Discover the art of photography in context

• Rineke Dijkstra (1959)

Frontal, centered portraits of adolescents on beaches, highlighting their self-presentation, vulnerability, and evolving sense of identity within personal and cultural landscapes.

• Martin Hill (1946)

Ecological fragility and natural cycles, rendered through photographs of ephemeral land sculptures from natural materials, in remote New Zealand landscapes.

• Karoline Hjorth (1980),
• Riitta Ikonen (1981)

Human belonging to nature and the vitality of aging, documented through analogue portraits of seniors in wearable organic sculptures across several countries.

• Bernd Becher (1931-2007),
• Hilla Becher (1934-2015)

Typological exploration of vernacular architecture shaped by industrial-era imperatives, depicted with neutral light and frontal compositions.

• Vanessa Winship (1960)

Girlhood in Eastern Anatolia, rendered in black-and-white portraits of girls attending state schools near Turkey's borders.

• Jan Banning (1954)

Reconciliation between survivors and perpetrators after the 1994 genocide in Rwanda, documented through formally constructed paired portraits.

• Koo Bohnchang (1953)

Meditative exploration of Korean cultural identity through photographic representations of Joseon Dynasty white porcelain ceramics.

• Tamas Dezsö (1978)

Social and material aftermath in post-communist Romania, documented through subdued color photographs of everyday routines and structural decay, across depopulating villages and shuttered factory towns.

• Richard Avedon (1923-2004)

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

• Diane Arbus (1923-1971)

Portraits of eccentrics and self-fashioned individuals in postwar America, presented in direct black-and-white photographs with frontal compositions across New York streets, circuses, and domestic interiors.

• August Sander (1876-1964)

Typological photographic study documenting German societal archetypes through seven thematic groups, spanning decades and social strata.

• Sune Jonsson (1930-2009)

Rural life in northern Sweden during the late 1950s, highlighting themes of community, memory, and the transition from agrarian traditions to modernization.

• Christer Strömholm (1918-2002)

Subjective impressions of post-war life conveyed through images of isolation, physical decay, and abandoned environments, where signs of death and loss shape a visual meditation on impermanence.

• Hiroshi Sugimoto (1948)

Time and minimalism through photographs of sea and sky around the world, as a constant landscape in human history.

• Eduardo Rangel Monteiro (1972)

Self-portraiture as personal fiction, rendered through self-transformations using masks made and worn by the artist.

• Gillian Wearing (1963)

Public appearances and private thoughts in early 1990s London, explored through participatory color street portraits of strangers holding self-written statements.

• Chan–Hyo Bae (1975)

Staged self-portraiture in Western costume reveals patterns of exclusion in cultural narratives and questions of race and gender.

• Marcos Zimmermann (1950)

South American masculinity through photographs of men posed in familiar contexts, where static compositions and naturalistic settings evoke personal histories and social realities.