Stephan Gladieu
location: Paris, France
Gladieu began his career in 1989, covering war and social issues, travelling throughout Europe, Central Asia and the Middle East.
Today he still produces reports and portrait series for international magazines. Still, he focuses mainly on his personal and artistic work through portrait series whose DNA is the colour and considered composition.
He likes the iconic character of an image, its frontality, its readability and the boundary between real and unreal. The majority of his work is conducted in Asia and Africa.
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Jude Liana
location: Los Angeles, USLiana is a photographer and director. Born and raised in New York City, she studied photography at the International Center of Photography and Hunter College, where she honed a visual idiom rooted in detail, form, and color.
Centering upon the raw power of portraiture, Liana's work is informed by a desire to faithfully represent the essence of each of her subjects. Her work in capturing the vast human experience has included an in-depth exploration of the Black rodeos of America and a series documenting the lives of high school girls in El Paso, Texas.
For the last decade, Liana has focused her work in fashion, advertising and editorial as well as documentary and fine art photography. Her work has been exhibited in Miami, New York City, and Los Angeles, and is included in the Isabel and Agustin Copper Collection. In 2022, Liana made her directorial debut with a music video for SiR from Top Dawg Entertainment.
Select clients include New Balance, ASICS, FarFetch, YouTube, Universal Music, Top Dawg Entertainment, High Snobiety, Interview Magazine, and King Kong Magazine.
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Tim Georgeson
location: Canada and AustraliaGeorgeson is an Australian filmmaker and artist.
Georgeson documents everything from cultural enclaves to environmental and humanitarian crisis zones, to street life across the world. His creative insight into the human condition gives his work a unique perspective inside the boundaries of art and documentary, where he captures complex dynamics in contemporary life at a time of digital change and media free-fall. His current film work merges found moments and storytelling with musical design in groundbreaking collaborations, especially with Australian indigenous communities in landscapes that have been devastated by fires and environmental crises.
Georgeson has been celebrated in the media, the arts, and the commercial world with acknowledgements and awards. He has exhibited in solo and group exhibitions in France, UK, Japan, Holland, Canada, the US, and Australia. His work is held in the collections of the National Portrait Gallery of Australia, Australian Museum, Bundanon Trust Art Museum as well as in regional galleries, museums, and private collections internationally.
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Brigitte Diez
location: Mexico City, MexicoDiez is a Venezuelan photographer that holds a degree in communications, she is a self-taught who specializes in fashion and commercial photography. Using her own creative expressiveness, Brigitte enchants portraits and fashion concepts with wondrous life. As she follows her intuitive and creative imagination, her works turn into artistic creations.
Over the past decade she has been commissioned by numerous magazines and brands in Europe, US and Latinoamérica. Some brands she has worked with are: H&M, Audible-Amazon, Puma, Corona, T Mobile, Uber, AT&T, T Mobile, Nescafé, Quacker, Bohemia, Hennessy, Denizen-Levis, Walmart, Coppel, Oxxo Gas, Liverpool, VIPS, DiDi, Neo City, Bissu, Pure, Barefoot, Ciel, Klar, NU, among others.
She also has a weakness for artistic collaborations, which she has shown together with actors, musicians, and artists.
¨Photography for me is more than just work, it's art and life... Experimentation, expression, self-exploration. From a subtle human expression to a dramatic social scene, portrait and fashion photography become a channel that allow me to discover an infinite and complex human world, including mine.¨
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Benjamin Cremel
location: London, UKBorn and bred in Paris, Cremel has travelled east and west, north and south, always in the lookout for people, aesthetics and most specifically, light. He aims to explore his surroundings, observing the world's natural graphics. He has come a long way since holding his first point-and-shoot photographing buzzing bumblebees, collaborating with international photo agencies, wire services, fashion houses and sports brands. His photography aspires to be timeless, capturing a moment, a colour, a gleam that touched him, transporting viewers to that fleeting purpose at capture time. Travel along with his eye and be inspired.
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