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David Benjamin Sherry 

David Sherry is an American photographer and avid darkroom printer who is challenging and reinvigorating the American Western landscape tradition among other classic genres of photography. . His work revolves around interests in the analog film process, environmentalism, color, mysticism, abstraction, human connectedness in the digital age, minimalism and queer politics, and he ultimately aims to reexamine the history of photography. He’s best known for his iconic monochromatic darkroom printed landscapes, a project born from his love of the outdoors and the protected natural landscapes of North America. 

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Parker Day

Parker Day won critical acclaim with her 100-photo portrait series ICONS, which explored issues of identity in colorful fashion. Her work has been exhibited in venues like London's The Square Gallery and been featured on the cover of magazines like Polyester. She grew up in the Bay Area of California and earned her B.F.A. from the Academy of Art University in 2005.

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Paolo Raeli 

Paolo Raeli is an artist born and raised in Palermo, South Italy. Being scared of forgetting things, his main focus became photography; taking pictures of his friends and loved ones mostly.

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Theo McInnes 

Theo McInnes is a 25 year old photojournalist & documentary photographer based in the UK and graduate  from UAL: London College of Communication with an MA in the same subject. His documentary practice is centered around telling the stories of those living on the periphery of society through ways in which such people so effectively and charismatically brush against the grain of the everyday. He has contributed to publications such as VICE, Huck and The Guardian

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Alexander Mourant 

Alexander Mourant was born in Jersey, Channel Islands in 1994. Having studied at Bryanston School he progressed to BA  Photography at Falmouth University, graduating in July 2017. He has previously worked as an intern for Simon Roberts and Nadav Kander. Alexander has also exhibited a variety of work, most notably with CCA Galleries, Mall Galleries and in a duo show with Andy Hughes RCA held at the Royal Geographical Society in London, May – June 2017. 

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Mario Testino 

Mario Testino is widely regarded as one of the most influential fashion and portrait photographers of our times. His photographs have been published internationally in magazines such as Vogue, V Magazine and Vanity Fair. Alongside his 40-year practice as a photographer, Testino has released a body of work as a creative director, guest editor, museum founder, art collector/collaborator and entrepreneur.

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Helmut Newton 

Helmut Newton was born Helmut Neustaedter, in Berlin, Germany in 1920. His early studies were at the American School in Berlin; however by 1936, as his fascination with photography began and his disinterest in school waned, he left school and started an apprenticeship with then renowned photographer Elsie Simon, known as Yva. Celebrated for her elegant fashion, theatre and nude photographs, Yva inspired Newton throughout his career.

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Lars von Trier

Lars Trier, born 30 April 1956, is a Danish film director and screenwriter with a prolific and controversial career spanning almost four decades. His work is known for its genre and technical innovation; confrontational examination of existential, social, and political issues; and his treatment of subjects such as mercy, sacrifice, and mental health.

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Jean Gaumy

Jean Gaumy, born 1948, is a French photographer and filmmaker who has been associated with Magnum Photos since 1977. Since then, his numerous works on human confinement have been coupled with a more contemplative photographic approach. 

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Raf Simons

Raf Simons, born 12 January 1968, is a Belgian fashion designer. Beginning in furniture design, he launched his own menswear label in 1995. In April 2012 he was announced as the creative director at Christian Dior. On August 2, 2016, Simons was announced as the new chief creative officer at Calvin Klein. 

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Versace

Gianni Versace, born in 1946 in Reggio di Calabria, Italy, became one of the top fashion designers of the 1980s and '90s. He launched his first clothing line in Milan, Italy, in 1978. In 1989, Versace debuted his first couture collection. He continued to add to his fashion empire, expanding into home furnishings and perfumes. Throughout his career, Versace designed for such high-profile figures as Madonna, Princess Diana, Elton John and Tina Turner. He was shot and killed outside his home in South Beach, Florida, in 1997.

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Louis Faurer 

Louis Faurer born on August 28, 1916 – March 2, 2001 was an American candid or street photographer. He was a quiet artist who never achieved the broad public recognition that his best-known contemporaries did; however, the significance and caliber of his work were lauded by insiders, among them Robert Frank, William Eggleston, and Edward Steichen, who included his work in the Museum of Modern Art exhibitions In and Out of Focus (1948) and The Family of Man (1955).

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Vivian Dorothy Maier

Vivian Maier was born February 1, 1926 – April 21, 2009. She was an American street photographer. Maier worked for about forty years as a nanny, mostly in Chicago's North Shore, pursuing photography during her spare time. She took more than 150,000 photographs during her lifetime, primarily of the people and architecture of Chicago, New York City, and Los Angeles, although she also traveled and photographed worldwide.During her lifetime, Maier's photographs were unknown and unpublished; many of her negatives were never printed.

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Ass Pizza

Asspizza or Austin Butts, has developed a reputation for his cartoonish designs, which he scrawls on T-shirts, backpacks — pretty much anywhere — using a Sharpie, ketchup or “anything that leaves a mark.” The attention has paid off: In an interview with Complex’s “The Fashion Bros,” Asspizza said kids will pay more than 200 bucks for one of his hand-drawn T-shirts. Celebrities like Lorde and Wiz Khalifa wear his clothing. 

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Vincent Ferrane 

After the birth of his first child, photographer Vincent Ferrane was wowed by the “beauty” of breastfeeding, and the connection between his wife and their son. He decided to capture those moments and the feelings involved — joyful, exhausted, fulfilled — and create a photo series celebrating the primal act of feeding a child.

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Marina Abramović

Marina Abramović, born November 30, 1946, Belgrade, Yugoslavia. The Yugoslav-born performance artist is known for works that dramatically tested the endurance and limitations of her own body and mind. Active for over four decades, Abramović has been described as the "grandmother of performance art." She pioneered a new notion of identity by bringing in the participation of observers, focusing on "confronting pain, blood, and physical limits of the body."

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Björk Guðmundsdóttir 

Bjork, born 21 November 1965, is an Icelandic singer, songwriter, actress, record producer, and DJ. She had an exhibit in the MoMA in 2015. The exhibition draws from more than 20 years of the artist’s daring and innovative projects and her eight full-length albums to chronicle her career through sound, film, visuals, instruments, objects, and costumes.