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April 2015 back issue

Ian Forsyth To commission Ian or to request prints of his work: www.ianforsythphotographer.com Ian Forsyth currently lives in Saltburn in Cleveland, England. He has recently completed 22 years of service with the British Military. For the last 6 years of his military service he became a photographer for the Army and was responsible for providing images of the British Army and for offering those images out to the wider press on both a regional and national level as well as supplying the internal military media with images. Having completed his career in the military, Forsyth's main interest lies in documentary photography.

Franck Vogel To commission Franck or to request prints of his work: www.franckvogel.com Born in 1977, he is based in Paris. Franck Vogel works as a freelance photojournalist on social and environmental issues for the international press (Paris Match, GEO, Le Monde magazine, NRC Weekblad, Animan, Discovery magazine…). Since 2007, he has focused on the unique relationships between Nature and Human beings to show the World that it’s possible to live in harmony. Most reportage depict the worst, Franck decided to bring hope. In India, his story on the Bishnois, the world’s first environmentalists, illustrates this in the best way. This work has been published all over the world, including GEO magazine for its special 30th anniversary in 2009, and featured inside Parisian Metro stations in 2011 (Montparnasse) and 2012 (Luxembourg). Over 15 million visitors have seen those huge exhibitions. To give a wider audience, Franck Vogel wrote and co-directed a 52 min documentary film for France 5, “Rajasthan, l’âme d’un prophète” (The Bishnois, India’s eco-warriors), broadcasted in June 2011.

Juan Teixeira To commission Juan or to request prints of his work: www.juanteixeira.com Juan Teixeira is a documentary photographer based in Galiza (Spain). He studied Advertising, but soon realized that this was not his place. Through a series of trips to South America and Southeast Asia, he noted that photography was a way to interact and explore the world in a very personal way, like a spectator who tries to understand what is happening around them. Since then, he has focused on trying to understand the world around him, focusing on people and their relationships with other people, society, nature and the time and place that each will live. He currently heads the company ‘Ese Instante’ which combines with the realization of social reports, collaborations with media and personal travels.

Omar Alkalouti To commission Omar or to request prints of his work: omaralkalouti.com Omar Alkalouti grew up in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. His career in photography began by managing a Walgreens 1 hour photo lab in Nashville, Tennessee. He later attended Western Kentucky University's school of photojournalism. After assisting several press and editorial photographers he decided to branch out on his own. This decision developed into pursuing documentary and portraiture photography in the middle east. He is currently a freelance photographer based in Beirut, Lebanon. There he works as a stringer and multimedia editor while accepting commissions and assignments of all kinds.

Damian Bird To commission him or to request prints of his work: www.damianbirdphotography.com Damian Bird, is a photographer and photojournalist with many years of experience, working in war zones and trouble spots around the globe. He was educated in Photography at the Surrey College of Art and Design and at the London College of Printing where he studied for a post graduate degree in Photojournalism. In 2011 he founded Life Force magazine with his business partner and wife of ten years, Alice. As well as Editing Life Force magazine, he is currently engaged in photographing a series of photo-essays on English culture and has recently returned to Afghanistan (Aug 2013). He continues to have his work published in national and international newspapers and magazines including The Times, the Telegraph, the Express, the Observer, GQ, Esquire, Dazed & Confused,The Face, Country Life and Geographical magazine.

Elis Hoffman To commission Elis or to request prints of his work: www.elishoffman.com Elis Hoffman (b. 1979) lives and work in Stockholm, Sweden. He combines freelance work with doing exhibition and book projects. He was awarded a Swedish Arts Grant to realize Fading. The images have been photographed in and around the Swedish towns Tranås, Malmberget, Kil, Hylte and Skellefteå during the summers of 2010 – 2014.

He lives with his wife and four children in Devon, England.

Jerry Schatzberg To commission Jerry or to request prints of his work: www.jerryschatzberg.com From creator of poetic images to compelling storyteller, Jerry Schatzberg has excelled in both the realms of photography and filmmaking. Published in Vogue, McCall’s, Esquire, Glamour, and Life in the 1960’s. Schatzberg captured intimate portraits of the generation's most notable artists, celebrities and thinkers (from Bob Dylan to Robert Rauschenberg), and he pushed on in the 1970s to the medium of film participating in the renaissance of American cinema, directing films such as: Puzzle of a Downfall Child, The Panic in Needle Park, Scarecrow. His films mark a significant time in the history of film when the importance of solid and introspective narrative proved paramount.

Luis Mallo To commission Luis or to request prints of his work: www.luismallo.com Luis Mallo was born in Havana, Cuba in 1962. He studied graphic design in New York City, but his immediate interest after leaving school became the photographic medium and its creative potential. His work has been shown around the US, Canada, Latin America, and Europe. He is a recipient of the Cintas Foundation Award, the Sony World Photography Award and The Art Matters Photography Award. His photographs are included in the permanent collections of the Museum of Fine Arts in Houston, the George Eastman House, the Brooklyn Museum of Art, the Worcester Museum of Art, the Museum of Art at Ft. Lauderdale and the New York Public Library, as well as other public and private collections. Luis Mallo has been invited to lecture and talk about his work at various institutions, such as the Brooklyn Museum of Art, the Smithsonian Institute, and the Maier Museum of Art. He’s also conducted workshops for students at various academic and cultural venues. His images have been featured in Art News, Art Nexus, The New York Times, Metropolis magazine in New York City, Azure magazine in Toronto and Leica World Magazine in Germany. Luis Mallo currently resides in Brooklyn, New York.

Stefan Boness To commission Stefan or to request prints of his work: www.iponphoto.com Stefan Boness is a photojournalist based in Berlin and Manchester. His photos have received several awards including a World Press Photo Award. His work is being published in quality magazines and newspapers throughout the world. In his long-term documentary projects in the tradition of conceptual ‘Landscape- Photography’ Stefan captures the reality of a designated place in the present in the context of its underlying historical dimensions. His book-project entitled ‘Flanders Fields’ is a photographic search on the battlefields of World War I in the region around Ypres in Belgium. In ‘Asmara – The Frozen City’ he uncovers the legacy of Italian colonial avant-garde architecture in the capital of Eritrea in the Horn of Africa. His most recent project ‘The Re-Making of Manchester’ has as its focus urban development in present-day Manchester.

Shalmon Bernstein To commission Shalmon or to request prints of his work: www.shalmonbernstein.com During High School and College worked as a electronics technician, sheet metal mechanic, and in a lab performing abortions on rats. High School was Brooklyn Tech. Six thousand boys. And then there was college, also Brooklyn. Started a major in Economics. When all that was left was Accounting, moved to Philosophy. Then graduate work contemplating an academic career. Bored. Moved to photography and had a most satisfying career. Enjoyed working for among others: New York Magazine, New York Affairs, Ms. Magazine, Village Voice, Soho News, Rags, Cosmopolitan, Present Tense, Newsday's magazine, The Herald, American Book Co., Washington Square Press, Random House, ABC, Gulf and Western, Revlon, Grant: N.Y.S. Council on the Arts, Art Director's Club One Show Award, Taught four years, one day a week at SVA, and last but not least, at the very end, stock

represented by Magnum. Started to renovate a five story abandoned brownstone. Learned most of the construction trades. Family, daughter and money for the next 25 years. My daughter recently graduating with the education that I would have liked to have had and the brownstone being my 401K, returned to photography and studied digital printing with two masters at ICP. It certainly is a new world. The New York times recently published some of my work from the seventies in their LENS Blog and in the Metropolitan Section of the Sunday paper.

Paul Cooklin To commission Paul or to request prints of his work: www.paulcooklin.com Paul Cooklin Born 9th May 1971, Ilford Currently lives in Suffolk, UK In our digital world of 'instant everything' which is mostly mass produced, Paul Cooklin is drawn to analogue film and traditional darkroom printing. His preference for film over digital also derives from the nostalgic and timeless 'look' of black and white film, with it's tonal qualities and grain. He is also drawn to the rules of the negative and the traditional printing methods which he finds more rewarding due to the hands-on approach needed to make an individual silver gelatin print. Cooklin's body of work consists of an eclectic collection of prints, spanning various photographic genres which have featured in numerous publications, including TIME magazine, and are represented by fine art publishers and galleries worldwide including the British Contemporary Art Association.

Sean Hawkey To commission Sean or to request prints of his work: www.hawkey.co.uk My name is Sean Hawkey and I'm a photographer and journalist. I’ve worked in 50+ countries, mainly on issues of social interest stories, development, humanitarian crises, solidarity. My work has been featured in the New York Times, BBC, The Guardian, Morning Star, Huffington Post, The Telegraph, Science Magazine, the Journal of the Royal Photographic Society and has been used by 200+ organisations including Fairtrade networks in 30 countries, ACT Alliance and its member organisations around the world, DanWatch, the Centre for Journalism Ethics, World Council of Churches, World Health Organisation, World Bank, UNESCO, UNISDR, International Dalit Solidarity Network, Greenpeace, Climate Action Network and the RMT trade union. My photographs have been exhibited as joint and solo exhibitions in Mexico, Ireland, France, Germany, Austria, UK and Spain. Before freelance photography I worked in international aid, I taught architecture and I ran communications for global NGOs. I'm based in the UK and I'm working freelance.

Mr Elbank To commission Mr Elbank or to request prints of his work: www.mrelbank.com Mr Elbank, aka Brock Elbank, is an award-winning photographer based in the Warwickshire countryside. Commissioned by Isabella Blow for The Sunday Times Style, he began his career shooting women's fashion. Working in the UK, US and Australia, Mr Elbank's bold distinctive approach led to male styling and portraiture for clients like Nike, Coca Cola, San Pellegrino, Toyota, Dove and Snickers, for which he won an advertising award in 2004. For nearly a decade, Mr Elbank lived in Sydney where his work became more art based, moving away from professional models and exploring everyday characters and objects, celebrating the idiosyncratic beauty of imperfect features. It was in Australia that Mr Elbank began his personal beard photography project and where he met charity campaigner Jimmy Niggles.

Upon his return to the UK in 2013, Mr Elbank embarked upon the #Project60 series as well as new work on the same theme specially for the Somerset House show.

His work to denounce the Albino killings in Tanzania has been featured in magazines and exhibited around the world (Rencontres d’Arles, Visa pour l’Image, Pingyao Photo Festival in China…), and his book on “I’m not a talisman” has been published by Michel Lafon in 2012. He is currently focusing on water tensions and completed a story on the Nile for the new International Photoreporter Festival in St Brieuc (France), exhibited in October 2012. He is ambassador for Green Cross France, Mikhaïl Gorbatchev’s NGO for environment.

Sugato Mukherjee To commission Sugato or to request prints of his work: gmail.com Sugato Mukherjee grew up in the transitional period of the nineties when the multidimensional layers of India became more apparent than ever. Based in Calcutta, he often takes off to lyrically document those visual textures, both on and off the beaten tracks. Sugato’s writings and photographs have appeared in a host of national and international publications including The Globe and Mail, Al Jazeera, Roads & Kingdoms and Outlook Traveller. A recipient of a number of photographic awards, including the Grand Prize in India Is Global Photography Challenge by Ministry of External Affairs in 2012, his images

from Ladakh have found their places in book covers of international award winning titles, galleries and in private collections. His coffee table book on Ladakh ‘An Antique Land: A Visual Memoir of Ladakh’, has recently been published from New Delhi and has been widely acclaimed critically. Presently Sugato is working on his long term project on Kashmir, going back to the valley’s deep interiors, documenting the flow of life resurrecting itself from decades of internal strife, searching for a lasting tranquility.

Robert Herman To commission Robert, for a copy of New Yorkers or to request prints of his work: www.robertherman.com Robert Herman has been a street photographer since his days as an NYU film student back in the late 70's. Using his father's Nikon F and a 50mm lens, he began by exploring the city as a means to connect with the people in his neighborhood and learn the craft of making images. His photos of New York City, shot between 1978-2005 on Kodachrome, are now collected in his first monograph: The New Yorkers. His work is part of the permanent collections of the George Eastman House and the Telfair Museum in Savannah, GA. His photographs are also in many private collections including Westin and Marriott Hotels. In 2011, images from The New Yorkers were exhibited at the Istanbul Photography Museum. His solo exhibition of his images of Cartagena, "A Waking Dream," was shown at the Museum of Modern Art in Cartagena, Columbia in 2013. He has a BFA in Filmmaking from the Tisch School of the Arts at New York University and

Ayan Mukherjee To commission Ayan or to request prints of his work: gmail.com Photographer based in Kolkata, India.

Sjoerd Spendel and Lennart de Jong To commission Sjoerd or Lennart: www.hashtag365.co Sjoerd Spendel is a 23-year-old student. He is a born photographer and an all-round young entrepreneur/creative. Lennart de Jong works as an all-round creative. Besides photography Lennart works on developing branded content, activations and campaigns. Both were inspired to take photographs by their photographer fathers.

received his Masters in Digital Photography from the School of Visual Arts in NYC. His love of light and color, and making images that find the transcendent in the seemingly mundane, continues to this day. His new monograph, The Phone Book, his collection of iphone photos made with the Hipstamatic App, will be published by Schiffer in the fall of 2015.