Photographer #443: Myriam Abdelaziz

Myriam Abdelaziz, 1976, is a French photographer of Egyptian origins and born in Cairo. Her career started in the marketing field in which she worked for seven years after having studied Political Science and Journalism. She decided to pursue a career in photography and graduated from the International Center of Photography in New York in 2006. Since then her work has been published in prestigious magazines as Newsweek, Time Magazine and Eyemazing. She is mainly working on documentary and portraiture stories in the Middle East and Africa. Her work often focuses on current matters as the hardships of the people from Darfur living in Egypt and the revolution in Egypt. She concentrated on the horrific effects of the Rwandan genocide on its survivors who were merely children at the time they were mutilated. She heard the upsetting stories of the victims but was equally shocked by the lack of response from the world community as they are still not getting surgery or psychiatric help. The following images come from the series Egyptian Revolt, Portrait of a Genocide and Darfuris in Cairo.

Website: www.myriamabdelaziz.com

Photographer #436: Corey Arnold

Corey Arnold, 1976, USA, is an Alaskan commercial fisherman as well as a documentary photographer. He received a BFA in photography at the Academy of Art University in San Francisco. In 2011 he released the book Fish-Work: The Bering Sea which includes images that were made between 2003 and 2010 while he was working as a deckhand on the Bering Sea crabber f/v Rollo. The series Fish-Work doesn't stop there, it is a life long project and has also taken him to various European countries capturing the lifestyle of fishermen. One of his latest series is Wolf Tide which includes a mixture of experiences as a fisherman, rural encounters with unsuspecting wildlife and dramatic landscapes. Nowadays he captains a wild salmon gillnetting operation in Bristol Bay while working on photo assignments and gallery exhibitions in the off season. His work has appeared in numerous magazines as The New Yorker, Esquire and Juxtapoz. In 2009 he was named one of the PDN's top 30 emerging photographers. The following images come from the series Wolf Tide, Fish-Work Bering Sea and Graveyard Point.

Website: www.coreyfishes.com

Photographer #415: Thomas Locke Hobbs

Thomas Locke Hobbs, 1976, USA, is a photographer who has been based in Buenos Aires since 2008. Although his background is in economics and finance he decided to dedicate himself full-time to photography in 2008. He started following numerous workshops in order to further his technical skills as well as to define what photography is to him. Thomas works in a very exploratory manner, investigating the city he lives in from various different perspectives. His conceptual series are the work of an organized photographer who looks at the city as an outsider. His series Ochava Solstice is a collection of large format photographs showing the corners of numerous buildings. In the early 20th century the government mandated that buildings on corners in Buenos Aires have diagonal edges to improve visibility for cars. However, from the 1960's onwards, the economic imperatives of real estate development demanded maximum square footage. The ground floors are diagonal edge, the floors above have square edges. This way of building leaves a triangular shadow which tracks the sun as a sun dial would. The following images come from the series Ochava Solstice, Riverbank and Chalet Porteño.

Website: www.thomaslockehobbs.com

Photographer #359: Zoriah

Zoriah Miller, 1976, USA, is a photojournalist with a large portfolio. He has covered many disaster zones, social issues and conflict zones in numerous countries. Besides his photographic career he worked as a Humanitarian Volunteer, Disaster Response Volunteer and Disaster Technology Specialist for many years. Between 2005 and 2008 he worked as an embedded military photographer and photojournalist with the US Marine Corps, US Army and the Afghan National Army. He has extensively covered the conflicts in the Gaza strip, Afghanistan and Iraq. Amongst his humanitarian clients are organizations as Unicef, The International Red Cross and Docters without Borders. His work has appeared in numerous magazines and newspapers as Newsweek, The New York Times and The International Herald Tribune. Zoriah's work is direct, socially engaged and full of emotion. The following images come from the stories Afghan National Army, Aids in Asia and Architecture of War.

Website: www.zoriah.com

Photographer #338: Espen Rasmussen

Espen Rasmussen, 1976, Norway, is a photojournalist and documentary photographer who also works as a picture editor at the biggest Norwegian newspaper. He has traveled extensively throughout the world for his stories, from Brazil to Nepal and from Darfur to Italy. Recently he released the book Transit. He concentrated for several years focusing on the lives of several men and women of the more than 43 million people in the world today that are on the run due to war, political persecution and repression or ethnic conflicts. It documents the people that have embarked on a journey to find a safer haven and a better life. It contains stories from Congo, Colombia, Chad, Bangladesh, Yemen, Serbia, Afghanistan, Syria, Georgia and Norway. Espen won many awards for his photographic work and has been published in many of the major magazines and newspapers. The following images come from the series The many faces of Ukraine, No Way Back, Yemen and Georgia: The Aftermath.

Website: www.espenrasmussen.com & www.transit-project.com

Photographer #258: Kanako Sasaki

Kanako Sasaki, 1976, Japan, is a conceptual photographer who also uses video for her projects. She travels all over the world to work on her photographic stories. She often uses herself as an actor in her photographs. Since 2001 she has exhibited throughout the world. In her series Walking in the Jungle, which was created after she read the Diary of Anne Frank, she recreates historical events and mixes them with her own memories and imagination. In this way she creates situations that are not fiction, yet they are not non-fiction either. In the series Wanderlust she explored her own imaginative world, influenced by Japanese novels, her own memories and Ukiyo-e paintings. The following images come from the series Walking in the Jungle, Ukiyo 1 - The World of Groping and Wanderlust.

Website: www.kanakosasaki.com

Photographer #252: Jeroen Hofman

Jeroen Hofman, 1976, The Netherlands, is an editorial and commercial photographer who also focuses on his personal work. He is currently in the process of self-publishing his book Playground, which should be released towards the end of 2011. Playground is a long-term project in which he photographed training facilities where members of the fire brigade, the police force and the ministry of defense are getting prepared for various situations. Jeroen often takes an elevated position with the use of a platform crane while shooting his large-format images of these orchestrated scenarios. In his commercial and editorial work Hofman often focuses on portraiture. The following images come from the series Playground, Beringsea Fishermen and Inferno.

Website: www.jeroenhofman.com

Photographer #227: Meike Nixdorf

Meike Nixdorf, 1976, Germany, is a landscape photographer and video artist. She was educated in photography and video at the International Center of Photography in New York. The photographs in her series The Point of View tell stories about different places she visited between 2006 and 2009. She often photographs the same places but with slight changes as framing or the angle at which an image is taken. Besides her focus on her own personal work Meike joined forces with retoucher and photographer Grit Hackenberg in 2008 photographing architecture, landscapes and interiors. The following images come from Photographs I and II of the series The Point of View and from her portfolio In the Meantime.

Website: www.meikenixdorf.com

Photographer #216: Timm Kölln

Timm Kölln, 1976, Germany, lives and works in Berlin. For many years he has been following cycling races as the Tour the France, Paris - Roubaix and the Giro d'Italia. He is not your ordinary sports photographer, unlike his colleagues that photograph and register the various races with digital equipment, Timm still shoots everything on film. He sees cycling as an aesthetic sport and brings that back in his, mostly black and white, photography. In 2010 he released his book The Peloton. It contains strong images of the riders several seconds after they crossed the finish line. The photographs from the series Lo Stelvio are made with a pinhole camera. The following images come from the portfolio's Dolomiti, The Peloton and Lo Stelvio.

Website: www.timmkoelln.com

Photographer #170: Jehad Nga

Jehad Nga, 1976, USA, is a photojournalist that travels to some of the most dangerous places on this planet. He is one of the few that have covered Somalia extensively. He has been there many times in the last 5 years. Jehad covered stories in Iraq, Darfur and Kenya. In the village Turkana, he photographed the people inside a hut thus removing the harsh environment. He wanted to document the faces of the people that are at risk of dying due to water shortage and starvation. The following images come from the series Turkana, Iraq 2003-2008 - The Wait and In Memoria Del Futuro: Mogadishu 2010.

Website: www.jehadnga.com

Photographer #153: Jacob Aue Sobol

Jacob Aue Sobol, 1976, Denmark, is a documentary photographer. He is a nominee at Magnum Photos. He makes dark, gritty and strong black and white images. In 2004 he released his book Sabine. He lived in a township in Greenland for three years with his girlfriend Sabine and her family. Later he released his book I, Tokyo for which he spent two years in Tokyo. Jacob is currently working in Copenhagen after having been in Bangkok. The following images come from Home, Copenhagen, I, Tokyo and Sabine.

Website: www.auesobol.dk

Photographer #136: Tamara Dean

Tamara Dean, 1976, is an Australian photographer. She is part of the Oculi photographic collective (devoted to illuminating the real lives and stories often overlooked by mainstream media) and works as a staff photographer for the Sydney Morning Herald. Her most recent series of images is This too shall pass, Australia. About the project she says: "These pictures come from the hem of life. From a city broken down. Subjects un-grown-up. I feel as though I am conjuring something in these photographs." Her work has been exhibited at leading galleries in Australia. The following images come from the series This too shall pass, Australia, Divine Rites and Ritualisms.

Website: www.oculi.com.au  & www.agencevu.com

Photographer #131: Stacy Kranitz

Stacy Kranitz, USA, 1976, has done an impressive amount of projects. Amongst her series are stories about Cock fighting, blues singer T-Model Ford and the Dakou of Beijing. The story called The Island is about the Isle the Jean Charles that is slowly disappearing into the Gulf of Mexico mainly because of man's choices made in the past. Stacy has been published in various important magazines with her stories and her portraits. She has had various celebrities in front of her camera. The following images come from her portfolio People and her projects The Lurkers and The Island.

Website: www.stacykranitz.com

Photographer #117: Mathieu Bernard-Reymond

French photographer Mathieu Bernard-Reymond, 1976, examines architecture, people, landscapes and their mutual interactions in his series Disparitions. In the series Intervalles Mathieu uses several images to make his final result. He clones the people walking around in the surroundings and thus playing with our minds, because we may perceive busy and crowded places but when we look closer it touches the theme of emptiness. His series TV is a photographic experiment, shooting images with a analog camera and then adding TV images. The following images come from Disparitions, Intervalles and TV.

Website: www.monsieurmathieu.com

Photographer #116: Erika Larsen

Erika Larsen, USA, 1976, has worked on a project creating photographs and a film of Sami reindeer herders living in the scandinavian arctic. The Sami have adapted to the extremes of the environment for centuries and are the only one's who can own and sell wildlife in Scandinavia. The theme of wildlife and the relationship with humans, the beauty and brutality of the hunt is a theme Erika has extensively researched. In her series The Hunt and Young Blood she has photographed hunters and child hunters in North America. The following images come from Sami, Young Blood and The Hunt.

Website: www.erikalarsenphoto.com

Photographer #092: Brian Finke

Brian Finke, USA, 1976, is a documentary photographer that also works in advertisement for clients such as Heineken and Nike and various editorials. In 2008 his book Flight Attendants came out. He documented the people that choose to work in the skies, before, during and after their trips. In 2003 he released the book 2-4-6-8. He followed American cheerleaders and football players from around 175 different high schools in the US. The following images come from Flight Attendants, 2-4-6-8 and Frat Boys.

Website: www.brianfinke.com
For commercial work: www.trishsouth.com

Photographer #006: Carlos & Jason Sanchez

Two Canadian brothers, Carlos (1976) and Jason (1981) Sanchez make pictures as a team. They work months on a single picture resulting in staged film-like shots. Their photography is all about isolation, fear and tension. They don't work in series, but rather try to put a story into a single picture, but not telling you the end of the story. The pictures are printed in large formats, making them larger than life.

Website: www.thesanchezbrothers.com