• Ken Domon (1909-1990)

Hiroshima survivors’ physical and emotional scars through stark, unstaged black-and-white social realist photography, emphasizing both suffering and resilience thirteen years after the atomic bombing.

• Barry Lewis (1948)

Soviet forced labor camps and conditions faced by incarcerated prisoners in the early 1990s, contextualized within a broader examination of historical memory and political repression.

• Robert Capa (1913-1954),
• Gerda Taro (1910-1937),
• David Seymour (1911-1956)

The Spanish Civil War through black-and-white war photography, capturing soldiers and civilians in emotionally charged moments that illustrate both the devastation of war and the human perspective of those affected.

• Jason Eskenazi (1960)

The post-Soviet transition as seen through everyday life and personal stories.

• Zdeněk Tmej (1920-2004)

The deep psychological scars of forced labor camps during WWII, merging intimate detail with a stark, haunting aesthetic.

• Henri Cartier-Bresson (1908-2004)

Ephemeral human moments portrayed through a fusion of spontaneity and precise composition.