Our Artists
Jean-Philippe Lebée
Jean-Philippe Lebée is a French photographer who first studied audiovisual production and cinema before turning to still imagery. A graduate of the renowned Gobelins School of Photography, he developed a strong technical foundation and a distinctive artistic vision.
His work is defined by an elegant, sensual, and subtly melancholic aesthetic, where light, texture, and refined gestures play a central role. Through his images, Jean-Philippe creates a contemporary and sophisticated visual universe, revealing a unique sensitivity to beauty, atmosphere, and emotion.
Nicholas Cordeiro
Nicholas Cordeiro is a New York based artist whose work explores transformation, memory, and devotion through symbolic portraiture. His paintings often merge human and animal forms, swans, flowers, and fragmented figures into emotional studies of identity and desire. Drawing from mythology and personal history, Cordeiro builds visual worlds that balance tenderness and tension, restraint and chaos. Each work feels like a confession rendered in color, a moment of stillness caught inside movement. Across painting, drawing, and photography, his practice revolves around the same pursuit: to understand what remains when everything else changes.
Gonzalo Orquín
Gonzalo Orquín’s portraits and images of intimate daily life are rendered on canvases where desire and eroticism transcend mere pleasure, serving as an affirmation of freedom and identity. The Andalusian artist’s work features faces and bodies of masterful beauty, characterized by the timeless allure of figurative painting. Orquín has achieved significant recognition, notably as a Finalist for the prestigious BP AWARD at the National Portrait Gallery in London. He has held solo exhibitions and residencies at major institutions, including MACRO in Rome, Fondazione Sant’Elia in Palermo, the Leslie-Lohman Museum of Art in New York, and cultural organizations in Brussels and Washington, D.C. His art consistently receives international press coverage from outlets like Le Monde, Rai Cultura, The Art Newspaper, and El País
Per Appelgren
Per Appelgren is a German-Swedish fashion and beauty photographer based between Paris and Berlin, with over a decade of experience shooting for leading international brands and editorials. Starting out as a self-taught creative, Per refined his craft as an assistant and later through years of mentorship with industry-leading photographers in Berlin, Paris and London. Before pursuing photography full-time, he earned a degree in Business Administration and International Politics. However, the desire to express himself and his artistic vision behind the lens led him to follow his heart and explore the world of photography.
His work blurs between the lines of fashion and beauty, defined by a bold use of colour, striking angles and expressions. Beyond aesthetics, his imagery creates a stage for individuality. Celebrating diversity and giving talent the freedom to express themselves without boundaries.
Per’s vision has attracted collaborations with clients such as Prada, Juun J, Casablanca Paris, Vogue, Numero, Nike and many more. Through his photography, he seeks not only to capture beauty, but also to inspire, challenge and move audiences across cultures.
Oceana Rain Stuart
Oceana Rain Stuart is a multi-award-winning master sculptor, author, and poet based in the San Francisco Bay Area. Working primarily in bronze, she is known for emotionally rich figurative realism that blends sensuality, symbolism, and psychological depth. Her work is recognized for its delicate nuances, provocative subject matter, and its ability to bridge classical technique with contemporary sensibility. Stuart has exhibited in numerous museums and galleries, including the Louvre Museum, the National Sculpture Society, the Leonardo da Vinci Society, the Natural History Museum, and the Salmagundi Club. A selected artist of the Lunar Codex project, she is among the first female artists to have work archived on the Moon. Her book Enigma published by Snap Collective intertwines poetry, memoir, and sculpture, extending her exploration of embodiment and narrative. Stuart’s work is held in collections worldwide.
Juliana Plexxo
Juliana Plexxo is a Colombian-Spanish multidisciplinary artist recognized for her vibrant and symbolic visual language that bridges nature, spirituality, and human emotion. Her work has been exhibited internationally, including at the Museo Guayasamín in Quito, Berkeley University in California, New York, and Paris, among others. Plexxo’s artistic journey is guided by the belief that creativity is the path that brings humans closer to each other and to the divine. Through her paintings and performances, she explores emotional transformation and the sacred connection between humanity and nature. Her art invites viewers to reflect, heal, and awaken—a visual prayer for unity and consciousness in a fragmented world.
Sala Lieber
Sala Lieber paints lush imagery with a dash of symbolism and irony. Drawing inspiration from the Baroque and Rococo periods, she reworks classical elements into modern narratives that contrast joie de vivre with the transience of life.
“Sala Lieber challenges certainties such as the past, knowledge, and the future — veiled through brilliant painting, and with the courage for opulence, beauty, and eroticism.”
— Redaktion Westfalium
Mathilde Polidori
Mathilde Polidori is a painter whose work explores the dialogue between color, form, and transparency. Working primarily with oil on canvas, she develops chromatic fields and subtle gradients where shapes appear, dissolve, and recompose in a constant play of contrast and harmony. Her practice is deeply rooted in the expressive power of color, which she treats both as matter and emotion.
Beyond the studio, she also creates large-scale projects in public spaces, integrating painting into urban environments and fostering unexpected encounters between art and everyday life. Inspired by the bold creativity of Niki de Saint Phalle and the organic sensibility of Georgia O’Keeffe, her work oscillates between strength and delicacy, structure and fluidity.
The publication of Palettes with Snap Collective marks an important step in her journey, offering a new way to share her artistic universe with a broader audience.
Laura Benson
Laura Benson (b. 1997, Birmingham, AL) is a multidisciplinary artist and jewelry maker. She received a BFA in drawing from the University of Alabama in Birmingham in 2019 before completing her MFA in painting and drawing at the University of Colorado Boulder in 2023. Through a variety of mediums, some of which include printmaking, spun cotton, soldering and metalcasting, Benson’s artwork is fixated on the surreal and cyclical elements of storytelling. Focusing on themes and archetypes of folklore and religious mythology, she works to express personal sentiments while simultaneously calling upon archaic collective experiences.
Emma Coyle
[b. 1981 Dublin, Ireland] A mid-career artist, Coyle has been progressing her figurative paintings for over 20 years. As an avid reader, many art genres have inspired her work over the years. Her current figurative work focuses on the use of current print magazine imagery and advertisements, to produce painterly images of a Fine Art quality. Combining primary and secondary line work with ideas in abstraction, minimalism and use of negative space.
Coyle has received a plethora of awards throughout her career. Most notably, she is a recipient of the International Art Market’s Gold List award, ‘Top international contemporary artist of today’, ‘Recommended artist to invest in and to be inspired by’. In 2025 Coyle was awarded the Collectors Art Prize – Art Legends of Our Time from Contemporary Art Curators Magazine in Dubai, for artists whose art ‘has made a profound impact and is recognized as part of the living history of art’.
Darian Mederos
Darian Mederos (b. 1992, Santa Clara, Cuba) is a Cuban-Spanish artist currently living and working in Spain after spending ten formative years in Florida, United States. His artistic practice is rooted in the human face as a universal and symbolic territory. He works in oil on linen to explore the fragile balance between identity and appearance. In his acclaimed Obscura series, he depicts faces partially veiled by a hyper-realistic bubble-wrap effect — this translucent barrier both distorts and protects, becoming a metaphor for collective and individual vulnerability. Through this tension between intimacy and distance, he invites the viewer to become both observer and mirror, reflecting not only what is seen, but what lies beneath. It is a privilege for him to collaborate with Snap Collective and to share this journey with its community.
Diego Orlando
Diego Orlando is a contemporary visual artist from Spain (b. 1968) whose work is defined by Baroque Technopictorialism. Commencing his dedication to photography in his 50s, his practice is marked by a unique visual maturity and conceptual rigor spanning nearly a decade.
His aesthetic is a dramatic dialogue with the light and shadow of the great Spanish and Italian masters of chiaroscuro (Caravaggio, Goya), aiming to elevate photography to the status of timeless painting. His series explore the human form and landscape with a focus on perpetual themes, infusing each image with a solemnity and symbolic depth that resonates with European pictorial tradition.
His limited-edition prints are designed as investment pieces: produced in large format on rigid museum-grade supports (Acrylic/Dibond) and executed using the LaChrome process, ensuring maximu
Rebecca Dorothy
Rebecca Dorothy is a Roman photographer, based in Paris since 2019.
Since childhood she has cultivated a passion for photography. As she got older she started to get closer to the world of erotic and nude photography and this is what led her to move to Berlin in 2014, in order to better and freely express herself with her art.In her work she explores the body and the sensuality in an overwhelming sea of colors. Her shots tell stories that blend reality and fantasy, love and passion, nudity and fashion. Through her self-portrait projects, she explores an authentic relationship with her own body, addressing themes such as body shaming and the reconciliation with one’s self-image. Through self-portraiture, the artist investigates the vulnerability and strength of female identity, turning photography into an act of self-acceptance and resistance to social norms. Rebecca has participated in numerous group exhibitions in Rome, Berlin, Paris, Lyon, Lisbon, Barcelona, Oslo, Athens, Stuttgart, Bogota, Quito, Turin , London and Agrigento.
Sabrina Kleinas
Sabrina Kleinas is a French-German fine art photographer known for capturing timeless underwater beauty. Since childhood water has been her paradise — a place of freedom, weightlessness and renewal.
She developed her visual language in London, Paris and Rio through portrait and fashion photography. Since 2016, she has specialized in underwater imagery, drawn to its poetic, ethereal worlds beneath the surface. Based in Mallorca, her creations explore transformation, emotion and the human connection to nature.
Her images have been showcased at international events, including Les Rencontres d’Arles and PHOTO L.A. In 2024, she published her debut photo book Blossoming Women — a tribute to feminine beauty, grace and iconoclastic strength.
Matete Martini
Matete Martini is a visual artist whose work explores identity, memory, and perception through photography and installation. Born in Italy, she developed a deep interest in visual storytelling from an early age. Her practice draws on personal experience and social observation, creating dialogues between the individual and their surroundings. Martini invites the viewer to reflect on the complexity of human relationships and the fluidity of our realities. Her work is characterized by an intimate approach and meticulous attention to detail, aiming to evoke emotion and encourage contemplation.
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Sarah Zak
Analog Fine Art Photography. With a background in high-end makeup artistry, she moved beyond constructed perfection to seek something more honest — sensuality that is unfiltered, presence that is authentic. Working primarily with analog film, her work explores sensuality, identity, and the sculptural nature of the human form. In her editorial and fine art photography, she embraces imperfection and evokes emotional depth. Through her gaze, women are not objects but subjects — uniquely seen, felt, luminous, and wholly themselves, living works of art. Her work pushes back against the male gaze that dominates artistic nude photography. Instead of objectification, she captures moments of intimacy, playfulness, and power — created in collaboration with her subjects. Zak celebrates women as they are: strong, independent, and fully seen. Her newest obsession is fine art prints on mirror, inviting the viewer to become part of her work of art. Her art is part of various private art collections around the globe.
Reed Davis
Once described by Martha Stewart Living as one of New York’s “best kept secrets,” Reed Davis has spent decades capturing the quiet beauty in everyday life. His photography began in the world of lifestyle and design, creating imagery for brands such as Pottery Barn, Williams Sonoma, and Martha Stewart Living, but over time it evolved into a more personal exploration—one that led him across Africa, where he found inspiration in the colors, textures, and spirit of the people he met. His recent book and exhibition, Textures of Humanity, reflect that journey: a celebration of culture, craft, and connection. For Reed, photography isn’t about perfection, but presence—the shared rhythm that reminds us what it means to be human.
Andreas Ortner
Still passionate about photography after nearly twenty years in the fashion industry, Andreas Ortner focuses on creating depth and emotion in every image rather than simply taking a picture. His journey began with an analogue Pentax, and working with film taught him patience, precision, and the value of truly thinking through each shot. These lessons continue to shape his digital work, where he approaches every frame with the same care and intention.
He has had the opportunity to travel and photograph across the US, Europe, and Asia, collaborating with inspiring creatives along the way. Today, based between Munich and Prague, Andreas continues to explore how light, composition, and imagination can turn an image into a story that resonates.
Roberta Krasnig
Roberta Krasnig is an Italian photographer whose work explores the intersection of fashion, beauty, and celebrity portraiture. Dividing her time between Rome and Milan, she has developed a distinctive style that merges elegance with intimacy, creating images that feel both timeless and contemporary.
Her photography has been featured in leading international publications including Grazia, Elle Arabia, Marie Claire Arabia, L’Officiel Brazil, Vanity Fair Italia, and more. She has collaborated with some of the most iconic fashion and luxury brands, from Gucci, Chanel, and Fendi to Cartier, Bulgari, Bottega Veneta and Tiffany & Co.
Beyond fashion, Roberta is regarded as one of Italy’s most respected celebrity photographers, capturing both national icons and international stars such as Natalie Portman and May Calamawy.
In 2024, she published The Moment, an anthology that celebrates two decades of work, revealing her ongoing pursuit of emotional depth and the soul behind every subject.
Jamie Fishman
Jamie Fishman is an American photographer born in 1954 and based in New York and Martha’s Vineyard. For the past 45 years he has been making photographic images as a largely self-taught photographer. Jamie grew up watching his father print black and white pictures in their basement darkroom. He learned from viewing and exploring the work of hundreds of photographers, in print, museums, books, magazines and galleries and shooting thousands of images, coupled with workshops with professional photographers. His color work has been inspired by Joel Meyrowitz, Stephen Shore, Irving Penn and Jay Meisel among others. His black and white photography has been inspired by Elliott Erwitt, Diane Arbus, Gary Winogrand, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Robert Frank and Edward Weston.
Jamie’s work spans several major genres; landscape, portrait, documentary, photojournalism and fine art. He shoots what he sees and what inspires him. He is a believer in using photography to illustrate the real world, both the beautiful, the gritty and the mundane.
In 2024 Jamie’s book “American Protest-Images from the Streets” was published by Snap-Collective.com. (https://shop.snap-collective.com/en-us/products/protest-by-jamie-fishman?_pos=1&_sid=1ce4361b9&_ss=r) The book contains 120 black and white images he shot at political protests from 1986-2004, primarily in New York City and Washington, DC. His book is particularly timely given today’s political climate and the growing reaction to authoritarianism in the US. The book was profiled by the Vineyard Gazette at https://vineyardgazette.com/news/2025/01/16/photographic-journey-protests and the MV Times at https://www.mvtimes.com/2025/02/26/photographing-american-protests/
Photo Credit: David Lubarsky Photography
Jack Waterlot
Jack Waterlot was born in Paris with the arts embedded in his DNA. Jack’s acclaimed Cinematic Set Designer father and prominent painter mother set the path for a life focused on all things visual. At a very young age Jack began capturing the beauty of people, places and their cultures throughout the world as he traveled with his family. During his teens this growing passion for photography organically lead to an introduction to fashion while living in the one of the world’s hubs for design, Paris. This culture of couture and talent has made Jack one of the youngest and most sought after contemporary fashion photographers. Now Jack is residing in New York City.
In this video we interviewed Jack on his iconic works and creative process.
Steffen Mumm
The artist Steffen “Hoker” Mumm lives and works in Düsseldorf. His distinctive style is a combination of graffiti, calligraphy, illustration and painting, which he has explored in various media and materials over many years in an experimental approach. With each brushstroke, each spray-painted line, each sculpted object, he not only explores his own identity and personal growth, but also invites viewers to engage with the various facets of being human. Trademark objects are the “Heads,” which he has focused on in recent years. Their tension and emotionality arise from the fact that the artist creates them as intuitively and spontaneously as he does with attention to detail and technical precision. The heads and their expression are individual and at the same time subordinated to a unifying system. They are as multi-layered as human existence. Hoker’s artworks invite us to dive into ourselves and discover the inner core that connects us all.
MANNBUTTE
Mann is a fashion photographer and a film director based in Dubai. His work has been published and exhibited in acclaimed magazines & books worldwide. He is known for his warm tones, modern & sophisticated style, sometimes breaking into quirky edgy portraiture work; seen in British Vogue, Vogue Arabia, Numero, Harper’s Bazaar, Schon Magazine, Stylist Magazine, Grazia & many others. His campaign work for young and upcoming designers have a sense of depth helping them to express and create their own identity. He has worked with some of the leading brands: Chanel, Gucci, Loui Vuitton, Dior, Valentino, Bottega Venetta, Celine, Lanvin & many more. Mann has worked with known celebrities such as Rita Ora, Adut Akech, Ruth Not May, Myriam Fares, Younis Bendija, Huda Kattan and many others.
Vincent Junier
Born in 1964 and inspired by his friend’s father —a still life photographer— Vincent starts practicing photography very early at the age of 17. During several years he specializes in portrait and still life photography for press and magazines. In 1993 he decides to pursue a new path: switching to graphic design within the press industry and, later-on, further elaborating his conceptual skills as a creative director for communication agencies. For the past 5 years, he finally decides to come back to his first passion — still life photography. By developing ways to play with the lighting and his unique ability for proportions and compositions, Vincent turns whatever he captures through his lens into a desirable object. As a self-taught photographer, most of his qualities derive from not being constrained by school-taught rules. His work combines artistic simplicity and fresh aesthetic, often with a touch of oddness.
Joonhong Min
Joonhong Min (b. 1984, Korea) is a London- and Seoul-based multimedia artist whose work explores the layered complexities of urban environments, memory, and impermanence.
He holds a BFA and MFA in Painting from Seoul National University and an MFA with Distinction in Fine Art Media from the Slade School of Fine Art, University College London. His practice bridges drawing, video, installation, and site-specific interventions, often capturing the tension between industrial structures and fleeting moments of human presence.
Min’s solo exhibitions include Abysmal Orbit (Youngeun Museum of Contemporary Art, Korea, 2024), Collapsed Capital (The Bernhardts Art Gallery, Berlin, 2020), Future’s Present (SPACE Gallery, London, 2018), and Urban Methodology (The Consulate of South Korea Project Space, Milan, 2016). His work has also been featured in institutional group shows such as Dans le cœur de la vague at the Korean Cultural Centre France in Paris (2023) and the duo exhibition Rendered Reality at the Korean Cultural Centre UK in London (2020).
He has participated in notable international residencies including the coGalleries AIR Program in Berlin (2020), the NARS Foundation AIR in New York (2019), and The London Summer Intensive at Camden Art Centre (2018). Earlier in his career, he was shortlisted for the Jerwood Drawing Prize (2016) and the Ashurst Emerging Artist Prize (2015).
Mimo Khair
Mimo Khair is an American/Lebanese artist currently living in Germany. Mimo was born in Lebanon and migrated at a young age to New York City where she began pursuing her artistic journey. Mimo is a photographer, photo artist and motion designer creating short animations in 2d and 3d. She has been exhibited and published worldwide and is most well known for her portraits of child refugees from Syria, street children from Cambodia, Kinshasa and child soldiers from the Democratic Republic of Congo and Rwanda.
In this book project Solo, Mimo explores the concept of being alone as a creative state of mind. She is haunted by the feeling she gets from seeing a lone person in the middle of an overpopulated planet surrounded by architecture, nature, an empty road, a desert or a piece of art.
Andreea Mitran
Andreea Mitran is a photographer and a visual storyteller based in Bucharest, Romania (though deep down inside, she considers Italy’s Mediterranean Coasts as a second home).
She was always fascinated by the concept of making fading moments of the natural, unscripted beauty (be it of human or natural kind) last forever, in the form of photographs. Her vision is always influenced by all elements that compose the context in which she creates, which is why her approach to the act of creating is never the same.
Her form of expression through photography is in constant bloom, in conjunction with her self-growth as a woman, a motive that is mirrored in her work. Portraiture is her preferred genre, but you will never encounter portraiture works that lack a heartfelt tribute to nature, daylight, and human emotion. At the conjunction of these elements, lies her vision on photography.
Mira Nedyalkova
Mira Nedyalkova is a Bulgarian visual artist best known for her underwater and erotic photography. Nedyalkova was born in Sofia, Bulgaria, she received her degree from the National Academy of Arts in Sofia. Around 2012 Nedyalkova started doing mostly water and underwater shots. This type of fine-art photography was not yet mainstream, and Nedyalkova’s imaginative surreal concepts caught the attention of the art scene, which lead to her works being published in international art magazines, book and album covers.
Traci Martin
Traci Wright Martin is an award-winning charcoal and mixed media artist residing in the U.S. in Greenville, South Carolina. Her work is featured in a number of prestigious art magazines and publications and has been acquired by private and public collectors, both internationally and throughout the U.S. A selection of her original pieces have been curated into the Lunar Codex, a series of permanent time capsules to reside permanently on the moon. The project houses an archive of thousands of works representing artists around the world.
The overall narrative in Martin’s portrait and figurative work addresses the philosophical layers of representation and exploration, weaving contemporary realism with abstract design elements. Her pioneering approach to mixed media utilizes charcoal as the foundation and brings in endless combinations of paint, patterned paper collage and other experimental techniques to the finished design.
Nassia Stouraiti
Nassia Stouraiti is a Greek photographer born in 1998. She’s currently located in Athens. She studied Law at the National Kapodistrian University of Athens and has a minor degree in Communication. At the age of nine she started taking photos and in 2010 she had her first individual exhibition of photography in Rhodes. During her school years, two more exhibitions followed, in 2012 and 2016, both located in Rhodes, Greece. On November 2021, Nassia participated in the international exhibition of “Image Nation Paris” in Paris, France, that took place in the “Galerie Joseph Turenne”. One of her self-portraits was chosen as the main poster of the exhibition. Following Paris, she was invited, this year 2023, by the same host, to participate in the international exhibition in New York, USA, that took place in the oldest gallery of New York, “Soho Photo Gallery” in Soho, New York.
Fifty of her photos have been accepted in the VOGUE Italia’s archive known as “Photo Vogue”. She has also worked with brands such as Adidas and Yves Saint Laurent and her photography was in the pages of several magazines including “VOGUE Greece” and “Instyle Greece”. Finally, a self portrait of hers has become the cover of a literature book published by “Harpers Collins Germany”.
Nina Nayko
I was born in a small country Georgia. I discovered my love for photography when I was 13 years old, I noticed that I was seeing the world differently than people around me. I was always subconsciously observing my surroundings and finding something meaningful in even very simple and sometimes boring reality. I wanted others to see what I see and to feel what I feel, so I started capturing each special moment and sharing it to others. My photography is about observing surroundings, wherever I am, I’m looking for compositions and getting the positive energy, or just a special feeling from them. I love capturing beauty of the nature, and the mood and atmosphere of my city Tbilisi. With my photography I want to teach others to see the world like I do, to find happiness in the simplicity, not only the beauty of nature, but also the gray concrete cities some of us live in.
Petra Gerwers
„Schon mit 9 Jahren hatte Petra Gerwers ihre erste Kamera und seitdem hat sie gespürt, dass ihr das Medium Fotografie etwas ganz Außerordentliches bieten kann: einen unmittelbaren Dialog mit der sie umgebenden Welt ohne das Gesehene einer begrifflichen Logik unterordnen zu müssen. Vertrauend auf einer intuitiven Wahrnehmung entwickelt sie in verschiedenen fotografischen Projekten eine sehr persönliche, subjektive Bildsprache. So ist ihre Serie Applause to Life aus dem Jahr 2019 eine Hymne an das Leben. Wechselnde Perspektiven und Formate fügen sich in einer dynamischen Bildsequenz auf farbigen Hintergründen zu einem psychedelisch wirkenden Roadtrip zusammen. Mythos und Realität, Erdung und Überhöhung ringen in einem visuellen Sog permanent miteinander. Dabei entsteht eine rauschhafte Wahrnehmung der Welt, die aber bei einem zweiten Blick auch eine reflexive Betrachtung möglich macht. Die oft skurril wirkenden Kombinationen von kuriosen Einblicken in zeitgenössisches Leben evozieren eine neugierige Hinterfragung. Die glückliche Verschmelzung von Pathos und Ironie feiert das Leben ohne dabei einer unkritischen Idealisierung zu verfallen. Die Fotografie spielte für Petra Gerwers auch bei ihrer früheren Arbeit als Fachlehrerin für geistig- und körperbehinderte Kinder eine wichtige Rolle. Dieses Medium kann für sie am besten ihre Passion befriedigen, Verbindungen zu Menschen herzustellen und diese wiederum mit anderen Menschen zusammenzubringen. Kommunikation bildet das zentrale Motiv ihres Handelns und das ist auch die Grundlage für ihr Fotoprojekt „Zeitreisende”, bei dem sie Menschen eine Plattform gibt, eine Stimme und Sichtbarkeit. Wesentlich bei ihrer Portraitfotografie ist dabei, dass sie kein eindeutiges Bild ihrer Protagonist*innen schaffen will. In fotografischen Aufnahmen mit vielschichtigen Spiegelungen werden die Menschen von einer statischen Repräsentanz ihrer Persönlichkeit befreit und erlauben einen Blick hinter die Fassade. Die Kombination der entstandenen Porträts mit Kinderbildern der Abgebildeten und Briefen, die diese an sich selbst als Kind schreiben, verdeutlicht das Kerninteresse der Fotografin, mit einem neugierigen Blick auf die Welt diese nicht anhalten zu wollen, sondern in allem Beziehungsgeflechte zu sehen, die in einem lebendigen Prozess einer ständigen Wandlung unterworfen sind.”
Text von Wolfgang Zurborn
Shigenari Kimura
Shigenari Kimura Born on November 15, 1979. Born in Hiroshima, Japan. After 10 years of working as an undergrad, he established Legare in 2011. He also started to use a camera during this period. Established L.D.S (Legare. Design. Shooting) in 2013. In 2020, he will open his second Emma salon, and in 2022, his third Emma ol (Emma e). She is active in a wide range of activities, including lecturing as a beauty technician and working as a photographer.
Mara Troeger
Mara Troeger, 36, born in Düsseldorf with French-Guyanese heritage, is a photographic artist who has established herself as an artist in Düsseldorf since 2013.
As a master of black-and-white photography, she imparts timeless elegance to portraits, capturing not only the external appearance of the depicted individuals but also their internal stories and emotions.
With her remarkable sensitivity to light and shadow, she creates a play of contrasts that is not only visually appealing but also establishes an atmosphere of intimacy and authenticity.
Her works are characterized by an extraordinary artistic vision.
Troeger employs her art to engage with socio-critical issues. Her works often represent a powerful combination of visual aesthetics and profound messages. She uses photography and conceptual art as a means to draw attention to social injustices, discrimination, and prejudices.
Her works serve as a call for reflection and dialogue on important social issues that are often overlooked or ignored.
Neil Dankoff
Neil Dankoff is a Film & Communications graduate from McGill University. Neil started displaying his limited edition photographs with the prestigious Lonsdale Gallery back in 2009. The gallery promoted large solo shows of Neil’s work for the next 5 years. In 2015, Neil opened his first gallery in Montreal. The following year Dankoff was chosen for a project that would result in the largest fine art photography commission in Canadian history. Dankoff traveled the globe for three years to complete the commission of 800 original photos for Hotel X Toronto.
Marcus Cederberg
Marcus Cederberg is a minimalist photographer from Sweden. Channelling a sense of calm, Marcus Cederberg translates society’s intrinsic need for a slower pace into minimalist photographs. The Swedish artist’s outlook on life is thereby converted into colours, contrasts, and negative space.
Leonardo Condor
Leonardo Cóndor is an Ecuadorian artist, based in Mallorca. He is a self-taught photographer who, since he was a child, has had a passion for art and drawing, especially pencil sketches. The artist likes to improvise and let the personality of each model flow. He opts for artistic nudes, especially in black and white, because for him it represents the strength and beauty of the human body. He focuses mainly on the female body, which expresses the elegance and purity of nature. Leonardo’s photographs create a visual impact while being both elegant and subtle, always trying to immerse the viewer in the instant of the photograph. Without being influenced by the canons of technical photography, he feels free to create and try to go beyond the ordinary. He likes aesthetics, symmetry, minimalism, black and white and tries to capture these concepts in his work.
Wolfgang Sohn
Wolfgang Sohn is a Düsseldorf based photographer, photo artist, curator, lecturer and moderator of the Düsseldorf Kulturtalk. Versatility characterizes his work. A magazine once headlined him as ‘Building bridges with photos’, because Sohn is also founder and creative director of an international fair for contemporary photography and brings people together through photo art.
In his photographic work, too, he has devoted himself primarily to photo art since 2010. This has resulted in series from New York and India, Myanmar and other Asian countries with a focus on portraiture and visibility of people.
Sohn presented his works in many solo and group exhibitions.
