Martin Parr (born 1952) is a British documentary photographer and photojournalist. His photographic projects take a critical look at modern society, specifically consumerism, foreign travel and tourism, motoring, family and relationships, and food. Parr is probably best known for his photography at New brighton in the 1980's. His use of high saturation colour in photography produces some, at first glance boring and subdued images, …

Martine Franck (born 1938) is a Belgian photographer, and a member of the prestigious Magnum Photos agency. She was the second wife of famous photographer Henri Cartier-Bresson, and is president and co-founder of the Henri Cartier-Bresson Foundation, which administrates his estate. From 1963 she worked at "Time-Life" in Paris. Martine Franck first met Henri Cartier-Bresson in 1966 when she was photographing Paris fashion shows for the New York Times.

Henri Cartier-Bresson (August 22, 1908 - August 3 2004) was a French photographer considered to be the father of modern photojournalism, an early adopter of 35 mm format, and the master of candid photography. He helped develop the "street photography" style that has influenced generations of photographers that followed.

Elliott Erwitt (b. 1928 Paris, France) is a world-renowned advertising and journalistic photographer. He is best known for his black and white candid shots of ironic and absurd situations within everyday settings -- the master of the "indecisive moment".

Robert Capa (Budapest, October 22 1913 - May 25, 1954) was a famous war photographer during the 20th century. He covered five different wars: the Spanish Civil War, the Second Sino-Japanese War, World War II across Europe, the 1948 Arab-Israeli War, and the First Indochina War. Capa documented the course of World War II in London, North Africa, Italy, the Battle of Normandy on Omaha Beach and the liberation of Paris.

Philip Jones Griffiths (b. 1936) is a Welsh-born photojournalist known for his coverage of the Vietnam war. Griffiths studied pharmacy but started as a freelance photographer in 1961, traveling to Algeria in 1962. He arrived in Vietnam in 1966, working for the Magnum agency. Magnum found his images difficult to sell to American magazines, …

Susan Meiselas (born 1948) is an American photographer. Meiselas was born in Baltimore, Maryland. After taking a BA at Sarah Lawrence College and an MA at Harvard University, she joined Magnum Photos co-operative in 1976 and has worked as a freelance photographer since then. In 1981, she visited a village destroyed by the armed forces in San Salvador and took pictures of the El Mozote massacre. In 1992, Meiselas was awarded a MacArthur Fellowship.

Ingeborg Morath (May 27, 1923 in Graz, Austria - January 30, 2002 in New York City) was an Austrian-born photographer. Morath was sent to forced labour at the Berlin Tempelhof airport for refusing to join the Hitler Youth, but escaped. During and after the war she worked first in Berlin and then Vienna as a photographic assistant. In 1949 she made her way to Paris and later to London, where she studied photography, and later joined the legendary Magnum Photos agency.

Bruce Davidson (born September 5, 1933 in Oak Park, Illinois) is an American photographer. He has been a member of Magnum since 1958. His photographs, notably those taken in Harlem, have been widely exhibited and published in a number of books.

Carl de Keyzer (born 27 December 1958 in Kortrijk) is a world-renowned Belgian contemporary photographer. He was nominated by the Magnum Photos agency in 1990, became an associated member in 1992 and a full member in 1994.

Gilles Peress (born 1946) is an internationally renowned photojournalist. Peress began working as a photographer in 1970, embarking on an intimate portrayal of life in a French coal mining village as it emerged from the ashes of a debilitating labor dispute. He then joined Magnum Photos, the prestigious photography agency founded by Robert Capa. Peress soon traveled to Northern Ireland to begin an ongoing 20-year project about the Irish civil rights struggle.

Werner Bischof was a Swiss photographer and photojournalist. Bischof was born in Zürich, Switzerland. When he was six years old, the family moved to Waldshut, Germany, where he subsequently went to school. In 1932, having abandoned studies to become a teacher, he enrolled at the "Kunstgewerbeschule" in Zürich, where he graduated "cum laude" in 1936. From 1939 on, he worked as an independent photographer for various magazines, …

Cornell Capa (April 14, 1918) is a Hungarian-born American photographer, member of Magnum Photos, photo curator, and younger brother of war photographer Robert Capa. Born Cornell Friedmann in Budapest, Hungary, Capa moved, at age 18, to Paris to work as his brother, Andre Friedmann's (Robert Capa), photo printer. In 1937, Capa moved to New York City to work in the "Life" magazine darkroom.

James Nachtwey (born 1948) is an influential American photojournalist and war photographer. In 2003, he was injured by a grenade in an attack on his convoy along with Michael Weisskopf while serving as a TIME contributing correspondent in Baghdad.

George Rodger (1908-24 July 1995) was a British photojournalist noted for his work in Africa and for taking the first photographs of the death camps at Bergen-Belsen at the end of the Second World War. Born in Hale, Cheshire, Rodger went to school at St. Bees College then joined the British Merchant Navy and sailed around the world. While sailing, Rodger wrote accounts of his travels and taught himself photography to illustrate his travelogues.

Josef Koudelka (b. 1938 in Boskovice, Czechoslovakia) is a Czech photographer.

Chim (pronounced "shim") was the pseudonym of David Seymour, an American photographer and photojournalist. Born David Szymin in Warsaw to Polish Jewish parents, he became interested in photography while studying in Paris. He began working as a freelance journalist in 1933. Chim's coverage of the Spanish Civil War, Czechoslovakia and other European events established his reputation. He was particularly known for his poignant treatment of people, …

Marc Riboud (24 June 1923 -) is a French photographer, best known for his extensive reports on the East: "The Three Banners of China", "Face of North Vietnam", "Visions of China", and his most recent, "In China".

Sebastião Salgado is a Brazilian documentary photographer and photojournalist. 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 to Africa on missions for the World Bank, when he first started seriously taking photographs.

Micha Bar-Am (b. 1930 Berlin, Germany) is renowned Israeli journalistic photographer. His most prominent pictures are from when he covered the Six Day War. His pictures are not so much of direct combat, but more of wartime life.

Gueorgui Pinkhassov, Russian born photographer, born in Moscow, in 1952. Began his interest in photography during his teen years. Enrolled at the Moscow Institute of Cinematography (VGIK) in 1969. Following college and two years in the army, he joined the film crew at Mosfilm. Continuing his interest in still photography he became a set photographer at the studio. His work was noticed by film directors Andrei Tarkovsky, …

Ernst Haas (March 2, 1921 - September 12, 1986) was an influential photographer noted for his innovations in color photography, experiments in abstract light and form, and as a member of the Magnum Photos agency.

Charles Harbutt (born July 29, 1935) is an American photographer, a former president of Magnum, and full-time Professor at Parsons School of Design in New York.

Jeanloup Sieff (November 30, 1933 - 20 September 2000) was a practitioner of the photographic art of high fashion, and avowed a fidelity to the frivolous and superficial. His legacy places him in the top rank of fashion and art photographers. Sieff was born in Paris to parents of Polish origin. His interest in photography was first piqued when he received a Photax plastic camera as a birthday gift for his fourteenth birthday.

Ara Güler is a Turkish photojournalist of Armenian descent, nicknamed "the Eye of Istanbul" or "the Photographer of Istanbul".

Abbas (born 1944) is an Iranian photographer known for his photojournalism in Biafra and Vietnam in the 1970s, and for his photos of Christian and Islamic subjects in later years. He is a member of Magnum Photos. Abbas, an Iranian transplanted to Paris, has dedicated his photographic work to the political and social coverage of the developing southern nations. Since 1970, his major work, published in world magazines, includes wars and revolutions in Biafra, Bangladesh, …

Nicolas Tikhomiroff was born in Paris, France by Russian parents in 1927. He received his education at a boarding school away from home. He was trilingual with Russian as his primary with French and English as secondary languages. When he reached the age of seventeen, just following the Liberation of Paris, he joined the French army. After finishing his duties he found a job working for a fashion photographer processing prints.