Journalists 21st century
Miguel Rio Branco, full name Miguel da Silva Paranhos do Rio Branco, is a Brazilian photographer, artist, director and creator of multimedia installations.
His father was a diplomat and as a child Miguel lived in Spain, Portugal, Switzerland and the USA, now living and working in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. After earning a degree in photography from the New York Institute of Photography, Miguel first worked as a cameraman and then worked with the Magnum agency. Miguel is known for exploring and crossing two different art forms: painting and photography. He has also shot 14 short films and eight long films, he is recognized in the world as one of the best color photojournalists.
Miguel Rio Branco's photographs are part of the collections of the Museum of Modern Art and the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York.
Nathan Louis (Nat) Finkelstein was an American photographer and photojournalist. Finkelstein studied photography under Alexey Brodovitch, the art director of Harper's Bazaar and worked as a photojournalist for the Black Star and PIX photo agencies, reporting primarily on the political developments of various subcultures in New York City in the 1960s. In 1964, Finkelstein entered Andy Warhol's Factory as a photojournalist and remained for three years; Finkelstein's photographs from this period are now regarded as some of the most iconic of the time.
Robert Hill Jackson or Bob Jackson is a Pulitzer Prize-winning American photographer.
Robert attended Southern Methodist University while pursuing a passion for photography. While serving in the National Guard, Jackson became a photographer for an Army general. In 1960, he began working as a photo reporter for the Dallas Times Herald newspaper.
On November 22, 1963, Jackson was assigned to cover President John F. Kennedy's arrival at Love Field and his motorcade through the city. He witnessed Kennedy's assassination, but did not have time to film it. Two days later, however, he was able to photograph the shooting of Lee Harvey Oswald, the accused assassin of President Lee Harvey Oswald, by Jack Ruby in the garage of the Dallas police station. Robert Jackson was awarded the 1964 Pulitzer Prize in Photography for these photographs.
Dan Perjovschi is a Romanian artist, cartoonist and journalist living and working in Bucharest, Romania.
Dan Perjovschi blends drawing, comics and graffiti, commenting on current political, social and cultural issues, sometimes with a touch of black humor. He started working as a press illustrator back in the 1990s and has gained a lot of experience over the years. He plays an active role in the development of civil society in Romania, serving as editor of Revista 22, a cultural magazine, as well as producing his own publication, Gazeta Dana Perjovschi. Perjovschi's works are often printed and used during protests, as they reflect current social and civic issues.
In the last 10 years, in addition to drawing on paper, he has begun to use chalk and marker on the walls of buildings and exhibition spaces, drawing with great freedom even on the floor, walls and windows. In 2009, Dan Perjovschi created his first permanent exhibition at the Czech National Library of Technology in Prague. It consists of 200 monumental drawings on the concrete walls of the main atrium of the building. Dan Perjovschi is the winner of many international awards.
Rainer W. Schlegelmilch is a German motorsport photographer and photojournalist.
He studied at the Bavarian State College of Photography in Munich and already presented his work from motor racing at his graduation in 1962. Since then, this sport has been the main subject of Schlegelmilch's work. In 1964 he opened his own studio in Frankfurt for photo design and advertising photography.
The series of photographs of Formula One and FIA championships, which Schlegelmilch began in 1962, represent one of the most extensive collections of photographic material in the history of motor racing. His archive contains more than 600,000 images, which were black and white until 1970 and then color.
Schlegelmilch has published some 40 illustrated books on motorsport and calendars from various racing series, and has participated in exhibitions around the world. For his unique skill he is called "the eye of Formula 1", and Bernie Ecclestone many years ago gave him a press pass valid until the end of his life. Brands such as Ferrari, Porsche, BMW, Mercedes and Aston Martin have used his work for luxury publications.
Emilio Tadini is an Italian artist, writer and poet, playwright, translator and journalist.
After graduating from the Faculty of Literature at the Catholic University of the Sacred Heart in Milan, Tadini published essays, novels, poems. At the same time, he also dabbles in painting. Tadini was also president of the Brera Academy of Fine Arts from 1997 to 2000.
