• Weegee (1899-1968)

Nighttime scenes of 1930s-1940s New York, portraying urban extremes of crime and social life through high-contrast flash photography and candid depictions of human emotion.

• Danny Lyon (1942)

The American biker subculture of the 1960s, capturing themes of camaraderie, rebellion, and marginalization through participatory New Journalism.

• Joan Colom (1921-2017)

Candid documentation of Barcelona’s marginalized sex workers in the late 1950s and early 1960s, presented through high-contrast black-and-white photography with distinctive grain.

• 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.

• Pablo Ernesto Piovano (1981)

Health and environmental consequences arising from agrochemical dependence in Argentina’s northeastern rural regions.

• Richard Avedon (1923-2004)

Working-class individuals from the American West, stripped of environmental context by a stark white backdrop.