Photographer #377: Hein-Kuhn Oh

Hein-Kuhn Oh, 1963, South-Korea, received a B.A. from Brooks Institute of Photography in Santa Barbara and an M.F.A. at Ohio University in Athens, Ohio. His career started as a documentary photographer capturing the social landscapes on the streets. However in the last decade he concentrated on documenting specific groups of people that present a certain type of convention created by the Korean society. His series Ajumma contains a large selection of portraits that show middle-aged Korean women. In 2001 he started the Girl's Act series which consists of images of high school girls photographed between 2001 and 2004 and a series called Cosmetic Girls that he worked on between 2005 and 2009. For Cosmetic Girls he portrayed girls wearing make-up that he met on the streets, intrigued by the duality in the Korean society of the 'subject and object of desire'. The project deals with the common notions and stereotypes that are influenced by the entertainment media in Korean society. Hein-Kuhn has released four monographs and exhibited his work at a large number of venues around the globe. The following images come from the series Cosmetic Girls, Girl's Act: Highschool Girls and Ajumma.

Website: www.heinkuhnoh.com

Photographer #330: Fernando Moleres

Fernando Moleres, 1963, Spain, is a socially engaged photojournalist based in Barcelona. He started his working career as a nurse. In the beginning of his photographic career he combined his nursing work with long periods travelling and doing photographic projects. He travels extensively to various countries in Africa, the Middle-East and Asia covering stories on gender inequality, various forms of religion, traditional bathing rituals and juveniles in prison. In 2000 he released Stolen Childhood showing the story of child labour in black and white photographs. In 2009 his monograph about monastic life called Lifes of Devotion came out. For his recent series Juveniles in Prison he was awarded the Daily Life Series award by World Press Photo in 2011. The following images come from the series Juveniles in Prison, Monastic Life and Turkish Baths-Hammam.

Website: www.fernandomoleres.com

Photographer #233: Michael Light

Michael Light, 1963, USA, focuses on aerial photography. He looks at settled and unsettled areas across the USA and explores themes of mapping, human impact on land and environmental issues. He uses a handheld large format camera to make his photographs. He flies the aeroplane himself. He combines the images of each serie into a  narrative sequence and hand-makes mammoth artist's books out of them. Besides his own photography he makes books. Full Moon contains images from NASA's Apollo photographic archive and 100 Suns has images of visible nuclear testing in New Mexico. The following images come from the series White Ranch/Table Mountain/Rooney Valley, Salt River/Deadman Wash/Paradise Valley and Bingham Mine/Garfield Stack.

Website: www.michaellight.net

Photographer #222: Thomas Wrede

Thomas Wrede, 1963, Germany, released his book Anywhere in 2010. It contains images of the series Real Landscapes and Seascapes. In Real Landscapes Wrede plays with reality and perspectives. The large printed images show houses or cars in idealistic yet impossible landscapes. He achieves these mind triggering results with the use of models and a large format camera. A year earlier he released the book Manhattan / Picture Worlds in which he photographs billboards in a clever way, again playing with the ratios. A dialogue evolves between the billboards and their surroundings. The following images come from the series Real Landscapes, Am Meer / Seascapes and Small Worlds.

Website: www.thomas-wrede.de

Photographer #161: Olaf Martens

Olaf Martens, 1963, Germany, has an impressive body of work. He is a fashion and nudes photographer that has found a way to merge various styles of photography into one. His staged photographs have a documentary feel to them. Olaf's images are playful, classy and contain humour. He has been in an amazing amount of solo and group exhibitions worldwide  The following images come from his portfolio's Surface, InterReal and Home Sweet Home.

Website: www.olaf-martens.de

Photographer #157: Tierney Gearon

Tierney Gearon, 1963, USA, made photographic series involving her mother and her children. Her photographs have been called "manipulative, disturbingly ambigious and perverse." When her series I am a Camera, about her two children, was exhibited at the Saatchi Gallery, the London Police demanded to take them down. The images by Tierney are personal, innocent and pure. In her latest project Explosure she stays close to home, taking pictures of her family life and on family trips, but this times she double-exposes her negatives. The following images come from the series Explosure, The Mother Project and I am a Camera.

Website: www.tierneygearon.com

Photographer #156: Nicholas Hughes

Nicholas Hughes, 1963, Great-Britain, "examines the space between the world that people inhabit and that which the nature still claims as its own" in order to "explore the essence of the human spirit and its relationship with nature". His work has appeared at various photo festivals and exhibitions worldwide. He mainly works in London, the British coastline, Germany and Switzerland to make his photographs. The following images come from the series Field Verse II, In Darkness Visible Verse I and Edge Verse II.

Website: www.nicholas-hughes.net

Photographer #142: Chris Jordan

Chris Jordan, 1963, USA, focuses on mass-consumption in his work. He has made a series of images called Running the Numbers. The images look normal at first, but one can zoom in and see that the pictures are made up of thousands of barbies or cigarette packs. (see website) Chris hopes to visualize the amount of goods we consume. In his series Midway: Message from the Gyre he has photographed Albatross chicks that have died because they were being fed waste caused by humans by their parents. Chris has not moved or added anything to the corpses. The following images come from Midway, Intolerable Beauty and In Katrina's Wake.

Website: www.chrisjordan.com

Photographer #105: Simon Norfolk

Simon Norfolk, Great-Britain, 1963, focuses on war and all the consequences that come from it. Instead of showing us the horrors in bloody manors, he chooses to make stunning photographs that look at the aftermaths, the belongings people have lost and the technology behind the wars. In his series Archaeological Teasures from the Tigris Valley he performed excavations at battlefield sites and photographed the objects found in an improvised studio on site. The following images come from the series Afghanistan: Chronotopia, Archaeological Treasures from the Tigris Valley and The LHC: The Spirit of Enquiry.

Website: www.simonnorfolk.com

Photographer #080: Kimiko Yoshida

Kimiko Yoshida, Japan, 1963, has build an impressive body of work that consists of self-portraits. The oppression she felt in her homeland made her leave Japan. About her work and Japan she says the following: "Since I fled my homeland to escape the mortifying servitude and humiliating fate of Japanese women, I amplified, through my art, a feminist stance of protest against contemporary cliches of seduction, against voluntary servitude of women, against "identity" defined by appurtenances and "communities", against the stereotypes of "gender" and the determinism of heredity."
The following images come from the series Paintings Self-Portraits 2010, Blown Glass Symbols 2009 and Self-Portraits 2006-2009.

Website: www.kimiko.fr

Photographer #074: Sabine Pigalle

Sabine Pigalle, France, 1963, first studied French literature before becoming a photo stylist. She has not studied photography but has worked several years for Helmut Newton. These steps in Pigalle's life seem to have been the foundations of the photography she makes today. In 1998 she decided to show her work to the public, this was the start of her photographic carreer. The following images come from the series Ecce Homo, Homo Phobiens and Black Light.

Website: www.sabinepigalle.com

Photographer #060: Jeff Bark

Photographer Jeff Bark, USA, 1963, makes his images look like paintings. In his series Woodpecker he build a scene including a pond in his studio. The photographs a romantic scenes filled with symbolism. In his series Flesh Rainbow we see male and female nudes combined with still-lifes in bizarre positions with items covering their faces. Dark, sometimes comic and sometimes fetishistic. The following photographs come from the series Flesh Rainbow, Woodpecker and Abandon.

Website: www.jeffbark.com

Photographer #055: Pierre Gonnord

French photographer Pierre Gonnord, 1963, works and lives in Spain. He concentrates on people that are considered outsiders, from people that are blind, homeless or gypsies. Inspired by the great painters he portrays the individuals and they are printed in large sizes. He has had exhibitions in various places around the globe. The following photographs come from the series Testigos, Utopicos and Regards.

Website: www.pierregonnord.com

Photographer #008: Thomas Kneubühler

Swiss born photographer Thomas Kneubühler, 1963, now living in Montreal, Canada, was fascinated by the mountains full of light that made night skiing possible. He made the surreal landscapes his subject matter. Night photography of mountains that radiate. He calls this series Electric Mountains.

Earlier he worked on a project called Office 2000. Again a landscape arises of surrealism, although it is very real. The pictures become abstract objects of repetition.

Website: www.thomaskneubuhler.com