Week Fifty Two
Susan Meiselas (1948-)
Teen Dream, Woodstock, VT, 1973, from the series Carnival Strippers

Susan Meiselas has spent her career documenting people in different situations, and in doing so, capturing historic moments in time. In the 1970s, over a three year period, she took a series of photographs of […]

Week Fifty One
Esther Teichmann (b. 1980)
Untitled, from the series Mythologies, 2012-13

Esther Teichmann is a German–American artist based in London. She works in series; her first body of work entitled ‘Viscosity’ shows men, women and children surrounded by a dark thick liquid (is it the sea? oil?) or floating half […]

Week Fifty
Alexander Gronsky (1980-)
Pastoral, 2008-2012, Dzerzhinskiy II, Suburbs of Moscow

Alexander Gronsky was born in Tallinn, Estonia, and lives and works in Riga, Latvia.  Between 1999 and 2008 he worked as a press photographer for the Russian and international media, covering Russia and the former USSR. He is one of a […]

Week Forty Nine
Grete Stern (1904 – 1999)
Dream No 28, 1951

Grete Stern was born in Germany to a Jewish family, and in 1923 studied graphic arts in Stuttgart. She then studied photography with Walter Peterhans, and later with the Bauhaus. In 1929 she set up a graphic design and […]

Week Forty Eight
Hiroshi Sugimoto (1948 -)
Polar Bear, 1976

Based in both New York and Tokyo, Sugimoto studied photography at the Art Center College of Design in Los Angeles in the 1970’s. His work investigates themes of the transience of life, and the conflict between life and death. He […]

Week Forty Seven
Jem Southam (1950-)
Senneville-sur-Fecamp, April, 2006

Jem Southam is known for his series of colour landscape photographs, taken mainly within the South West of England where he lives and works. He re-visits sites over many years, documenting the changes however slight. This method reveals the fragile balance […]

Week Forty Six
Hannah Starkey (1971-)
Untitled, 2002

Hannah Starkey makes photographic images that are carefully staged and constructed, usually of a single female figure or a small group of female figures. Employing actors for these roles, their task is to stare into the distance, sometimes at walls or mirrors; sometimes seen […]

Week Forty Five
Jacques-André Boiffard (1902-1961)
Big Toe, Male Subject, 1929

Boiffard was a French photographer, linked closely with the Surrealists. He trained to study medicine, but after meeting Andre Breton in 1924, he became involved with the group known as ‘the bureau of surrealist research’. Based in Paris, this group of writers […]

Week Forty Three
Joel-Peter Witkin (1939-)
Vienna Eye Phantom, Philadelphia, 1990

American photographer Joel-Peter Witkin is known for his controversial and morbid images of dark and taboo subjects such as death, corpses, mutilation, the erotic and the religious.

He relates his interest in such subjects from witnessing a traumatic event as a child, […]