• Johan van der Keuken (1938-2001)

Working-class life and urban alienation in 1950s Paris during post-war recovery and Algerian War, bridging the humanist documentary tradition with more experimental and subjective approaches.

• Henri Cartier-Bresson (1908-2004)

Ephemeral human moments portrayed through a fusion of spontaneity and precise composition.

• William Klein (1926-2022)

The intense energy of New York’s streets through gritty, chaotic images that critique urban life and redefine photographic storytelling.

• Weegee (1899-1968)

Nighttime scenes of 1930s-1940s New York, portraying urban extremes of crime and social life through high-contrast flash photography and candid depictions of human emotion.

• Garry Winogrand (1928-1984)

Human-animal interactions in zoos, highlighting themes of captivity, observation, and artificial boundaries through ironic and unsettling compositions that satirize societal norms.

• Jason Eskenazi (1960)

The post-Soviet transition as seen through everyday life and personal stories.