Isabel Azkarate (San Sebastián, 1950), considered the first female Basque photojournalist, has devoted her life to recording, with her camera, thousands of fleeting encounters with peculiar characters who have captured her attention.

Isabel’s empathy and boldness have been her main passport. Even today, at 76, she feels an insatiable curiosity for the geography of human experience, an urge to walk the streets observing, connecting, and capturing those around her.

She trained in documentary… more

Boris Savelev’s (Chernivtsi, Ukraine, 1947) eye was trained in the Soviet Union in the 1970s, as part of a group of photographers who worked independently, outside the official photographers’ union. When perestroika came about, dealers in the United States and Europe travelled to Moscow and Saint Petersburg in the quest for ‘authentic voices’. Secret City: Photographs of the USSR by Boris Savelev (Thames and Hudson, 1988) was the outcome of this effort and became the first monograph in t… more