Celebrating National Photography Month

May is National Photography Month, and MakersPlace is ready to celebrate those artists who’ve captured our history, culture, joys, and sorrows.

Photography is a time machine that freezes and distills moments into pure gesture and emotion. Photographs — when candid, truthful, and heartfelt — are our best window into the lives and experiences of others. They allow us to peer through a pinhole at what life must have been like across time, back to the first photos of the 1830s.

early photography — *The earliest reliably dated photograph of people, View of the Boulevard du Temple, was taken by Louis Daguerre one spring morning in 1838 from the window of the Diorama, where he lived and worked.*

To celebrate the impact that photography has had on our understanding of time and space, MakersPlace will highlight photographers from across genres and techniques throughout May. To kick things off, allow us to highlight a few photographers who couldn’t be more different from one another but who nonetheless stand out as singular visionaries.