Luis Alberto Rodriguez was born in New York City to Dominican parents and trained at the prestigious Alvin Ailey American Dance Center and Juilliard. He danced professionally across Europe for 15 years before transitioning to photography, picking up a...

Joel Sartore, born in 1962 in Ponca City, Oklahoma, launched his photography career after earning a journalism degree from the University of Nebraska in 1985. He spent over 30 years with National Geographic, where his Photo Ark project, started...

Based in Johannesburg, South Africa, André Badenhorst kicked off his photography career at age 15 with a school project, using his sister’s Pentax Asahi 35mm camera to capture skateboarding scenes. This sparked a passion that led him to a...

Born in Houston, Texas, in 1983, Bryan Schutmaat began his journey with a history degree before earning an MFA in photography from the University of Hartford in 2012. His career gained momentum with the 2013 release of Grays the...