Following the completion of his studies at the Mulhouse School of Art and the School of Decorative Arts of Strasbourg, Michel Gantner became the artistic director of an advertising agency. During 1998 he dedicated himself exclusively to photography, working with Nina Ricci, Kenzo, Cartier, Caron, Hermes, Annayake, Air France and more. His nature photography, an area he has worked on for more than a decade, has been the subject of exhibitions, advertising campaigns and publications around the world notably in Japan. These photos are from his series Jour & Nuit.
Amira Fritz was born in 1979 in Rosenheim, Germany. She grew up in the countryside and moved to Vienna to study photography. She graduated in 2002 from the Höhere Graphische Bundes Lehr und Versuchsanstalt Wien. During her time in Vienna she was the assistant of the photographer Reiner Riedler and worked as a film projectionist, which was particularly influential in her photographic work. Fritz went to Paris and applied for the Hyères Festival International de Mode et de Photographie in 2008 with her body of work and won the Mention spécial du Jury. Her subsequent photographic collaboration with Matthew Cunnington and John Sanderson resulted in the unusual fashion series Entre Chien et Loup.
Jason Andrew was born and raised on the coast of California where he spent his early years surfing and snowboarding while exploring the small coastal villages of Baja California. Upon graduating with a Bachelors Degree in History from San Diego State University, he began photographing for a small music label while teaching elementary school. He later moved to NYC where he graduated from the 2006/07 Documentary Photography and Photojournalism program at the International Center of Photography where he interned with VII photographer James Nachtwey. In 2008, he attended the Eddie Adams Workshop and his Jazzland series about an abandoned amusement park in New Orleans was selected for American Photography 24. In 2009, he was named a Magenta Emerging Photographer and is currently among the “Emerging Talents” on Reportage by Getty Images. His clients and publications include AOL, Bag News Notes, Courrier International, Grazia Daily, Le Monde 2, National Geographic Books, New York Magazine, Transworld Surf and Ventiquattro.
John Ross is a London-based commercial photographer specializing in liquids, still life, portraits, and car images. Some of his clients include Dries Van Noten, Howard Smith Paper and JVC. He also has a book out entitled ‘Wheatsheaf RIP’ about the closing of a local London pub which can be purchased here with all proceeds going to charity.
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David S. Allee was born in New York City in 1969 and is a former urban planner. He received his undergraduate degree from Cornell University, and his MFA in Photography from the School of Visual Arts. He has had several solo exhibitions, including at Princeton University in 2005 and the Knoxville Museum of Art in 2004. His work has been included in group shows at the Bronx Museum of the Arts, the Tampa Museum of Art, and the Cornell Fine Arts Museum. His photographs have appeared widely in publications and journals and were recently featured in the book City Art, edited by Marvin Heiferman. David Allee is represented by Hello Artists (commercial) and Morgan Lehman Gallery.
Elinor Carucci was born in Israel, and currently lives and works in New York, where she is a teacher at the School of Visual Arts. Her work has appeared in numerous solo exhibitions and her clients include The New York Times Magazine, The New Yorker, Details, New York Magazine, and W, among others. She is also the recipient of the ICP infinity Award and a Guggenheim Fellowship. This work is from her series, Closer. You can read an interview with Elinor on Sideluck Potshow.
David Favrod was born in Kobe, Japan, of a Japanese mother and a Swiss father. When he was 6 months old, his family moved to Switzerland. Of this series, Gaijin, he says, ‘As my father had to travel for his work a lot, I was mainly brought up by my mother who taught me her principles and her culture. When I was 18, I asked for double nationality at the Japanese embassy, but they refused, because it is only given to Japanese women who wish to obtain their husband’s nationality. It is from this feeling of rejection and also from a desire to prove that I am as Japanese as I am Swiss that this work was created. “Gaijin” is a fictional recital, a tool for my quest for identity, where auto-portraits imply an intimate and solitary relationship that I have with myself. The mirror image is frozen in a figurative alter ego that serves as an anchor point. The aim of this work is to create “my own Japan”, in Switzerland, from memories of my journeys when I was small, my mother’s stories, popular and traditional culture and my grandparents war recitals’.
Paris-based Amelie Lombard is an advertising photographer specializing in food and still life. These photos are from the series, Aphrodisiaques. You can read an interview with Amelie on L’Internaute.
