​Artists

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Peggy Anderson is an artist/photographer based in New York and Sweden, currently living in Paris. She recently completed the MFA in Photography with the  University of Hartford Art School, 2024. During this time she focused on large format film photography and darkroom printing. This slower, meditative process allowed her to explore ideas around emotional inheritance and the relationships between objects.  Improvisation and letting the camera guide her has led to playful and absurd results.

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Gus Barden was born in Los Angeles, he is a Franco-American photographer who has lived in Paris for the past three years. He has the distinction of being the youngest artist in the exhibition. Growing up between two cultures fostered an early curiosity about the world and a deep interest in cultural exchange. After studying at arts-focused schools and Bard College, he developed a passion for documentary photography and video, using visual storytelling to explore people, places, and the experiences that connect us. His work draws on travel and everyday life, with a particular interest in making overlooked stories visible. Alongside documentary photography, he creates light-painting series that experiment with movement, color, and abstraction, including work featuring the Eiffel Tower and the Paris skyline. 

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Adrian Crispin is a  fashion photographer born in Mexico, raised in New York and now based in Paris. He began his career as a reportage photographer, an experience that continues to inform the distinctive documentary quality of his fashion imagery. His work has been published in renowned magazines internationally, bringing a candid and observational approach to fashion photography. He works primarily with a Leica M6 TTL paired with an Elmarit-M 90mm f/2.8 lens.

 

Owen Franken has professionally photographed more than 100 countries, covering conflicts from Romania to Africa before moving to Paris in 1988 where he has built a second career as one of the great photographers of food, travel, and French life, with clients including the New York Times, Time, Newsweek, Paris Match, the Gates Foundation, and the United Nations. He has shot for I.M. Pei at the Louvre and for chefs Pierre Gagnaire, Guy Savoy, and Alain Ducasse. His books include works on Spain, Provence, the Riviera, and a tribute to the Hôpital Saint-Louis on its 400th anniversary.

 

Ralph Gibson was in Hollywood in 1939, the son of an assistant director to Alfred Hitchcock, he grew up immersed in the visual language of cinema before discovering photography as his true medium. He studied at the San Francisco Art Institute, apprenticed under Dorothea Lange, and assisted Robert Frank, a formation that shaped one of the most distinctive voices in contemporary photography. His high-contrast, surrealistic black-and-white images transform the everyday into the enigmatic, and his passion for the book as an art form has produced over 40 monographs, beginning with the landmark The Somnambulist (1970), published through his own Lustrum Press. Gibson's work is held in more than 200 museum collections worldwide, with over 250 solo exhibitions to his name. France has honored him twice — as Commander of the Order of Arts and Letters in 2000 and Knight of the Legion of Honor in 2018 — and his global recognition includes the Leica Medal of Excellence, the Lucie Award, a Guggenheim Fellowship, induction into the International Photography Hall of Fame, and the Centenary Gold Medal of the Royal Photographic Society of Great Britain.

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​Elizabeth Lennard is a New York-born photographer and filmmaker whose practice explores the intersections of photography, painting and cinema ; creating works that are either painted over or filmed. She began taking photographs at the age of sixteen. She pursued her artistic studies at the San Francisco Art Institute, where she studied under photojournalist Tony Ray-Jones; it was there that she became intrigued by the possibility of painting onto her black-and-white prints. With a passion for architecture and light, her prints chronicle the postmodern journey of cities and their buildings—ranging from the Berlin Wall to Sicilian temples bathed in brilliant sunlight. Her photographs are shot in black and white, printed on matte paper, and then painted with oils. She works on the image until she is completely satisfied, seeking to dismantle the technical nature of the photograph itself. The addition of color lends her images a textured quality and a vibrant touch that frees them from the constraints of photographic technique. According to the artist, color allows for a detachment from the subject matter; thus, while New York walls and buildings document our reality, the color distances us from it. These urban landscape relics harbor an unusual quality that reveals the artist’s sense of detachment regarding the postmodern experience.

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Erica Lennard is an American photographer renowned for her evocative photographs of gardens and her exploration of the relationship between beauty and nature. Over a career spanning more than forty years, she has published more than fourteen books and developed a distinctive visual language that extends from gardens and landscapes to fashion and portraiture. Her work in fashion has appeared in publications including Vogue, Elle, Marie Claire and Interview, and she has created advertising campaigns for leading American designers, most notably Perry Ellis. Born in New York City, Lennard studied at the San Francisco Art Institute before moving to Paris, where her career began. It was there that she published her first book, Les Femmes Les Sœurs, presented her first exhibitions and began receiving assignments in fashion and portraiture. Her longstanding engagement with gardens reflects her broader interest in reinterpreting beauty through photography, revealing nature as both a subject and a space for artistic expression.

 

Mark Lyon (b. 1952, La Jolla, California) is an American photographer who has lived and worked in France for over twenty-five years. His practice explores portraiture, landscape, architecture, and contemporary social life, often through long-term projects that examine identity, displacement, and human relationships. A graduate of Yale University’s MFA Photography program, Lyon’s work has been exhibited internationally and is held in collections including the Musée d’Art Moderne de Paris, the Centre national des arts plastiques, and the Bibliothèque nationale de France.

 

William (Bill) O’Such is an American photographer whose practice is rooted in street photography and a fascination with the visual character of cities. Inspired by Henri Cartier-Bresson, he explores the interplay of light, geometry and human presence, capturing unexpected perspectives across Paris, San Francisco, Amsterdam, London, Sydney and Tasmania. Introduced to silver-halide photography by his father in the 1970s, O’Such later worked as a photographic engineer at Eastman Kodak, developing both his technical expertise and his enduring passion for the medium. His first photographic journey to Paris in 1982, made with a Canon AE-1, marked the beginning of a long-standing relationship with the city.

 

Taylor Prinsen is a Texas-born American photographer and multidisciplinary artist based in Paris. Her personal work is particularly concerned with the female gaze and the relationship between women and their bodies, using cinematic and documentary approaches to create intimate, emotionally charged narratives. She received an MFA in Photography and Image-Making from Paris College of Art in 2026, and her work has been exhibited in Paris and the United States.

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Mark Steinmetz is an American photographer known for his evocative black-and-white photographs of ordinary people and the landscapes they inhabit. Born in New York City in 1961 and raised in the Boston area, Steinmetz studied photography at Yale before moving to Los Angeles, where he became friends with the influential photographer Garry Winogrand. He later settled in Athens, Georgia, and more recently in Paris. His photographs—made primarily on medium-format film and developed and printed in his own darkroom—capture people in candid, often quietly cinematic moments, alongside animals, landscapes and still lifes. Much of his work has been made across the American South and elsewhere in the United States, as well as in Paris, Berlin and Italy. 

His photographs have been exhibited at the Museum of Modern Art, the High Museum of Art and the Ogden Museum of Southern Art, among others, and his work is held in major collections including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Art Institute of Chicago and the Museum of Modern Art. A recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, Steinmetz has remained remarkably faithful to the traditional craft of photography. He currently resides in Levallois-Perret, France with his wife, the photographer Irina Rozovsky, and their daughter Amelia.

 

Garrett Strang is an American photographer, filmmaker and educator. He holds a Master of Fine Arts (MFA) from the University of Georgia and has lectured at the University of Maryland. For more than twenty years, he worked as a producer and director of documentary films before establishing himself as a professional photographer in Washington, D.C. Around ten years ago, he moved to France, where he reconnected with his passion for street photography. Today, he explores the streets of Paris, wandering through the city and capturing its fleeting beauty and everyday moments.

 

Peter Turnley is renowned for his photography of the realities of the human condition. His photographs have been featured on the cover of Newsweek forty-three times and are published frequently in many of the world’s most prestigious publications. He has worked in over ninety countries and has witnessed most major stories of international geopolitical and historic significance in the last forty years. He has both American and French nationality. Turnley has photographed most of the world’s conflicts, including the Gulf War of 1991, the Balkans (Bosnia), Somalia, Rwanda, South Africa, Chechnya, Haiti, the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, Indonesia, Afghanistan, Kosovo, the 2003 war in Iraq. He has produced portraits and covered many of the modern world’s most influential people: Obama, Castro, Gorbachev, Yeltsin, Putin, Mandela, Arafat, Schroeder, Ceausescu, Gaddafi, Chirac, Clinton, Reagan, Bush Sr., Lady Diana, and Pope Jean Paul II among others. 

Since 1975 Turnley has also continually photographed the life of Paris, his adopted home. He was born in the U.S. but has lived more than half his life in Paris, where he worked as the assistant to the photographer Robert Doisneau in his early days in Paris in 1981.

Turnley lives in both New York and Paris and has published nine books: Beijing Spring, Moments of Revolution, In Times of War and Peace, Parisians, McClellan Street, French Kiss: A Love Letter to Paris, Cuba: A Grace of Spirit,, A New York-Paris Visual Diary: The Human Face of Covid-19, The Other California-1975 and Paris Je t’aime which  can be purchased only on his website: www.peterturnley.com

 

Alex Villaluz is an American photographer, born in Japan and raised between the Philippines and New York City. He studied photography at the School of Visual Arts in New York. Now based in Paris, Villaluz works across fashion and fine-art photography, exploring colour, composition, light, space and the human figure. His practice seeks to move beyond conventional representations of beauty, using carefully constructed images to create emotional and unexpected visual narratives.

 

Terri Weifenbach is an American photographer whose artistic practice places bookmaking at its core. Since the publication of her first book, In Your Dreams, in 1997, she has authored more than twenty titles, including Cloud Physics, Lana, Politics of Flowers and Gift, co-authored with Rinko Kawauchi. Her books have been published by Atelier EXB, The Ice Plant, Nazraeli Press and Loosestrife Press. Her Instruction Manual concept initiated Nazraeli Press’s One Picture Book series, for which she created volumes #01, #03 and #04. In Your Dreams was also included in Martin Parr and Gerry Badger’s The Photobook: A History, Volume II. Her work has been widely exhibited in solo and group exhibitions across the United States, Europe and Japan, and published in periodicals including Audubon, Union Magazine and IMA Magazine. In 2017, she presented her first solo museum exhibition at the Izu Photo Museum at Clematis no Oka, Japan. Her photographs are held in international collections including the Center for Creative Photography in Arizona, the Sprengel Museum Hannover in Germany and the Musée des Impressionnismes. Alongside her artistic practice, Weifenbach is an experienced educator who has led workshops internationally and taught at the Corcoran College of Art and Design, Georgetown University and American University, where she was a Lecturer. Born in New York City and raised in Washington, D.C., she studied at the University of Maryland and spent twelve years living in New Mexico and California before settling in Burgundy, France. She was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2015.

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