Gauri Gill
(Chandigarh, India, 1970)
Serie: Notes from the Desert
Gill’s work emphasises her belief in working with and through community, in what she calls “active listening”. For more than two decades, she has been engaged with marginalised communities in the desert of western Rajasthan, and for the past decade also with indigenous artists in Maharashtra.
Gill studied at Delhi College of Art; Parsons School of Design, New York; and Stanford University, California. Her work has been shown internationally, including at Whitechapel Gallery, London (2010), The Wiener Holocaust Library, London (2014); San José Museum of Art, California (2015); and the Kochi-Muziris Biennale in Kerala, India (2016). In 2017, Gill’s work was exhibited at Documenta 14, Athens and Kassel; the 7th Moscow Biennale; Prospect 4, New Orleans; and Centre Pompidou, Paris. It has been shown at Museum Tinguely, Basel (2018); MoMA PS1, New York (2018); the 58th Venice Biennale (2019); National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa (2019); Chobi Mela, Dhaka (2019); and BAMPFA, Berkeley, California (2020).
Gill’s first major survey exhibition opened at Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt, in 2022, moving to Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebaek, Denmark, in January 2023.
She also exhibits at locations outside the art world, including public libraries, rural schools and non-profit institutions. Her work is held by institutions including the Museum of Modern Art, New York; Tate Modern, London; Smithsonian Institution, Washington; and Fotomuseum Winterthur, Switzerland.
Her awards include the Grange Prize, awarded by the Art Gallery of Ontario (2011), and an India Today Art Award in 2018. She has been a Creative Arts Fellow at the Rockefeller Foundation Bellagio Center, Italy (2013), and was the inaugural Roberta Denning Visiting Artist at Stanford (2022). Gill has recently published two books with Edition Patrick Frey about her collaborations with rural artists, Acts of Appearance (2022) and Fields of Sight (2023).
Hoda Afshar (Teherán, Irán, 1983)
Serie: Speak the Wind, 2015 -2020
Afshar works at the intersection of conceptual, staged and documentary image-making, exploring the representation of gender, marginality and displacement.
She began her career as a photographer in 2005 and completed her Bachelor's degree in Fine Art–Photography at Azad University of Art and Architecture, Tehran, the following year. She moved to Australia in 2007 and received a PhD in Creative Arts at Curtin University, Perth, in 2019.
Afshar’s work has been shown widely at galleries and festivals in Australia and abroad. In recent years, these have included the Aichi Trienniale in Nagoya, Japan (2022); her solo exhibition Speak the Wind, shown at Monash Gallery of Art, Melbourne, as part of the PHOTO 2022 International Festival of Photography; and Thinking Historically in the Present at Sharjah Biennial 15 (2023). Prizes won by Afshar include the National Photographic Portrait Prize, awarded by the National Portrait Gallery, Canberra (2015), and Monash Gallery of Art’s Bowness Photography Prize (2018). In 2021, she won the People’s Choice Award in the Ramsay Art Prize at the Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide. She was awarded a Sidney Myer Creative Fellowship the same year.
Afshar’s works are held in collections including the Victoria and Albert Museum, London; National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne; Art Gallery of South Australia; University of Auckland Art Collection, New Zealand; Monash University Museum of Art, Melbourne; and Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney.
Afshar’s first monograph, Speak the Wind, was published by MACK in London in 2021. She lectures in photography and fine art at the Victorian College of the Arts, University of Melbourne.
Vasantha Yogananthan (Grenoble, Francia, 1985)
Serie: Mystery Street, 2022
Yogananthan, born to a French mother and a Sri Lankan father, is a self-taught photographer who started taking analogue images at the age of sixteen. He was strongly influenced by photographers making pictures of the human condition, especially Paul Strand and Chris Killip.
His first major project was Piémanson, a series shot over five summers (2009–2013) on the last wild beach in France. His seven-book project, A Myth of Two Souls (2013–2021), inspired by the Indian epic tale The Ramayana, received solo exhibitions at the Musée de l’Élysée, Lausanne, Switzerland (2019); the Chanel Nexus Hall, Tokyo (2019); DECK, Singapore (2020); and the Belfast Photo Festival, United Kingdom (2023).
The project was also exhibited in the group shows Illuminating India: Photography 1857–2017 at the Science Museum, London (2017), and Body Building at the Ishara Art Foundation, Dubai (2019).
Yogananthan has received several awards, including the Prix Levallois, Paris (2016) and Emerging Photographer of the Year in the ICP Infinity Awards in New York (2017). In the same year, he was selected for the Foam Talent programme, Amsterdam. His books Dandaka and Amma were awarded respectively the Rencontres d’Arles Photo-text Book Award (2019) and Jurors’ Special Mention at the Paris Photo–Aperture Foundation PhotoBook Awards (2021). In 2022, Yogananthan participated in Immersion, a French-American photography commission by Fondation d’entreprise Hermès, Paris, in partnership with Fondation Henri Cartier-Bresson, Paris, and The International Center of Photography, New York.
In 2014, Yogananthan co-founded the publishing house Chose Commune in Paris.
Richard Renaldi (Chicago, Estados Unidos, 1968)
https://renaldi.com
Serie: Disturbed Harmonies, 2022–2023
On graduating from New York University in 1990, Renaldi worked as a researcher and editor at Magnum Photos and Impact Visuals. At this time, he started the first of many long-term projects, a series of street portraits on Madison Avenue. They were included in STRANGERS: The First ICP Triennial of Photography and Video at the International Center of Photography, New York (2003).
Renaldi’s work has also been shown at the George Eastman Museum in New York and the Museum of the City of New York.
Renaldi is the author of five books, including a visual autobiography, I Want Your Love (Super Labo, 2018). The others are Richard Renaldi: Figure and Ground (Aperture, 2006); Fall River Boys (Charles Lane Press, 2009); Touching Strangers (Aperture, 2014); and Manhattan Sunday (Aperture, 2016). His project Billions Served was featured in The New Yorker and the Financial Times.
In 2015, Renaldi received a fellowship from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. He has served as an adjunct faculty member at the Fashion Institute of Technology, New York, and at Harvard University. In 2019, he was the Henry Wolf Chair in Photography at the Cooper Union, New York.
In 2008, Renaldi founded Charles Lane Press, dedicated to publishing lesser-known or emerging photographers and overlooked projects. Since 2004, he has been involved with Visual AIDS as an archive member, fundraiser and supporter.
In 2011, he received the Bill Olander Award, honouring his commitment to art activism, AIDS advocacy, HIV prevention, education and support of other artists with HIV/AIDS.
Gera Artemova (Kiev, Ucrania, 1973)
https://www.artgera.com
Serie: War Diary (Diario de guerra)
After beginning her career as a graphic designer and art director, Artemova switched to photography from 2008. Her work was mainly documentary from 2011 to 2014 before she turned to conceptual and art projects after the Russian invasion of Ukraine, as she looked for a new language to comprehend events and express her feelings.
Artemova’s work has been exhibited widely at galleries and festivals in Europe and the United States, including at BursaPhotofest in Turkey (2012); Phoenix Art Museum, Arizona (2014); and Odesa//Batumi Photo Days, Ukraine (2016). Her photography has been shown more recently at Semperdepot, Atelierhaus at the Academy of Fine Arts, Vienna (2019); Centre of Contemporary Art, Toruń, Poland (2020); Mystetskyi Arsenal National Art and Culture Museum Complex, Kyiv (2021); and YermilovCentre of Contemporary Art, Kharkiv, Ukraine (2021). In 2022, Artemova’s work appeared at the Images Vevey festival in Switzerland; Vizura Zagreb Biennial; and Künstlerhaus, Vienna; and in 2023 at the Centre of Art and Culture, Castello di San Michele, Sardinia, Italy.
Artemova has been commended or shortlisted for a number of prizes, including the International Photography Awards (2008), Sony World Photography Awards (2010), and the Kolga Tbilisi Photo Award (2015). She is a member of the UPHA (Ukrainian Photographic Alternative) cultural community, created to help and support the development of contemporary Ukrainian photography.
Yael Martínez (Guerrero México, 1984)
http://yaelmartinez.com
Serie: Luciérnaga
Martínez's work addresses fractured communities in his native country, creating images that often reflect the sense of emptiness, absence, pain and suffering of those afflicted by the state and organised crime.
His work has featured in solo and group shows in Africa, Asia, Europe and the United States. Martínez has been honoured for his photography on many occasions. In 2019, he was a W Eugene Smith Fund Grant Recipient, a Magnum Foundation Photography and Social Justice Fellow, and second prize winner in the World Press Photo Long-Term Projects category. He became a Magnum Associate member in 2022 and won the World Press Photo Contest prize for the North and Central America region in 2022.
Martínez’s work has been published widely by media including National Geographic, Aperture, The New York Times, Time, The Wall Street Journal, The New Yorker, Vogue Italia, Bloomberg and Vrij Nederland.
He is represented by Patricia Conde Galería, Mexico City.
Ragnar Axelsson (Reikiavik, Islandia, 1958)
Serie: Where the World Is Melting
For more than forty years, Axelsson, also known as Rax, has been photographing the people, animals and landscape of the most remote regions of the Arctic, including Iceland, Siberia and Greenland. He documents how the relationships of people with their extreme environments are being profoundly altered by climate change.
He was a photojournalist at Morgunbladid, the leading Icelandic newspaper, (1976–2020), and has worked on freelance assignments in Latvia, Lithuania, Mozambique, South Africa, China and Ukraine.
Axelsson’s work has been exhibited widely, both in Iceland and internationally. He has received more than 20 Icelandic photojournalism awards, as well as an honourable mention in the Leica Oskar Barnack Award (2001), and been shortlisted for the same prize (2020). He won the Grand Prix at the Festival International de la Photo de Mer, Vannes, France (2003), and his book Andlit Nordursins (English edition, Faces of The North) won the 2016 Icelandic Literary Prize for non-fiction. His photographs have been featured in Life, Newsweek, Stern, GEO, National Geographic, Time and Polka Magazine.
Axelsson has published a total of eight books, including Jökull (Glacier) (2018) and, most recently, Arctic Heroes (2020).
He is a recipient of the Knight’s Cross of the Order of the Falcon, Iceland’s highest honour.
Siân Davey (Brighton, Reino Unido, 1964) https://siandavey.com
Serie: The Garden
Davey is a photographer with a background in fine art and social policy, who worked for fifteen years as a humanist Buddhist psychotherapist.
After visiting the Louise Bourgeois retrospective at Tate Modern, London, in 2007, she was inspired to translate her personal history, including a childhood of poverty and neglect, into creative practice. In 2011, she moved into photography.
In 2012, Davey completed an MA in Photography at the University of Plymouth and an MFA the following year. Her work has been exhibited internationally in both solo and group shows, including at Aperture, New York (2018); Deichtorhallen, Hamburg (2021); Richard Saltoun Gallery, London (2021); and Images Vevey, Switzerland (2022).
Davey’s work is held by collections including the Science Museum, London; the Victoria and Albert Museum, London; Centre national des arts plastiques, Paris; and the Martin Parr Foundation, Bristol, United Kingdom.
She has won awards including the Arnold Newman Award for New Directions in Photographic Portraiture, New York (2016), and the Prix Virginia, Paris (2016). Her work was selected in three consecutive years, from 2015 to 2017, for the Taylor Wessing Photographic Portrait Prize exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery, London.
Davey’s book Looking for Alice, chronicling the early years of her daughter born with Down's syndrome, was shortlisted for the Paris Photo–Aperture Foundation PhotoBook Awards 2016 and for the Kraszna-Krausz Foundation 2017 Book Awards. In 2018, she published her second book, Martha, which follows another of her four children.
Michal Luczak (Katowice, Polonia, 1983)
http://michal-luczak.com
Serie: Extraction
Łuczak is a photographer, visual artist and curator working on the complex and exploitative relationship of humans with their immediate surroundings and the wider natural environment. He has recently focused on local issues with global relevance, particularly the consequences of coal mining and the economic utilisation of forests.
Łuczak received a BA in Iberian Studies at the University of Silesia in Katowice, and a PhD at the Institute of Creative Photography at Silesian University in Opava, Czech Republic.
Solo exhibitions of Łuczak's work have been held at MOCAK Museum of Contemporary Art in Kraków, Poland (2018) and the Silesian Museum in Katowice (2019).
As a member of the Sputnik Photos collective, he has exhibited at FOTODOK in Utrecht, the Netherlands (2014) and the Centre for Contemporary Art, Ujazdowski Castle, Warsaw (2016–17). He received an honourable mention in the Magnum Expression Awards (2009), was a winner at the MIO Photo Awards in Osaka, Japan (2010), and has won Polish Photographic Publication of the Year (2013). He has also been a recipient of a grant from the Polish Ministry of Culture and National Heritage (2021).
Łuczak is the author of several photo books: Brutal (2012), Koło miejsca / Elementarz, (Circle of Places / Primer), with Krzysztof Siwczyk (2016), and 11.41, with Filip Springer (2016).
He has been a member of Sputnik Photos since 2010, co-leading its annual documentary photography workshop. He teaches at the Faculty of Art of the Pedagogical University of Kraków.
Vanessa Winship (Brighton, Reino Unido, 1960)
https://vanessawinship.com
Serie: Sweet Nothings: Schoolgirls of Eastern Anatolia, 2007
Winship is known for her portrait, landscape and reportage photography.
Her work has been exhibited at festivals and galleries nationally and internationally, including at Les Rencontres d'Arles, France (2008); Side Gallery, Newcastle, United Kingdom (2008–09); and Kunsthal Rotterdam, the Netherlands (2009–10). Her first mid-career exhibition was held at Fundación MAPFRE, Madrid (2014) and toured six museums in Spain.
Winship’s work has also been shown at Fondazione Stelline, Milan (2014–15), and in 2018 she held a major solo show, And Time Folds, alongside the work of Dorothea Lange (1895–1965) at the Barbican Art Gallery, London. In 2021, her photography was exhibited at West Coast Photo, Cumbria, United Kingdom, and at The International Centre of Photography, New York.
Winship’s work is held in collections including the National Portrait Gallery, London; The Do Good Fund, Columbus, United States; the Sir Elton John Photographic Collection, United Kingdom; Fundación MAPFRE, Fondation Henri Cartier-Bresson, Paris; and Tate Britain, London.
She has twice received prizes at the World Press Photo Contest (1998 and 2008), won Sony World Photography Awards Photographer of the Year (2008), and the Henri Cartier-Bresson Award (2011).
Winship is the author and subject of several monographs: Schwarzes Meer (Black Sea) (mareverlag, 2007); Sweet Nothings (Foto8 and Images En Manoeuvres, 2008), she dances on Jackson (MACK and HCB, 2013); the boxset Seeing the Light of Day (B-Sides Box Sets and EDITIONS EDITIONS, 2020); and Snow (Deadbeat Club, 2022), which interleaves images of rural Ohio with a short story by Jem Poster, Ice.
Federico Ríos Escobar (Manizales, Colombia, 1980)
http://federicorios.com
Serie: Rutas de esperanza desesperada, 2022
Federico is a widely published photojournalist whose work has covered armed conflict in Colombia, the environment and its relationship with society.
His early exhibitions included The Signature of Los Rios at Video Guerrilha in São Paulo, Brazil (2013), and Transputamierda at the Valongo International Photography Festival in Santos, Brazil (2016). In 2017, Federico presented his work on FARC, the Colombian armed group, at LaGuardia Community College, New York; at Kaunas Photo festival, Lithuania; and at the Unseen Amsterdam festival. In October 2017, he showed Transputamierda at the Gabo Festival in Medellín, and in 2018 he held a solo exhibition, Venus 41, trochas e incertidumbres, at the Museo de Antioquia in Medellín.
Federico's most recent exhibition, Los días póstumos de una guerra sin final, opened at Bandy Bandy Gallery in Bogotá in February 2020.
Federico has won prizes including a Jury Award at Days Japan (2017), first prize in the News Series category at POY Latam (2017), and the Hansel-Mieth-Preiss (2019). In 2014, he was invited to participate in the Eddie Adams Workshop XXVII in Jeffersonville, New York.
In 2012, Federico’s photobook La ruta del cóndor (The Route of the Condor) was published jointly by Universidad Jorge Tadeo Lozano in Bogotá and Universidad de Caldas. The following year, he published Fiestas de San Pacho, Quibdó, together with the photography collective Mas Uno. His most recent photobook, VERDE, was published by Raya with photo editor Santiago Escobar-Jaramillo in 2021.
His work has appeared frequently in The New York Times and other media including Stern, GEO, Time, Paris Match and LFI Magazine.
Alessandro Cinque (Orvieto, Italia, 1988)
https://alessandrocinque.com
Serie: Perú, un Estado tóxico, 2017–2023
Cinque is a photojournalist who explores environmental and socio-political issues in Latin America, particularly the devastating impact of mining on indigenous Quechua communities and their lands.
During his childhood in Italy, spent largely in Florence, Cinque was inspired by his father, a wedding photographer with an admiration for the great icons of classic Magnum photography of the 1990s.
In 2019, after studying at the International Center for Photography in New York, Cinque moved to Lima to deepen his long-term work and immerse himself in Peru’s culture and society. In the same year, he began working as a stringer for Reuters, covering the wider Andean region. Cinque’s work has been exhibited in Italy, France, Spain, the United States, Russia and Peru. He is a World Press Photo 2023 winner in the South America category, a winner of the Sony World Photography Awards 2023 Sustainability Prize, and Lauréat du Grand Prix for the 2023 Prix Terre Solidaire. He has been a finalist or nominee for numerous other awards.
Cinque has received grants from the National Geographic Society's Emergency Fund for Journalists (2021) and from the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting Fund in the same year.
His photographs have been published widely in international media including The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, The Guardian, Al Jazeera, 6Mois, GEO, Stern, Libération, and others. In 2022, his work appeared on the cover of National Geographic, and he became a National Geographic Explorer.
In January 2023, he published his first fanzine, covering his work on the Quechua over the past six years.