B.C. Binning
Cedric Bomford
Anton Bruehl
Jim Breukelman
Anne Collier
Christine D'Onofrio
Sven-Erik Ericksen
Leonard Frank
Pascal Grandmaison
Henrik Håkansson
Fred Herzog
Jacques-Henri Lartigue
Marc Joseph
Owen Kydd
Attila Richard Lukacs & Michael Morris
James Nasmyth
Matthias Olmeta
Dick Oulton
Malcolm Parry
Richard Prince
George H. Seeley
Dan Siney
Gordon Smith
W. Eugene Smith
Rosalind Solomon
Simon Starling
Ian Wallace
Anonymous I
Anonymous II
Anonymous III

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Matthias Olmeta was born in Marseille, France in 1968. He moved to California at the age of 18 to study photography, graduating from the University of Santa Monica in 1991. He is a filmmaker as well as a photographer. “I am primarily attracted,” says Olmeta, “to the marginal side of society. There are a lot of people who live on the edge of what you see as “normal.” His photographic work focuses on portraits taken in London, Paris, New York, Marseilles, Hamburg, Berlin, Anvers, Bangkok and Los Angeles. His comment that “I feel that all cities have their unique characteristics” is reflected in the unique subjects in each place that he photographs.

Degas is from a photographic series, “Backstages, Los Angeles,” that focuses on professional female impersonators. Rather than presenting them in performance, Olmeta has taken images of transvestites and transsexuals as they prepare themselves for the spotlight in their homes and dressing rooms. The intimacy of the scene is amplified by the rich delicate tones of this palladium print - a specialized photographic medium that creates beautiful warm tones.