Travel photography 21st century
Robert Glenn Ketchum is pioneering conservation photographer, recognized by Audubon magazine as one of 100 people "who shaped the environmental movement in the 20th century."
Ketchum has had over 400 one-man and group shows, and his photographs are in major museum collections throughout the world.
Laurie Simmons is an American artist, photographer and filmmaker. Since the mid-1970s, Simmons has staged scenes for her camera with dolls, ventriloquist dummies, objects on legs, and people, to create photographs that reference domestic scenes. She is part of The Pictures Generation, a name given to a group of artists who came to prominence in the 1970s. The Pictures Generation also includes Cindy Sherman, Barbara Kruger, and Louise Lawler.
Massimo Vitali is an Italian photographer. He is known for his large-scale color photographs of beach scenes and other leisure spaces, which explore themes of social behavior, mass tourism, and the relationship between people and their environments.
Vitali's photographs often feature a bird's-eye view of crowded beaches or other public spaces, with people arranged in patterns that reveal the social dynamics of the scene. He uses large-format cameras and prints his photographs at a monumental scale, which emphasizes the details and textures of the scene.
Some of Vitali's most famous series include "Beaches," "Pools," and "Landscapes with Figures." His work has been exhibited in major museums and galleries around the world, and he has received numerous awards and honors for his contributions to the field of photography.
Vitali continues to produce new work and is widely regarded as one of the most important photographers working today.