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Sam van Vondelen
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Teju Cole:
Author[Cole is the author of four books: a novella, Every Day Is for the Thief; a novel, Open City; a collection of more than 40 essays, Known and Strange Things and a photobook, Punto d’Ombra (2016) (published in English in 2017 as Blind Spot). He is currently working on Radio Lagos, a non-fictional narrative of contemporary Lagos. Salman Rushdie has described Cole as “among the most gifted writers of his generation”.
He was a Distinguished Writer in Residence at Bard College. From June to November 2014 he was “writer in residence” of the Literaturhaus Zurich [de] and the PWG Foundation in Zurich.
Photography
Cole’s photography was shown in a solo exhibition in Milan in 2016 called Punto d’ombra. The photographs from this exhibition were published by the Italian publisher Contrasto Books in 2016,[30] and by Random House in 2017 under the title Blind Spot.
Steve McCurry
Steve McCurry (Philadelphia (Pennsylvania), 24 februari 1950) is een Amerikaans fotojournalist die het bekendst is van de foto ‘Afghan Girl‘ die in juni 1985 op het voorblad van de National Geographic verscheen. Deze cover is de meest bekende van alle covers van National Geographic.
Hij studeerde aan de Pennsylvania State University (Penn State), aanvankelijk film maar afgestudeerd in theaterkunsten. Hij raakte geïnteresseerd in fotografie toen hij foto’s maakte voor de universiteitskrant.
Zijn carrière als fotojournalist begon met de Russische bezetting van Afghanistan. Hij vermomde zich in inheemse kleding en verborg fotorolletjes in de zomen. Zijn foto’s behoorden tot de eerste foto’s van het conflict en werden veel gepubliceerd.
McCurry vervolgde zijn carrière met het verslaan van een hele reeks internationale conflicten, telkens in Azië. Zijn foto’s worden veel gepubliceerd. Sinds 1986 is hij lid van Magnum Photos.
Raghubir Singh
Raghubir Singh (1942–1999) was an Indian photographer, most known for his landscapes and documentary-style photographs of the people of India. He was a self-taught photographer who worked in India and lived in Paris, London and New York. During his career he worked with National Geographic Magazine, The New York Times, The New Yorker and Time. In the early 1970s, he was one of the first photographers to reinvent the use of color at a time when color photography was still a marginal art form.
Singh belonged to a tradition of small-format street photography, working in color, that to him, represented the intrinsic value of Indian aesthetics, According to his 2004 retrospective his “documentary-style vision was neither sugarcoated, nor abject, nor controllingly omniscient”. Deeply influenced by modernism, he liberally took inspiration from Rajasthani miniatures, Mughal paintings and Bengal, a place where he thought western modernist ideas and vernacular Indian art were fused for the first time, as reflected in the works of the Bengal school and the humanism of filmmaker Satyajit Ray. “Beauty, nature, humanism and spirituality were the cornerstones of Indian culture” for him and became the bedrock for his work.
Singh published 14 well-received books on the Ganges, Calcutta, Benares, his native Rajasthan, Grand Trunk Road, and the Hindustan Ambassador car.Today, his work is part of the permanent collections of the Art Institute of Chicago, the Metropolitan Museum of Art and Museum of Modern Art in New York and the Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography, amongst others