Ilse Bing

Our next Artist You Need To Know is Ilse Bing (1899 – 1998). Bing was a German photographer who worked both in the artistic sphere as well as the commercial one. Referred to as “the Queen of Leica” in the 1930s, she is best known for her striking black and...

Mary Ellen Mark

Our next Artist You Need To Know is Mary Ellen Mark (1941–2015). It is difficult to imagine contemporary photography and especially photography in the United States without the contributions and legacy of Mary Ellen Mark. She was an American photographer known for her...

Fiona Annis

Our next Artist You Need To Know is FIONA ANNIS. Annis is a multidisciplinary artist (often creating environments that employ visuals and sound) whose artwork often intersects with photography in both a contemporary and historical sense. She was born in Glasgow,...

April Hickox

Our next Artist You Need To Know is April Hickox. Hickox is a Canadian lens-based artist, teacher and independent curator who has lived on the Toronto Islands since childhood and much of her practice is informed and shaped by her immediate environment. Over nearly...

Hannah Höch

Our next Artist You Need To Know is Hannah Höch (1889 – 1978). Höch is arguably one of the best known of the German Dada artists of the early twentieth century, and specifically the Weimar period (1919–1933) in Germany. She developed the process of photomontage...