100 EUROPEAN PHOTOGRAPHERS

From EXIT they carry out a review of current European photography in a reference book that will undoubtedly become an essential vademecum for experts and amateurs.

The history of photography has one of its most stable and consistent pillars in Europe. Since the origins of this language, of this tool that would change so many things over time in the art scene, its practice has been practiced and innovated in Europe. In this basic atlas of Europe, an attempt has been made to include those who have played an essential role in photography in recent decades, but also those who, although they have not achieved great visibility in other places, have been essential for the development of the language photography in its areas of influence.

All the photographers included have been born since 1950 , that is, the oldest are in their sixties and have been the architects of the photographic resurgence of the 1980s. The pioneers of photography understood as one of the fine arts, by museums and for the market. The protagonists that photography has become the most radically triumphant trend of the end of the 20th century. But that belongs to the last century and there are also many of its heirs here, those who have delved deeper and worked more freely, without having to convince anyone, not even themselves, that what they were doing was also art. The problem with this selection is not what some feather-fliers may miss, that name that many know and will not find. The problem is that nobody is going to miss those hundreds of names that we all don't know and that, surely, are doing an excellent job but who are impossible to reach due to lack of information and the little or no mobility of their jobs in the artistic sector. They are places that have not yet been discovered, isolated islands, non-existent routes for current traffic. We hope that soon other cartographers will be able to name them and put them on the global map.

Artists included : Augusto Alves Da Silva, Miriam Bäckström, Olivo Barbieri, Yto Barrada, Uta Barth, Valerie Belin, Peter Bialobrzeski, Richard Billingham, Daniel Blaufuks, Rut Blees Luxemburg, Dirk Braeckman, Sergey Bratkov, Elina Brotherus, Vicenzo Castella, Nuno Cera , Matt Collishaw, Stéphane Couturier, Antoine D'Agata, Denis Darzacq, Luc Delahaye, Thomas Demand, Bertrand Desprez, Rineke Dijkstra, Desirée Dolron, Julio Antonio Duarte, Charlotte Dumas, JH Engström, Joachim Eskildsen, Patrick Faigenbaum, Roland Fischer, Anna Fox, Peter Fraser, Charles Frèger, Maria Friberg, Adam Fuss, Lucia Ganieva, Stephen Gill, Geert Goiris, Paul Graham, Alexander Gronsky, Andreas Gursky, Jitka Hanzlová, Nicolai Howalt, Tom Hunter, Axel Hütte, Francesco Jodice, Sarah Jones, Valerie Jouvé, Pertti Kekarainen, Idris Khan, Anastasia Khoroshilova, Immo Klink, Karen Knorr, Joachim Koester, Ola Kolehmainen, Ellen Kooi, Karin Laval, Jochen Lempert, Catherine Leutenegger, Loretta Lux, Esko Männikkö, Jean-L uc Moulène, Walter Niedermayr, Simon Norfolk, Erwin Olaf, Markéta Othová, Martin Parr, Mathieu Pernot, Ralf Peters, Pierre et Gilles, Peter Piller, Dana Popa, Bas Princen, Bernhard Prinz, Barbara Probst, Olivier Richon, Rax Rinnekangas, Ricarda Roggan, Thomas Ruff, Lise Sarfati, Jörg Sasse, Paul Seawright, Bruno Serralongue, Jacob Aue Sobol, Trine Sondergaard, Jules Spinatsch, Hannah Starkey, Christopher Stewart, Beat Streuli, Thomas Struth, Juergen Teller, Frank Thiel, Wolfgang Tillmans, Patrick Tosani , Lars Tunbjörk, Carla van de Puttelaar, Hellen van Meene, Annika von Hausswolff, Pernilla Zetterman.