The Photographers

Adam Ferguson

Adam Ferguson grew up in New South Wales, Australia, and completed a Bachelor of Photography at Australia's Griffith University. After...

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Amanda Rivkin

Amanda Rivkin, born in 1984, is an American photojournalist based in Baku, Azerbaijan. Rivkin began her career as a print journalism intern...

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Anastasia Taylor-Lind

Anastasia Taylor-Lind is an English photojournalist currently based in in Damascus, Syria, and working for clients such as The Sunday...

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Antonin Kratochvil

As photojournalists go, Antonin Kratochvil has sunk his teeth into his fair share of upheaval and human catastrophes whilst going...

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Ashley Gilbertson

Ashley Gilbertson's photographs from Iraq, where he worked almost exclusively from 2002 until 2008 on assignment for The New York...

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Christopher Morris

Christopher Morris, a founding member of VII, has documented more than 18 foreign conflicts including the U.S. invasion of Panama,...

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Davide Monteleone

Born in 1974, Davide Monteleone spent his first 18 years living in various cities in Italy, as his parents moved...

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Donald Weber

Donald Weber, born 1973 in Toronto, Canada. Presently residing in Russia, Don worked as an architect with Rem Koolhas' Office...

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Ed Kashi

Ed Kashi has dedicated his photographic career to documenting the social and political issues that define our times. Since graduating...

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Erin Trieb

Erin Grace Trieb grew up in Dallas, Texas and completed a Bachelor's of Science degree with an emphasis in commercial,...

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Franco Pagetti

Franco Pagetti has covered the conflict in Iraq since January 2003, three months before the start of the war. Since...

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Gary Knight

Gary Knight's entry into photojournalism began as a bid to fulfill his idealistic and romantic impulses and escape what he...

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Gazi Nafis Ahmed

Gazi Nafis Ahmed is a documentary photographer born in Dhaka, Bangladesh. He sees Bangladesh as a place with many social, political, economic...

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Giovanni Cocco

Giovanni Cocco was born in Sulmona, Italy in 1973. He is a self-taught photographer and has gained most of his...

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Jessica Dimmock

Jessica Dimmock is the recipient of numerous international awards, including the F Award for Concerned Photography, Magnum Foundation Inge Morath Award and the Photo District News Marty Forscher...

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Joachim Ladefoged

Joachim Ladefoged has worked in more than 50 countries for magazines such as The New York Times Magazine, The New...

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Jocelyn Bain Hogg

Jocelyn Bain Hogg began his career as a unit photographer on movie sets after studying Documentary Photography at Newport Art College.  He...

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John Stanmeyer

John Stanmeyer is a co-founding member of VII, is a contract photographer with Time Magazine since 1998, and works regularly...

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Jost Franko

Jost Franko is a young documentary photographer born in Slovenia in 1993. Franko's vision in photography is to document the world, and...

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Laura El-Tantawy

Laura El-Tantawy is an Egyptian photographer living between Cairo and London. She was born in Worcestershire, England to Egyptian parents and grew...

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Lynsey Addario

Lynsey Addario was born in 1973, and is an American photojournalist based in London. She works regularly for The New York Times, The...

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Maciek Nabrdalik

Maciek Nabrdalik is a graduate of Warsaw University of Technology. He gave up Computer Science for his greatest passion, photography,...

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Marcus Bleasdale

Marcus Bleasdale's work has been honored by Photo District News (PDN) as amongst the most iconic photography of the 21st...

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Mikolaj Nowacki

Mikolaj Nowacki was born in Wroclaw, Poland in 1972. He is a graduate of the University of Wroclaw, where he obtained...

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Peter DiCampo

Peter DiCampo (b. 1984) is an American photographer who divides his time between Africa and the Americas. He launched his...

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Ron Haviv

Award-winning photojournalist Ron Haviv has produced images of conflict and humanitarian crises that have made headlines from around the world...

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Seamus Murphy

Seamus Murphy began photographing Afghanistan in 1994, and his new book A Darkness Visible: Afghanistan, is a classic on the...

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Sim Chi Yin

Sim Chi Yin  is a photographer based in Beijing. A fourth-generation overseas Chinese, Sim grew up in Singapore. She studied history and international...

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Stefano de Luigi

Stefano De Luigi is a familiar contributor to many international magazines including Stern, Paris Match, Le Monde Magazine, Time, and...

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Stephanie Sinclair

Stephanie Sinclair graduated from the University of Florida, with a BS in Journalism and a minor in Fine Art Photography....

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Tanyth Berkeley

Tanyth Berkeley received her MFA in photography from Columbia University in 2004 and holds a BA from City College of...

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Tomas van Houtryve

Initially a student in philosophy, Tomas van Houtryve discovered his interest for photography while enrolled in an overseas program in...

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Venetia Dearden

 Venetia Dearden grew up in Somerset, an area she has been documenting over the past decade, for which she has received various...

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VII Photographers

VII derives its name from the number of founding photo-journalists who, in September 2001, formed this collectively owned agency. Designed from the...

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