The 25 Photographers You Should Know

The voices shaping photography in 2012.

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I enjoy a wide range of contemporary photographers, from the very emerging to the very blue-chip, so it was very difficult for me to select just 25 for COMPLEX's 25 Photographers You Should Know. Any list of this kind is by its very nature incomplete, but I hope the end result, which involved a very painful peeling away from my initial group of 86, gives a sense of some of the voices (ordered alphabetically from the bottom up) shaping photography in 2012.

Elisa Carmichael, Editor-in-chief, tasj magazine.

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Francesca Woodman (USA)

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Juergen Teller (Germany)

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Hiroshi Sugimoto (Japan)

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Yinka Shonibare MBE (UK/Nigeria)

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Cindy Sherman (USA)

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Thomas Ruff (Germany)

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Terry Richardson (USA)

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Alex Prager (USA)

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Estevan Oriol (USA)

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Shirin Neshat (Iran)

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Daido Moriyama (Japan)

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Marilyn Minter (USA)

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Ryan McGinley (USA)

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Mona Kuhn (Brazil/USA)

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Rinko Kawauchi (Japan)

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JR (France)

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Pieter Hugo (South Africa)

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Nan Goldin (USA)

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Elger Esser (Germany)

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Rineke Dijkstra (Holland)

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Philip-Lorca diCorcia (USA)

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Jonathas de Andrade (Brazil)

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Gregory Crewdson (USA)

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Sophie Calle (France)

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Ai Weiwei (China)

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