Andrew Quilty

Andrew Quilty’s photography career began in Sydney, in the year 2000, on the day his application to a university photo elective was rejected. He quit, and set off around Australia with a surfboard and a Nikon F3 that his uncle—also a photographer—had passed down.  Fate further intervened a week into the trip when his van was broken

CPL MP Pedro Pantoja

Pedro Pantoja (Rio de Janeiro, December 17, 1984) is a Brazilian military photographer.At the age of 20, Pedro Pantoja joined photojournalism, excelling in photographing urban conflicts for the newspaper Povo do Rio, reaching the position of photo editor, where he remained until 2013.In 2007, Pedro Pantoja taught photojournalism at one of Brazil’s leading vocational schools.

SEVERINO SILVA

Severino Silva was born on August 20, 1958 in Pirpirituba, interior of Paraíba, married to a carioca who is the mother of his three children. At the age of 10 he comes to Rio de Janeiro with his mother, grandmother and a sister. He was a child who loved to draw, but his passion for

Ameer Alhabi

He started contributing pictures to AFP in February 2016. His photography career began in 2014 when he started working with local media centers, and then with the local sniper photo site, moving on to working with the Palestinian APA images, and Italian NUR photos with the aim of showing what is happening in Syria to

Steve McCurry

Born in 1950 in Philadelphia, McCurry is a renowned photojournalist from America. Although, he had planned to study filmmaking and cinematography, he got a degree in theatre art and graduated in 1974. When he began taking photos for The Daily Collegian, a newspaper for the Penn State, McCurry developed an interest in photography. The launch of

Sebastiao Salgado

Sebastiao Salgado was born on February 8, 1944 in Aimorés, in the state of Minas Gerais, Brazil. After a somewhat itinerant childhood, Salgado initially trained as an economist, earning a master’s degree in economics from the University of São Paulo in Brazil. He began work as an economist for the International Coffee Organization, often traveling

Damir Sagolj

Damir Sagolj was born in 1971 in Sarajevo, in what is now Bosnia. After school he began studying architecture, but after a year moved with his family to Moscow, where his father worked as the correspondent for the main Bosnian newspaper Oslobodjenje. In Moscow, he studied at the Moscow Power Engineering Institute, but in 1990 moved

Russell Lee Klika

At age 17, Klika joined the U.S. Marine Corps and eventually became a combat photographer, serving 12 years. Staff Sgt. Klika served three tours of duty in Iraq, the latest in 2006.  Russell left the Marine Corps and became head photographer at The Vista Press, a now-closed daily newspaper in Vista, California, where he covered

Felipe Dana

Felipe Dana was born in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, on August 1985. He started his career as an assistant photographer when he was only 15 and later pursued a degree in photography, all the while working on commercial assignments and contributing to various local and international news agencies. In 2009, he joined the Associated Press

Andrea Bruce

Through documentary photography, Andrea Bruce brings attention to people living in the aftermath of war. She is a co-owner and member of the photo agency NOOR. (office@noorimages.com)  For eight years she has chronicled the world’s most troubled areas as a staff photographer for The Washington Post. She focused on Iraq from 2003 to the present, following the