Well, I've never really followed photographers' lives or stories.
I like a lot of portraiture... Benoit Paille's Rainbow Gathering portraits, Joey Lawrence's Holy Men especially the Sadhus.
Also, the Russian photographers always seem to impress me. Katarina Smuraga, Alina Lebedeva, Victoria Nazarova, Mike Pavlovsky
Paweł Smiałek, Polish I think, does ambrotypes. Magda Andrzejewska