The magazine of the photo-essay
April 2018 issue
“A free, really high quality photo-essay magazine. Fabulous!”
Stephen Fry. British actor, writer and film maker
Fred Lyon
To commission him or to request prints of his work: www.fredlyon.com
Fred Lyon, a.k.a. "San Francisco's Brassai", has prowled the City's back streets for
more than 75 years. Following a stint as a Navy photographer during World War II,
he plunged into fashion in New York, but he longed for life in the West. His return to
the city of his birth launched a nonstop career as a magazine photographer during
the Golden Age of publishing. Life, Sports Illustrated, Vogue, House & Garden, and
Holiday led the list. Now 93, he still attacks photography with his customary zeal and
humor. His work has been exhibited in San Francisco at SF Museum of Modern Art
and the Legion of Honor Museum. In 2016, he was recognized as a San Francisco
Icon, leading him to remark, “I’d best stay in motion or someone might fasten a brass
plaque on me.”
Mark Marchesi
To commission him or to request prints of his work: www.markmarchesi.com
Mark was born in 1977 in the suburbs of NYC. He received a BFA in Photography
from Maine College of Art in 1999. Mark’s images have been shown and published
widely throughout the US. Among his solo exhibitions are The Town and the City at
Nelson Hancock Gallery in Dumbo, and Slack Water at Space Gallery in Portland,
Maine. Notable group exhibitions include Port of Portland: A Ship Shaped History at
Maine Maritime Museum, and Unframed First Look at Sean Kelly Gallery. Mark was
a winner of Jen Bekman Projects popular photography competition Hey, Hot Shot in
2007, and has been awarded three Maine Arts Commission project grants to support
his efforts in Photography. Mark currently lives in South Portland, Maine with his wife
and two young daughters.
Jan Banning
To commission him or to request prints of his work: www.janbanning.com
Jan Banning is a Dutch autonomous artist/photographer, based in Utrecht, the
Netherlands.
He was born in Almelo (Netherlands) on May 4, 1954, from Dutch East Indies
parents, and he studied social and economic history at the Radboud University of
Nijmegen. Both of these facts have had a strong influence on his photographic
works.
His origin is expressed in the choice of subjects, such as Indonesian women who
were forced to become prostitutes for the Japanese army during the Second World
War in ‘Comfort Women’; or former forced labourers in South East Asia during the
same period in ‘Traces of War: Survivors of the Burma and Sumatra Railways’; also
Mark Shaw
Mark Shaw photography archive : www.markshawphoto.com
Mark Shaw is best known for his photographs of Jacqueline and John F. Kennedy,
which he shot originally for LIFE magazine and later as the Kennedys’ “unofficial”
family photographer. He developed a strong friendship with JFK and Jackie and
regularly visited the White House during their time there. But Mark Shaw was first
and foremost a Fashion and Advertising photographer whose freelance assignments
for LIFE magazine had him photographing some of the most notable celebrities of
the 1950s.
Full biography here
Henrik Spohler
To commission him or to request prints of his work: www.henrikspohler.de
Henrik Spohler was born in 1965, studied at the Folkwang School / University in
Essen and has worked as a freelance photographer since 1992. His has received many
awards for his works which are also included in public and private collections. He is
professor of photograpy in the study programme Communication Design at the
Hochschule fur Technik und Wirtschaft (University of Applied Sciences) in Berlin.
He lives with his family in Hamburg.
Olivia Locher
To commission her or to request prints of her work: www.olivialocher.com
Olivia Locher was born in 1990 in Johnstown, Pennsylvania. She has resided in
Manhattan, NYC since 2009.
Locher's approach to studio photography is though satire and a heavy focus on
concept. She constructs her images to be bright, crisp, and readable. Inspired by the
tension between the comedic and the tragic plus the pull of high vs low, Locher's
visual aesthetic references advertising and commercial photography,
Ethan Bird
To commission him or to request prints of his work: Facebook Instagram
Born in Dorset, England in 2004, Ethan Bird is just starting out on his career in
photography. He is currently interested in and concentrating on documentary
photography.
Gary M Jones
To commission him or to request prints of his work: www.gelatojones.com
Gary M. Jones is a British journalist based between Europe and Asia. His focus is
words – notably long-form magazine features – with photography increasingly
playing a core role. His work has appeared in quality publications worldwide,
including The Times and Sunday Times, Time Magazine, The Observer, The Sunday
Telegraph, The Independent, Sydney Morning Herald, The Australian, British GQ,
Wallpaper, South China Morning Post, Globe & Mail, Toronto Star, LA Weekly, USA
Today and Marie Claire, among many others.
Rich McCor
To commission him or to request prints of his work: Facebook Instagram
Someone once described me as a non-destructive vandal; within the confines of a
camera viewfinder I transform and embellish landmarks with bits of carefully crafted
black paper and capture the moment in a photograph. This idea started as a way to
photograph my home city of London in a new way. Then the hobby got out of hand.
Now I travel the world transforming the skyline around me from well known scenes
like New York's Statue of Liberty and Hong Kong's Harbour to lesser known
landscapes such as the vistas of Kiruna and Beach Huts in Ontario.
Kieran Scott
To commission him or to request prints of his work: www.kieranescott.com
‘My mother, Patricia, gave me my first camera when I was nine or ten years old. I got
my first roll of film to go in it five years later.’
Kieran E. Scott began his photographic career in London in the late 1980s under the
tutelage of acclaimed food and travel photographer Anthony Blake. After starting out
supplying Blake with photographs for his library, Scott’s work began appearing
throughout the UK and Europe.
In 1992 he started working with magazines in New Zealand and Australia, including
groundbreaking Australian Vogue Entertaining + Travel and New Zealand’s leading
food and wine title, Cuisine.
the repatriation of elderly Moluccans from the Netherlands to the Indonesian Moluccas in ‘Pulang: Back to Maluku’.
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Kieran’s strength as a photographer is his stylistic diversity and depth of knowledge. He is able to adapt quickly and quietly
to what ever situation he is confronted with. His work was soon picked up by premium magazines in the US and Europe
and he started shooting pioneering documentary-style features of his own design, combining portraits, still life and
landscapes, creating images full of energy and movement. Over the past twenty years he has had a regular working
relationship with some of the world’s leading publishers and creatives. During this time he has been commissioned to
produce photographs for more than forty books and hundreds of advertising campaigns and design projects.
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Peter Bialobrzeski
To commission him or to request prints of his work: www.bialobrzeski.de
Peter Bialobrzeski studied Politics and Sociology before he became a photographer
for a local paper in his native Wolfsburg/Germany. He travelled extensivly in Asia
before he went to study photography and design at the Folkwangschule Essen and
the London College of Printing. Within the last 16 years he has published sixteen
monographic books, "XXXholy", "NEONTIGERS", "HEIMAT", "Lost in Transition" ,
"Paradise Now", "Case Study Homes", "Informal Arrangements", "The Raw and the
Cooked", „Nail Houses“, „Cairo Diary“ , „Athens Diary“, „Wolfsburg Diary“, „Taipei
Diary“, „Kochi Diary“ and recently „Die zweite Heimat“ as well as “Beirut Diary”.
His work has been exhibited in Europe, USA, Asia, Afrika and Australia. He won
several awards including the prestigious World Press Photo Award 2003 and 2010.
Peter Bialobrzeski has been a visiting professor for photojournalism at the
University of Essen in 1998/99. Since 2002 Peter is a regular Professor for
photography at the University of the Arts in Bremen/Germany. Furthermore he runs workshops around the world. He is
represented by Laurence Miller Gallery in New York, LA Galerie in Frankfurt/Germany and also shows with Robert Morat
Gallery in Berlin, as well as at m97 Gallery in Shanghai. In 2012 he was honored with the Dr. Erich Salomon Award by the
German Society of Photographers (DGPh).
Nicholas Meyer
To commission him or to request prints of his work: www.NickMeyerPhoto.net
Nick Meyer (B.1981) lives and works in Western Massachusetts with his wife, dog
and two young daughters. He is the recipient of the Pace Gallery Award and the
Barclay Simpson Prize. In 2005 he earned his BFA at Massachusetts College of Art
and his MFA from California College of the Arts in 2008. His project "Either Limits or
Contradictions" (Published, Daylight 2017) has appeared in TIME Lightbox, Huck
Magazine, Musee, L'oel De La Photographie and Ain't-Bad. His work has been
shown both nationally and internationally and is included in numerous private
collections.
