Photographer #094: Richard Mosse

Richard Mosse, Ireland, 1980, finds beauty in things that are broken and in a state of decay. He went to Iraq where he made his series Breach and Nomads. He approaches the objects as sculptures instead of acts of war and drama. He has done the same in his series The Fall, where he travelled across the globe to photograph crashed airplanes. In the project Infra, he left for Congo to take images with infrared film. The images are not digitally manipulated. The following images come from Infra, The Fall and Nomads.

Website: www.richardmosse.com
Video by Richard Mosse

Photographer #088: Peter Beste

Peter Beste, USA, 1978, spent seven years photographing an insulated and secretive community. He documented the world of Norwegian Black Metal. His photographs have been combined into the book True Norwegian Black Metal. For many years Beste also worked on a project in Houston, where he documented the outskirts of this city and the people living there, a community of "fiercely independent and often misrepresented individuals." The following images come from the series: Black Metal, Houston I and After Hours.

Website: www.peterbeste.com
(Video in English, but contains some Norwegian parts)

Photographer #084: Zed Nelson

British photographer Zed Nelson, 1968, released his second book called Love Me in 2009. He travelled to 17 countries during a five year period to document the phenomenal global obsession with youth and beauty. In 2001 his seminal book Gun Nation was released. This time he focused on America's deadly love affair with the gun. Zed has a vast archive of stories he has worked on, such as the Ku Klux Klan, Hillbilly Heroin, the French Foreign Legion and more. The following images are from Love Me, Gun Nation and from his archive: Fat Nation.

Website: www.zednelson.com

Photographer #069: Lu Guang

Lu Guang, China, 1961, started with photography at the age of 20 when he was still working in a silk factory. In 1993 he attended the Tsinghua University in Beijing. In 2003 he won first prize at World Press Photo for his story on HIV. He has covered stories on Golddiggers, the SARS epedemic, the Qinghai-Tibet railway and many more. In 2009 he won the W. Eugene Smith grant for his series on pollution in China. The following images are all from Pollution in China.

Unfortunaly Lu Guang does not have a website of his own. For more images visit: http://image.fengniao.com/vision/content/1/122-1.html

Photographer #048: Palani Mohan

Palani Mohan, India, 1967, uses his photography as a means to tell stories. The stories he tells come from various places in Asia and covers various subject matters. For the story on the downfall of the Asian Elephant he traveled to 11 countries in a six year time period. Mohan is represented by Getty Images' Reportage Group, worked for magazines as National Geographic, published several books and currently lives in Malaysia. The following images come from the stories Leap of Faith - The Kumbh Mela, Rice and Vivid - Colours of Asia.

Website: www.palanimohan.com

Photographer #038: Vanessa Winship

Vanessa Winship, Great-Britain, 1960, is a documentary photographer. In her series Sweet Nothings she has been taking photographs of schoolgirls from the borderlands of Eastern Anatolia. She continues to take all photographs in the same way; frontal and with enough distance to capture them from head to toe and still include the surroundings.

Winship now lives in Turkey and focuses on stories on countries around the black sea. The following photographs come from the series Imagened States and Desires: A Balkan Journey 1.

Website: www.vanessawinship.com

Photographer #030: Benjamin Lowy

Benjamin Lowy, 1979, USA, is a photojournalist, but he works different than most journalists. Benjamin has been in various places, ranging from Darfur to Iraq and from Afghanistan to Las Vegas. On his website you can see how vast his portfolio is and how high the level of quality stays. He often takes pictures from the same point of view and thus creating a series. This is visible in the two series from Iraq called Perspectives.

In several countries he has made photographs that he calls storyboards. They consist of multiple photographs put together.

On and between his travels he has recently started to shoot pictures with his Iphone. The results are little pieces of art. Look at the series called VIDI: [w-d]: I SAW.

Website: www.benlowy.com

Photographer #024: Boogie

Vladimir Milivojevich, better known as Boogie, 1969, is a Serbian photographer living in New York. Boogie documents people that live in harsh conditions ranging from drug addicts, skinheads and gangmembers. He has published 5 books until today. His latest release is on his hometown Belgrade. The pictures below are from various series.

Website: www.artcoup.com

Photographer #014: Jonas Bendiksen

Jonas Bendiksen, 1977, is a Norwegian photographer living in New York. He is a photojournalist, but he is more than that. Represented by Magnum he travels around the globe extensively to the most remote places one could find. In 2008 his book The Places we Live was released. A three year project on poverty all over the world. Two years earlier his book Satellites was presented. He worked seven years in various remote places of the former Soviet Union. The following images come from the series The Places we Live and Satellites.

Website: www.jonasbendiksen.com