Anastasia Samoylova
location: Miami, USAnastasia Samoylova is an American artist (b. 1984, Russia) who alternates between observational photography and studio practice. A survey of her work was presented at the Saatchi Gallery, London. Her exhibition, 'Floridas: Anastasia Samoylova and Walker Evans,' is on view at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, from October 14, 2024, to May 11, 2025.
Upon relocating to Miami, Florida, in 2016, she pursued observational photographic practice, leading to her first monograph, FloodZone, which formed a study on the visualization of environmental threats posed to flood-risked communities in Miami and beyond. In her Floridas project, she gestures toward the state of Florida itself, forming a kaleidoscopic and contradictory portrait of how the state’s unique cultural and political psyche manifests in visual form. In 2023, Samoylova produced the Image Cities project, in which she trained her lens globally within some of the world’s most significant urban centers while examining the images that cover their surfaces.
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Viridiana
location: Mexico City, MexicoViridiana is a Mexican photographer with studies in arts and design, she also attended EFTI in Madrid where she completed a master's in photography.
Viridiana was Marie Claire’s Mexico photo editor. After winning Harper's Bazaar's new talents award in 2016, her career began through fashion and editorials for publications such as Vogue, ELLE and L'Officiel. She has undertaken commissions in Mexico, Paris, Barcelona and New York. She loves to build a collection of contemporary, honest and beautiful imagery while mixing digital, motion and analogue formats.
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David Maisel
location: San Francisco, CA, USDavid Maisel (b. 1961, New York) is an artist working in photography and video, and the recipient of a 2018 Guggenheim Fellowship in the Creative Arts. Among his chief concerns are the politics and aesthetics of radically human-altered environments, and how we perceive our place in time via investigations of cultural artefacts from both past and present. His work focuses on power and the production of space by examining landscapes and objects that are off-limits, quarantined, or hidden from view.
Maisel received his BA from Princeton University, and his MFA from California College of the Arts, in addition to study at the Harvard University Graduate School of Design.
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Eimear Lynch
location: Brighton, UKEimear Lynch is an Irish photographer whose main focus is the critical explorations of youth culture, particularly girlhood. Her work focuses on the culture of beauty, consumerism, and the lives of girls and young women.
Lynch released her debut book Girls' Night in May 2024, published by IDEA. The book garnered widespread acclaim and media coverage, including The Guardian, The Examiner, The Independent, and RTE. The book launched in Dover Street Market, London, as part of Photo London. Additional launches took place in Photo Museum Ireland and Dover Street Market, Paris, where the work was exhibited. Eimear's work spans documentary, music, and fashion, with clients including Miu Miu, Simone Rocha, and Fontaines DC.
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Stephanie Gengotti
location: Rome, ItalyGengotti is a photographer of Italian/French nationality. She has a degree in English and French Translation, a graduate diploma in photojournalism issued by the Scuola Romana di Fotografia.
"The need to establish an empathic and direct relationship often leads her to live in the same house and in the same identical daily routine as the main characters in her stories. A photograph is only the very last act, the catharsis, in a long and slow knowledge path."
Her works have been awarded and exhibited in numerous shows in Italy and abroad.
She works mainly with reportage photography and portrait.
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