Top Five Photographers of 2007

I think it's safe to say that most of us at Cool Hunting love photos that are strange, mysterious and playful. Here's a list of five of the photographers we've featured in 2007 that embody some of the things that we love in a great picture. Pieter Hugo Pieter Hugo travelled throughout Nigeria photographing of a troupe of animal charmers and their collection of hyenas, …

Tariq Duff

For most of us our holiday snaps involve a few tourist-ridden temples, the beach, cocktails, the inside of a hotel room and some candid "look-at-my-tan" poses. Yet for London-based What's your earliest memory of being inspired by photographs? I was around eight. I used to fly over to the U.K. for summer holidays in the countryside with my grandparents. My gramps was a keen amateur …

Hong Hao

Working out of Beijing, Hong Hao is known primarily for his laser scans of the ephemera accumulated in his lifetime. Each piece is an aggregation of items—passports, cosmetics, coins, Mao kitsch, all and sundry plastic knick knacks—that individually are unremarkable, but together tell the story of a person's life.