Photography

LaToya Ruby Frazier , born in 1982, is an American artist and professor of photography at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago . From Braddock, Pennsylvania , Frazier began photographing her family and hometown at the age of 16, revising the social documentary traditional of Walker Evans and Dorothea Lange to imagine documentation from within and by the community, and collaboration between the photographer and her subjects. [1] Inspired by Gordon Parks , who promoted the camera as a weapon for social justice , Frazier uses her tight focus to make apparent the impact of systemic problems , from racism to deindustrialization to environmental degradation , on individual bodies, relationships and spaces. [2] In her work, she is concerned with bringing to light these problems, which she describes as global issues . [3]  

Todd Hido (born 25 August 1968) [1] is an American contemporary artist and photographer. [2] Currently based in San Francisco , much of Hido's work involves photographs of urban and suburban housing [3] across the U.S.. He has produced a number of well received books, [4] had his work exhibited widely and included in various public collections. [5]    

Cynthia Morris Sherman (born January 19, 1954) is an American photographer and film director, best known for her conceptual portraits. Sherman works in series, typically photographing herself in a range of costumes. To create her photographs, Sherman shoots alone in her studio, assuming multiple roles as author, director, make-up artist, hairstylist, wardrobe mistress, and model. [16]    

Moriyama Daidō born October 10, 1938) is a Japanese photographer noted for his images depicting the breakdown of traditional values in post-war Japan .  Born in Ikeda , Osaka , Moriyama studied photography under Takeji Iwamiya before moving to Tokyo in 1961 to work as an assistant to Eikoh Hosoe . He produced a collection of photographs, Nippon gekijō shashinchō , which showed the darker sides of urban life and the less-seen parts of cities. In them, he attempted to show how life in certain areas was being left behind the other industrialised parts.