Alex Prager

November 1, 1979

No. 80

An American female art photographer and filmmaker who lives and works in LA. She primarily shoots staged images that invite references, not only to the history of Hollywood and photography, but also to the cinematic image. The subjects of her works, elleborate and costumed speak to the ambiguity of seduction and spectacle.

Todd Hido

February 22, 1955

No. 79

Todd Hido is an American contemporary artist and photographer based in San Francisco. Much of Hido’s work involves urban and suburban housing across the U.S., of which the artist produces large, highly detailed and vibrant images. Hido’s photographs have been published in many mainstream publications, including The New York Times Magazine, The Face, and Vanity Fair. His photographs can be seen in the Guggenheim Museum in New York, the Whitney Museum of Art in New York, La Salle Bank in Chicago, and the Heiting Collection in Los Angeles.

Ralph Gibson

January 16, 1939

No. 78

Ralph Gibson is a well respected photographer known for his erotic subject matter and constrasting imagery. Gibson studied photography while in the US Navy. After attending the San Francisco Art Institute, he worked as an assistant to Robert Frank and Dorothea Lange. Gibson is a great advocate of the Leica camera. Since the start of his career he has completed more than 40 books and his work has been displayed in more than 150 venues around the world. Gibson received 3 fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, A Guggenheim Fellowship, the Leica Medal of Excellence, and the Silver Plumb Award. He is a Commandeur de l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres, holds honorary doctorates from the University of Maryland and Ohio Wesleyan University, and, in 2007, earned The Lucie Award for Fine Art Photography.

Donald Miralle

August 8, 1974

No. 77

Born in Los Angeles Donald Miralle is famous for his sports photography imagery. With more than 30 international awards to his credit, Donald is the leading photographer in his field.

Rineke Dijkstra

Netherlands, June 2, 1959

No. 76

Dutch photographer and video artist Rineke Dijkstra studied at the Gerrit Rietveld Academie in Amsterdam between 1981 and 1986. She worked as a formal portrait photographer until the early 1990s when she began to take her own style of portraits. Dijkstra mostly works in portrait series, capturing her subjects in natural undirected poses. Presenting a variety of models ranging from shop assistants to matadors she draws on the narrative of documentary portrait photography but also on the history of portrait painting allways respecting her model's need to present their own image.

Mert Alas and Marcus Piggott

Mert Alas, Turkey, 1971
Marcus Piggott, Wales, 1971

No. 75

"Mert and Marcus"are fashion photographers who work together on a collaborative basis. They work for magazines such as Interview Magazine, The Love Magazine, Vogue Italia, Vogue America, Arena Homme Plus, W Magazine, Pop Magazine and Numero. Major clients are fashion labels such as Giorgio Armani, Roberto Cavalli, Louis Vuitton, Missoni, Fendi, Kenzo and Miu Miu and perfume houses such as Gucci, Yves St Laurent, Givenchy and Lancôme. They have also photographed many celebrities such as Lady Gaga, Madonna, Shakira, Scarlett Johansson, Jennifer Lopez, Linda Evangelista, Gisele Bündchen, Björk, Lindsay Lohan, Charlotte Rampling, Kylie Minogue, and Victoria Beckham.

Vanessa Beecroft

Italy, April 25, 1969

No. 74

Vanessa Beecroft's is conceptual as well as aesthetic. Her performance art is often involves live female models, often nude. At her performances, video recordings and photographs are made, to be exhibited as documentation of the performances, but also as separate works of art. Her performances are not without controversy especially the treatment endured by her models. Beecroft has had numerous exhibtions in Europe and the US.