swap_horiz Pieter Hugo Alternatives

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Diane Arbus

Diane Arbus was a pioneering American photographer known for intensely intimate and often unsettling square portraits. S...

American Documentary Postwar Portrait

9.4 Excellent

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Nan Goldin

Nan Goldin is a contemporary American photographer known for her deeply personal and raw documentation of subcultures. H...

American Contemporary Portrait Diary

9.1 Excellent

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Gordon Parks

Gordon Parks was a pioneering American photographer whose work profoundly documented social issues during the mid-20th c...

American Documentary Portrait Civil Rights

9.1 Excellent

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David Goldblatt

David Goldblatt is a renowned photographic artist whose extensive work documents South Africa’s history under apartheid....

Social Documentary Landscape South African

9.0 Excellent

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Nobuyoshi Araki

Nobuyoshi Araki is a contemporary Japanese photographer primarily known for his intensely personal photographic diaries....

Contemporary Japanese Tokyo Portrait

8.9 Great

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Rineke Dijkstra

Rineke Dijkstra is a contemporary Dutch photographer recognized for her large-format portraits. Her work frequently depi...

Contemporary Youth Large Format Portrait

8.9 Great

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Alex Webb

Alex Webb is a prominent American photographer recognized for his richly layered color images documenting urban life and...

American Documentary Street Color

8.9 Great

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Martin Parr

Martin Parr is a British documentary photographer and Magnum member known for satirical color images of leisure, consump...

Social Documentary British Color

8.8 Great

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Mary Ellen Mark

Mary Ellen Mark was an American documentary photographer known for intimate social-reportage projects, including the 198...

American Social Documentary Portrait

8.8 Great

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Ishiuchi Miyako

Ishiuchi Miyako is a Japanese photographer whose work on bodies and memory includes Hiroshima; she received the Hasselbl...

Contemporary Japanese Documentary Memory

8.7 Great

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Zanele Muholi

Zanele Muholi is a South African photographer and visual activist whose Faces and Phases series, begun in 2006, records...

Contemporary Activism Identity Portrait

8.7 Great

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Raghubir Singh

Raghubir Singh was an Indian photographer who helped legitimize color documentary photography with Ganga: Sacred River o...

Travel Indian Documentary Street

8.7 Great

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Steve McCurry

Steve McCurry is an American photojournalist known for color reportage; his 1984 portrait Afghan Girl became a widely re...

Travel American Portrait Color

8.6 Great

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Graciela Iturbide

Graciela Iturbide is a Mexican photographer known for poetic documentary images of Indigenous and everyday life, includi...

Culture Documentary Portrait Black And White

8.6 Great

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Philip-Lorca diCorcia

Philip-Lorca diCorcia is an American photographer whose staged documentary style shaped contemporary art, notably the 19...

American Contemporary Portrait Street

8.6 Great

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Christopher Anderson

Christopher Anderson is an American photographer who won the 2000 Robert Capa Gold Medal for images made aboard a sinkin...

Canadian Documentary Portrait Color

8.0 Great

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Guy Tillim

Guy Tillim is a South African photographer whose postcolonial urban landscapes include Avenue Patrice Lumumba, a 2008 se...

Contemporary Documentary Political South African

7.8 Good

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Newsha Tavakolian

Newsha Tavakolian is an Iranian photojournalist and Magnum member, known for Listen, a 2011 project on women singers sil...

Contemporary Documentary Portrait Iranian

7.7 Good

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Rebecca Norris Webb

Rebecca Norris Webb is an American photographer and former poet whose 2012 book My Dakota joins South Dakota landscapes...

American Contemporary Documentary Color

7.5 Good

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Olivia Arthur

Olivia Arthur is a British Magnum photographer whose 2012 book Jeddah Diary documents the lives of young women in Saudi...

Contemporary Documentary British Portrait

7.4 Good