm), The House of Culture and Fotografiska in Sto ...

(born 1972) * Hedda Ekman (1860–1929) * Åke Ericson (born 1962) * Ingrid Falk (born 1960) *

Victor Hasselblad Victor Hasselblad (8 March 1906 – 5 August 1978) was a Swedish inventor and photographer, known for inventing the Hasselblad 6x6 cm medium format (film), medium format camera. Life and work Hasselblad was born in Gothenburg. In 1940 Swedish ...

(1906–1978) *

Brita Sofia Hesselius Brita Sofia Hesselius (1801–1866) was a Swedish daguerreotype photographer. She was likely the first professional female photographer of her country. Hesselius was born in Alster parish in the Karlstad Municipality as the daughter of Olof ...

(1801–1866) *

Olof Jarlbro Olof Jarlbro (born 10 July 1978 in Helsingborg, Sweden) is a Swedish photographer. At the age of 19 Olof made his military service as a Lapland Ranger ( Lapland Ranger Regiment) in the most northern part of Sweden located some 150 kilometers nort ...

(born 1978) *

Gerry Johansson Gerry Johansson (born 1945) is a Swedish photographer who lives in Höganäs in southern Sweden. He makes "straight and pragmatic" photographs with "an objective view of a geographic location." His books include ''America,'' ''Sweden,'' ''Germany, ...

(born 1945) * Jan Töve Johansson (born 1958) * Mattias Klum (born 1968) *

Jack Mikrut Jack Adam Mikrut is a Swedish photographer based in Brisbane, Australia. Born in Krakow, Poland, he emigrated to Canada at an early age. He lived in Luseland, Saskatchewan and Winnipeg, Manitoba before moving to Sweden in 1975. Background ...

(born 1963) * Lennart Nilsson (1922–2017) * Anders Petersen (born 1944) *

Oscar Gustave Rejlander Oscar Gustave Rejlander (Stockholm, 19 October 1813 – Clapham, London, 18 January 1875) was a pioneering Victorian art photographer and an expert in photomontage. His collaboration with Charles Darwin on ''The Expression of the Emotions in ...

(1813–1875) *

Hilda Sjölin Hilda Sjölin (1835–1915) was a Swedish photographer, one of the first known professional woman pioneer photographers in her country. Life Hilda Aurora Amanda Sjölin (1835-1915) was raised in Malmö as one of four daughters, where she was th ...

(1835–1915)

Switzerland

Werner Bischof Werner Bischof (26 April 1916 – 16 May 1954) was a Swiss photographer and photojournalist. He became a full member of Magnum Photos in 1949, the first new photographer to join its original founders. Bischof's book ''Japan'' (1954) was awarded t ...

(1916–1954) *

René Burri René Burri (9 April 1933 – 20 October 2014) was a Swiss photographer. Burri was a member of Magnum Photos and photographed major political, historical and cultural events and key figures of the second half of the 20th century. He made portrai ...

(1933–2014) *

Michel Comte Michel Comte (born 19 February 1954) is a Swiss artist, filmmaker, fashion and portrait photographer. His most recent art project �Light��, focuses on the impact of environmental decline through his large-scale installations, paintings, sculpture ...

(born 1954) * Hans Feurer (born 1939) *

Robert Frank Robert Frank (November 9, 1924 – September 9, 2019) was a Swiss photographer and documentary filmmaker, who became an American binational. His most notable work, the 1958 book titled ''The Americans'', earned Frank comparisons to a modern-da ...

(1924–2019) * Johann Baptist Isenring (1796–1860) *

Alwina Gossauer Alwina Gossauer (1841–1926) was a Swiss photographer and businesswoman. Born and raised in Rapperswil, as an adult she made Rapperswil again her home and became one of the first women professional photographers in Switzerland. Early life a ...

(1841–1926) *

Helmar Lerski Helmar Lerski (18 February 1871, in Strasbourg – 19 September 1956, in Zürich) was a photographer who laid some of the important foundations of modern photography. His works are on display in the USA, Germany, Israel and Switzerland. He fo ...

(1871–1956) *

Pierre Rossier Pierre Joseph Rossier (16 July 1829 – 22 October 1886) was a pioneering Swiss photographer whose Albumen print, albumen photographs, which include Stereoscope, stereographs and Carte de visite, cartes-de-visite, comprise portraits, cityscapes, ...

(1829–1883) * Didier Ruef (born 1961) *

Roman Signer Roman Signer (born 1938 in Appenzell, Switzerland) is principally a visual artist who works in sculpture, art installations photography, and video. Early life and career Born in Appenzell, Switzerland, Signer started his career as an artist later i ...

(born 1938)

Ukraine

Igor Chekachkov Igor Chekachkov ( uk, Игорь Чекачков; born 1989) is a Ukrainian photographer, based in Kharkiv. His first book is ''NA4JOPM8'' (2021). Life and work Chekachkov was born and raised in Kharkiv, in northeast Ukraine. His photography beg ...

(born 1989) *

Oleksandr Chekmenyov Alexander Chekmenev (Oleksandr Chekmenov) ( ua, Олександр Володимирович Чекменьов, russian: Александр Владимирович Чекменёв, born April 1, 1969) is a Ukrainian documentary photographer ...

(born 1969) *

Mstyslav Chernov Mstyslav Chernov ( uk, Мстислав Андрійович Чернов; born 1985) is a Ukrainian photographer, photojournalist, filmmaker, war correspondent and novelist known for his coverage of the Revolution of Dignity, War in Donbas, in ...

(born 1985) * Maxim Dondyuk (born 1983) * Gleb Garanich *

Yuri Kosin Yuri Kosin ( uk, Косін Юрій Олекса́ндрович; 26 September 1948 – 24 October 2022) was a Ukrainian photographer, lecturer, curator of exhibitions, and traveler. Kosin was a member of the National Society of Photo Artists ...

(born 1948) *

Igor Kostin Igor Fedorovich Kostin (27 December 1936 – 9 June 2015) was one of the five photographers in the world to take pictures of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster near Pripyat in Ukraine, on 26 April 1986. He was working for Novosti Press Agency (APN ...

(1936–2015) *

Nikolai Kozlovsky Nikolai Fedorovich Kozlovsky ( uk, Микола Федорович Козловський, 1921–1996) was a Ukrainian Soviet photographer and teacher. Biography Nikolai Fedorovich Kozlovsky was born 8 May 1921 in Sumy, now in Ukraine. Care ...

(1921–1996) *

Evgeniy Maloletka Evgeniy Konstantinovich Maloletka ( uk, Євген Малолєтка, russian: Евгений Малолетка) is a Ukrainian journalist and photographer. He covered the siege of Mariupol during the Russian invasion of Ukraine, and, in particu ...

Boris Mikhailov Boris Mikhailov may refer to: * Boris Mikhailov (Comintern), representative of the Communist International to the US in 1929-30 * Boris Mikhailov (photographer) (born 1938), fine art photographer * Boris Mikhailov (ice hockey) (born 1944), former ...

(born 1938) *

Rita Ostrovskaya Rita Ostrovskaya (Ukrainian: Рита Островська; born 1953) is a Ukrainian photographer, living in Kassel, Germany. Her work has contributed to the preservation of traces of Jewish culture in Ukraine. Ostrovskaya's work is held in the c ...

(born 1953) *

Ihor Podolchak Ihor Podolchak ( ua, Ігор Подольчак, pl, Ihor Podolczak; born April 9, 1962) is a Ukrainian filmmaker and visual artist. He is a co-founder of the creative association Masoch Fund, participant of the Ukrainian New Wave. Ihor Podo ...

(born 1962) * Roman Pyatkovka * Jury Rupin (1946–2008) * Vasiliy Ryabchenko (born 1954) *

Arsen Savadov Arsen Savadov is a Ukrainian conceptualist photographer and painter of Armenian descent. Participant of the Ukrainian New Wave. Biography Arsen Savadov was born in 1962 in Kiev, to the family of Vladimir Savadov, a book illustrator, origin ...

(born 1962) * Anton Solomoukha (1945–2015) * Anya Teixeira (1913–1992) * Anastasia Vlasova *

Yelena Yemchuk Yelena Yemchuk ( Ukrainian: Єлена Ємчук, born April 22, 1970) is a Ukrainian photographer, painter and film director, best known for her work with The Smashing Pumpkins. Early life Born in Kyiv, Ukraine to an athlete and a teacher, ...

(born 1970)

United Kingdom

* William de Wiveleslie Abney (1843–1920) * Ashley Perry Abraham (1876–1951) * George Dixon Abraham (1871–1965) * George Perry Abraham (1846–1923) * Nudrat Afza * Timothy Allen (born 1971) * Martin Masai Andersen (born 1972) *

Tom Ang Tom Ang is a photographer, author, traveller, and academic. In 1979 he was a founding member of Wandsworth Photo Co-op which grew into Photofusion, London's largest independent photography resource A specialist in travel and digital photography, ...

(born 1952) * Malcolm Arbuthnot (1877–1967) * Fred Archer (1889–1963) *

Antony Armstrong-Jones, 1st Earl of Snowdon Antony Charles Robert Armstrong-Jones, 1st Earl of Snowdon, (7 March 1930 – 13 January 2017), was a British photographer and filmmaker. He is best known for his portraits of world notables, many of them published in '' Vogue'', '' Vanity F ...

known as "Snowdon" (1930–2017) *

Anna Atkins Anna Atkins (née Children; 16 March 1799 – 9 June 1871) was an English botanist and photographer. She is often considered the first person to publish a book illustrated with photographic images. Some sources say that she was the first woma ...

(1799–1871) *

Gerry Badger Gerald David "Gerry" Badger (born 1946) is an English writer and curator of photography, and a photographer. In 2018 he received the J Dudley Johnston Award from the Royal Photographic Society. Life and career Badger was born in 1946 in Northa ...

(born 1948) *

David Bailey David Royston Bailey (born 2 January 1938) is an English photographer and director, most widely known for his fashion photography and portraiture, and role in shaping the image of the Swinging Sixties. Early life David Bailey was born at Wh ...

(born 1938) *

Shirley Baker Shirley Baker (9 July 1932 – 21 September 2014) was a British photographer, best known for her street photography and street portraits in working class areas of Greater Manchester. She worked as a freelance writer and photographer on various ...

(1932–2014) *

Clive Barda Clive Blackmore Barda OBE, FRSA (born 14 January 1945) is a London-based, British freelance photographer best known for capturing the performances of classical musicians and artists of the stage (opera, ballet and theatre). During his career ...

(born 1945) * Nigel Barker (born 1972) * Emma Barton (1872–1938) *

Alexander Bassano Alexander Bassano (10 May 1829 – 21 October 1913) was an English photographer who was a leading royal and high society portrait photographer in Victorian London. He is known for his photo of the Earl Kitchener in the '' Lord Kitchener Wants ...

(1829–1913) * Richard Beard (1801–1885) *

Cecil Beaton Sir Cecil Walter Hardy Beaton, (14 January 1904 – 18 January 1980) was a British fashion, portrait and war photographer, diarist, painter, and interior designer, as well as an Oscar–winning stage and costume designer for films and the t ...

(1904–1980) * Francis Bedford (1816–1894) * George Beldam (1868–1937) *

Harry Benson Harry James Benson CBE (born 2 December 1929) is a Scottish photographer. His photographs of celebrities have been published in magazines. He has published several books and won a number of prominent awards. Life and work Benson was born in G ...

(born 1929) * Herbert Bowyer Berkeley (1851–1890) *

Richard Billingham Richard Billingham (born 25 September 1970) is an English photographer and artist, film maker and art teacher. His work has mostly concerned his family, the place he grew up in the West Midlands, but also landscapes elsewhere. Billingham is bes ...

(born 1970) * Walter Bird (1903–1969) * J. R. Black (1826–1880) * John Blakemore (born 1936) * Robert Blomfield (1938–2020) *

Dorothy Bohm Dorothy Bohm (22 June 1924 – 15 March 2023) was a German-born British photographer based in London, known for her portraiture, street photography, early adoption of colour, and photography of London and Paris; she is considered one of the doye ...

(born 1924) * Henry Bond (born 1966) *

Samuel Bourne Samuel Bourne (30 October 1834 – 24 April 1912) was a British photographer known for his prolific seven years' work in India, from 1863 to 1870. Together with Charles Shepherd, he set up Bourne & Shepherd first in Shimla in 1863 and later i ...

(1834–1912) *

Jane Bown Jane Hope Bown CBE (13 March 1925 – 21 December 2014) was an English photographer who worked for ''The Observer'' newspaper from 1949. Her portraits, primarily photographed in black and white and using available light, received widespread cr ...

(1925–2014) * Tony Boxall (1929–2010) * Alex Boyd (born 1984) * Bill Brandt (1904–1983) * Polly Braden (born 1974) *

Zana Briski Zana Briski (born 25 October 1966) is a British photographer and filmmaker, best known for '' Born into Brothels'', the 2004 Oscar winner of the Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature, which she directed. She founded Kids with Cameras, a non ...

(born 1966) *

Hamish Brown Hamish Brown M.B.E. FRSGS is a professional writer, lecturer and photographer specialising in mountain and outdoor topics. He is best known for his walking exploits in the Scottish Highlands, having completed multiple rounds of the Munros and be ...

(born 1934) * Marc Bryan-Brown * Alfred Buckham (1879–1956) *

John Bulmer John is a common English name and surname: * John (given name) * John (surname) John may also refer to: New Testament Works * Gospel of John, a title often shortened to John * First Epistle of John, often shortened to 1 John * Second E ...

(born 1938) *

Victor Burgin Victor Burgin (born 1941) is a British artist and writer. Burgin first came to attention as a conceptual artist in the late 1960s (Harrison & Wood, 1992; Walker, 2001) and at that time was most noted for being a political photographer of the le ...

(born 1941) *

Will Burrard-Lucas Will Burrard-Lucas (born 2 September 1983), is a British wildlife photographer and entrepreneur. He is known for developing devices, such as BeetleCam and camera traps, which enable him to capture close-up photographs of wildlife. Early life and ...

(born 1983) *

Larry Burrows Henry Frank Leslie Burrows (29 May 1926 – 10 February 1971), known as Larry Burrows, was an English photojournalist. He spent 9 years covering the Vietnam War. Early career Burrows began his career in the art department of the Daily Express ...

(1926–1971) * Harry Burton (1879–1940) * Lewis K. Bush (born 1988) *

Michael Busselle Michael Busselle (4 November 1935 – 13 July 2006) was an English photographer and writer whose photographs and writing were featured in more than 50 books. His first book, ''Master Photography'', has sold over a million copies worldwide. Car ...

(1935–2006) * Pogus Caesar (born 1953) *

Julia Margaret Cameron Julia Margaret Cameron (''née'' Pattle; 11 June 1815 – 26 January 1879) was a British photographer who is considered one of the most important portraitists of the 19th century. She is known for her Soft focus, soft-focus close-ups of famous ...

(1815–1879) *

Candice Farmer Candice Farmer (born c. 1970) is an underwater fashion and beauty photographer,Juno Calypso Juno Calypso (born 1989) is a British photographer. Her self-portraits are personal works about feminism, isolation, loneliness and being self-sufficient. Working alone, Calypso has made highly stylised photographs of herself whilst dressed as a f ...

(born 1989) * William Carrick (1827–1878) *

Lewis Carroll Charles Lutwidge Dodgson (; 27 January 1832 – 14 January 1898), better known by his pen name Lewis Carroll, was an English author, poet and mathematician. His most notable works are '' Alice's Adventures in Wonderland'' (1865) and its sequ ...

(1832–1898) * Natasha Caruana (born 1983) *

Andrew Catlin Andrew Catlin is an English photographer, artist, director, cinematographer and filmmaker. His work has been widely published, and is included in numerous collections, books, exhibitions and archives. History Catlin grew up intrigued by both ar ...

(born 1960) * Hugh Cecil (1892–1939) *

Allan Chappelow Allan Gordon Chappelow FRSA (20 August 1919 – May/June 2006) was an English writer and photographer who lived in Hampstead, north London. He wrote books on George Bernard Shaw and specialised in portraits of writers and musicians. He was fou ...

(1919–2006) * Thomas Foster Chuck (1826–1898) * William Clarridge * Henry Collen (1797–1879) * Georgina Cook * Joe Cornish (born 1958) * Douglas Corrance (born 1947) *

Joan Craven Joan Craven (5 November 1897 – 2 July 1979) was an English photographer known for her portraits, artistic studies, advertising, and nudes. Early life Joan Mabel Craven was born Mabel Craven on 5 November 1897 in Headingley, Leeds, Yorkshire ...

(1897–1979) * Chris Craymer * Siân Davey (born 1984) * Ron Davies (1921–2013) * George Davison (1854–1930) *

Corinne Day Corinne Day (19 February 1962 – 27 August 2010) was a British fashion photographer, documentary photographer, and fashion model. Life and career Early life Corinne Day grew up in Ickenham with her younger brother and her grandparents. She l ...

(1962–2010) * Peter Dazeley (born 1948) * John Deakin (1912–1972) *

Hugh Welch Diamond Hugh Welch Diamond (1809 – 21 June 1886) was an early British psychiatrist and photographer who made a major contribution to the craft of psychiatric photography. Early life Diamond was educated at Norwich School and later studied medic ...

(1808–1886) * Graham Diprose * Terence Donovan (1936–1996) * Chris Dorley-Brown (born 1958) * W. & D. Downey *

Gerald Drucker Gerald Drucker (5 August 1925 – 19 March 2010) was a British classical double bass player, photographer and double bass teacher. Principal Double Bass at the Yorkshire Symphony Orchestra, BBC Symphony Orchestra, New Philharmonia Orchestra, an ...

(1925–2010) * Craig Easton *

Peter Henry Emerson Peter Henry Emerson (13 May 1856 – 12 May 1936) was a British writer and photographer. His photographs are early examples of promoting straight photography as an art form. He is known for taking photographs that displayed rural settings and f ...

(1856–1936) *

Frederick H. Evans Frederick H. Evans (26 June 1853 – 24 June 1943) was an English photographer, best known for his images of architectural subjects, such as English and French cathedrals. Evans was born and died in London. He began his career as a bookseller, ...

(1853–1943) * Jason Evans (born 1968) * John Everard (1900-?) *

Robert Fairer Robert Fairer (born 1966) is a British fashion photographer who is known for his backstage photography in the 1990s until the 2010s. Working for American ''Vogue'', ''Elle'' and '' Harper's Bazaar'', his behind-the-scenes shots of supermodels ...

(born 1966) *

Roger Fenton Roger Fenton (28 March 1819 – 8 August 1869) was a British photographer, noted as one of the first war photographers. Fenton was born into a Lancashire merchant family. After graduating from London with an Arts degree, he became interested i ...

(1819–1869) *

Graham Finlayson Graham Scott Finlayson (1932–1999)Anna Fox Anna Fox (born 1961) is a British documentary photographer, known for a "combative, highly charged use of flash and colour". In 2019 she was awarded an Honorary Fellowship of the Royal Photographic Society. Career and work Fox completed her degr ...

(born 1961) *

Stuart Franklin Stuart Franklin (born 16 June 1956Biography
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(born 1956) * Peter Fraser (born 1953) * John French (1907–1966) *

Francis Frith Francis Frith (also spelled Frances Frith, 7 October 1822 – 25 February 1898) was an English photographer of the Middle East and many towns in the United Kingdom. Frith was born in Chesterfield, Derbyshire, attending Quaker schools at Ackwor ...

(1822–1898) * Peter Wickens Fry (1795–1860) *

Jill Furmanovsky Jill Furmanovsky (born 1953) is a British photographer who has specialised in documenting rock musicians. Life and work Born in Southern Rhodesia, Furmanovsky emigrated with her parents and brother Michael to London in 1965. She studied text ...

(born 1953) *

Adam Fuss Adam Fuss (born 1961) is a British photographer. Early life Adam Fuss was born in England in 1961. His father manufactured women's coats and his mother was an Australian fashion model. Fuss's father suffered a stroke in 1963 and required cons ...

(born 1961) * Alexander Gardner (1821–1882) * George Georgiou (born 1961) * Paula Rae Gibson (born 1968) * Fay Godwin (1931–2005) *

Andy Goldsworthy Andy Goldsworthy (born 26 July 1956) is an English sculptor, photographer, and environmentalist who produces site-specific sculptures and land art situated in natural and urban settings. Early life Goldsworthy was born in Cheshire on 26 Ju ...

(born 1956) * Leah Gordon (born 1959) * Paul Graham (born 1956) * Eva Grant (born 1925) *

Ken Grant Ken Grant is a photographer who since the 1980s has concentrated on working class life in the Liverpool area. He is a lecturer in the MFA photography course at the University of Ulster. Life and career Born in Liverpool in 1967,Sean O'Hagan,For ...

(born 1967) * Howard Grey *

Brian Griffin H. Brian Griffinas shown in Brian Griffin's House of Payne is a fictional character from the American animated television series ''Family Guy''. An anthropomorphic white labrador retriever voiced by Seth MacFarlane, he is one of the show's mai ...

(born 1948) * Ken Griffiths (1945–2014) * Stuart Griffiths (born 1972) *

Ross Halfin Ross William Halfin (born 11 August 1957) is a British rock and roll photographer. Since the late 1970s he has worked for some of the biggest acts in rock and heavy metal, including Led Zeppelin, AC/DC, Black Sabbath, The Who, Kiss, Metallica, ...

(born 1957) *

E.R. Hall Edward Ramsden Hall (17 July 1900 – 12 May 1982) was an English racing driver. He was born in Milnsbridge into a wealthy Yorkshire family in 1900, the heir to a successful textiles business which funded his motor racing and other sporting ...

(1900–1982) * David Hamilton (1933–2016) *

Bert Hardy Albert William Thomas Hardy (19 May 1913 – 3 July 1995) was an English documentary and press photographer known for his work published in the '' Picture Post'' magazine between 1941 and 1957. Life and work Born in Blackfriars, Bert Hardy ros ...

(1913–1995) *

Misan Harriman Misan Harriman (born 1977) is a Nigerian-born British photographer, entrepreneur and social activist. As well as being one of the most widely-shared photographers of the Black Lives Matter movement, Harriman is the first black man to shoot a cov ...

Paul Hart Paul Anthony Hart (born 4 May 1953) is an English football manager, coach, and former professional player who made 567 appearances in the Football League as a defender. The son of Johnny Hart, who played for and managed Manchester City, and ...

(born 1961) *

(1926–2009) *

Jamie Hawkesworth Jamie Hawkesworth is a British fashion and documentary photographer.Kin Woo,, ''The New York Times'', 28 August 2017. Accessed 28 November 2017.William Hayes (1871–1940) * Darren Heath (born 1970) *

Tim Hetherington Timothy Alistair Telemachus Hetherington (5 December 1970 – 20 April 2011) was a British photojournalist. He produced books, films and other work that "ranged from multi-screen installations, to fly-poster exhibitions, to handheld de ...

(1970–2011) * Stuart Heydinger (5 May 1927 – 6 October 2019) * Steve Hiett (1940–2019) *

David Octavius Hill David Octavius Hill (20 May 1802 – 17 May 1870) was a Scottish painter, photographer and arts activist. He formed Hill & Adamson studio with the engineer and photographer Robert Adamson between 1843 and 1847 to pioneer many aspects of ph ...

(1802–1870) * Alfred Horsley Hinton (1863–1908) *

David Hockney David Hockney (born 9 July 1937) is an English painter, draftsman, printmaker, stage designer, and photographer. As an important contributor to the pop art movement of the 1960s, he is considered one of the most influential British artists o ...

(born 1937) * Thomas Hodges (born 1957) *

Frederick Hollyer Frederick Hollyer (17 June 1838 – 21 November 1933) was an English photographer and engraver known for his photographic reproductions of paintings and drawings, particularly those of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, and for portraits of lite ...

(1838–1933) *

Eric Hosking Eric John Hosking OBE (2 October 1909 – 22 February 1991) was an English photographer noted for his bird photography. Life and career Eric Hosking OBE, Hon FRPS, was a pioneering wildlife photographer preceded in Britain by Richard and Cher ...

(1909–1991) *

Robert Howlett Robert Howlett (3 July 1831 – 2 December 1858) was a pioneering British photographer whose pictures are widely exhibited in major galleries. Howlett produced portraits of Crimean War heroes, genre scenes and landscapes. His photographs include ...

(1831–1858) * Tom Hunter (born 1965) *

David Hurn David Hurn (born 21 July 1934) is a British documentary photographer and member of Magnum Photos. Life and work Hurn was born on 21 July 1934 in Redhill, Surrey, England. He was raised in Cardiff, Wales. Because of his dyslexia he joined ...

(born 1934) *

William H. Illingworth William H. Illingworth (20 September 1844 – 16 March 1893) was an English born photographer from St. Paul, Minnesota who accompanied both Captain James L. Fisk's 1866 expedition to the Montana Territory and Lt. Colonel George Custer's 1874 U.S. ...

(1844–1893) * Bill Jackson (born 1953) * Anthony Jones (born 1962) * Charles Jones (1866–1959) *

Philip Jones Griffiths Philip Jones Griffiths (18 February 1936 – 19 March 2008) was a Welsh photojournalist known for his coverage of the Vietnam War. Biography Jones Griffiths was born in Rhuddlan in Denbighshire, North Wales, to Joseph Griffiths, who supervi ...

(1936–2008) *

Paul Joyce Paul Joyce (born 1940, or 1941 or 1944) is a British photographer and filmmaker. His portraits of artists are held in the collection of the National Portrait Gallery, London and his Welsh landscape photographs are held in the collection of Amgue ...

* Michael Kenna (born 1953) *

Paul Kenny Sir Paul Stephen Kenny (born 31 October 1949) is a British former trade union leader. He served as General Secretary of the GMB, Britain's third biggest union. Early life Kenny left school at 15 and went to work for Fuller, Smith & Turner' ...

(born 1951) * James Kenny *

Anthony F. Kersting Anthony Frank Kersting (7 November 1916 – 2 September 2008) was a British architectural photographer. His images of British, European, and Middle Eastern architecture also feature urban and village life, landscape, commerce, transport and leisu ...

(1916–2008) *

Chris Killip Christopher David Killip (11 July 1946 – 13 October 2020) was a Manx photographer who worked at Harvard University from 1991 to 2017, as a Professor of Visual and Environmental Studies. Killip is known for his black and white images of people ...

(1946–2020) *

William Umpleby Kirk William Umpleby Kirk (1843–1928) was a pioneer photographer of the late Victorian period. He was born in Hull and grew up in nearby Market Weighton where, in the early 1870s, he set up his first photographic studio. Examples of his work from t ...

(1843–1928) *

Gary Knight Gary Knight (born 1964) is an Anglo-American photographer, editor and author. Co-founder of the VII Photo Agency, co-founder and CEO of the VII Foundation and founder and CEO of the VII Academy. Life and work Knight was born in 1964 in Oakha ...

(born 1964) * Nick Knight (born 1958) *

Penny Lancaster Penelope Claire Lancaster, Lady Stewart (born 15 March 1971) is an English model and television personality. She is married to rock singer Rod Stewart. In 2014, she joined the ITV lunchtime show ''Loose Women''. Early life Lancaster was born ...

(born 1971) *

Jack Latham Jack Latham (born 1989) is a British documentary photographer. His books include ''A Pink Flamingo'' (2015), made along the route of the Oregon Trail in the USA at a time of national financial hardship; and ''Sugar Paper Theories'' (2016) about th ...

(born 1989) *

Jim Lee Jim Lee (Korean 이용철; born August 11, 1964) is a Korean American comic-book artist, writer, editor, and publisher. He is currently the Publisher and Chief Creative Officer of DC Comics. In recognition of his work, Lee has received a Harvey ...

(born 1945) *

Rory Lewis Rory Lewis (born 5 October 1982 in Chester, England) is a British photographer known for his celebrity portrait photography. Lewis's inspirations include the works of the artists Hans Holbein the younger, Caravaggio, Titian and Thomas Lawrence a ...

(born 1982) *

Patrick Lichfield Thomas Patrick John Anson, 5th Earl of Lichfield (25 April 1939 – 11 November 2005) was an English photographer from the Anson family. He inherited the Earldom of Lichfield in 1960 from his paternal grandfather. In his professional practice ...

(1939–2005) * Iain MacMillan (1938–2006) *

Duncan Macpherson Duncan Ian Macpherson, CM (September 20, 1924 in Toronto – May 3, 1993 in Beaverton, Ontario) was a Canadian editorial cartoonist. He drew for the '' Montreal Standard'' (starting 1948) and for ''Maclean's'', illustrating the writings of Gr ...

(1882–1966) *

Daniel Marquis Daniel Marquis (1829–1879) was an early portrait photographer in Brisbane, Australia. Marquis was born in Glasgow, Scotland, where he had a studio as a professional photographer at 32 King Street, Stirling. He went to Australia in 1865 an ...

(1829-1879) * Harrison Marks (1926-1997) *

Simon Marsden Sir Simon Neville Llewelyn Marsden, 4th Baronet (1 December 1948 – 22 January 2012) was an English photographer and author. He is known best for his uncommon black-and-white photographs of allegedly haunted houses and places throughout Europe ...

(1948–2012) * Chloe Dewe Mathews (born 1982) * Alfred Maudslay (1850–1931) *

John Jabez Edwin Mayall John Jabez Edwin Paisley Mayall (17 September 1813 near Oldham, Lancashire – 6 March 1901 in Southwick, West Sussex) was an English photographer who in 1860 took the first carte-de-visite photographs of Queen Victoria. He is most well known ...

(1813–1901) *

Roger Mayne Roger Mayne (5 May 1929 – 7 June 2014) was an English photographer, best known for his documentation of the children of Southam Street, London. Life and work Born in Cambridge, Mayne studied Chemistry at Balliol College, Oxford University. Her ...

(1929–2014) *

Angus McBean Angus Rowland McBean (8 June 1904 – 9 June 1990) was a Welsh photographer, set designer and cult figure associated with surrealism. Early life Angus Rowland McBean was born in Newbridge, Monmouthshire, Wales on 8 June 1904, elder child and o ...

(1904–1990) *

Eamonn McCabe Eamonn McCabe (28 July 1948 – 2 October 2022) was a British photographer. He began as a sports photographer and later worked in editorial portrait photography. Many of his portraits are held in the collection of the National Portrait Gallery, ...

(born 1948) *

Linda McCartney Linda Louise McCartney, Lady McCartney ( Eastman; September 24, 1941 – April 17, 1998) was an American photographer, musician, animal rights activist, vegetarian cookbook author and advocate, and entrepreneur. She was the keyboardist in th ...

(1941–1998) *

Mary McCartney Mary Anna McCartney (born 28 August 1969) is a British photographer, documentary filmmaker, cookbook author, and Global Ambassador for Meat Free Monday. She is also the host for the Discovery+/Food Network vegan cooking show, ''Mary McCartney S ...

(born 1969) *

Don McCullin Sir Donald McCullin (born 9 October 1935) is a British photojournalist, particularly recognised for his war photography and images of urban strife. His career, which began in 1959, has specialised in examining the underside of society, and hi ...

(born 1935) *

Dave McKean David McKean (born 29 December 1963) is an English illustrator, photographer, comic book artist, graphic designer, filmmaker and musician. His work incorporates drawing, painting, photography, collage, found objects, digital art, and sculp ...

(born 1963) *

Joseph McKeown Joseph McKeown (10 February 1925 – 12 February 2007) was an English photojournalist whose work documented the changes in Great Britain following the Second World War as well as embracing celebrity and fashion photography. Early life McKeown ...

(1925–2007) * Stephen McLaren *

Wendy McMurdo Wendy McMurdo (born 1962) specialises in photography and digital media. In 2018 she was named as one of the Hundred Heroines, an award created by the Royal Photographic Society to showcase global female photographic practice. Early life and e ...

(born 1962) *

John McMurtrie John McMurtrie (born 1969) is a British music photographer. He makes portraits of musicians, usually in the heavy rock arena. He has shot covers for ''Metal Hammer'' magazine and '' Total Guitar'' magazine and also contributes to ''Rolling Stone' ...

(born 1969) *

Daniel Meadows Daniel Meadows (born 1952) is an English photographer turned maker of digital stories, and a teacher of photography turned teacher of participatory media. Life and career as photographer Meadows was born in Great Washbourne, Gloucestershire, " ...

(born 1952) * Donald Mennie (1875–1941) *

Margaret Mitchell Margaret Munnerlyn Mitchell (November 8, 1900 – August 16, 1949) was an American novelist and journalist. Mitchell wrote only one novel, published during her lifetime, the American Civil War-era novel '' Gone with the Wind'', for which she wo ...

(born 1968) *

Mert and Marcus Mert and Marcus is the working name of two fashion photographers, Mert Alaş (born 1971) and Marcus Piggott (born 1971), who work together on a collaborative basis. Their work and style is influenced by photographer Guy Bourdin and, together, t ...

* Bob Mazzer (born 1948) * Derry Moore, 12th Earl of Drogheda (born 1937) * Raymond Moore (1920–1987) *

Eadweard Muybridge Eadweard Muybridge (; 9 April 1830 – 8 May 1904, born Edward James Muggeridge) was an English photographer known for his pioneering work in photographic studies of motion, and early work in motion-picture projection. He adopted the first ...

(1830–1904) *

Graham Nash Graham William Nash (born 2 February 1942) is an English musician, singer, songwriter, photographer, and activist. He is known for his light tenor voice and for his contributions as a member of the Hollies and the supergroups Crosby, Stills ...

(born 1942) * Jimmy Nelson (born 1976) * Mark Neville (born 1966) * Sydney Newton (1875–1960) *

William Notman William Notman (8 March 1826 – 25 November 1891) was a Scottish-Canadian photographer and businessman. The Notman House in Montreal was his home from 1876 until his death in 1891, and it has since been named after him. Biography Notman ...

(1856–1935) *

Perry Ogden Perry Ogden (born 1961) is a British fashion and documentary photographer, and film director, based in Dublin. He is interested in Traveller culture. Ogden has published three books of photography, ''Pony Kids'' (1999), ''7 Reece Mews: Francis Baco ...

(born 1961) * Jonathan Olley (born 1967) * Robert Ormerod (born 1985) * Stephens Orr (born 1990) * Graham Ovenden (born 1943) * Tim Page (1944–2022) * Frederick Christian Palmer (1866–1939) * John Eastman Palmer (1866–1941) * William Eastman Palmer & Sons * John Papillon (1838–1891) *

Richard Pare Richard Pare (born 20 January 1948 in Portsmouth, England) is an English photographer known for his work documenting Soviet modernist architecture. He was born in Portsmouth, England, on 20 January 1948. He studied graphic design and photography at ...

(born 1948) *

Norman Parkinson Norman Parkinson (21 April 1913 – 15 February 1990) was an English portrait and fashion photographer. His work revolutionised British fashion photography, as he moved his subjects out of the studio and used outdoor settings. While servin ...

(1913–1990) *

Martin Parr Martin Parr (born 23 May 1952) is a British documentary photographer, photojournalist and photobook collector. He is known for his photographic projects that take an intimate, satirical and anthropological look at aspects of modern life, in p ...

(born 1952) * Steve Parish (born 1965) *

Mark Power Mark Power (born 1959) is a British photographer. He is a member of Magnum Photos and Professor of Photography in The Faculty of Arts and Architecture at the University of Brighton.Franki Raffles (1955–1994) * Rankin (born 1966) *

Tony Ray-Jones Tony Ray-Jones (7 June 1941 – 13 March 1972) was an English photographer. Life Born Holroyd Anthony Ray-Jones in Wells, Somerset, he was the youngest son of Raymond Ray-Jones (1886–1942), a painter and etcher who died when Tony was on ...

(1941–1972) * Paul Reas (born 1955) *

David Redfern David Redfern (7 June 1936 – 22 October 2014) was an English photographer specialising in music photography. He worked as a photographer for 45 years and had over 10,000 pictures in his collection including photos of the Beatles and Jimi He ...

(1936–2014) * Sophy Rickett (born 1970) * Grace Robertson (1930–2021) * James Robertson (1813–1888) * Ziki Robertson (1934–2000) * Henry Peach Robinson (1830–1901) * Mick Rock (1948–2021) * George Rodger (1908–1995) * Horatio Ross (1801–1886) * Mary Rosse (1813–1885) * Horace Roye (1906–2002) * Dominic Rouse (born 1959) * William Saunders (photographer), William Saunders (1832–1892) *

(1990–2017) * Charles Roscoe Savage (1832–1909) * Jo Metson Scott * Charles T. Scowen (1852–1948) * Marco Secchi (born 2000) * Charles Gordon-Lennox, Earl of March and Kinrara, Charles Settrington (born 1955) * Andy Sewell (born 1978) * Syd Shelton (born 1947) * Charles Shepherd (photographer), Charles Shepherd (fl. 1858–1878) * Victor Sloan (born 1945) * Edwin Smith (photographer), Edwin Smith (1912–1971) * Graham Smith (photographer), Graham Smith (born 1947) * Pennie Smith (born 1949) * Sally Soames (1937–2019) * Jem Southam (born 1950) * Humphrey Spender (1910–2005) * John Spinks (photographer), John Spinks * Chris Steele-Perkins (born 1947) * Brian David Stevens (born 1970) * David Stewart (photographer), David Stewart (born 1958) * John Stezaker (born 1949) * Tom Stoddart (1953–2021) * Jean Straker (1913–1984) * Francis Meadow Sutcliffe (1853–1941) * Homer Sykes (born 1949) * Nik Szymanek (born 1953) * William Fox Talbot (1800–1877) * Henry Taunt (1842–1922) * Sam Taylor-Wood (born 1967) * John Thomson (photographer), John Thomson (1837–1921) * Alys Tomlinson (born 1975) * John Topham (photographer), John Topham (1908–1973) * Linnaeus Tripe (1822–1902) * Nick Turpin (born 1969) * James Valentine (photographer), James Valentine (1815–1879) * Marc Vallée (born 1968) * Nick Waplington (born 1965) * Patrick Ward (photographer), Patrick Ward (born 1937) * Allan Warren (born 1948) * Albert Watson (photographer), Albert Watson (born 1942) * George Washington Wilson (1823–1893) * Douglas Webb (1922–1996) * Minnie Weisz (born 1972) * Dorothy Wilding (1893–1976) * Marc Wilson (photographer), Marc Wilson * Vanessa Winship (born 1960) * John Muir Wood (1805–1892) * Walter B. Woodbury (1834–1885) * Donovan Wylie (born 1971) * Lorna Yabsley (born 1964) * Yevonde (1893–1975) * Paul Yule (born 1956)

North America

Canada

* Bryan Adams (born 1959) * Raymonde April (born 1953) * Roy Arden (born 1957) * George Barker (photographer), George Barker (1844–1894) * Roloff Beny (1924–1984) * Robert Bourdeau (born 1931) * Robert Burley (born 1957) * Edward Burtynsky (born 1955) * Yucho Chow (1876–1949) * Sorel Cohen (born 1936) * Bill Cunningham (Canadian photographer), Bill Cunningham (1909–1993) * Frederick Dally (1838–1914) * Leonard Frank (photographer), Leonard Frank (1870–1944) * Sunil Gupta (photographer), Sunil Gupta (born 1953) * Byron Harmon (1876–1942) * Fred Herzog (1930–2019) * John Hryniuk * Yousuf Karsh (1908–2002) * Ian Lloyd (photographer), Ian Lloyd (born 1953) * Arnaud Maggs (1926–2012) * Richard Maynard (photographer), Richard Maynard (1832–1907) * Raphael Mazzucco * Nicholas Morant (1910–1999) * Freeman Patterson (born 1937) * Bob Peterson (photographer), Bob Peterson (born 1944) * Peter Pitseolak (1902–1973 * Robert Polidori (born 1951) * Raymond Henry St. Arnaud (born 1942) * Michael Ernest Sweet (born 1979) * Sam Tata (1911–2005) * Larry Towell (born 1953) * Jeff Wall (born 1946) * Donald Weber (photographer), Donald Weber (born 1973) * Brian Wood (artist), Brian Wood (born 1948)

Cuba

* Luis Castaneda (born 1943) * Alberto Korda (1928–2001)

Jamaica

* Esther Anderson (Jamaican actress), Ester Anderson (born 1945)

Mexico

* Lola Álvarez Bravo (1903–1993) * Manuel Álvarez Bravo (1902–2002) * Alejandro Cartagena (born 1977) * Edgar de Evia (1910–2003) * Sergio Dorantes (born 1946) * Yael Martínez (born 1984) * Enrique Metinides (1934-2022) * Rubén Ortiz Torres (born 1964) * J. Michael Seyfert (born 1959)

Panama

* José Luis Rodríguez Pittí (born 1971)

United States

* Slim Aarons (1916–2006) * Berenice Abbott (1898–1991) * Sam Abell (born 1945) * George W. Ackerman (1884–1962) * Ansel Adams (1902–1984) * Eddie Adams (photographer), Eddie Adams (1933–2004) * Robert Adams (photographer), Robert Adams (born 1937) * Alfred Shea Addis (1832–1886) * Cris Alexander (1920–2012) * William Albert Allard (born 1937) * Khalik Allah (born 1985) * Jules T. Allen (born 1947) * Jane Fulton Alt (born 1951) * Stephen Alvarez (born 1965) * Kalliope Amorphous (born 1978) * Evan Amos (born 1983) * George Edward Anderson (1860–1928) * Blake Andrews (born 1968) * Allan Arbus (1918–2013) * Amy Arbus (born 1954) * Diane Arbus (1923–1971) * David Armstrong (photographer), David Armstrong (1954–2014) * Daniel Arnold (photographer), Daniel Arnold * Eve Arnold (1912–2012) * Bill Aron (born 1941) * Abraham Aronow (born 1940) * Thomas E. Askew (1847–1914) * Bill Atkinson (born 1951) * Richard Avedon (1923–2004) * Jerry Avenaim (born 1961) * John Baldessari (1931–2020) * Jamie Baldridge (born 1975) * Lewis Baltz (1945–2014) * Susan Bank (born 1938) * Tina Barney (born 1945) * William A. Barnhill (1889–1987) * George Barris (photographer), George Barris (1922–2016) * Pinky Bass (born 1936) * Peter Hill Beard (1938–2020) * Carol Beckwith (born 1945) * Lawrence Beitler * Charles Belden (1887–1966) * William Bell (photographer), William Bell (1830–1910) * E. J. Bellocq (1873–1949) * Robert Benecke (1835–1903) * Berry Berenson (1948–2001) * Andrew D. Bernstein * John Benton-Harris (born 1939) * Jerry Berndt (photographer), Jerry Berndt (1943–2013) * James Bidgood (filmmaker), James Bidgood (1933–2022) * Edward Bierstadt (1824–1906) * Jack Birns (1919–2008) * Ira Block (born 1949) * Erwin Blumenfeld (1897–1969) * A. Aubrey Bodine (1906–1970) * Christopher Boffoli (born 1969) * Skip Bolen (born 1960) * Phil Borges (born 1942) * Jack E. Boucher (1931–2012) * Alice Boughton (1866–1943) * Margaret Bourke-White (1904–1971) * Alison Brady * Mathew Brady (1823–1896) * Jim Brandenburg (photographer), Jim Brandenburg (born 1945) * Marilyn Bridges (born 1948) * Anne Brigman (1869–1950) * Mike Brodie (born 1985) * Ben Brody * Marc Bryan-Brown * Zoe Lowenthal Brown (1927–2022) * Dan Budnik (1933–2020) * Wynn Bullock (1902–1975) * Christopher Burkett (born 1951) * Harry Callahan (photographer), Harry Callahan (1912–1999) * Loren Cameron (born 1959) * Lana Z Caplan * Paul Caponigro (born 1932) * David Carol (born 1958) * Keith Carter (photographer), Keith Carter (born 1948) * Kyle Cassidy (born 1966) * Dean Chamberlain (born 1954) * Polly Chandler * Dickey Chapelle (1919–1965) * Don Hogan Charles (1938–2017) * Bruce Charlesworth (born 1950) * Sarah Charlesworth (1947–2013) * John Chiara (born 1971) * William Christenberry (1936–2016) * Larry Clark (born 1943) * William Claxton (photographer), William Claxton (1927–2008) * Charles Clegg (1850–1937) * Alvin Langdon Coburn (1882–1966) * Lois Conner (born 1951) * Linda Connor (born 1944) * Martha Cooper (born 1943) * Kate Cordsen (born 1964) * Jeff Cowen (born 1966) * Gregory Crewdson (born 1962) * Ted Croner (1922–2005) * Imogen Cunningham (1883–1976) * Bill Cunningham (American photographer), Bill Cunningham (1929–2016) * Asahel Curtis (1874–1941) * Edward S. Curtis (1868–1952) * Louise Dahl-Wolfe (1895–1989) * Binh Danh (born 1977) * Joseph Dankowski (1932–2010) * Bruce Davidson (photographer), Bruce Davidson (born 1933) * Daniel Davis Jr. (photographer), Daniel Davis Jr. (1813–1887) * Robert Dawson (photographer), Robert Dawson (born 1950) * F. Holland Day (1864–1933) * Loomis Dean (1917–2005) * Roy DeCarava (1919–2009) * Joe Deal (1947–2010) * Terry Deglau * Jack Delano (1914–1997) * Lou Dematteis * Autumn de Wilde (born 1970) * Philip-Lorca diCorcia (born 1951) * John Dominis (1921–2013) * Don Donaghy (1936–2008) * Jordan Doner * Elsa Dorfman (1937–2020) * Cheryl Machat Dorskind (born 1955) * David Doubilet (born 1946) * Jim Dow (born 1942) * Rory Doyle (born 1983) * Richard Drew (photographer), Richard Drew (born 1946) * David Douglas Duncan (1916–2018) * Jeff Dunas (born 1954) * Aimé Dupont (1842–1900) * Dutton & Michaels * Charles C. Ebbets (1905–1978) * Harold Eugene Edgerton (1903–1990) * Dudley Edmondson * Hugh Edwards (photographer), Hugh Edwards (1903–1986) * John Paul Edwards (1884–1968) * William Eggleston (born 1939) * Rudolf Eickemeyer, Jr. (1862–1932) * Alfred Eisenstaedt (1898–1995) * Jill Enfield (born 1954) * Mitch Epstein (born 1952) * Elliott Erwitt (born 1928) * Dulah Marie Evans (1875–1951) * Walker Evans (1903–1975) * Chris Faust (born 1955) * James Fee (1949–2006) * Andreas Feininger (1906–1999) * Mark Feldstein (1937–2001) * Larry Fink (photographer), Larry Fink (born 1941) * Leonard Fink (1930–1992) * George Fiske (1835–1918) * Sean Flynn (photojournalist), Sean Flynn (1941-1970) * Neil Folberg (born 1950) * Rahim Fortune (born 1994) * Jona Frank (born 1966) * Felice Frankel (born 1945) * Thomas E. Franklin (born 1966) * Leonard Freed (1929–2006) * Jesse Freidin (born 1981) * Adrienne French (born 1987) * Jim French (photographer), Jim French (1932–2017) * Mary Frey (born 1948) * Arny Freytag (born 1950) * Lee Friedlander (born 1934) * Eva Fuka (1927–2015) * Ron Galella (1931-2022) * Louisa Bernie Gallaher (1858–1917) * Harry Gamboa, Jr. (born 1951) * William Garnett (photographer), William Garnett (1916–2006) * David Brandon Geeting (born 1989) * Arnold Genthe (1869–1942) * Carlo Gentile (1835–1893) * Ralph Gibson (born 1939) * Carl Giers (1828–1877) * Bruce Gilden (born 1946) * Steve Giovinco (born 1961) * Barbara Gluck (born 1938) * Frank Gohlke (born 1942) * Anthony Goicolea (born 1971) * Jim Goldberg (born 1953) * Nan Goldin (born 1953) * Miguel Gómez (photographer), Miguel Gómez (born 1974) * Rolando Gomez (born 1962) * Greg Gorman (born 1949) * John Gossage (born 1946) * William P. Gottlieb (1917–2006) * Hal Gould (1920–2015) * Emmet Gowin (born 1941) * Karen Graffeo * Katy Grannan (born 1969) * Jill Greenberg (born 1967) * Herb Greene (born 1942) * Timothy Greenfield-Sanders (born 1952) * Lauren Greenfield (born 1966) * Lois Greenfield (born 1949) * Stan Grossfeld (born 1951) * Bob Gruen (born 1945) * Johan Hagemeyer (1884–1962) * Bruce Hall (photographer), Bruce Hall * Mark Robert Halper (born 1965) * Dirck Halstead (1936-2022) * Adelaide Hanscom (1875–1931) * Charles Harbutt (1935–2015) * John Harding (photographer), John Harding (born 1940) * Ron Harris (photographer), Ron Harris (1933–2017) * Alfred A. Hart (1816–1908) * David Alan Harvey (born 1944) * Ron Haviv (born 1965) * Masumi Hayashi (photographer), Masumi Hayashi (1945–2006) * Frank Jay Haynes (1853–1921) * William Heick (1916–2012) * J Malan Heslop (1923–2011) * R.C. Hickman (1922–2007) * Todd Hido (born 1968) * John K. Hillers (1843–1925) * David Hilliard (photographer), David Hilliard (born 1964) * Lewis Hine (1874–1940) * Hiro (photographer), Hiro (1930–2021) * John Hoagland (1947–1984) * David Hobby (born 1965) * Joseph Holmes (photographer), Joseph Holmes * Douglas Hopkins * Horst P. Horst (1906–1999) * Tama Hochbaum (born 1953) * Charles Howard (photographer), Charles Howard (1842-?) * Tom Howard (photographer), Tom Howard (1894-1961) * Fred Hultstrand (1888–1968) * William Hundley (born 1976) * Art Hupy (1924–2003) * George Hurrell (1904–1992) * Philip Hyde (photographer), Philip Hyde (1921–2006) * Jerry Interval (1923–2006) * Walter Iooss (born 1943) * Edith Irvine (1884–1949) * Lee Isaacs * Texas Isaiah * Yasuhiro Ishimoto (1921–2012) * William Henry Jackson (1843–1942) * Michael Jang (born 1951) * Ellei Johndro * Acacia Johnson (born 1990) * Belle Johnson (1864–1925) * David Johnson (photographer), David Johnson (born 1926) * Alfred Cheney Johnston (1885–1971) * John S. Johnston (1839–1899) * Pirkle Jones (1914–2009) * Gertrude Käsebier (1852–1934) * Consuelo Kanaga (1894–1978) * Emy Kat (born 1959) * Mary Morgan Keipp (1875–1961) * Marie Hartig Kendall (1854–1943) * David Michael Kennedy (born 1950) * Mitch Kern (born 1965) * Robert Glenn Ketchum (born 1947) * Miru Kim (born 1981) * Darius Kinsey (1869–1945) * William Klein (photographer), William Klein (1928–1922) * Mark Klett (born 1952) * Russell Klika (born 1960) * Stuart Klipper (born 1941) * Joseph Knaffl (1861–1938) * Karen Knorr (born 1954) * Stacy Kranitz (born 1976) * George Krause (born 1937) * Barbara Kruger (born 1945) * Yasuo Kuniyoshi (1893–1953) * Justine Kurland (born 1969) * David LaChapelle (born 1963) * Vincent Laforet (born 1975) * Dorothea Lange (1895–1965) * Jim Laughead (1909–1978) * Clarence John Laughlin (1905–1985) * Shane Lavalette (born 1987) * Alma Lavenson (1897–1989) * Lisa Law (born 1943) * Russell Lee (photographer), Russell Lee (1903–1986) * Annie Leibovitz (born 1949) * Neil Leifer (born 1942) * Jacques Leiser * Saul Leiter (1923–2013) * Herman Leonard (1923–2010) * Zoe Leonard (born 1961) * Sherrie Levine (born 1947) * David Levinthal (born 1949) * Helen Levitt (1913–2009) * Jerome Liebling (1924–2011) * Lawrence Denny Lindsley (1879–1974) * O. Winston Link (1914–2001) * Susan Lipper (born 1953) * Jacqueline Livingston (1943–2013) * John Loengard (1934–2020) * Sal Lopes (born 1943) * Rodney Lough Jr. (born 1960) * Jet Lowe (born 1947) * Benjamin Lowy (born 1979) * Joshua Lutz (born 1975) * George Platt Lynes (1907–1955) * Danny Lyon (born 1942) * Nathan Lyons (1930–2016) * Pirie MacDonald (1867–1942) * Maxwell MacKenzie * Vivian Maier (1926–2009) * Jay Maisel (born 1931) * Christopher Makos (born 1948) * Steve Mandel (born 1953) * Sally Mann (born 1951) * Jonathan Mannion (born 1970) * Robert Mapplethorpe (1946–1989) * Ken Marcus (born 1946) * Joan Marcus (born 1953) * Mary Ellen Mark (1940–2015) * Jim Marshall (photographer), Jim Marshall (1936–2010) * Louise Martin (1911-1995) * Pat Martin (photographer), Pat Martin * Spider Martin (1939–2003) * Oscar G. Mason (1830–1921) * Margrethe Mather (1886–1952) * Gordon Matta-Clark (1943–1978) * Annu Palakunnathu Matthew (born 1964) * Kate Matthews (1870–1956) * Morton D. May (1914–1983) * John McBride (photographer), John McBride (born 1967) * Will McBride (photographer), Will McBride (1931–2015) * Chris McCaw (born 1971) * Leonard McCombe (1923–2015) * Steve McCurry (born 1950) * Paul McDonough (photographer), Paul McDonough (born 1941) * Joe McNally (photographer), Joe McNally (born 1952) * Laura McPhee (born 1958) * Raymond Meeks (born 1963) * Steven Meisel (born 1954) * Susan Meiselas (born 1948) * Jeff Mermelstein (born 1957) * Justin Merriman (born 1977) * Nick Meyer (photographer), Nick Meyer (born 1981) * Sonia Handelman Meyer (1920–2022) * Joel Meyerowitz (born 1938) * Arthur Meyerson (born 1949) * Duane Michals (born 1932) * Fred E. Miller (1868–1936) * Lee Miller (1907–1977) * Richard Misrach (born 1949) * Daniel S. Mitchell (1838–1929) * Tyler Mitchell (photographer), Tyler Mitchell (born 1995) * George F. Mobley (born 1935) * Vijat Mohindra (born 1985) * Charles Moore (photographer), Charles Moore (1931–2010) * John Moran (photographer), John Moran (1831–1902) * Abelardo Morell (born 1948) * Christopher Morris (photographer), Christopher Morris (born 1958) * Wright Morris (1910–1998) * Lida Moser (1920–2014) * William McKenzie Morrison (1857–1921) * Stephen Mosher (photographer), Stephen Mosher (born 1964) * David Muench (born 1936) * Zora J. Murff (born 1987) * Carl Mydans (1907–2004) * Clay Myers (photographer), Clay Myers (born 2000) * James Nachtwey (born 1948) * Billy Name (1940–2016) * Arnold Newman (1918–2006) * Lora Webb Nichols (1883–1962) * Nicholas Nixon (born 1947) * Zak Noyle (born 1985) * Lee Nye (1926–1999) * Pipo Nguyen-duy (born 1962) * Nic Nicosia (born 1951) * Michael O'Brien (photographer), Michael O'Brien (born 1950) * Catherine Opie (born 1961) * Charles O'Rear (born 1941) * Estevan Oriol (born 2000) * Timothy H. O'Sullivan, Timothy O'Sullivan (1840–1882) * Kevin Ou (born 1979) * Paul Outerbridge (1896–1958) * Bill Owens (photographer), Bill Owens (born 1938) * Tod Papageorge (born 1940) * Gordon Parks (1912–2006) * Winfield Parks (1932–1977) * Robert ParkeHarrison (born 1968) * Christian Patterson (born 1972) * Irving Penn (1917–2009) * Elle Pérez (born 1989) * Lucian Perkins (born 1953) * Philip Perkis (born 1935) * John Pezzenti (1952–2007) * John Pfahl (1939–2020) * Jack Pierson (born 1960) * Sylvia Plachy (born 1943) * David Plowden (born 1932) * Eliot Porter (1901–1990) * Victor Prevost (1820–1881) * Hal Prewitt (born 1954) * Richard Prince (born 1949) * Andrew Prokos (born 1971) * Melanie Pullen (born 1975) * Gerald P. Pulley (1922–2011) * Herbert Randall (born 1936) * Paul Raphaelson (born 1968) * Susana Raab * William H. Rau (1855–1920) * Man Ray (1890–1976) * Ryan Spencer Reed (born 1979) * H. Reid (1925–1992) * Lorne Resnick (born 1961) * Michael Richard (born 1949) * Eugene Richards (born 1944) * Terry Richardson (born 1965) * Robert Riger (1924–1995) * Frank Rinehart (1861–1928) * Herb Ritts (1952–2002) * Ruth Robertson (1905–1998) * John V. Robinson (born 1960) * Thomas C. Roche (1826–1895) * Milton Rogovin (1909–2011) * Matthew Rolston (born 1955) * Thomas Roma (born 1950) * Ben Rose (1916–1980) * Barbara Rosenthal (born 1948) * Joe Rosenthal (1911–2006) * Martha Rosler (born 1943) * Arthur Rothstein (1915–1985) * Galen Rowell (1940–2002) * Johnny Rozsa (born 1949) * Andrew J. Russell (1829–1902) * Manuel Rivera-Ortiz (born 1968) * Mark Ruwedel (born 1954) * Eugene de Salignac (1861-1943) * Lucas Samaras (born 1936) * Arnold E. Samuelson (1917–2002) * Joel Sartore (born 1962) * Howard Schatz (born 1940) * Rocky Schenck (born 1960) * T. M. Schleier (1832–1908) *

(born 1968) * Bryan Schutmaat (born 1983) * Bill Schwab (born 1959) * John Schwartz (photographer), John Schwartz (1858–1937) * Morris Schwartz (1901–2004) * Arthur E. Scott (1917–1976) * Allan Sekula (1951–2013) * Mark Seliger (born 1959) * Craig Semetko (born 1961) * John Sexton (photographer), John Sexton (born 1953) * Jamel Shabazz (born 1960) * Charles Sheeler (1883–1965) * Bob Shell (born 1946) * Cindy Sherman (born 1957) * Thomas John Shillea (born 1947) * Stewart Shining (born 1964) * Melissa Shook (1939–2020) * Stephen Shore (born 1947) * Julius Shulman (1910–2009) * Marilyn Silverstone (1929–1999) * Lorna Simpson (born 1960) * Aaron Siskind (1903–1991) * Sandy Skoglund (born 1946) * Neal Slavin (born 1941) * Moneta Sleet Jr. (1926–1996) * Brian Smith (photographer), Brian Smith * Dayna Smith (born 1962) * Henry Holmes Smith (1909–1986) * Mickey Smith (artist), Mickey Smith (born 1972) * W. Eugene Smith (1918–1978) * Rodney Smith (photographer), Rodney Smith (1947–2016) * James Reuel Smith (1852–1935) * Rick Smolan (born 1949) * Melvin Sokolsky (1933-2022) * Alec Soth (born 1969) * Pete Souza (born 1954) * Melissa Springer (born 1956) * John Stanmeyer (born 1964) * Chad States (born 1975) * Will Steacy (born 1980) * Edward Steichen (1879–1973) * Ralph Steiner (1899–1986) * Mark Steinmetz (born 1961) * Stanley Stellar (born 1945) * Joel Sternfeld (born 1944) * Louis Stettner (1922–2016) * Alfred Stieglitz (1864–1946) * Nellie Stockbridge (1868–1965) * Ezra Stoller (1915–2004) * Dana Stone (1939–1970) * Les Stone (born 1959) * Tom Stone (photographer), Tom Stone (born 1971) * Paul Strand (1890–1976) * Zoe Strauss (born 1970) * Roy Stuart (photographer), Roy Stuart (born 1962) * Jock Sturges (born 1947) * Anthony Suau (born 1956) * Larry Sultan (1946-2009) * Kenneth Dupee Swan (1887–1970) * Joseph Szabo (photographer), Joseph Szabo (born 1944) * John Szarkowski (1925–2007) * Francesco Scavullo (1921–2004) * Andres Serrano (born 1950) * I. W. Taber (1830–1912) * Paulette Tavormina (born 1949) * John Bigelow Taylor (born 1950) * Maggie Taylor (born 1961) * Brad Temkin (born 1956) * Joyce Tenneson (born 1945) * Al J Thompson (born 1980) * Kyle Thompson (photographer), Kyle Thompson (born 1992) * Warren T. Thompson (photographer), Warren T. Thompson (active 1840–1870) * George Tice (born 1938) * Barbara Traub (born 1960) * Bill Travis (born 1957) * Eric Treacy (1907–1978) * Arthur Tress (born 1940) * John Trobaugh (born 1968) * Thomas Tulis (born 1961) * Spencer Tunick (born 1967) * David C. Turnley (born 1955) * Peter Turnley (born 1955) * Jerry Uelsmann (born 1934) * Brian Ulrich (born 1971) * Doris Ulmann (1882–1934) * Steven Underhill (born 1962) * John Vachon (1914–1975) * James Van Der Zee (1886–1983) * Carl Van Vechten (1880–1964) * Kathy Vargas (born 1950) * John Veltri (born 1938) * Max Vadukul (born 1961) * Salvatore Vasapolli (born 1955) * Kiino Villand * Evan Vucci (born 1977) * William George Wadman (born 1975) * Andre D. Wagner (born 1986) * Bob Walker (photographer), Bob Walker (1952–1992) * Andy Warhol (1928–1987) * Marion E. Warren (1920–2006) * Waswo X. Waswo (born 1953) * Carleton Watkins (1829–1916) * Bruce Weber (photographer), Bruce Weber (born 1946) * Weegee (1899–1968) * Carrie Mae Weems (born 1953) * William Wegman (photographer), William Wegman (born 1942) * Terri Weifenbach * Eudora Welty (1909–2001) * Henry Wessel, Jr. (1942–2018) * Brett Weston (1911–1993) * Cole Weston (1919–2003) * Edward Weston (1886–1958) * Kim Weston (photographer), Kim Weston (born 1953) * John H White (photojournalist), John H. White (born 1945) * Minor White (1908–1976) * Jeff Widener (born 1956) * Janine Wiedel (born 1947) * Leigh Wiener (1929–1993) * Hannah Wilke (1940–1993) * Christopher Williams (American artist), Christopher Williams (born 1956) * D'Angelo Lovell Williams (born 1992) * Michael Williamson (photographer), Michael Williamson (born 1957) * Deborah Willis (artist), Deborah Willis (born 1948) * Ben Willmore (born 1967) * Bob Willoughby (1927–2009) * Laura Wilson (photographer), Laura Wilson (born 1939) * Kathryn Tucker Windham (1918–2011) * Merry Moor Winnett (1951–1994) * Garry Winogrand (1928–1984) * Dawn Wirth (born 1960) * Ernest Withers (1922–2007) * Joel-Peter Witkin (born 1939) * Marion Post Wolcott (1910–1990) * Art Wolfe (born 1951) * Bernard Pierre Wolff (1930–1985) * Francesca Woodman (1958–1981) * Don Worth (1924–2009) * Bruce Wrighton (1950–1988) * Thomas Joseph Wynne (photographer) (1838 – 26 October 1893) * Max Yavno (1911–1985) * Bunny Yeager (1929–2014) * Jerome Zerbe (1904–1988) * John G. Zimmerman (1927–2002) * David Drew Zingg (1923–2000) * Fred Zinn (1892–1960) * Monte Zucker (1929–2007)

Oceania

Australia

* David Adams (photojournalist), David Adams (born 1963) * Jack Atley (born 1968) * Peter Bainbridge (photographer), Peter Bainbridge (born 1957) * Daniel Berehulak (born 1975) * Barcroft Capel Boake (1838–1921) * Jarrod Castaing (born 1983) * Harold Cazneaux (1878–1953) * Neville Coleman (1938–2012) * Peter Dombrovskis (1945–1996) * Ken Duncan (photographer), Ken Duncan (born 1954) * Max Dupain (1911–1992) * Adam Ferguson (photographer), Adam Ferguson (born 1978) * Frederick Frith (1819–1871) * Bill Gekas (born 1973) * Mark Gray (photographer), Mark Gray (born 1981) * Hans Hasenpflug (1907–1977) * Bill Henson (born 1955) * Graham Howe (born 1950) * Frank Hurley (1885–1962) * Russell James (born 1962) * Barry Kay (1932–1985) * Charles Kerry (1857–1928) * Peter Lik (born 1959) * Darryn Lyons (born 1965) *

(1829-1879) * Peter Milne (visual artist), Peter Milne (born 1960) * Izzy Orloff (1891–1983) * Charles Page (photographer), Charles Page (born 1946) * Trent Parke (born 1971) * Cillín Perera (born 1977) * Robert Rosen (photographer), Robert Rosen (born 1953) * Wolfgang Sievers (1913–2007) * Steven Siewert (born 1964) * Andrew Stark (photographer), Andrew Stark (born 1964) * H. H. Tilbrook (1848–1937) * Olegas Truchanas (1923–1972) * Ian Wallace (photographer), Ian Wallace (born 1972) * Charles A. Woolley, Charles Woolley (1834–1922) * Anne Zahalka (born 1957) * Andrew Rovenko (born 1978)

New Zealand

* Laurence Aberhart (born 1949) * Mark Adams (photographer), Mark Adams (born 1949) * Harvey Benge (1944–2019) * Brian Brake (1927–1988) * Jessie Buckland (1878–1939) * Peter Bush (photographer), Peter Bush (born 1930) * Rosaline Margaret Frank (1864–1954) * Marti Friedlander (1928–2016) * Anne Geddes (born 1956) * Ken Griffiths (1945–2014) * Geoff Moon (1915–2009) * Robin Morrison (1944–1993) * Ans Westra (born 1936)

South America

Argentina

* Gustavo Aguerre (born 1953) * Horacio Coppola (1906–2012) * Sara Facio (born 1932) * Esteban Gonnet (1829–1868) * Annemarie Heinrich (1912–2005) * Alejandro Kuropatwa (1956–2003) * Adriana Lestido (born 1955) * Grete Stern (1904–1999)

Brazil

* Miguel Rio Branco (born 1946) * Marc Ferrez (photographer), Marc Ferrez (1843–1923) * Vik Muniz (born 1961) * Arthur Omar (born 1948) * Sebastião Salgado (born 1944) * Sérgio Valle Duarte (born 1954) * Cássio Vasconcellos (born 1965) * Guy Veloso (born 1969) * Gustavo Chams (born 1994)

Chile

* Ricardo Carrasco (born 1965) * Jesús Inostroza (born 1956) * Carlos Reyes-Manzo (born 1944) * Valeria Zalaquett (born 1971)

Colombia

* Ricardo Acevedo Bernal (1867–1930) * Jesús Abad Colorado (born 1967) * Miguel Gómez (photographer), Miguel Gómez (born 1974) * Nereo López (1920–2015) * Leo Matiz (1917–1998)

Ecuador

* Hugo Cifuentes (1923–2000)

Peru

* Martín Chambi (1891–1973) * Mario Testino (born 1954) * Pedro Jarque (born 1963)

Suriname

* Augusta Curiel (1873-1937) * Gustaaf Martinus Oosterling (1873-1928)

Venezuela

* Ricardo Gómez Pérez (born 1952) * Alejandro López de Haro (1949–2010) * Ronaldo Schemidt (born 1971)

References

{{Art world Lists of photographers by nationality, * Lists of photographers, Lists of artists by medium, Photographers