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 photographer recognized for his vibrant, often unsettling social documentary work. His images c...

Social Documentary British Color

8.8 Great

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Mary Ellen Mark

Mary Ellen Mark was a prominent American photographer specializing in social documentary work. Her powerful portraits an...

American Social Documentary Portrait

8.8 Great

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Ishiuchi Miyako

Ishiuchi Miyako is a contemporary Japanese photographer known for her poignant documentary work exploring themes of memo...

Contemporary Japanese Documentary Memory

8.7 Great

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Zanele Muholi

Zanele Muholi is a contemporary photographer based in South Africa. Their work focuses on documenting Black LGBTQI indiv...

Contemporary Activism Identity Portrait

8.7 Great

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Raghubir Singh

Raghubir Singh was a pioneering Indian photographer known for his immersive color documentaries. His work, particularly...

Travel Indian Documentary Street

8.7 Great

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Steve McCurry

Steve McCurry is an American photographer celebrated for his vibrant and evocative color photography. His work frequentl...

Travel American Portrait Color

8.6 Great

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Lisette Model

Lisette Model was a photographer active primarily in the United States during the post-World War II era. Her distinctive...

Austria Documentary Postwar Portrait

8.6 Great

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Graciela Iturbide

Graciela Iturbide documents the lives and traditions of Mexico’s Indigenous communities through powerful black-and-white...

Culture Documentary Portrait Black And White

8.6 Great

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Christopher Anderson

Christopher Anderson is a Canadian photographer known primarily for his powerful documentary work. He gained significant...

Canadian Documentary Portrait Color

8.0 Great

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Guy Tillim

Guy Tillim is a South African photographer born in 1962, known for documentary series examining postcolonial conditions...

Contemporary Documentary Political South African

7.8 Good

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Newsha Tavakolian

Newsha Tavakolian is an Iranian photographer and photojournalist known for her work focusing on social issues and the li...

Contemporary Documentary Portrait Iranian

7.7 Good

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Rebecca Norris Webb

Rebecca Norris Webb is an American photographer, poet, and educator whose work often combines photographs with literary...

American Contemporary Documentary Color

7.5 Good

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Olivia Arthur

Olivia Arthur is a British documentary photographer renowned for her long-term projects focusing on human stories, parti...

Contemporary Documentary British Portrait

7.4 Good