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Exclusive art project by photographer Erwin Olaf and choreographer Hans van Manen offering a unique view on dance and photography

The grand master of Dutch dance, Hans van Manen, celebrates his 90th birthday this year. That has given rise to international celebrations by leading ballet companies with the Hans van Manen festival from 8 to 29 June 2022, the exclusive publication Dance in Close-Up and the exhibition of the same name in Galerie Ron Mandos in Amsterdam from 19 June to 17 July 2022.

From the 1970s to the 1990s, Hans van Manen was not only one of the world’s leading choreographers, but also an internationally acclaimed photographer. It was during this period that the then very young photographer Erwin Olaf met the famed artist, who immediately took him under his wing and introduced him to the world of the visual arts and studio photography.

This book celebrates their 40 years of friendship, with a photo series in which Van Manen directs moments from his choreographic career, recorded with the utmost precision by Erwin Olaf.

With text contributions from the authors Nina Siegal and Michael James Gardner.

About the Author:

Born in 1959 in Hilversum, The Netherlands. Lives and works in Amsterdam, The Netherlands. Erwin Olaf is an internationally exhibiting artist whose diverse practice centres around society’s marginalised individuals, including women, people of colour, and the LGBTQ+ community. A bold and sometimes controversial approach has earned the artist a number of prestigious collaborations, from Vogue and Louis Vuitton, to the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam. He served as the official portrait artist for the Dutch royal family in 2017, and designed the national side of the euro coins for King Willem-Alexander in 2013. He has been awarded the Netherlands’ prestigious Johannes Vermeer Award, as well as Photographer of the Year at the International Color Awards, and Kunstbeeld magazine’s Dutch Artist of the Year. Erwin Olaf has exhibited worldwide, including Centro de Arte Contemporáneo de Málaga, Málaga, Spain; Museu da Imagem e do Som, São Paulo, Brazil; Martin-Gropius-Bau, Berlin, Germany; Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art, Winston-Salem, North Carolina, USA; and Museo de Arte Contemporáneo, Santiago, Chile.

A breathtaking collection of contemporary photography, sculpture, illustration, and design that celebrates the world of dance

There’s no question that humans have been fascinated by movement and dance for as long as we’ve been creating art, from prehistoric cave drawings to the paintings of Degas. This stunning art anthology brings together a unique collection of 50 renowned contemporary artists from across the globe whose works celebrate, pay tribute to, and are inspired by the dazzling world of dance.

From social media stars to international fine art sensations, household names to rule-breaking newcomers, Dance Vision showcases the wondrous diversity of art and dance today. The artists featured within this anthology boast a variety of unique personal perspectives, approaches, and styles that will be sure to delight and mystify dance and art enthusiasts of all ages and backgrounds.

About the Author:

Joshua Teal is a dancer based out of San Francisco, California. After receiving a BFA in Theatre Performance from the University of Memphis, where he was named the Emerging Performer of the Year, Teal trained in classical ballet and dance with The Academy of Ballet, Ballet Black, and Collage Dance Collective. He is currently a member of the Peninsula Ballet Theatre alongside teaching private ballet classes, learning sign language, advocating for the elderly, and writing. Eager to explore all facets of his creativity, Dance Vision will be Teal’s first book.

David Bailey was part of a new generation who revolutionized fashion photography in the 1960s and made stars of models such as Jean Shrimpton. He was also among the first photographers to become a celebrity in his own right, socializing with and photographing many of the cultural icons of the 1960s and 1970s, such as Catherine Deneuve, The Beatles, Rolling Stones, Michael Caine and Andy Warhol. He has held contracts with British, American and Italian Vogue and contributed to many other major magazines and newspapers over more than 40 years. His simple and direct style is accompanied by an intimacy that reveals the personality and sensuality of his subjects.

Over the course of his successful career, Bailey has produced books, paintings, commercials, documentaries and feature films and remains a high-profile figure in photography and filmmaking. This book delves into the photographer's archive and provides an engaging overview of his career, including early and previously unpublished work alongside his iconic portraits from London and New York in the 1960s.

Learn how renowned photographer and conservationist David Yarrow manages to get his incredible shots. For two decades Yarrow has been venturing further and further afield in search of amazing animals to photograph. Here he shares the incredible knowledge and stories he has gathered along the way and distils them down into the key lessons to take into your own photography. Including guides to composition and perspective, tips on using remote cameras and dealing with dangerous animals, and the philosophy behind his boundary-pushing approach to image taking.

About the Author:

David Yarrow has managed to capture some of the most memorable images of the planet's endangered species in their natural habitats. His work has made a hugely important contribution to the animal conservationist movement.

Timeless, evocative and hauntingly beautiful: a retrospective monograph by a truly innovative image maker whose female gaze transformed fashion photography.

American photographer Deborah Turbeville defies classification. She belongs to no school or movement. Her unique visual signature has been recognizable since her emergence as a major talent in the 1970s. Her images are evocative, difficult to date at first glance, and seem dreamlike to our 21st-century eyes. Turbeville stands apart from her male contemporaries, whose hard-edged, highly sexualized photographs of women now seem to be of their time in comparison with Turbeville’s very different representation of beauty.

This book focuses on the area of Turbeville’s practice where her genius as an artist can be found: photocollage. In contrast to her contemporaries in fashion photography, she was deliberately playful with her images: xeroxing, cutting, scraping and pinning prints together, writing in the margins and creating narrative sequences. Her work is located far from single, glossy images. It inhabits a liminal zone between art and commerce.

Built upon extensive research in the Deborah Turbeville archive, the work shown spans commercial and personal projects, with many images published for the first time. With texts by Vince Aletti, Anna Tellgren and Felix Hoffmann, this book brings into the spotlight the ways in which Turbeville redefined fashion photography, moving away from the sexual provocation and stereotypes assigned by male photographers to an idea of femininity on her terms. Deborah Turbeville: Photocollage will be an essential publication with modern relevance for all with a passion for fashion photography.

About the Author:

Nathalie Herschdorfer is Director of Photo Elysee-Museum of Photography in Lausanne. Her previous books include Coming into Fashion, Afterwards: Contemporary Photography Confronting the Past and Body: The Photography Book. Deborah Turbeville (1934–2013) was born in Boston, Massachusetts. Her fashion photography featured in Vogue, Harper's Bazaar, Nova and The New York Times and for fashion labels including Commes des Garcons, Guy Laroche and Charles Jordan. Her archive is held by The MUUS Collection.

'In Dreams. Scenes from the Archive' adds to our understanding of Dennis Hopper’s personal vision as an artist by tracing the threads of Hopper’s life through photography, and connecting his roles as an actor, husband, father, and photographer.

'In Dreams' eschews Hopper’s iconic stand-alone images and instead looks to distill the archive into a connected set of photographs that offer new impressions and stories. Themes emerge, visual rhymes are made, and characters come and go while the reader is invited along for the journey. Hopper’s photographic output was especially concentrated in the ‘60s, a period in which his film career had cooled off. During these years Hopper’s primary creative outlet was his photography. The Nikon camera his wife Brooke Hayward gifted him hung so prominently around his neck that friends jokingly called him ‘the tourist.’

While 'In Dreams', which references Roy Orbison’s song by the same name made famous in Blue Velvet, includes appearances by famous faces, they are intimately intertwined with Hopper’s peripatetic life and his everyday use of the camera. Hopper was very much an insider — at ease with celebrities and artists of his day — but this new conversation with his archive shows that, like many photographers, Hopper was also distinctly an outsider. Famous himself, but also an observer: it’s this unique duality that allowed Hopper to view the world in his unique way.

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Пролистать книгу Dennis Hopper: In Dreams: Scenes from the Archive

To ensure the ongoing availability of Diane Arbus Revelations, Aperture is proud to release this vitally important volume on the fiftieth anniversary of the posthumous 1972 Arbus retrospective at the Museum of Modern Art and the simultaneous publication of Diane Arbus: An Aperture Monograph.

Diane Arbus redefined the concerns and the range of the art she practiced. Her bold subject matter and photographic approach have established her preeminence in the world of the visual arts. Her gift for rendering strange those things we consider most familiar, and uncovering the familiar within the exotic, enlarges our understanding of ourselves.

Diane Arbus: Revelations affords the first opportunity to explore the origins, scope, and aspirations of what is a wholly original force in photography. Arbus’s frank treatment of her subjects and her faith in the intrinsic power of the medium have produced a body of work that is often shocking in its purity, in its steadfast celebration of things as they are. Presenting many of her lesser-known or previously unpublished photographs in the context of the iconic images reveals a subtle yet persistent view of the world.

The book reproduces two hundred full-page duotones of Diane Arbus photographs spanning her entire career, many of them never before seen. It also includes an essay, “The Question of Belief,” by Sandra S. Phillips, senior curator of photography at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, and “In the Darkroom,” a discussion of Arbus’s printing techniques by Neil Selkirk, the only person authorized to print her photographs since her death. A 104-page Chronology by Elisabeth Sussman, guest curator of the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art show, and Doon Arbus, the artist’s eldest daughter, illustrated by more than three hundred additional images and composed mainly of previously unpublished excerpts from the artist’s letters, notebooks, and other writings, amounts to a kind of autobiography. An Afterword by Doon Arbus precedes biographical entries on the photographer’s friends and colleagues by Jeff L. Rosenheim, associate curator of photographs at The Metropolitan Museum of Art. These texts help illuminate the meaning of Diane Arbus’s controversial and astonishing vision.

About the Author:

I want to photograph the considerable ceremonies of our present because we tend while living here and now to perceive only what is random and barren and formless about it. While we regret that the present is not like the past and despair of its ever becoming the future, its innumerable inscrutable habits lie in wait for their meaning...These are our symptoms and our monuments. I want simply to save them, for what is ceremonious and curious and commonplace will be legendary. Diane Arbus–born Diane Nemerov in New York City in 1923–first began taking pictures in the early 1940s following her marriage to Allan Arbus. She studied photography with Berenice Abbott, Alexey Brodovitch, and Lisette Model. Her first published photographs appeared in Esquire in 1960. Over the next ten years, her work continued to appear in Esquire, Harper’s Bazaar, and other magazines.

In 1963 and 1966 she was awarded John Simon Guggenheim Fellowships. She was one of three photographers whose work was the focus of New Documents, a 1967 exhibition at The Museum of Modern Art. In 1970 Arbus made a portfolio of prints entitled A box of ten photographs, which was to be the first of a series of similar limited editions of her work. She taught photography in the late sixties at Parsons School of Design, Rhode Island School of Design, and Cooper Union, and, in 1971, gave a private master class at the artists’ cooperative where she lived.

A year after her death in 1971, her work was selected for inclusion at the Venice Biennale–the first work of an American photographer to be so honoured. The Museum of Modern Art hosted a major retrospective that travelled throughout the United States and Canada from 1972 to 1975. The three books of her work, Diane Arbus: An Aperture Monograph (1972), Diane Arbus: Magazine Work (1984), and Untitled: Diane Arbus (1995), were published posthumously and have remained continuously in print. Diane Arbus: Revelations, in conjunction with the first major international retrospective of her work in thirty years, is the only comprehensive and intimate study of this singularly daring photographic artist.

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Другие альбомы Diane Arbus

Diane Arbus: An Aperture Monograph (Hardcover)

Diane Arbus: An Aperture Monograph (Paperback)

Diane Arbus: Magazine Work

Master the Art of Photography in As Little As 20 Weeks

Digital Photography Complete Course 2nd Edition will teach you how to take professional-looking pictures you'll be proud to display. The programme is completely customisable to your schedule, so you can work through the modules at your own pace. It's also the ideal photography gift for aspiring creatives and hobby photographers.

This digital photography book will guide you through every aspect of digital photography:

- The new edition includes the latest technological and creative developments in digital photography and image manipulation
- Follows a guided learning approach with 20 interactive and user-friendly modules
- Technical concepts are explained in simple, easy-to-understand language
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- Combines practical demonstrations, step-by-step tutorials, and creative assignments

Go from photography novice to pro in no time! This modular photography course is the ultimate master class in digital photography.

This updated edition of DK Book's complete course-based guide to digital photography will help you use your digital camera to its full potential in just 20 weeks. Discover everything you need to know about photography step-by-step, week-by-week.

Now fully updated throughout to include the latest camera kit, this is the perfect one-on-one learning programme for budding photographers. Using a combination of easy-to-understand tutorials, step-by-step demonstrations, practical assignments, and fun Q&As, this book encourages you to put your new learning into practice straight away.

From conveying movement and using natural light, to understanding how to master macro, wide-angle and panoramic photography, this one-on-one learning programme is a great "foundation course" for people who want to take photography more seriously. Learn about the different modes on bridge and system cameras (DSLR or mirrorless), and demystify digital photography jargon such as aperture, exposure, shutter speed, and depth-of-field.

This photography book for beginners will show you how to control and understand every element of your camera. With the aid of simple text and innovative graphics, you'll explore a wide variety of photography skills and genres. Find out how to create landscapes, portraits, still life, and action shots as you discover the full range of your camera.

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Пролисать книгу Digital Photography Complete Course: Everything You Need to Know in 20 Weeks на Google Books.

Dior is one of the most revered names in fashion, the archetype of the Parisian couture house. Famous for launching the “New Look,” Christian Dior’s landmark first collection that marked a sea change in women’s dress after the Second World War, Dior is known today for its exquisite couture line of dramatic dresses. 

This book comprises a portfolio of portraits of over one hundred incredible gowns from the entire era of Christian Dior haute couture, including dresses designed by Dior himself. All of the images were shot by Patrick Demarchelier, known for his exquisite fashion portraits that grace the pages of Vogue, Elle, Harper’s Bazaar, Glamour, and many other magazines. 

About the Authors:

Dior was started in Paris by designer Christian Dior in 1946. In addition to haute couture, Dior also produces ready-to-wear, men’s couture, accessories, and perfume. Patrick Demarchelier is one of the best-known fashion photographers in the world. His work appears in top fashion magazines, including Vogue, Elle, Harper’s Bazaar, Glamour, and Marie Claire. He also shoots advertising campaigns for couture houses, including Dior, Chanel, YSL, Ralph Lauren, and Calvin Klein. Ingrid Sischy is the former editor-in-chief of Interview magazine and the international editor for Vanity Fair’s European editions.

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Благодаря творческому тандему Dior и Патрика Демаршелье увидел свет художественных альбом, который знакомит читателя с историей одного из самых знаменитых модных домов. На страницах издания – знаковые модели, которые в свое время стали прорывом в мире дизайнерской одежды.

Кристиан Диор создал свою империю благодаря таланту и интуиции. Он сумел разгадать, чего хочет женщина в суровые послевоенные годы, и признал за ней право оставаться воздушной, утонченной и прекрасной. Концепция New Look принесла успех начинающему дизайнеру и вернула женственность в Париж.

Двести сорок страниц альбома представляют историю одной модной революции. Здесь снимки нарядов коллекции 1947 г., с которой началось триумфальное шествие Кристиана Диора, работы Ив Сен Лорана, платья Марка Боана и, конечно же, шедевры Джона Гальяно, который принял эстафету. Эпоха следует за эпохой в фасонах и образах, переданных через объектив одного из самых известных фотохудожников нашего времени.

В книге представлены снимки, сделанные автором по всему миру. В кадре более ста кутюрных нарядов, вдохновенные образы и самые прекрасные женщины современности: Наталья Водянова, Жизель Бундхен, Шарлиз Терон и др.

Патрик Демаршелье родился в Гавре в 1943 г. и с юных лет увлекся искусством фотографии. Художник пережил немало на пути к успеху, однако талант и сильная натура позволили ему получить признание и успех. Полное отсутствие образования не помешало мастеру создавать культовые календари для Pirelli, выпускать популярные альбомы, появляться на страницах авторитетных изданий, таких как Elle, Rolling Stone, Harpers Bazaar, Vogue, а также сотрудничать с мировыми домами моды.

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Пролистать книгу Dior Couture by Demarchelier

This elegant volume — featuring silver gilded pages and an open spine binding so that it lays flat to show off the photographs to their best advantage — explores Dior's long history of creativity, beauty, and success through a celebration of one of our most profound emotions.

"Women, with their ever-sharp instincts, understood that I not only wanted to make them more beautiful but happier too." — Christian Dior

Since 1947, through its haute couture and fragrance collections, the House of Dior has enhanced the lives of women by bringing them moments of resplendent beauty. On the radiant faces of Dior's models and muses, and through the exuberance of its creative studios and runway shows, joy shines like a bouquet of fireworks and luminous smiles. Through this emblematic selection of iconic illustrations and behind-the-scenes images from fashion shows and workshops, this beautifully crafted volume traces Dior's recurring themes of creativity, the inspiration of nature, friendship, and success. Drawing from Dior's own archives and from those of fashion's greatest photographers, the book presents privileged moments graced by the women and men of Dior who express the house's eternal joie de vivre.

An inspiring text drawing from literature, philosophy, and Dior's creative history, celebrates the many facets of an exalted state of being, providing the unique perspective that resides at the heart of this beautiful book.

About the Author:

Muriel Teodori studied philosophy and holds a Ph.D. in psychoanalysis. Writer for Elle, Air France Magazine, Femmes, and La Lettre du Cinema, she also writes scenarios, opera and lyrics, and has taught the art of scriptwriting at the Femis at Paris University 3, and the CEENA in France.

Vincent Lagrange's masterful portraits show dogs as real personalities.

What makes dogs so unique? They are the only species that favour the company of humans over their own kind. How similar are animals and humans? Are animals really soulmates to humans or do we just tend to humanize other species? These questions arise when we look at Vincent Lagrange's The Human Animals Project series of images. A dog looks at us with a deep understanding and empathy perhaps greater than our own. In this charming book of dog photography, Vincent Lagrange records this treasured intimacy with our four-legged friends.

Taken in front of neutral, mostly dark backgrounds, the dogs radiate dignity and wisdom like in the portraits of old masters. Applying the techniques of portrait photography, which he learned in his youth at his father and mentor Marc Lagrange's studio, he captures our canine counterparts in crisp, perfectly illuminated pictures that allow their own soulful personalities to shine through. With his portraits, Lagrange wants to give these individuals a voice and let them tell their own story. This volume is the first to bring together Vincent Lagrange's dog pictures, which make up the core of his animal portraits. Pictures that you can't get enough of.

Without light, there is no photograph. As almost every photographer knows, the word “photograph” has its roots in two Greek words that, together, mean “drawing with light.” But what is less commonly acknowledged and understood is the role that shadow plays in creating striking, expressive imagery, especially in portraiture. It is through deft, nuanced use of both light and shadow that you can move beyond shooting simply ordinary, competent headshots into the realm of creating dramatic portraiture that can so powerfully convey a subject’s inner essence, communicate a personal narrative, and express your photographic vision.

In The Dramatic Portrait: The Art of Crafting Light and Shadow, Chris Knight addresses portraiture with a unique approach to both light and shadow that allows you to improve and elevate your own portraiture. He begins with the history of portraiture, from the early work of Egyptians and Greeks to the sublime treatment of light and subject by artists such as Caravaggio, Rembrandt, and Vermeer. Chris then dives into a deep, hands-on exploration of light, shadow, and portraiture, offering numerous lessons and takeaways.

He covers:

• The qualities of light: hard, soft, and the spectrum in between
• The relationships between light, subject, and background, and how to control them
• Lighting patterns such as Paramount, Rembrandt, loop, and split
• Lighting ratios and how they affect contrast in your image
• Equipment: from big and small modifiers to grids, snoots, barn doors, flags, and gels
• Multiple setups for portrait shoots, including those that utilize one, two, and three lights
• How color contributes to drama and mood, eliciting an emotional response from the viewer
• How to approach styling your portrait, from wardrobe to background
• The post-processing workflow, including developing the RAW file, maximizing contrast, color grading, retouching, and dodging and burning for heightened drama and effect
• How all of these elements culminate to help you define your personal style and create your own narrative

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THE DRAMATIC PORTRAIT
Table of Contents:
Introduction
Chapter 1: A History of Portraiture: More Fun Than It Sounds
Chapter 2: Technical Lighting: The Tools to Control Light
Chapter 3: Taking Shape: Shaping the Light, Mood, and Face
Chapter 4: How Many Lights: Using One, Two, and Three Lights to Further the Purpose
Chapter 5: Color: Directing the Eye and Influencing People
Chapter 6: Styling: Making Good Visual Choices
Chapter 7: Post-Production: Adding the Polish
Chapter 8: Personal Style: You Do You
Final Thoughts

Discover some of the most inspiring business, shops, and hospitality ideas changing the face of entrepreneurship.

Discover outstanding businesses and the unique entrepreneurs who have brought them to life, from local Mescal producers to global food influencers. Dream Businesses showcases a diverse range of innovative entrepreneurs through photo-led features, providing readers with a glimpse into the extraordinary world of these businesses and the individuals who conceived them. In collaboration with Courier Media, this book takes you on a global journey, introducing a new generation that is changing the face of entrepreneurship.

About the Author:

Courier Media is the defining media brand for a new generation who want to live and work on their own terms. Based in London, Courier has been telling insightful and inspiring stories of modern business through print, podcasts, events and more since launching in 2013. This is their third book with gestalten, following up to The World's Best Shops and Work Better. Live Smarter. Be Happier.

Influential director and photographer Floria Sigismondi showcases new images of the biggest names in music and in Hollywood. Eat the Sun is a star-studded overview of Sigismondi’s photographic and film work.

Floria Sigismondi’s compelling visual narratives have defined a profound aesthetic elements over the course of her career as a director and photographer. "A home away from home — a Floria set is one that always feels like a supernatural dream state. A place you wish to permanently exist in.” — Lawrence Rothman in his preface to Eat the Sun. Her coveted eye incorporates the ethereal and the mysterious, the whimsical and the grotesque, always illuminating a story. She has worked with numerous celebrities and is also behind surreal, career-defining music videos for Marilyn Manson among others. She has directed episodes of American Gods, The Handmaid’s Tale, and Daredevil for TV, and her Hollywood film credits include The Runaways, and The Turning (due to release in 2020).

Eat the Sun is a star-studded kaleidoscope of Floria Sigismondi’s top achievements, a provocative portfolio that highlights the powerful imagery that has made her one of the best in the industry. There are many never before seen photographs in Eat The Sun.

About the Author

Floria Sigismondi was born in Italy and raised in Canada. She now lives between Los Angeles, Toronto, and New York City. Sigismondi has distinguished herself as one of the preeminent directors working today, with a surrealist, gothic aesthetic that defines her feature films, TV shows, and music videos.

Because elephants are pachyderms, a combination of two Greek roots meaning “thick skin,” one might think that nothing bothers them and that they lead quiet, safe lives. Nothing could be further from the truth: elephants have been hunted and killed for their ivory tusks since antiquity. And people often ignore the calves left behind, who must now live out their lives as traumatized and fearful orphans. Wildlife photographer Joachim Schmeisser made it his mission to document the story of these abandoned baby elephants. Through his sponsorship of elephants, he came into contact with the David Sheldrick Wildlife Trust, the world’s largest and most successful rescue and rehabilitation operation for orphaned elephants, headquartered in Nairobi.

Professional veterinary technicians bottle feed the elephant calves until they are old enough to locate their own food. By living together with older elephant calves, they also learn the social rules governing elephant herds. After this phase is complete, the elephants are taken to one of the Trust’s rehabilitation stockades before they are released back into the wild. Joachim Schmeisser followed numerous elephants through the entire process and captured fascinating pictures from their arrival at the nursery all the way to their release back into the wild.

Elephants in Heaven provides a visual record of how these traumatized elephants are raised in a place that is truly heavenly for them, offering a compelling behind-the-scenes look inside an elephant nursery. The touching animal portraits also convey the devastating consequences of poaching, because for Joachim Schmeisser, it’s about “beauty, fragility, transience, mindfulness, and about dignity and the equal standing of each individual.”

About the Author:

Joachim Schmeisser began his professional career as an advertising photographer. But in addition to his paid work, he always pursued side projects that had personal meaning to him, particularly those relating to humanity and topics relevant to society. He has won many international awards for his work, including the 2012 Hasselblad Masters Award. His work is exhibited around the world.