Category: Biography

Nick Knight

Nick Knight is a British fashion photographer, documentary photographer, and web publisher. His first book of photographs, ‘Skinheads’, was published in 1982, whilst a student at Bournemouth. He was then commissioned by i-D editor Terry Jones to create a series of 100 portraits for the magazine’s fifth anniversary issue. As a result of those black-and-white [...]

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Posted in Biography, critique on Apr 16th, 2011, 5:39 am by admin     

Terry Richardson

Terry Richardson is an international celebrity as well as one of the most prolific and compelling photographers of his generation. Known for his uncanny ability to cut to the raw essence of whomever appears before his lens, Mr. Richardson’s vision is at once humorous, tragic, often beautiful, and always provocative. Born in New York City [...]

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Posted in Biography, Fashion photographers on Mar 13th, 2011, 6:01 pm by admin     

Walter Chin

Walter Chin was born in Jamaica, but spent much of his life in Toronto, Canada, where he attended art school. After studying painting, he discovered his passion for photography and film, and decided to make his degree in photographic arts. After graduation, he moved to Paris, where he began his career as professional fashion photographer. [...]

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Posted in Biography on Oct 5th, 2010, 9:44 am by admin     

David Sims

David Sims begun working as a photographer in 1989 after a number of years assisting his first editorial stories appeared in the face and i-d and his defiantly casual grunge style soon became recognized. It was at this time he shot what was to become a very influential campaign in his career for Yohji Yamamoto. [...]

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Posted in Biography on Apr 4th, 2009, 9:17 pm by admin     

Bob Richardson

Bob Richardson (1928 – December 5, 2005, in Manhattan, New York) was an American fashion icon. He is credited with bringing a street aesthetic  into fashion photography. His influence is evident in major fashion publications to this day.

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Posted in Biography on Apr 4th, 2009, 1:05 pm by admin     

Brian Keith

New York City born and raised photographer Brian Keith’s editorial began as a “Surface Magazine   “Avant Garde” winner and a recipient of the art direct “Fabien Baron” Harper’s Bazaar’s First Annual Talent Search contest. Mid 90s Keith moved to Miami and undertook his photography apprenticeship/education in the fashion industry. Keith moved back to New York [...]

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Peter Lindbergh

One of the most respected and widely emulated photographers working today, Peter Lindbergh has been described as a “poet of glamour.” Since 1978, when Stern Magazine published his first series of fashion photographs, his work has been published by every major international fashion magazine and commissioned for the influential campaigns of the worlds leading fashion [...]

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Posted in Biography on Jan 11th, 2009, 9:13 pm by admin     

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