Contemporary Photographers

contemporary photographers

Selected Fine Art Photographers

A selection of comtemporary photographers, including famous artists but also emerging young talents from around the world.

The web is a beautiful place to explore art photography - but there's too much choice. The dawn of social has spurred a massive flux of (amateur) photographers to the web. There are over 800 million active Instagram users posting permanently new photographs. Masses of photographers from every skill level try and shoot every conceivable type of shot and post it online, but only a tiny part of it can be considered art photography.
To help you find a good art photography we have created a list of excellent fine art photographers creating inspiring work that captures their unique perspectives on the world.

In the list below we have collected some of the best and most exiting photographers, covering the most important genres of artphotography.

Take your time to see works of these photographers on the internet or follow them on Instagram. So you will get a good overview about the state of the art in contemporary photography.

 

A list of exiting photographers


Almond, Darren
born 1971, GB, lives/works in London
 
Araki, Nobuyoshi
born 1940, Japan, lives/works in Tokyo
 
Baillet, Laurent
born 1978, France, lives/works in Paris
 
Baldessari, John
born 1931, USA, lives/works in Santa Monica CA
 
Ballester, José Manuel
born 1960, Spain, lives/works in Madrid
 
Bartos, Adam
born 1953, USA, lives/works in New York
 
Basta, Alexander
born 1963, Germany, lives/works in Düsseldorf
 
Belin, Valerie
born 1964, France, lives/works in Paris
 
Billy and Hells
Germany, lives/works in Berlin
 
Blackmon, Julie
born 1966, USA, lives/works in Missouri
 
Bovo, Tom
USA, lives/works in New York
 
Brandt, Matthew
born 1982, USA, lives/works in Los Angeles
 
Burtynsky, Edward
born 1955, Canada, lives/works in Toronto
 
Buruleva, Julia
born in Russia, lives/works in Barcelona
 
Calle, Sophie
born 1953, France, lives/works in Paris
 
Campbell, Jim
born 1956, USA, lives/works in San Francisco
 
Carrol, Patty
born 1946, USA, lives/works in Chicago
 
Cohen, Nadia Lee
born 1990, GB, lives/works in London
 
Cray, Fred
born 1957, USA, lives/works in New York
 
Fuhr, Maya
born 1990, Canada, lives/works in Toronto
 
Crewdson, Gregory
born 1962, USA, lives/works in Connecticut
 
Davis, Jen
born 1978, USA, lives/works in New York
 
Demand, Thomas
born 1964, Germany, lives/works in Los Angeles / Berlin / London
 
diCorcia, Philip-Lorca
born 1951, USA, lives/works in New York
 
Diergarten, Götz
born 1972, Germany, lives/works in Frankfurt
 
Engelund, Jason
born 1971, USA, lives/works in San Francisco
 
Epstein, Mitch
born 1952, USA, lives/works in New York
 
Buenning Filo, Angela
born 1971, USA, lives/works in California
 
Fischli & Weiss
born 1952, Switzerland, lives/works in Zürich
 
Fitts, J. Bennet
born 1977, USA, lives/works in Culver City
 
Dicorcia, Philip-Lorca
born 1951, USA, lives/works in New York
 
di Iorio, Maurizio
Italy
 
Dijkstra, Rineke
born 1959, Holland, lives/works in Amsterdam
 
Divola, John
born 1949, USA, lives/works in Riverside
 
Esser, Elger
born 1967, Germany, lives/works in Düsseldorf
 
Export, Valerie
born 1940, Austria
 
Förg, Günther
born 1952, Germany

Gachet, Karla
born 1977 in Quito, Ecuador, lives/works City of Angels
 
Gefeller, Andreas
born 1970, Germany, lives/works in Düsseldorf
 
Gordon, Douglas
born 1966, Scotland, lives/works in Glasgow
 
Gordano, Kristin
USA, lives/works in Doha, Qatar
 
Gilbert & George
GB, lives/works in London
 
Goldin, Nan
born 1953, USA, lives/works in New York / Berlin / Paris
 
Gruyaert, Harry
born 1941, Belgium, lives/works in Paris
 
Gursky, Andreas
born 1955, Germany, lives/works in Düsseldorf
 
Hang, Ren
1887, China
 
Henry, Matt
born 1978, UK, lives/works in Brighton
 
Hido, Todd
born 1968, USA, lives/works in San Francisco Bay
 
Höfer, Candida
born 1944, Germany, lives/works in Cologne
 
Hoflehner, Josef
born 1955, Austria, lives/works in Austria
 
Holmes, Andrea
born 1970, USA, lives/works in Miami
 
Horn, Roni
born 1955, USA, lives/works in New York
 
Hütte, Axel
born 1951, Germany, lives/works in Düsseldorf
 
Jaar, Alfredo
born 1956, Chile, lives/works in New York

Jantzen, Ellen
born in USA, lives/works in Santa Fe
 
Johnson, Eirik
born 1974, USA, lives/works in San Francisco
 
Jones, Sarah
born 1959, GB, lives/works in Manchester
 
Jordan, Chris
born 1963, USA, lives/works in Seattle
 
Jordano, Dave
born 1948, USA, lives/works in Chicago
 
Joust, Patrick
born 1978, USA, lives/works in Baltimore
 
Kerstens, Hendrik
born 1956, NL, lives/works in Amsterdam
 
Killip, Chris
born 1946, GB, lives/works in USA
 
Knorr, Karen
born 1954, USA, lives/works in London
 
Krause, George
USA, lives/works in Wimberly
 
Krüll, Dirk
born 1958, Germany, lives/works in Düsseldorf
 
Kruger, Barbara
born 1945, USA, lives/works in Los Angeles
 
LaChapelle, David
born 1963, USA, lives/works in USA
 
Lawler, Louise
born 1947, USA, lives/works in New York
 
Leibovitz, Annie
born 1949, USA, lives/works in New York
 
Lemke, Tom
born 1960, Germany, lives/works in Hamburg
 
Letinski, Laura
born 1962, Canada, lives/works in Chicago
 
Lynch, Derek
born 1959, USA, lives/works in San Francisco
 
Mann, Sally
born 1951, USA, lives/works in Virginia
 
Marble, Jimmy
born 1985, USA, lives/works in Los Angeles
 
Massard, Didier
born 1953, France, lives/works in Paris
 
McCarthy, Paul
born 1945, USA, lives/works in Los Angeles
 
Mendoza, Tom
born 1941, Cuba / USA, lives/works in Columbus
 
Morell, Abelardo
born 1948, USA, lives/works in New York
 
Mueller, Karin Apollonia
born 1963, Germany, lives/works in Germany / USA
 
Muniz, Vik
born 1961, Brazil, lives/works in New York
 
Norfolk, Simon
born 1963, Nigeria, lives/works in Nigeria
 
Orozco, Gabriel
born 1962, Mexico, lives/works in New York
 
Oshima, Naruki
born 1963, Japan, lives/works in Tokyo
 
Ostreicher, Alan
born 1964, USA, lives/works in New York
 
Parr, Martin
born 1952, GB
 
Pickering, Sarah
born 1972, GB, lives/works in London
 
Polidori, Robert
born 1951, Canada, lives/works in New York / Paris
 
Prince, Richard
born 1949, USA, lives/works in New York
 
Prager, Alex
born 1979, USA, lives/works in Los Angeles
 
Rheims, Bettina
born 1952, France, lives/works in Paris
 
Ritts, Herb
born 1952, USA
 
Richardson, Terry
born 1965, USA, lives/works in Los Angeles
 
Rohde, Michael H.
born 1960, Germany, lives/works in Berlin
 
Roy, Kourtney
born 1981, Canada, lives/works in Paris
 
Ruff, Thomas
born 1958, Germany, lives/works in Düsseldorf
 
Salgado, Sebastiao
born 1944, Brazil, lives/works in Paris

Schoeller, Martin
born 1968 in München, Germany, lives/works in New York
 
Sherman, Cindy
born 1954, USA, lives/works in New York
 
Sheppard, Chloe
born 1996, GB, lives/works in London
 
Shore, Stephen
born 1947, USA, lives/works in New York
 
Simon, Taryn
born 1975, USA, lives/works in New York
 
Strand, Clare
born 1973, GB, lives/works in Brighton
 
Struth, Thomas
born 1954, Germany, lives/works in Düsseldorf
 
Sugimoto, Hiroshi
born 1948, Japan, lives/works in New York
 
Sultan, Larry
born 1946, USA
 
Sundsbo, Solve
born 1970, Norway, lives/works in London
 
Teller, Jürgen
born 1964, Germany, lives/works in London
 
Testino, Mario
born 1954, Peru, lives/works in London
 
Tillmans, Wolfgang
born 1968, Germany, lives/works in London
 
Tosani, Patrick
born 1954, France, lives/works in Mayet / Paris
 
von Unwerth, Ellen
born 1954, Germany, lives/works in Paris / New York
 
Wall, Jeff
born 1946, Canada, lives/works in Vancouver

Webb, Alex
born 1952, US, lives/works in Broklyn

Webb , Rebecca Norris
born 1956, US, lives/works in Broklyn
 
Wegman, William
born 1943, USA, lives/works in New York
 
Widera, Stephan
born 1962, Germany, lives/works in Düsseldorf / Paris
 
Wierzbowski, Lukasz
born 1983, Poland, lives/works in Wroclaw, Poland
 
Williams, Christopher
born 1956, USA, lives/works in Los Angeles
 
Wolf, Michael
born 1954, Germany, lives/works in Hong Kong
 
Woudstra, Isolde
born 1982, NL, lives/works in Utrecht, NL
 
Wurm, Erwin
born 1954, Austria, lives/works in Vienna and Limberg, Austria
 
Xuebing DU
USA, lives/works in San Francisco
 
Zank, Ben
born 1991, USA, lives/works in New York
 
Zhang, Huan
born 1965, China, lives/works in Beijing

 

To be continued.