Photographers

Giacomo Brunelli develops a practice that is both instinctive and exacting. His images, shaped through a physical engagement with the world, rely on contrast, simplicity and immediacy to capture what usually escapes attention. He moves, observes and waits, letting situations unfold on their own. This approach produces photographs that are direct, stripped down and anchored in an unembellished reality.

Claudia Jaguaribe, based between São Paulo and Rio de Janeiro, is a visual artist whose work redefines the urban landscape and environment as conceptual records. By blending reality with subjectivity, she creates layered narratives that challenge the traditional limits of photography, transforming images into three-dimensional photo-sculptures and multimedia installations.

A pioneer in editorial research, Jaguaribe has released twenty acclaimed publications and co-founded Editora Madalena to specialize in photobooks. Her innovative work is held in major international collections, including the Maison Européenne de la Photographie in Paris, Inhotim, and the Museum of Modern Art of São Paulo.

Robin Hammond is an award-winning photojournalist and a frequent contributor to National Geographic. Known for his work on human rights and social justice, he has received many prestigious honors, including the W. Eugene Smith Grant, multiple World Press Photo awards, and several Pictures of the Year International prizes. His photography is driven by a deep personal commitment to social change. Hammond does more than just document the world; he uses his images to advocate for the dignity and survival of those he meets. His work captures the raw, physical reality of our lives and the enduring connections that bind us to our world.

For the past 40 years Max Pam has been interpreting his experience through a unique mix of photography and autobiography. Although he has been recognized foremost as a photographer of the process of travel, less attention has been given to the structures and techniques of his work. In the up-front photographic aspect of his work he combines an interest in a certain kind of representation – the snapshot and the pseudo-documentary “decisive moment” – with other modes of documentation that can include images of small mementos, drawings and written diaristic accounts. Like Japanese photographer Araki Nobuyoshi, Pam’s autobiography-through-imagery is excessive, sometimes provocative and often fascinated by an abject glamour. Yet in Pam’s work there remains, distinguishing his work from much photography in the contemporary art world, a constant sensitivity to the face-to-face encounter.

His books Going East and Ramadan In Yemen are included in Phaidon’s History of the Photobook Vol. 2 in 2006 and Vol. 3 in 2013. His prints are in national and private collections in Australia, France, Great Britain, Italy and Japan. Some of the published books on Max Pam’s work include “Max Pam” (1999), “Ethiopia” (1999) and “Indian Ocean Journals” (2000). His first, “Going East: Twenty Years of Asian Photography” (1992), won the French “Prix du Livre”. His book Atlas Monographs (2009) won the International Photo Book Prize at PhotoEspaña in Madrid in 2010. In 2010 he was awarded a Harkness Fellowship to secure a residency at the International Studio Curatorial Programme in New York.

Max Pam with Éditions Bessard: “I Cannot Stop Dreaming” (2026), “The Contingency of Eye Contact” (2023), “The Year I First Met Janno” (2022), “The Sea Of Love” (2019), “Supertourist” (2013), “Ramadan in Yemen” (2011).

Philippe Herbet is a Belgian photographer and writer living in the Basque Country. Curious about the lives of others and the multiplicity of cultures, he travels as the rhizome pursues its underground course, photographs the people he meets, writes their stories and histories that unfold like the panels of an exhibition.

For several years, he has been addressing philosophical themes starting from intimate events that he broadens to the universal. His civic engagement combines artistic creation, humanism and aspiration for Peace. In his books, he frequently pairs his photographs with his own texts. Flemish and Dutch painting from the Golden Age, music and literature nourish his approach.

Philippe Herbet exhibits regularly in Belgium, France and internationally, at galleries including Camera Obscura (Paris), Contretype (Brussels), Jacques Cerami and Le Réverbère (Lyon). He has published around ten monographs and an autobiographical novel with Arléa. He is represented by the Jacques Cerami gallery.

Jean-Marc Caimi and Valentina Piccinni are a powerhouse duo in contemporary documentary photography, known for a raw, immersive style that merges journalistic rigor with a cinematic edge. Since 2013, they have captured the friction between humanity and its changing environments.

Their signature “aesthetic of urgency” is defined by high-contrast imagery and an extreme intimacy with their subjects. By favoring psychological atmosphere over linear storytelling, they document the hidden subcultures of cities like Rome and Istanbul.