Author L'Œil de la Photographie

Donna Ferrato is an internationally-known documentary photographer. Her gifts for exploration, illumination, and documentation coupled with a commitment to revealing the darker sides of humanity, have made her a giant…

Stanley Greene has called a camera in the right hands the most powerful weapon ever made. Greeneʼs hands are definitely the right ones. Over the last two decades, he has…

David Doubilet has changed the way we see our planetʼs rivers and oceans and influenced the way photographs are made of it. Over the last four decades, he has brought…

Lynsey Addario is a documentarian of conflict and humanitarian crises reporting from some of the worldʼs roughest places — Darfur, the Congo, Iraq, Afghanistan, and Libya. Her work is insightful,…

Bruce Gilden says youʼre looking at a street photograph if you can smell the street. Gildenʼs photos stimulate all the senses. Wandering city streets around the world with a camera…

Hank Willis Thomas is an artist who gets people talking–about pop culture, history, and race. For his series, Branded, he co-opted the language and logos of advertisements to produce images…

Camille Seamanʼs photographs exude the raw power of the natural world: icebergs rise up from the sea, rough-hewn and gigantic; storm clouds thunder across golden farmlands in middle America. Yet,…

Robin Schwartz might have created a whole new genre of photography: the interspecies family portrait. Pairing her daughter, Amelia, with a variety of animals–gibbon apes, dogs, kangaroos, llamas–Schwartz produces images…

Ernesto Bazan was born in Palermo, on the island of Sicily, in Italy, in 1959. He received his first camera when he was fourteen years old and began photographing daily…

Photojournalist Lynn Johnson is known for her intense and sensitive work, photographing the global human condition for the past 35 years. In 1975 she earned a BA in Photographic Illustration…