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Claudia Angelmaier was born in 1972 in Göppingen, Germany. Angelmaier’s solo exhibitions include Color and Gray, Museum der bildenden Künste, Leipzig (2007-2008), and Rot, Gelb, Blau, Galerie Kleindienst, Leipzig (2006). She has participated in the following group exhibitions (among others): Einführung in die Kunstgeschichte 3, Galerie Fotohof Salzburg, Austria (2008); Ohne Schatten, Galerie Eigen+Art, Leipzig (2007); Artifizielle Präsenz, Pues, Essen (2006); nützlich—süss—museal, das fotografierte Tier (2005); and Museum Folkwang, Essen (Cat.). Angelmaier is the recipient of the following awards: Kunstpreis der Leipziger Volkszeitung, 2007, and Alfried Krupp von Bohlen und Halbach- Stipendium, 2006.
Ananké Asseff was born in 1971 in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Her work is represented in the collections of the Rio de Janeiro Museum of Modern Art (MAM), the Museum of Modern Art of Buenos Aires (MAMBA), the Museum of Contemporary Art of Rome (MACRO), the Juan B. Castagnino Fine Arts Museum, and the Caraffa Museum in Argentina. Her work has been published in magazines such as BIG Magazine (Argentina), Exit Magazine (Spain), and in several catalogs and books, including Mapas Abiertos (Spain, 2003). Over the last year, Asseff´s work has been exhibited in Buenos Aires, Sao Paulo, Lima, and Montevideo.
Roger Ballen was born in New York in 1950. His work is represented in many museums, including the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam, the Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris, and the Museum of Modern Art in New York. He has produced seven books, most notably two Phaidon publications, Outland (2001) and Shadow Chamber (2006). Ballen’s work has been extensively exhibited in numerous museums throughout Europe and the United States. He is represented in the United States by the Gagosian Gallery. Currently, he is working on his seventh book of photography, due for release in the spring of 2009. Ballen has been living and taking photographs in South Africa since 1982.
Jan Banning was born to Dutch East Indies parents in Holland in 1954. Banning studied social and economic history at the University of Nijmegen, and has been working as a photojournalist since 1981. Banning has published seven books and has received many awards, both artistic and journalistic, including the World Press Photo 2004 Portrait Stories Award, the Prize of Prague 2004, and the Dutch Icodo Award 2003 for Traces of War. Currently, he is the Board Secretary of World Press Photo.
Robert Bowen resides in New York City and divides his time between making art and making a living by working on photo-design projects and teaching at the School of Visual Arts. Bowen’s work has been featured in a variety of exhibitions, books, and other publications. Recently, an abbreviated version of his Return To Sender: Postcards from Impossible Places project was published in Cabinet magazine. His Textscapes were featured in Art of the Digital Age (Thames and Hudson, 2007). Other projects of his are included in the MoMA artist book collection, The Whitney Museum of American Art, and the Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry.
Marco Breuer has exhibited widely throughout the United States and Europe. His work is in numerous collections, including the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Fogg Art Museum at Harvard University, and the Staatsgalerie in Stuttgart, Germany. He received a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2006. In 2007,
Aperture published a monograph of his work entitled Early Recordings.
Michel Campeau was born in 1948 in Montreal, Quebec. In 1994 he received the Higashikawa Overseas Photographer Prize (Hokkaido, Japan). The Canadian Museum of Contemporary Photography organized a retrospective of his work in 1996 entitled Michel Campeau: Eloquent Images (1971-1996). Among his publications are three monographs: Les tremblements du coeur (1988), Éclipses et labyrinthes (1993), and
Darkroom (2007), the first in a series edited by Martin Parr for Nazraëli Press. Excerpts from Darkroom were featured in Aperture (Fall 2007). Campeau’s work is represented in many public and private collections, such as the National Gallery of Ottawa, the Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal, the Canadian Museum of Contemporary Photography in Ottawa, the Bibliothèque National de France, and La Banque Nationale du Canada. Campeau lives and works in Montreal.
Natalie Czech was born in 1976 in Neuss, Germany. She had institutional solo-exhibitions at Kunsthalle Darmstadt (2006) and most recently at Bonner Kunstverein, Bonn (2008). Czech has participated in numerous group shows held at, among others, Gallery of Contemporary Art Bunkier Sztuki, Krakow; Musée de l’Elysee, Lausanne; and Kunstverein, Hamburg. In addition to the monograph Ahoj Ouroboros (Revolver Books, 2006), Czech published without words would in 2008.
Raphaël Dallaporta is a French photographer. Dallaporta was selected for Les Rencontres d’Arles in 2004 by Martin Parr for Antipersonnel, and in 2006 by Raymond Depardon for Domestic Slavery. Dallaporta was a part of reGeneration: 50 Photographers of Tomorrow at the Musée de l’Elysée in Lausanne and the Aperture Foundation in New York. His photographs can be found in collections including the Maison européene de la photographie (MEP) and the Fonds national d’art contemporain (FNAC), France. Dallaporta lives and works in Paris.
Julian Faulhaber was born in 1975 in Würzburg, Germany. Faulhaber’s solo exhibitions include: L.A.Galerie—Lothar Albrecht, Frankfurt (2006) and Lowdensitypolyethylene, Modul, Dresden (2006). Faulhaber is the recipient of the following awards: Canon ProFashional Award, PPS Gallery, Hamburg (2003); Winner Best Class, Best Selected Works, Epson Art Photo Award (2005); Bilderkriege Focus Award, Dortmund University of Applied Sciences (2005); Reinhart Wolf Award (2006); and Saar Ferngas Förderpreis, Palatinate Gallery
Kaiserslautern (2006). Faulhaber works in Dortmund, Germany.
Harrell Fletcher’s work has been shown at SF MoMA, the de Young Museum, The Berkeley Art Museum, and Yerba Buena Center For The Arts in the San Francisco Bay Area; The Drawing Center, Socrates Sculpture Park, The Sculpture Center, The Wrong Gallery, and Smack Mellon in New York City; DiverseWorks and Aurora Picture Show in Houston, TX; PICA in Portland, OR; CoCA and The Seattle Art Museum in Seattle, WA; Signal in Malmo, Sweden; Domain de Kerguehennec in France; and The Royal College of Art in London. He was a participant in the 2004 Whitney Biennial. In 2002, Fletcher started Learning To Love You ore, an ongoing participatory website, with Miranda July. A book version of the project was published in 2007 by Prestel. He is the 2005 recipient of the Alpert Award in Visual Arts. His current traveling exhibition The American War originated in 2005 at ArtPace in San Antonio, TX, and traveled in 2006 to Solvent Space in Richmond, VA, White Columns in New York City, The Center For Advanced Visual Studies MIT in Boston, MA, PICA in Portland, OR, and LAXART in Los Angeles. Fletcher is a Professor of Art and Social Practice at Portland State University in Portland, Oregon.
Andreas Gefeller was born in 1970 in Düsseldorf, Germany. Gefeller’s series Soma, published in 2002 by Hatje Cantz, eceived several awards, including the Reinhart Wolf Prize in 2001, the same year he was appointed a member of the Deutsche Fotografische Akademie. Gefeller’s work has been profiled in detail by a number of magazines such as Surface, Azure, and Sleek, along with outstanding reviews in The New Yorker, The Village Voice, and Artforum. He is represented in the United States exclusively by Hasted Hunt Gallery. Gefeller lives and works in Düsseldorf, Germany.
Stephen Gill is a British photographer educated at Filton College in Bristol. His photographs have been exhibited at many international galleries and museums, including the National Portrait Gallery and Victoria and Albert Museum in London, and they appear regularly in major magazines including Guardian Weekend, i-D, Granta, The New York Times Magazine, Telegraph Magazine, The Observer, Le Monde, and Blind Spot.
Jan Kempenaers was born in 1968. He studied photography at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Ghent, Belgium and the Jan Van Eyck Academy in Maastricht, The Netherlands. His most recent project, Spomenik, concerns a photographic series of abstract communist monuments in former Yugoslavia. Kempenaers lives and works in Antwerp, Belgium.
Alejandra Laviada was born in Mexico City in 1980. Laviada’s photographs have been exhibited in Mexico and the U.S., and published in The New York Times Magazine, American Photo, UK Creative Review, Vogue Korea, and Capricious Magazine, among others. She was awarded honorable mention in the XII Photography Biennial in Mexico, and was selected as an emerging photographer for PEEK 2007, organized by Art + Commerce. Most recently, Laviada participated in the Humble Arts 31 Under 31: Young Women in Art Photography exhibition.
Curtis Mann received his MFA in photography from Columbia College in Chicago in 2008 and received a
bachelor’s degree in mechanical engineering from the University of Dayton in 2002, where he concentrated
on destructive testing methods and design. His recent photographic work has helped him to receive the Society for Photographic Education’s top student award, the Crystal Apple, in 2006, a Follett Fellowship from Columbia College Chicago, three Albert P. Weisman Memorial Project Grants, and nomination for the 2007 Santa Fe Award.
Jeffrey Milstein is also an architect, graphic designer, and private pilot. Milstein’s photographs have been exhibited and collected throughout the United States and Europe, and are currently represented in the U.S. by Paul Kopeikin Gallery, Los Angeles, and Bonni Benrubi Gallery, New York; and in Europe by Ego Gallery, Barcelona, and Young Gallery, Brussels. Born in Los Angeles, where he frequently returns to shoot at the International Airport, Milstein currently makes his home in Woodstock, NY.
Simon Norfolk is a landscape photographer whose work is an equal-handed obsession with modern military conflict and eighteenth-century Romantic philosophy. Norfolk has won Le Prix Dialogue at Les Rencontres d’Arles (2005), the Infinity Award from the International Center of Photography (2004), the Foreign Press Club of America Award (2003), and the European Publishing Award (2002). He has produced three monographs of his work, including Afghanistan: Chronotopia (Dewi Lewis, 2002). Norfolk’s work is held in major collections such as The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, the Deutsche Böurse Art Collection, Frankfurt, and the Getty Museum, Los Angeles.
Sarah Pickering is a London-based, British photographer who graduated from the Royal College of Art with a masters in photography in 2005. She has been the recipient of several awards, including the Photographers Gallery Graduate Award and a Jerwood Award. Pickering has exhibited internationally and in the UK, where her work was part of How We Are: Photographing Britain at Tate Britain. Her photographs are featured in the Phaidon anthology on contemporary photography, Vitamin Ph (2006), and the book and exhibition In Our World: New Photography in Britain curated by Filippo Maggia at the Galleria Civica di Modena, Italy (April– July 2008).
Horacio Salinas, a still-life photographer, was born 1970 in New York City, where he continues to live and work. His photographs have appeared in Vogue, Teen Vogue, The New Yorker, and The New York Times Magazine.
Joachim Schmid was born in 1955. In 1990 he founded the Institut zur Wiederaufbereitung von Altfotos (The Institute for the Reprocessing of Used Photographs). His works have been shown internationally in solo and group exhibitions. His publications include Erste allgemeine Altfotosammlung (1991), Bilder von der Strasse (1997), Sinterklaas ziet alles (1998), A Meeting on Holiday (2003), Belo Horizonte, Praça Rui Barbosa (2004), and Photoworks 1982–2007 (2007). His work is included in numerous collections, including the Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris; Daelim Contemporary Art Museum, Seoul; Fonds national d‘art contemporain, Paris; Maison Europèenne de la photographie, Paris; Museo de arte contemporánea de Vigo; Museum Folkwang, Essen; Nederlands Fotomuseum, Rotterdam; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; and Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam. Schmid lives and works in Berlin.
Lars Tunbjörk was born 1956 in Borås on the west coast of Sweden, and is now living and working in Stockholm. He has published nine books, including Country Beside Itself (1993), Office (2002), Home (2002), I Love Borås (2007), and Vinter (2007). His work has been exhibited worldwide. A member of Agence VU, Paris, he is represented in New York by Cohen Amador Gallery.
Penelope Umbrico attended the Ontario College of Art in Toronto, Canada, and received her MFA at the School of Visual Arts in New York. She has had numerous solo exhibitions of her work, including at the International Center of Photography and Julie Saul Gallery, New York and her work has been included in group shows at the Museum of Modern Art and elsewhere in the U.S. and abroad. Umbrico’s work is included in many collections, including the Museum of Modern Art, the International Center of Photography, and the Metropolitan Museum of Art. She is the recipient of an Aaron Siskind Foundation Individual Photographer’s Fellowship Grant and a New York Foundation for the Arts Catalogue Project Grant, among other honors. She is currently the Chair of MFA Photography at Bard College, as well as core faculty at the School of Visual Arts, MFA Photography and Related Media program in New York.
WassinkLundgren is a collaboration between Thijs Groot Wassink and Ruben Lundgren. The two met at the Utrecht School of Arts, from which they both graduated in 2005. Their publications include Stadtrundfarht (2005), Shanghai Forest (2005), Is Still Searching (2006), and Empty Bottles (2007). Empty Bottles won the prestigious Prix du Livre for Best Contemporary Photobook at Les Rencontres d’Arles in 2007. In 2008, it was nominated by Thomas Weski, curator of Haus Der Kunst in Munich, for best photobook of 2007–2008 at the Kasseler Fotoforum. Wassink lives in London and is pursuing an MFA at the Central Saint Martins. Lundgren lives in Beijing, doing the same at Central Academy of Fine Arts in Beijing.
Hank Willis Thomas, an-artist-in residence at the Headlands Center for the Arts in the San Franciso Bay Area, has published his photographs in numerous books and publications, including Reflections in Black: A History of African American Photographers (W.W. Norton, 2000), and 25 Under 25: Up-and-Coming American Photographers (powerHouse Books, 2003). His work has been exhibited in galleries and museums nationally and internationally, and he his been honored with a New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship Award, and the 2007 Renew Media Arts Fellowship. He is currently collaborating with Ryan Alexiev on a public installation at the University of California, San Francisco.
Katherine Wolkoff graduated from Barnard College in 1998 and received her MFA in photography from the Yale School of Art in 2003. Wolkoff’s photographs were shown in a solo exhibition at Danziger Projects and have been included in group shows including the Art + Commerce Festival of Emerging Photographers, Silhouette at Momenta Art, and Nine Portraits at the Alan Klotz Gallery. Her photographs are included in the permanent collections at the Addison Gallery of Art, Andover, MA, and the Norton Museum of Art, West Palm Beach, FL. Wolkoff lives and works in Brooklyn, New York.
Donovan Wylie was born in 1971 in Belfast, Northern Ireland. Wylie has had solo exhibitions at The Photographers’ Gallery, London; PhotoEspaña, Madrid; and the National Museum of Film, Photography and Television, England. He has participated in numerous group shows held at, among others, the Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin; Victoria & Albert Museum, London; Centre Pompidou, Paris. His books include The Maze (Granta, 2004) and British Watchtowers (Steidl, 2007). In 2001, Wylie won a BAFTA Award for his film The Train. Wylie is a member of Magnum Photos.
