Neil Stewart (United Kingdom, 1974) is one of the most current artists in fashion photography. Known for his energetic advertising campaigns, the photographer endows his outdoor images with feelings of freedom and adventure, combined with a tremendous technical precision. His unique, characteristic style and broad scope have established him as one of the most featured members in a new generation of photographers.
Stewart began to work in London in the field of fashion editorials, but soon came into contact with numerous clients who allowed him to develop more personal and ambitious advertising campaigns. Featured among them is the campaign he created for Tretorn, serving as one of the best examples of his style. He currently lives in London and New York, where he continues to explore the possibilities of photography and the moving image.
ROGER BALLEN
In the 1970s, Roger Ballen (United States, 1950) began portraiture work on people and towns in South Africa, where he has lived to date. In the 90s, he moved away from documentary photography to explore fiction with composite images where beauty and anguish coexist. In them, people and animals are shown with unsettling poses in compositions formed by wires, shadows, sheets, stained walls, drawings and material scraps. These images with their surrealist shadings convey feelings of psychological disorientation and physical abandonment.
Featured among Ballen’s publications are Boarding House (Phaidon, 2009), Shadow Chamber (Phaidon, 2005), Fact or Fiction (Galerie Kamel Mennour, 2003) and Outland (Phaidon, 2001).
Ballen is the founder of the Roger Ballen Foundation, which promotes education on phot...