Photographer #358: Christopher Morris

Christopher Morris, 1958, USA, is a founding member of VII photo agency and a highly versatile photographer. In the first 20 years of his career he was a war photographer, covering conflicts in former Yugoslavia, Chechnya, Afghanistan and Panama amongst many others. In Chechnya he realised he wanted to change his course which led to an 8 year assignment for Time Magazine as a White House photographer following the Bush administration. During the Bush-era, he published his first monograph called My America. The book is a personal journey into a Republican America. The change from war photography, being very uncontrolled and spontaneous, to the White House photographer, being very controlled and staged, shifted his photography into a new direction which includes staged, documentary and portrait work. Currently Christopher has even ventured into fashion photography. He is a regular contributor for the Italian fashion magazine AMICA. The following images come from the series Obama's Burden, My America and Chechen War.

Website: www.christophermorrisphotography.com

Photographer #263: Denis Dailleux

Denis Dailleux, 1958, France, is a documentary portrait photographer who lives and works in Cairo, Egypt. Due to his passion for Egypt, he has released several books on this country. In 2008 he released Fils de Roi, Portraits d'�gypte which contains a series of low-key photographs taken over the course of fifteen years. He does portraiture out of an honest passion for people, with respect for his subjects. Ghana is his latest project, which he discovered after seeing the book Paul Strand dedicated to this African country. By meeting the people he tries to go beyond appearances to give a personal and magnified vision. Denis has travelled to various countries to make his images, from Uzbekistan to Sudan and from Laos to Yemen. Dailleux's photographs are delicate and poetic. The following images come from the series Ghana, Fils de Roi, Portraits d'�gypte and My Aunt Juliette.

Website: www.denisdailleux.com & www.agencevu.com

Photographer #231: Chema Madoz

Chema Madoz, 1958, Spain is a photographer with a unique way of looking at objects. By combining or altering everyday objects he creates new worlds and stories. His photography is playful, full of humour and very poetic. At the same time the images by Madoz trigger our brain and confront us in how limited our gaze is when looking at our surroundings. His images are all about imagination and widening our horizon. The images are not digitally manipulated. He has released a vast number of books containing his creations. Chema has exhibited extensively throughout the world and his works are in numerous private and public collections. The following images come from his extensive portfolio.

Website: www.chemamadoz.com

Photographer #220: Sandro

Sandro Miller, 1958, USA, professionally better known as Sandro, has been a photographer for over thirty years and excels in various forms of photography. He makes ad campaigns for major brands and editorial work for well known magazines, but at the same time focuses on his personal projects. Amongst the various photography books Sandro released over the past 13 years are American Bikers, Imagine Cuba and El Matador. In 2001 he was asked by the Cuban government to document their athletes. It was the first US/Cuban collaboration since the trade embargo was imposed in 1960. His series Malkovich Sessions is a collection of portraits of John Malkovich taken throughout the last eleven years. The following images come from the portfolio's Malkovich Sessions, Cuban Portraits and Nudes.

Website: www.sandrofilm.com

Photographer #204: Ruud van Empel

Ruud van Empel, 1958, The Netherlands, is a photographer who's work often seems magical at first sight. He shoots many images and combines them in a computer. In his series World and Dawn, both combined amongst other series in the 2009 book Photoworks, Ruud seeks to find innocence and beauty in his composed photographic works. He uses nature and children as his subjects, creating vibrant images that have a outer-worldly feel to them. The work of van Empel has been in numerous publications and in countless exhibitions. The following images come from the series Panorama Works, Dawn and World 2007-8.

Website: www.ruudvanempel.nl

Photographer #187: Mikael Jansson

Mikael Jansson, 1958, Sweden is a fashion and celebrity photographer. He has shot campaigns for clients as DKNY, Dior and Calvin Klein. He also shoots fashion editorials for Vogue and Interview magazine. Celebrities as Rihanna, Ryan Gosling and Eva Mendes have appeared in front of his camera. Next to his photographic work Mikael also made several commercial video's. The following images come from the portfolio's Fashion Images, Fashion Images 2 and Celebrities.

Website: www.wilsonwenzel.com

Photographer #125: Marcos L�pez

Marcos L�pez, 1958, is a photographer from Argentina. L�pez is an expert is large, staged photographs. His images are bright in color and very narrative. He has been working on a long-term series called Sub Realismo Criollo. The pictures are iconic aswell as humorous and symbolise and critisize the Argentinian society. Marcos is a self-taught photographer who won several awards and has exhibited around the world. The first two rows of images come from Sub Realismo Criollo and the last two rows are from the series Pop Latino.

Website: www.marcoslopez.com
(Video in Spanish)

Photographer #113: Irene Kung

Irene Kung, Switzerland, 1958, started her career as a painter and with success, but it has only been in the last several years that she has fully concentrated on photography. Her images are dark and isolate the objects or subjects she photographs. She has photographed architecture in several cities in Europe and in New York, but she manages to capture a detailed look that the human eye will not perceive. Next to photographing architecture she has also made pictures of animals, trees and mountains. The following images come from the series Italy, Trees and Animals.

Website: www.irenekung.com
(Video in Italian)

Photographer #112: Emil Schildt

Emil Schildt, Danmark, 1958, is a portrait and nudes photographer. He uses many different techniques to achieve his final results. Amongst his techniques are bromoil, cyanotypi and photopolymergravure. In his portfolio Paint with Light, we see images that are long exposures while a flashlight is painting the scene. Emil also damages his images by scratching or using sand paper. He calls these images Kill your Darlings. These techniques add an extra dimension to his poetic and symbolic imagery. The following images come from Paint with Light, Angels and Kill your Darlings.

Website: www.emilschildt.com

Photographer #082: Kevin O'Connell

Kevin O'Connell, 1958, is an American photographer who's main interest lies with machinery of energy development. His photographs consist of pumps, tanks, towers, wind turbines and pylons. Although there is a certain beauty in these machines and objects, it also raises questions about how we deal with our horizon and environment. These machines will one day break down and decay, but they will leave scars on the environment. O'Connell asks himself various questions, one of them is; What is the fate of the horizon? The following images come from the series Conventional Entropy, Everything Comes Broken and Big Burn.

Website: www.kmoconnell.com

Photographer #066: David Stewart

David Stewart, Great-Britain, 1958, is a photographer that uses a lot of humour in his photographs, this is also visible in the playfull design of his website. In 2009 his latest book Thrice Removed was published. It is a collection of images that work like an observation on relationships and life in general. On his website one can find the category Stuff. Various humorous images dealing with the darker side of life like suicide. The following photographs come from Thrice Removed, Stuff and Decisions.

Website: www.davidstewwwart.com