GUILLAUME CANNAT

GUILLAUME CANNAT

Guillaume CANNAT is a French photographer. Born in 1962, fascinated by astronomy from a young age, Guillaume Cannat made his passion his profession. He is not an astrophysicist, as he likes to remember. Guillaume Cannat is a true lover of space, of the planets. For forty years he has observed, and made people observe, the sky and…

PAUL NICKLEN

PAUL NICKLEN

Paul Nicklen is a Canadian photographer and marine biologist specializing in the polar regions and their wildlife. It has documented the beauty and fate of our planet for over twenty years. As an expedition photographer for National Geographic magazine, Paul Nicklen captures the imagination of a global audience. He stands out with his ‘brand’ of documentary photography which…

JEAN-DANIEL LORIEUX

JEAN-DANIEL LORIEUX

Jean-Daniel Lorieux is one of the most famous French fashion photographers of the 20th century. He was born in 1937 in Paris into a family of industrialists. Fleeing from the rigors of Jesuit education, he took refuge in the theater and attended René Simon’s drama lessons. However, his dreams of cinema were thwarted by the Algerian…

CÁSSIO VASCONCELLOS

CÁSSIO VASCONCELLOS

Cássio VASCONCELLOS (1965-) is a Brazilian photographer, born in São Paulo. He studied photography at the Imagem-Ação school of São Paulo before starting a career in photojournalism. In between photo stories and advertising work, he shoots for his own photographic collection. Active since 1981, VASCONCELLOS has shown his work over 200 times in more than 20…

VINCENT FOURNIER

VINCENT FOURNIER

How to best characterize the photographic work of Vincent FOURNIER? First, by knowing its triple interest in science, the human being and its potential, whether in the realm of utopia or the nearest future. “Observe the stars, travel in space and time, create and program the living, see in the invisible, invent the future …” it is in…

GEORGE TICE

GEORGE TICE

George TICE is a renowned photographer, who has been focusing his work on the American rural and urban environment. He is particulary attracted to remnant of American culture on the edge of extinction – from the small provincial communities to urban neighborhoods. George TICE, a 10th generation New Jerseyan, was born and raised in Newark in 1938. He…

ALESSANDRO PIREDDA

ALESSANDRO PIREDDA

Born in 1974 in Riccione, Alessandro PIREDDA lives and works in Misano Adriatico. He developes a passion for the history of architecture during his studies at the School of Fine Arts in Rimini. Surrounded since childhood by the emblematic monuments of classical Italian architecture, he absorbs eagerly all the information relied to this subject. The artist considers that these…

ROMAIN VEILLON

ROMAIN VEILLON

Romain VEILLON is a self-taught artist passionate about photography and travelling. He began to photograph at the age of 15 to engrave in memory his discoveries. Gradually he concentrates more on the artistic approach to the photography, choosing as his favorite subject the aesthetics of abandoned places. Fascinated by this notion of abandonment, he carefully choses each destination to…

MANOLO CHRETIEN

MANOLO CHRETIEN

Manolo CHRETIEN was born in 1966 on the Orange airbase (France). His father was a French pilot and international astronaut (first European to go into space), he spent his young years between sheds and airplanes. Manolo CHRETIEN developed quickly a high interest about this metallic world, which combines technology, speed and power. It explains his fascination…

DOUGLAS KIRKLAND

DOUGLAS KIRKLAND

Douglas KIRKLAND was born in 1934 in Toronto. Child, he has been amazed by Photography and his kith and kin became his very first models. Douglas KIRKLAND still does not know that during the next years, the most prominent Hollywood celebrities will pose in front of his camera. In the early stages of his career Douglas…

NASA VINTAGE PRINTS

NASA VINTAGE PRINTS

USA and URSS were opposed in a fierce competition: The Space Race. The Space Race was the odyssey of the 20th century. It started on 4 October 1957 with Sputnik 1, first artificial Earth satellite, launched by the Soviet Union. The next month, it was followed by the first animal to orbit the Earth, still by…

STEPHEN WILKES

STEPHEN WILKES

Stephen WILKES was born in 1957. He began to photograph from his 12 years old, a passion which will not leave him. Stephen WILKES studied at Syracuse University’s S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications, he graduated with a bachelor of science in photography. Specialized in communication, the school allowed him to develop a deep understanding of the media’s history…