Joel-Peter Witkin

Joel-Peter Witkin

Joel-Peter Witkin

Photographer

Joel-Peter Witkin (b. 1939) is a distinctive figure in contemporary photography. Since the 1970s, he has created carefully staged images inspired by art history, surrealism, and religious iconography. Populated by unconventional bodies, mythological references, and meditations on death, his photographs challenge aesthetic norms and blur the boundaries between beauty and the grotesque.

Films

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Joel-Peter & Jerome Witkin | Witkin & Witkin

Twin brothers, two radical bodies of work: an intimate face-to-face between painting, photography and family memory.