Photographer #075: Platon

Platon Antoniou, UK/Greece, 1968, is a portrait photographer. His images have been on the covers of Time, New York Times Magazine, Rolling Stone and many more. In 2004 his book Platon's Republic was released. He has taken portraits of politicians, moviestars, fashion designers aswell as Greek people and soldiers. Platon lives in New York and works as a staff photographer for The New Yorker. The following images are various examples of his photography.

Website: www.platonphoto.com

Photographer #065: Stephan Vanfleteren

Stephan Vanfleteren, Belgium, 1969, is a black and white photographer. He is well known for his portraits of musicians and other creative people, but also for his stories from around the globe, ranging from his region of origin Flandrien to various conflict zones as Afghanistan and Kosovo. His portfolio contains a large body of work showing a very distinct signature of Stephan. The following images are from his portraits, followed by the series Flandrien and Waiting for the promised land: Ethiopia.

Website: www.stephanvanfleteren.com
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Photographer #063: Jill Greenberg

Jill Greenberg, Canada, 1967, lives and works in the USA. She is also known as the "manipulator" because she digitally manipulates her photographs. Her body of work is vast, containing personal projects, commissioned work and a large number of portraits. An example of a project is End Times, a series of pictures in which toddlers cry. Simple and pure emotion. She has also photographed various animals, such as bears and monkeys and then manipulated the images. The following images come from the series End Times, Monkey Portraits and some examples of her human portraits.

Website: www.manipulator.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 #050: Christopher Wahl

Christopher Wahl, Canada/USA, 1972, is in the first place a portrait photographer. He has had a wide range of people in front of his Hasselblad. Examples are: Queen Elizabeth, Prince Charles, Mick Jagger, Peter Beard, David Lynch and Jane Jacobs. The images are strong, honest captures of the portrayed.

Wahl also works on projects. He made pictures in Disneyworld and in North Huron that are double exposed inside the camera. Another project focuses on people working in the news business.

Website: www.christopherwahl.com

Photographer #041: Brian Smith

Brian Smith, USA, 1959, is most known for his celebrity portrait photography. When looking at his collection we see a vast number of Hollywood stars portrayed by Smith. Recently he has been working on a project called Art & Soul. Portraits of celebrities with personal notes on how exposure to arts positively impacted their lives. These photographs will be collected in a coffee table book and was already presented to the White House to lobby for more funding for the arts and art education.

On his website we find a large number of portraits in the category Fine Art, displaying once again the large number of people that have worked with Brian.

Website: www.briansmith.com