2000–2010s | Photographers | History of Photography | Photo Coordinates |
2000–2010s was shaped by Digital Photography, the Eve of Social Media, and the Surveillance Society, a context in which photographic institutions and expression changed significantly. This era page organizes photographers, movements, and historical background so readers can trace how Conceptual, Conceptual Art, and Japanese Photography emerged within a wider history of photography. Use it as a chronological entry point from individual photographers to related countries, visual languages, and source-backed historical context.
Pieter Hugo (born 1976 in Johannesburg) is a South African photographic artist based in Cape Town.
Read detailsArtie Vierkant (born 1986) is an American artist working across photography, sculpture, digital files, and online circulation.
Read detailsEileen Quinlan (born 1972) is an American photographer whose studio experiments with smoke, mirrors, Mylar, gels, expired film, and scanning develop a feminist form of photographic abstraction.
Read detailsJessica Eaton (born 1977 in Canada) uses RGB filters and multiple exposures to generate abstract color structures inside the camera.
Read detailsKate Steciw (born 1978) is an American artist who draws images from the internet and stock-image databases, combining digital manipulation, Plexiglas, collage, and print structures.
Read detailsKelli Connell (born 1974) is an American photographer known for Double Life, in which one model is photographed in multiple roles and digitally composited as two figures.
Read detailsLieko Shiga (born 1980 in Aichi) is a Japanese photographer whose Rasen Kaigan project grew from long-term collaboration with residents of Kitakama, Miyagi.
Read detailsLucas Blalock (born 1978) is an American photographer who photographs ordinary objects with a large-format camera and leaves visible traces of Photoshop manipulation.
Read detailsMika Ninagawa (born 1972 in Tokyo) is a photographer and film director whose work crosses photography, cinema, and installation through saturated color, flowers, goldfish, and portraiture.
Read detailsNatalie Czech (born 1976, based in Berlin) is a German conceptual photographer known for Hidden Poems, in which she finds existing poems within magazines, newspapers, packaging, and other printed matter, marking words and photographing the page as a field where reading and seeing overlap.
Read detailsNoriko Hayashi (born 1983) is a documentary photographer who works on underreported social issues, including bride kidnapping in Kyrgyzstan and Yazidi prayer.
Read detailsRashid Johnson (born 1977 in Chicago) is an American artist whose early photographs used historical processes such as Van Dyke brown printing and staged portraiture to examine Black identity, double consciousness, and the politics of representation.
Read detailsRyan McGinley (born 1977) is an American photographer who first photographed New York downtown youth subcultures at close range and later staged outdoor nude road-trip images.
Read detailsSara VanDerBeek (born 1976) is an American artist who assembles art-historical, archival, and urban fragments into temporary sculptures, photographs them, and then dismantles them.
Read detailsShannon Ebner (born 1971, based in Los Angeles) is an American artist who builds letters and words from cardboard, wood, and concrete blocks, then photographs them as visual structures.
Read detailsTaiji Matsue (born 1963 in Tokyo) is a Japanese photographer who photographs the earth’s surface while excluding the horizon and sky and using frontal light to suppress shadow.
Read detailsViviane Sassen (born 1972 in Amsterdam) is a Dutch photographer whose work crosses fine art and fashion through saturated color, deep shadow, fragmented bodies, and concealed faces.
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