Antoine d'Agata is a French photographer born in Marseille in 1961.
D'Agata left France in 1983 to start a series of travels. He studied photography at the International Center of Photography of New York in 1990, under the tutelage of Larry Clark and Nan Goldin. D'Agata's work deals with addiction, sex, personal obsessions, darkness, prostitution, and other topics widely considered taboo.
In 2001 D'Agata won the Niépce Prize for young photographers. D'Agata has been a full member of Magnum Photos since 2008. He has published more than a dozen books and three films. In 2009 Tommaso Lusena and Giuseppe Schillaci released a documentary film about D'Agata called The Cambodian Room: Situations with Antoine D'Agata. ... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antoine_D'Agata
logged for comment
