• Ken Domon (1909-1990)

Hiroshima survivors’ physical and emotional scars through stark, unstaged black-and-white social realist photography, emphasizing both suffering and resilience thirteen years after the atomic bombing.

• Larry Clark (1943)

Unfiltered depiction of youth subculture in 1960s America, documenting drug use, violence, and intimacy through a deeply personal and immersive photographic approach.

• Barry Lewis (1948)

Soviet forced labor camps and conditions faced by incarcerated prisoners in the early 1990s, contextualized within a broader examination of historical memory and political repression.

• 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.

• Jacob Riis (1849-1914)

Investigative journalism that documents the deplorable living conditions of New York City’s tenements, driving societal and legislative reform in the late 19th century.

• Richard Avedon (1923-2004)

Working-class individuals from the American West, stripped of environmental context by a stark white backdrop.