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Photographic links (alphabetical order)

Phil Bard
Phil Bard maintains his studio and darkroom in Pasadena, California, and has been producing photographic images since he first had a box camera placed under his nose at age 8. Though today his work includes advertising, corporate brochures, fashion and adventure sports, his personal work involves black and white landscapes, to which this site is dedicated.
Brett Beighley
In my life, as in my photography, I try to appreciate the small beauty of all the things that are completely normal, common and unassuming. My hope is that people who see my work will find a quiet honesty in my subjects.
Sacha Dean Biyan
Actuellement Biyan passe la plupart de son temps dans des régions éloignées de la jungle amazonienne, vivant parmi plusieurs tribus indigènes et assimilant leur sagesse. Sa soif d'absorber la diversité des cultures et de vivre personnellement la limite des émotions humaines est devenu la raison d'être de sa photographie...
Christopher Burkett
Today Burkett travels extensively throughout the United States to photograph. His masterful printing and numerous exhibitions rapidly brought him international acclaim. His photographs are featured in many public and private fine art collections. Burkett also has taught several workshops sponsored through the Friends of Photography and Anderson Ranch Arts Center.
John Paul Caponigro
John Paul intensely explores his enduring interests - formally in the relationship between images and texts, thematically in the relationship between nature and psychology. He draws from occidental and oriental traditions alike, favoring the primal and the sacred.
Yuri Dojc
Yuri is a popular juror and speaker at international photographic events. His fine art posters and prints grace the walls of private collectors and galleries around the world including a collection at the Canadian Contemporary Museum of Photography in Ottawa.
Arnaud Frich
Je me suis spécialisé dans la photographie de paysages urbains ou naturels en format panoramique. Je réalise principalement mes photographies avec un appareil rotatif ou par assemblage dont l'angle de champ est le plus proche de la vision de l'oeil humain. Je travaille de préférence en grand format car eux seuls permettent la plus belle qualité de tirage.
Ralph Gibson
These made him a leading figure in artistic black-and-white photography in the 70s. At the end of the 70s he started taking color photographs for the first time. In the 80s Gibson began to move further and further away from the abstraction and strict formalism of his earlier work and to publish more spontaneous-type photographs. (textes de Rick Floyd)
Michael Going
Altered Polaroid. Michael Going creates impressionistic images from his original Polaroid SX-70 photographs. He is well known for both his fine art work in the permanent collections of museums, corporations and private collectors and his commercial work for clients that include Time Magazine, Sports Illustrated, ...
Greg Gorman
Gorman is part of the classical tradition. During the 1970’s and 80’s, he concentrated heavily on details of facial features like eyes, etc. Dominant motifs like the mouth or the scream pursue us throughout the book. In recent years Gorman has attained the consummate mastery of light and lighting which also distinguishes the studio photography of Horst P. Horst, G. Hurrell, and George Platt Lynes.
Frank Grisdale
Rather than deliver to the viewer all of the fine detail common in traditional landscape photography, my process reduces that detail in order to place more emphasis on light, line and color.
David J Osborn
Began work in 1985 with Reuter News Pictures Fleet Street, London as a news photographer. During the next four years worked for Reuters, Associated Press, AFP and national newspapers. This was followed by nine months working in Asia shooting color photo-essays. Moved to Sydney, Australia in 1989 and established a commercial studio and darkroom. Spent the next eleven years shooting annual reports, corporate portraits and architecture...
Michael Kenna
Michael Kenna has been photographing the landscape for more than twenty-five years, returning time and again to the gardens and cities of Europe capturing the ethereal light and silence of the early morning. Although Kenna never photographs people within the land, he has the uncanny ability to give manicured trees, stoic fountains and heroic statues a meditative human presence.
David Michael Kennedy
The Taos Hoop Dancer moved gracefully in the wintery air below the massive snowcapped mountain. Photographer David Michael Kennedy was shooting with a 2 1/4 Hasselblad camera, concentrating on those moments when the dancer's back curved like the hoops in his hand. This was Kennedy's second session with a Pueblo Dancer and things seemed to be going well.
Sean Kernan
The stories of Jorge Luis Borges begin quietly. A narrator, often a man speaking from behind his ordinariness, often a bit of a pedant, starts to tell us some story in a voice so soft that only the intensity of the speaker, shaken by something he has learned and would tell us, makes us stop and lean closer to listen. (text by Sean Kernan)
Kerik Kouklis
Platinum / palladium prints. Although my work can be broadly described as "landscape photography", it is different from what is generally considered the traditional landscape genre. I worked for several years trying to capture the Grand Landscape in what I call the "Sierra Club" aesthetic. In the past few years I have slowly migrated away from that approach and now find myself doing work that I consider much more personal. My photographs are often subtle and thoughtful and are seldom overtly dramatic.
Yorgos Kousagiannidis
His need for personal expression and communication has led him to people photography. Combined with the panoramic format which provides a rare perspective to documentary photography, Yorgos is producing imagery of a unique style.
Paul Kozal
Kozal's subject matter consists mostly of landscapes, particularly in the American Southwest and the West. Moving to the Bay Area in 1996, Kozal's work now incorporates the landscapes of California's interior and coastal locales. Kozal works in two distinct areas: toned and hand-tinted black and white gelatin silver prints. His images incorporate atmosphere, mystery and evocative tones to create his unique signature style.
Frans Lanting
Frans Lanting, hailed as one of the great nature photographers of our time, portrays wild creatures as ambassadors for the preservation of complete ecosystems. This unique view of wildlife, which lies at the heart of his work, provides some insight into why Mr. Lanting's photographs are so hauntingly beautiful. ".... He has the mind of a scientist, the heart of a hunter, and the eyes of a poet. (Thomas Kennedy)"
George Losse
Fine art nude photography, landscape photography, architecture photography. The titles of my work are rather simple. I do not go for the poetic titles that a lot of people like to delve into. Unless an image reaches out and screams a title to me, I just title it simply. I want the viewer to interpret what they see without a written pathway by me. I feel that if I gave too descriptive a title, they would only see the photos in one way. But, when I give it a very simple title, as most of the nudes are simply titled Nude.
Silvio Maraini
The difficult times we live in makes it important to rest sometimes. Especially nature becomes a place where our longing for harmony is satisfied. If we take enough time to look at nature we realize how beautiful the world still is. My main objective in landscape photography is to share my love and admiration for nature.
Steve McCurry
McCurry has covered many areas of international and civil conflict including the Iran-Iraq war, Beirut, Cambodia, the Philippines, the Gulf War, and the disintegration of the former Yugoslavia and Afghanistan. His powerful images leave the viewer with an empathy for innocent civilians caught up in war.
Steven N. Meyers
By using x-rays instead of light, and unusual innervision can be revealed, and nature shows us textures, details, and shadows that would otherwise not be seen. Visible light is just a small part the electromagnetic spectrum, and falls between x-rays and infrared. My x-ray images are a collection of negatives, positives, and solarized images, solarized being partly negative and partly positive at the same time.
John Minh Nguyen
Fashion photography
William Neill
William Neill, a long-time resident of Yosemite National Park, is a landscape photographer concerned with conveying the deep, spiritual beauty he sees and feels in Nature. Neill's award-winning photography have been widely published in books, magazines, calendars, posters. His limited-edition prints have been collected and exhibited in museums and galleries nationally, including the Boston Museum of Fine Art and The Polaroid Collection. In 1995, Neill received the Sierra Club's Ansel Adams Award for conservation photography.
José Ortiz Echagüe
José Ortiz Echagüe está considerado como el más importante fotógrafo español de la primera mitad del siglo. Realizó innumerables exposiciones internacionales, que culminaron con la titulada "Spectacular Spain" en el Metropolitan Museum de Nueva York, en 1960. La presente exposición está producida por el Legado Ortiz Echagüe-Universidad de Navarra y se inauguró el 23 de julio de 1998 en el Museo Nacional de Arte de Catalunya. Comprende 153 originales y supone una revisión crítica de la obra completa de este autor.
Tatiana Palnitska
Tatiana was born and raised in Russia, and moved to the United States in 1988. Her interests as an artist lie in the abstract shape, "unstill" life, allegorization of its intrinsic movement, subdued, but not extinguished life, and the beauty of form, as well as the interpretation of human psychology and perceptions.
Pascal Renoux
Les choses simples de la vie... portraits, paysages, mains, ...
Anna Rhea
Documentary style photography.
Bertrand Richardeau
La photographie se joue ici des frontières et travaille à les effacer, ou plutôt comme on le dit d’un suspect, à les confondre. La matière, justement suspecte d'avoir été trop vue, d'être trop connue, trop réaliste, trop rigide, est plongée dans un univers chatoyant et mystérieux où tout se mêle et s'échange... (textes de J-P Trias)
Gabriele Rigon
My passion is Portrait and Fine Art Nude Photography. Mostly I photograph women, because the aesthetic form of the female body inspires me, so I let my mind go free. In my opinion erotic is not only nakedness, it's much more. The female nude is for me the most compelling and provocative, it is perhaps nature’s finest form.
Ron Rosenstock
He has been conducting international photo tours since 1976. He specializes in Ireland and Italy. Permanent Collections can be find at Castlebar Urban District Council - Ireland, The Fogg Art Museum - USA, International Center of Photography - USA...
Sebastião Salgado
I came to Brazil to photograph a story about the peasants fighting not to come to the cities, because this for me is one of the last resistance movements in the world.
Matt Stuart
I'm not sure which came first, my being nosey or an interest in 'street photography', but a fascination with people and the way they live their lives is why I enjoy the business so much. I can't hide behind lights and technology, I am reliant on a small camera, patience an lots of optimism.
Joyce Tenneson
Joyce Tenneson's ethereal photographs of the human figure explore the mysterious alchemy of sensuality and spirituality with an underlying autobiographical significance. Given the bridging concepts of Tenneson's work, the following composition merges three revolving themes which draw upon her previous work and forge unexplored genres.
Jerry Uelsmann
If you're not familiar with the work of master photographic artist Jerry Uelsmann, you'll probably think that you're looking at some extraordinary digital images on the following pages. The truth is that Uelsmann is the best-known artist in his field in the world, and there's not one bit of computer work here. For more than 35 years, he has taken pictures of a multitude of subjects and combined them through elaborate systems of his own design to create tremendous works of art that currently reside in the permanent collections of more than 100 museums worldwide. (text by David Robertson)
Ami Vitale
Ami Vitale is an independent journalist based in New Delhi, India. Her photographs and stories from events in Europe, the Middle East and Africa have appeared in publications including Time, Newsweek, US news and World Report, Businessweek, The Guardian, New York Times, USA Today, .... . She has received numerous awards.
William Wegman
The dogs as you never see them !...One afternoon before going to a party I drew little circles on my hand (this was the 60's). The circles parodied the shapes in my ring that I wore on my index finger. At the party cotto salami was served. It was eerie. The salami looked like my hand. Little peppercorns were in it...
Takis Zerdevas
The spectator creates the spectacle. Though neutral, the appearance of the world seems different each time I come into contact with it. It becomes fluid, it takes colour and shape according to my personal state and position. At this level of a changeable and personal objectiveness, the form of the world is created within me, my existence as a spectator being the driving force.

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Phil Bard	Phil Bard maintains his studio and darkroom in Pasadena, California, and has been producing photographic images since he first had a box camera placed under his nose at age 8. Though today his work includes advertising, corporate brochures, fashion and adventure sports, his personal work involves black and white landscapes, to which this site is dedicated.
Brett Beighley	In my life, as in my photography, I try to appreciate the small beauty of all the things that are completely normal, common and unassuming. My hope is that people who see my work will find a quiet honesty in my subjects.
Sacha Dean Biyan	Actuellement Biyan passe la plupart de son temps dans des régions éloignées de la jungle amazonienne, vivant parmi plusieurs tribus indigènes et assimilant leur sagesse. Sa soif d'absorber la diversité des cultures et de vivre personnellement la limite des émotions humaines est devenu la raison d'être de sa photographie...
Christopher Burkett	Today Burkett travels extensively throughout the United States to photograph. His masterful printing and numerous exhibitions rapidly brought him international acclaim. His photographs are featured in many public and private fine art collections. Burkett also has taught several workshops sponsored through the Friends of Photography and Anderson Ranch Arts Center.
John Paul Caponigro	John Paul intensely explores his enduring interests - formally in the relationship between images and texts, thematically in the relationship between nature and psychology. He draws from occidental and oriental traditions alike, favoring the primal and the sacred.
Yuri Dojc	Yuri is a popular juror and speaker at international photographic events. His fine art posters and prints grace the walls of private collectors and galleries around the world including a collection at the Canadian Contemporary Museum of Photography in Ottawa.
Arnaud Frich	Je me suis spécialisé dans la photographie de paysages urbains ou naturels en format panoramique. Je réalise principalement mes photographies avec un appareil rotatif ou par assemblage dont l'angle de champ est le plus proche de la vision de l'oeil humain. Je travaille de préférence en grand format car eux seuls permettent la plus belle qualité de tirage.
Ralph Gibson	These made him a leading figure in artistic black-and-white photography in the 70s. At the end of the 70s he started taking color photographs for the first time. In the 80s Gibson began to move further and further away from the abstraction and strict formalism of his earlier work and to publish more spontaneous-type photographs. (textes de Rick Floyd)
Michael Going	Altered Polaroid. Michael Going creates impressionistic images from his original Polaroid SX-70 photographs. He is well known for both his fine art work in the permanent collections of museums, corporations and private collectors and his commercial work for clients that include Time Magazine, Sports Illustrated, ...
Greg Gorman	Gorman is part of the classical tradition. During the 1970’s and 80’s, he concentrated heavily on details of facial features like eyes, etc. Dominant motifs like the mouth or the scream pursue us throughout the book. In recent years Gorman has attained the consummate mastery of light and lighting which also distinguishes the studio photography of Horst P. Horst, G. Hurrell, and George Platt Lynes.
Frank Grisdale	Rather than deliver to the viewer all of the fine detail common in traditional landscape photography, my process reduces that detail in order to place more emphasis on light, line and color.
David J Osborn	Began work in 1985 with Reuter News Pictures Fleet Street, London as a news photographer. During the next four years worked for Reuters, Associated Press, AFP and national newspapers. This was followed by nine months working in Asia shooting color photo-essays. Moved to Sydney, Australia in 1989 and established a commercial studio and darkroom. Spent the next eleven years shooting annual reports, corporate portraits and architecture...
Michael Kenna	Michael Kenna has been photographing the landscape for more than twenty-five years, returning time and again to the gardens and cities of Europe capturing the ethereal light and silence of the early morning. Although Kenna never photographs people within the land, he has the uncanny ability to give manicured trees, stoic fountains and heroic statues a meditative human presence.
David Michael Kennedy	The Taos Hoop Dancer moved gracefully in the wintery air below the massive snowcapped mountain. Photographer David Michael Kennedy was shooting with a 2 1/4 Hasselblad camera, concentrating on those moments when the dancer's back curved like the hoops in his hand. This was Kennedy's second session with a Pueblo Dancer and things seemed to be going well.
Sean Kernan	The stories of Jorge Luis Borges begin quietly. A narrator, often a man speaking from behind his ordinariness, often a bit of a pedant, starts to tell us some story in a voice so soft that only the intensity of the speaker, shaken by something he has learned and would tell us, makes us stop and lean closer to listen. (text by Sean Kernan)
Kerik Kouklis	Platinum / palladium prints. Although my work can be broadly described as "landscape photography", it is different from what is generally considered the traditional landscape genre. I worked for several years trying to capture the Grand Landscape in what I call the "Sierra Club" aesthetic. In the past few years I have slowly migrated away from that approach and now find myself doing work that I consider much more personal. My photographs are often subtle and thoughtful and are seldom overtly dramatic.
Yorgos Kousagiannidis	His need for personal expression and communication has led him to people photography. Combined with the panoramic format which provides a rare perspective to documentary photography, Yorgos is producing imagery of a unique style.
Paul Kozal	Kozal's subject matter consists mostly of landscapes, particularly in the American Southwest and the West. Moving to the Bay Area in 1996, Kozal's work now incorporates the landscapes of California's interior and coastal locales. Kozal works in two distinct areas: toned and hand-tinted black and white gelatin silver prints. His images incorporate atmosphere, mystery and evocative tones to create his unique signature style.
Frans Lanting	Frans Lanting, hailed as one of the great nature photographers of our time, portrays wild creatures as ambassadors for the preservation of complete ecosystems. This unique view of wildlife, which lies at the heart of his work, provides some insight into why Mr. Lanting's photographs are so hauntingly beautiful. ".... He has the mind of a scientist, the heart of a hunter, and the eyes of a poet. (Thomas Kennedy)"
George Losse	Fine art nude photography, landscape photography, architecture photography. The titles of my work are rather simple. I do not go for the poetic titles that a lot of people like to delve into. Unless an image reaches out and screams a title to me, I just title it simply. I want the viewer to interpret what they see without a written pathway by me. I feel that if I gave too descriptive a title, they would only see the photos in one way. But, when I give it a very simple title, as most of the nudes are simply titled Nude.
Silvio Maraini	The difficult times we live in makes it important to rest sometimes. Especially nature becomes a place where our longing for harmony is satisfied. If we take enough time to look at nature we realize how beautiful the world still is. My main objective in landscape photography is to share my love and admiration for nature.
Steve McCurry	McCurry has covered many areas of international and civil conflict including the Iran-Iraq war, Beirut, Cambodia, the Philippines, the Gulf War, and the disintegration of the former Yugoslavia and Afghanistan. His powerful images leave the viewer with an empathy for innocent civilians caught up in war.
Steven N. Meyers	By using x-rays instead of light, and unusual innervision can be revealed, and nature shows us textures, details, and shadows that would otherwise not be seen. Visible light is just a small part the electromagnetic spectrum, and falls between x-rays and infrared. My x-ray images are a collection of negatives, positives, and solarized images, solarized being partly negative and partly positive at the same time.
John Minh Nguyen	Fashion photography
William Neill	William Neill, a long-time resident of Yosemite National Park, is a landscape photographer concerned with conveying the deep, spiritual beauty he sees and feels in Nature. Neill's award-winning photography have been widely published in books, magazines, calendars, posters. His limited-edition prints have been collected and exhibited in museums and galleries nationally, including the Boston Museum of Fine Art and The Polaroid Collection. In 1995, Neill received the Sierra Club's Ansel Adams Award for conservation photography.
José Ortiz Echagüe	José Ortiz Echagüe está considerado como el más importante fotógrafo español de la primera mitad del siglo. Realizó innumerables exposiciones internacionales, que culminaron con la titulada "Spectacular Spain" en el Metropolitan Museum de Nueva York, en 1960. La presente exposición está producida por el Legado Ortiz Echagüe-Universidad de Navarra y se inauguró el 23 de julio de 1998 en el Museo Nacional de Arte de Catalunya. Comprende 153 originales y supone una revisión crítica de la obra completa de este autor.
Tatiana Palnitska	Tatiana was born and raised in Russia, and moved to the United States in 1988. Her interests as an artist lie in the abstract shape, "unstill" life, allegorization of its intrinsic movement, subdued, but not extinguished life, and the beauty of form, as well as the interpretation of human psychology and perceptions.
Pascal Renoux	Les choses simples de la vie... portraits, paysages, mains, ...
Anna Rhea	Documentary style photography.
Bertrand Richardeau	La photographie se joue ici des frontières et travaille à les effacer, ou plutôt comme on le dit d’un suspect, à les confondre. La matière, justement suspecte d'avoir été trop vue, d'être trop connue, trop réaliste, trop rigide, est plongée dans un univers chatoyant et mystérieux où tout se mêle et s'échange... (textes de J-P Trias)
Gabriele Rigon	My passion is Portrait and Fine Art Nude Photography. Mostly I photograph women, because the aesthetic form of the female body inspires me, so I let my mind go free. In my opinion erotic is not only nakedness, it's much more. The female nude is for me the most compelling and provocative, it is perhaps nature’s finest form.
Ron Rosenstock	He has been conducting international photo tours since 1976. He specializes in Ireland and Italy. Permanent Collections can be find at Castlebar Urban District Council - Ireland, The Fogg Art Museum - USA, International Center of Photography - USA...
Sebastião Salgado	I came to Brazil to photograph a story about the peasants fighting not to come to the cities, because this for me is one of the last resistance movements in the world.
Matt Stuart	I'm not sure which came first, my being nosey or an interest in 'street photography', but a fascination with people and the way they live their lives is why I enjoy the business so much. I can't hide behind lights and technology, I am reliant on a small camera, patience an lots of optimism.
Joyce Tenneson	Joyce Tenneson's ethereal photographs of the human figure explore the mysterious alchemy of sensuality and spirituality with an underlying autobiographical significance. Given the bridging concepts of Tenneson's work, the following composition merges three revolving themes which draw upon her previous work and forge unexplored genres.
Jerry Uelsmann	If you're not familiar with the work of master photographic artist Jerry Uelsmann, you'll probably think that you're looking at some extraordinary digital images on the following pages. The truth is that Uelsmann is the best-known artist in his field in the world, and there's not one bit of computer work here. For more than 35 years, he has taken pictures of a multitude of subjects and combined them through elaborate systems of his own design to create tremendous works of art that currently reside in the permanent collections of more than 100 museums worldwide. (text by David Robertson)
Ami Vitale	Ami Vitale is an independent journalist based in New Delhi, India. Her photographs and stories from events in Europe, the Middle East and Africa have appeared in publications including Time, Newsweek, US news and World Report, Businessweek, The Guardian, New York Times, USA Today, .... . She has received numerous awards.
William Wegman	The dogs as you never see them !...One afternoon before going to a party I drew little circles on my hand (this was the 60's). The circles parodied the shapes in my ring that I wore on my index finger. At the party cotto salami was served. It was eerie. The salami looked like my hand. Little peppercorns were in it...
Takis Zerdevas	The spectator creates the spectacle. Though neutral, the appearance of the world seems different each time I come into contact with it. It becomes fluid, it takes colour and shape according to my personal state and position. At this level of a changeable and personal objectiveness, the form of the world is created within me, my existence as a spectator being the driving force.