Explore Documentary Artists
Discover artists working in the Documentary style
Annette Frick
Bonn, Germany
Annette Frick, a German photographer, is renowned for her intimate and unflinching portraits and documentary series. Her work captures subcultures, marginalized communities, and personal narratives with profound empathy and raw authenticity. Frick's black-and-white photography often possesses a timeless quality, offering candid glimpses into the lives of her subjects and challenging societal stereotypes.
Arthur Jafa
New York, USA
Influential African-American filmmaker, cinematographer, and curator whose powerful visual essays explore Black experience in the U.S. and globally.
John Carter
New York, USA
American filmmaker, photographer and sound artist whose poetic, narrative-driven works reflect on memory, identity, and place within Black diasporic discourse.
Tim Breuer
Berlin, Germany
German artist merging photography, video, and installation to confront memory, archives, and social history through evocative minimal gesture.
Andreas Fogarasi
Vienna, Austria
Austrian conceptual multidisciplinary artist (b. 1977) working in sculpture, video, photography and installation, critiquing urban representation, display and spatial economies.
Pilvi Takala
Helsinki, Finland
Pilvi Takala (b. 1981, Finland) is a renowned performance artist and filmmaker known for her subtle interventions into social norms and power dynamics. Her work often involves infiltrating everyday environments and documenting reactions, revealing unspoken rules and challenging established structures.
Sable Elyse Smith
Los Angeles, USA
Sable Elyse Smith (b. 1986, USA) is an interdisciplinary artist, writer, and filmmaker whose work investigates the carceral state, memory, and systemic violence. Her practice spans video, photography, text, and sculpture, often using abstraction to convey complex emotional and political landscapes.
Marcel Odenbach
Cologne, Germany
Odenbach's video installations and collages explore themes of history, memory, and cultural identity, using archival footage and found imagery.
Luke Fowler
Glasgow, Scotland
Fowler's films and installations explore themes of counterculture, social history, and the politics of representation, using a documentary approach.
Martin Parr
Epsom, United Kingdom
Parr's photographic works, characterized by their saturated colors and ironic humor, explore themes of consumerism, tourism, and the banality of everyday life. His practice is marked by a sense of keen observation and social commentary.