Author L'Œil de la Photographie

Born in Tver in 1986, Irina Popova grew up amid the upheavals of post-Soviet Russia. She began working as a journalist and photographer at sixteen, and won her first prize…

Born in Moscow in 1972, Georgy Pervov is one of the Russian New Wave’s most singular artists. At the age of twelve he was knocked out by his first sight…

Born in Omsk in 1971, Sergey Loier was still very young when he was given a FED 5C – the Russian copy of the Leica – as a present. He…

Born in 1982, Mikhail Galustov wrote his first articles for a suburban Moscow newspaper when he was sixteen years old. Intent on illustrating these stories himself, he bought a camera…

Born in Kinshasa in 1978, Christian Tundula divides his time between the Democratic Republic of Congo and Bruges, in Belgium. He studied visual communication at the Academy of Fine Art…

James K. Lowe, born in New Zealand in 1988 of Chinese parents, graduated from the Auckland University Elam School of Fine Arts in 2009. Alongside his career as a designer…

Born in 1978, Andrew Esiebo lives and works in Ibadan, and is a founder member of the Nigerian photojournalism collective Black Box. Photography is beginning to make its presence felt…

Born in 1961 in Larache, in northern Morocco, Hassan Hajjaj now divides his time between London and Marrakech. Spotted by art critic Rose Issa in 2006, he has taken part…

Khee Teik Pang is thirty-seven. Since January 2007 this subversive star of Malaysia’s alternative scene has been artistic director of the Annexe Gallery, a contemporary art centre in Kuala Lumpur…

Chinese Malaysian Minstrel Kuik was born in Pantai Remis, Malaysia in 1976. Due to the racial quota that restricts national university access to native Malaysians, her country ‘exported’ her to…