Photographer #403: Chadwick Tyler

Chadwick Tyler, 1975, USA, is a fashion / fine-art photographer based in Brooklyn, New York. His work career started in art direction and corporate advertising. In 2005 he began focusing on photography, learning the basic technical competence under the guidance of still-life photographer Larry Wittek. In 2009 he had his first solo exhibition entilted Tiberius. The large exhibition was filled with beautiful female characters in black and white photographs. He played with the themes of ecstasy, hysteria, confusion, lethargy, exhaustion and more expressive emotions. He used 52 models to realise all the images for the show, often in strange positions and showing expressive faces. The result was a strong, refreshing, raw yet classy and brain triggering set of images that challenges contemporary notions of beauty. His photography has been featured in numerous magazines as Dazed and Confused, Grey and AnOther. The first two rows of images come from the portfolio VIII and the last row is Mercedes: Quantum Present.

Website: www.chadwicktyler.com

Photographer #368: Greg Manis

Greg Manis, 1975, is an American photographer who studied at the Savannah College of Art & Design. After completing his studies he moved to New York City to assist top photographers as Tom Munro and others. Although often named a "fashion" photographer, he considers himself to be a fine art photographer. He takes portraits of the girls that remind him of his childhood while growing up in a trailer park in Northwest Georgia with his family. His interest lies in the sexy, tough girls he was once afraid to approach yet longed to be with. His work is raw, playful, edgy and gives the viewer a glimpse into Manis' life. Greg has worked for clients as Nike and appeared in V Magazine and Inked to name a few. The following images come from his portfolios Sex, Drugs and Rock N' Roll.

Website: www.gregmanis.com

Photographer #327: Gillian Laub

Gillian Laub, 1975, USA, is a documentary photographer and storyteller living and working in New York. In 2007 she released the book Testimony. For a period of five years she had photographed the people of Jerusalem, Haifa, Ramallah and other locations in the region. Israeli Jews and Arabs, displaced Lebanese families and Palestinians, all personally affected by the current situation, were portrayed. The images are accompanied by commentaries from the subjects. The commentaries in combination with the images show resilience and optimism amongst the photographed. For many years Gillian has been documenting and telling the story of four generations of her family. She is currently working on the project Southern Rites in the American South. The following images come from the series Southern Rites, Testimony and Family.

Website: www.gillianlaub.com

Photographer #319: Mariano Vivanco

Mariano Vivanco, 1975, Peru, is a portrait, fine art and fashion photographer based in London and New York. He has done editorials for magazines as Dazed & Confused, L'Uomo Vogue and Another Magazine. Uomini is one of the several books he released for the Dolce & Gabbana label. It contains strong and classic photographs of young men either nude or in underwear reminding us of Greek and Roman sculptures. In 2008 he published the book Ninety Five Chapel Market which contains images from his first years in London including some young supermodels that have become household names. He has worked with a large number of celebrities as Lady Gaga, Lionel Messi and Dita von Teese. His images are powerful and vulnerable at the same time. The following images come from his book Uomini, his portfolio Editorial and the book Ninety Five Chapel Market.

Website: www.marianovivanco.com

Photographer #315: Marcus Hausser

Marcus Hausser, 1975, Brazil, is a commercial photographer with a long list of clients for whom he has shot campaigns. His career started by assisting renowned advertising photographers in Brazil. In 2002 he launched himself as a freelance photographer, opening a large studio in São Paulo. Amongst his clients are large names as Fiat, Harley Davidson, Sky, Unicef and Fedex. He has been published in editions of the Lürzers Archive 200 best ad photographers worldwide 2008/2009 with four works. His ads range from including a lot of humour to very serious matters. The following images come from the campaigns for ADESF, Abramet and Amnesty International Argentina.

Website: www.marcushausser.com

Photographer #284: Kevin Cooley

Kevin Cooley, 1975, USA, is a landscape photographer and video artist especially known for his night photography. In 2000 he received an M.F.A. at The School of Visual Arts in New York. He often uses man made light sources creating unusual and strong effects. He has followed film crews at night (series: Night for Night) or the tourist boats with powerful floodlights in Paris (series: Bateaux Mouches) "borrowing" their light to create images of urban landscapes. In his project Nachtfluge Kevin made long exposure photographs of airplanes taking of or landing creating bizarre stripes and dots in the sky. In Lights Edge he used light flares in remote snowy areas to make fantastical and serene images. The snowy landscapes return in his latest series Refuge using various different light sources. Cooley has exhibited his work throughout the USA and several cities in Europe. The following images come from the series Refuge, Lights Edge and Nachtfluge.

Website: www.kevincooley.net

Photographer #239: Quentin Shih

Quentin Shih a.k.a Shi Xiaofan, 1975, China, is a fine art photographer that also focuses on portrait, fashion and commercial photography. Since 2008 Shih has collaborated with Dior which has resulted in several impressive series. He is a self-taught photographer who lives and works between Beijing and New York. His clients include some of the major brands including Nokia and Adidas aswell as editorial clients as GQ and Vogue. In his fine art project Citizen of State he wanted to use a surrealist technique and a precise pictorial composition to depict death of ordinary people in a country fixated on heroism. The following images come from the series Shanghai Dreamers, Citizen of the State and The Stranger in the Glass Box.

Website: www.quentinshih.com

Photographer #214: Aaron Huey

Aaron Huey, 1975, USA, has done a vast amount of projects. In 2002 he walked 3,349 miles across the United States. He regularly shoots for the National Geographic magazine, The New Yorker and Harper's amongst many others. He was named one of PDN's top 30 emerging photographers in 2007. In 2008 he was awarded a National Geographic Expedition Council grant to hitchhike across Siberia. Aaron has covered stories on Afghanistan, Pakistan, Georgia and the United States to name a few. He was planning on doing a story on poverty in America and ended up at the Pine Ridge Indian reservation. Pine Ridge became a long-term project on it's own. The following images come from the series America, Pine Ridge and Afghanistan Drug War.

Website: www.aaronhuey.com

Photographer #195: Tony Kelly

Tony Kelly, 1975, Ireland, lives in Barcelona and works all over the world. He makes sexually charged photographes that are so bright in colour that they resemble candies that might either be sweet or sour. His carreer started as a papparazzo and later as a warzone photographer. Now Tony is all into the fashion photography, although most of the work evolves around nude women. Tony likes to shock a little, but it needs to be a shock with a smile. Humour is one of the key points in Kelly's photography. As a photographer that prefers working on location as to a closed studio it is no wonder he is slightly in love with the plastic, sunny and "cultureless" Los Angeles. The following images come from Toy Story, El Pais Miss World and Hollywood.

Website: www.tonykellyphotography.com

Photographer #150: Taryn Simon

Taryn Simon, 1975, USA, won the discovery award this summer at the Rencontres d'Arles with her series The Innocents, portraits of people that have served time in prison for violent crimes they did not commit. Her Contraband series consists of 1075 images taken within 4 days at JFK airport of items seized or detained from passengers and express mail entering the US from abroad while she was on site. Taryn has received several awards, had a large amount of solo and group exhibitions and her work is in numerous public collections. The following images come from Contraband, The Innocents and An American Index of the Hidden and Unfamiliar.

Website: www.tarynsimon.com

Photographer #145: Ivo Mayr

Ivo Mayr, 1975, is a German photographer that plays with gravity and angles. In 2007 he made an artistic portrait of the city of Koblenz. He took the two most important things, the architecture and the people that live in it and combined the two together. He found the people in the streets and portrayed them detached from the ground, hanging and floating. He named the images Passanten, which means "Passers-Bye". In the series Leichtkraft he played with optical illusions and carefully chose his angles to make it seem that the portrayed are in impossible positions. The following images come from the series Passanten, Stadt Land Flucht and Leichtkraft.

Website: www.ivomayr.com

Photographer #134: Myoung Ho Lee

South-Korean photographer Myoung Ho Lee, 1975, photographs trees. He frames the trees against white canvas backdrops, seperating the tree from it's original surrounding. Although the images might seem simple, to get his result requires a production crew and heavy cranes to install the canvases. Afterwards he removes the ropes or bars that might still be visible by minimal digital retouching. The trees are photographed using a large-format camera. The following images are all from the Tree series.

Unfortunately Myoung Ho Lee does not have a website, for more information go to: www.yossimilo.com/artists/myou_ho_lee/

Photographer #022: Charles Freger

French photographer Charles Freger, 1975, is easy to be recognised by his style of photography. He works in series taking portraits, nearly categorising people, ranging from the men who clean the streets to cooks. These next images come from the series; Legionnaires, Hereros and Short School Haka.

Website: www.charlesfreger.com

Photographer #003: Rob Hornstra

Rob Hornstra, 1975, is a Dutch Photographer who studied at the school of fine arts in Utrecht, NL. He graduated with the book Communism and Cowgirls. Currently he is working on a long-term project with filmmaker Arnold van Bruggen called the Sochi Project to document the changes that are occuring in the region where in 4 years from now will be the next winter olympics.

After the release of his book Roots of the Runtur in 2006 Hornstra presented his third book 101 billionaires. It displays the other side of the (new) acclaimed capitalism in Russia, behind the facade of money and wealth.

Website: www.borotov.nl & www.thesochiproject.org