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5-6 Susan Meiselas received her BA from Sarah Lawrence College and her MA in visual education from Harvard University. Meiselas joined Magnum Photos in 1976 and has worked as a freelance photographer since then. She is best known for her coverage of the insurrection in Nicaragua and her documentation of human rights issues in Latin America. She is presently serving as President of the Magnum Foundation. (Photo shot in El Salvador, 1979.)
7-8 Eugene Richards is a photographer, writer, and documentary filmmaker who has authored seventeen books, the most recent being War Is Personal (Many Voices Press, 2010),
a documentation in words and pictures of the human consequences of the Iraq war,
and Red Ball of a Sun Slipping Down (Many Voices Press, 2014), which speaks of life
in the Arkansas Delta decades ago and today. Among numerous honors, Mr. Richards
has received a Guggenheim Fellowship, the W. Eugene Smith Memorial Award, an International Center of Photography Infinity Award, and the Kraszna-Krausz Award for Photographic Innovation in Books. His photographs are represented in the collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, MOMA, the International Center of Photography, Centre Pompidou, the Smithsonian American Art Museum, and the New York Public Library, among others. (Photo shot in Brooklyn, NY, USA, 1993. Photo sponsors: Jim and Cindy Cash.)
9-10 Ari Rossner is a Paris-based beauty, fashion and portrait photographer. He collaborates with magazines and advertising agencies, shooting campaigns for major companies in the cosmetics industry such as L’Oréal, Bourjois, T. LeClerc, Sephora, Nina Ricci and Natura Brasil. Rossner’s curiosity for different cultures leads him to distant lands to see and tell their stories through photography. (Photo shot in Halkidiki, Greece, 2015.)
11-12 Elena Chernyshova is a Russian documentary photographer, based in France. In 2011 Elena received a grant from the Lagardère Foundation to create the photo documentary, Days of Night – Nights of Day, about the daily life of the industrial city of Norilsk, 400 kilometers north of the Arctic Circle in Siberia. She is the recipient of several international awards. (Photo shot in Moscow, Russia, 2015. Photo sponsors: Hal and Ginny Tarleton.)
13-14 Eric Franceschi began his professional career in Marseille. He has scoured the PACA region and beyond, photographing for newspapers, particularly the news daily, Libération. Franceschi now spends most of his time on non-news related work, finding it more personal and enriching. (Photo shot in Marseille, France, 1992. Photo sponsor: Chantal Whelan.)
15-16 Sim Chi Yin is a photographer based in Beijing and a member of VII Photo Agency. She is on the British Journal of Photography’s Ones to Watch list of photographers in 2014. She shoots regularly for The New York Times and her work has appeared in The New Yorker, TIME, Le Monde, Newsweek, Vogue USA and many more. In 2010 she was awarded a Magnum Foundation “Photography and Human Rights” fellowship at New York University. (Photo shot in Guangzhou, China, 2015.)
17-18 Devin Aadland a photographer living in Chicago, IL, specializes in narrative-based portraiture. Using characters, props and matching scenery, he creates high energy, visually stimulating images. (Photo shot in Chicago, IL, USA, 2014. Photo sponsor: Nancy Morrison.)