Biographies
DENIS TARASOV www.denistarasov.com
SHANNON STAPLETON www.shannonstapleton.com
J.B. RUSSELL www.jbrussellimages.com
EVGENIA ARBUGAEVA www.evgeniaarbugaeva.com
TOM BRADLEY www.tom-bradley.com
BRETT ZIEGLER www.brettzieglerphotography.com
GEORGE GEORGIOU www.georgegeorgiou.net
ERIC BOUVET www.ericbouvet.com
STEVE WINTER www.stevewinterphoto.com
Shannon Stapleton is a staff photographer for Reuters based in New York City. His work has
been published in a variety of news publications around the world.
J.B. Russell is a Paris-based documentary photographer and filmmaker. He has worked
extensively in Europe, Africa, the Middle East, Asia and Latin America focusing on current
events, the human consequences of conflict and issues related to human security.
His work appears regularly in major magazines and newspapers worldwide. He also
collaborates frequently with international humanitarian organizations.
His work has received numerous accolades, including the Public Prize at the Bayeux War
Correspondents Competition, 1st place in the POYi competition, the Best of American
Photography annual and has been exhibited and frequently featured at Visa Pour L'Image
in Perpignan, France.
He is represented by Panos Pictures in London, Cosmos Photo in Paris and Contacto in
Madrid.
Evgenia Arbugaeva was born in 1985 in the Arctic town Tiksi in Russia.
She received her BFA degree in Management from International University in Moscow. In
2009 she graduated from Photojournalism and Documentary program at International Center
of Photography in New York.
Recently Evgenia has been awarded Magnum Foundation Emergency grant to continue her
project "Tiksi, the far North".
She now lives and works between Russia and New York.
Born in 1985, Tom grew up in London and the Wye Valley. He took up photography after he
left school and went travelling in Africa.
He attended Durham University and graduated in 2008 with a degree in Zoology. It was at
University that Tom began to take photography seriously and he got involved with every aspect
of photography there, putting on a university-funded exhibit of college life in his final year.
He now works as a professional photographer specialising in documentary photography. Most
of his work is abroad and has predominantly been in Africa.
In the first two years of working his time was divided between photographing for his personal
project Leprosy Eliminated? and volunteering for the NGO that run the world's largest hospital
ship, Mercy Ships. The leprosy work has been previously nominated for the BJP project
Assistance Award and is now being funded by American Leprosy Missions. This coming year
he will be continuing it in Ghana, Cote d'Ivoire, Liberia, Myanmar, India and Nepal. In the last year he has worked in
Sierra Leone and the DRC on projects about epilepsy, female prisoners, grandmother being trained to become solar
panel engineers, disappearing fishing islands, tourism in war zones, and peacebuilding projects in areas affected by the
Lord's Resistance Army amongst other things. His work on Epilepsy in Sierra Leone was published by the New York
Times.
Brett is a Visual Journalist based out of Washington, DC. His work explores the beauty,
subtleties, and humor of daily life and the world around us.
He is currently on staff at U.S. News & World Report working as both a photographer and
assistant photo editor. Feel free to contact him with any questions, comments, commissions,
or assignments.
George Georgiou was born in London.
He has photographed extensively in the Balkans, Eastern Europe and Turkey for the last
decade, living and working in Serbia, Greece, and for five years in Istanbul, Turkey.
His work is focused on transition and identity and how people negotiate the changing urban
landscape they find themselves in.
George has exhibited internationally, including the New Photography 2011 exhibition at
MoMA, NY. In 2010, his monograph, Fault Lines/Turkey/East/West was published in 4
languages.
Awards include two World Press Photo prizes in 2003 and 2005, The British Journal of
Photography project prize 2010, Pictures of the Year International.
He is represented by Prospekt, Italy and Panos Pictures, UK.
Tarasov was born in 1971 in the Sverdlovsk, Russia.
He finished at the Ural State Law Academy (Russia) in 1997.
He has been active as a photographer since 2007 and between 2007-2011 he has
participated in more than 15 exhibitions in Russia, Italy, USA and the Philippines.
In 2007 he was in the top 10 for Young photographers of Russia. He held a personal
exhibition "From supervision" in the Photographic museum of Metenkov's House
(Yekaterinburg, Russia, 2008), and was the winner of "the Volga biennial 2010" (Nizhni Novgorod,
Russia).
In 2012 he was one of 22 young photographers to represent Russian photography at "Fotofest"
- 2012 in Houston, USA in an exhibition "The Young Generation".
Denis Tarasov lives in the Yekaterinburg, Russia.
Eric Bouvet (born 1961) began his photographic career in 1981 after studying art and graphic
industries in Paris.
His interest in photography was sparked when, at the age of 8, he watched the first live
television images of the Apollo 11 mission landing on the moon. It was then that he realized
the importance of news and historic moments, not to mention capturing them on film.
Bouvet worked as a staff photographer at the French photo agency Gamma during the 1980s,
and launched his freelance career in 1990. He first won international recognition with his 1986
pictures of the rescue efforts in the aftermath of a volcano eruption in Omeyra, Colombia. Since
then, Bouvet has covered conflicts in Afghanistan, Iraq, Iran, Chechnya, Sudan, Somalia, the
former Yugoslavia, Lebanon, Israel. Northern Ireland, Kurdistan, Surinam, Burundi and Libya.
He has covered major international events including the funeral of the Ayatollah Khomeini in Iran, the Tiananmen Square
in China, the fall of the Berlin Wall, Prague’s Velvet Revolution, the U.S. attack on Libya, the release of Nelson Mandela,
and Olympic Games.
He has also worked on many ‘society’ stories including life in Russian jails, young sailors on aircraft carriers, French
police working in the Paris suburbs, France’s last coal miners, and life at a pediatric clinic for children with cancer.
His work has been published in many international magazines including Time, Life, Newsweek, Paris-Match, Stern, NYT
magazine and The Sunday Times Magazine. He has also led photographic campaigns of UN and various NGOs and
charities including Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF), International Red Cross (ICRC), Medecins du Monde (MDM) and
Action Against Hunger (ACF).
Along the way, Bouvet has received five World Press Awards, as well as the Visa d’Or, the gold medal of 15th anniversary
of the photography, the Prix Bayeux-Calvados Award for War Correspondents, and the Prix Paris-Match Award.
I've been attacked by rhinos in India, stalked by jaguars in Brazil, charged by
a 11-foot grizzly in Siberia, trapped in quicksand in the world's largest tiger reserve in
Myanmar and slept in a tent for six months at -40 below zero tracking snow leopards.
Flown over erupting volcanoes and visited isolated villages where residents had never
before seen a blond foreigner-or a camera. I feel very lucky.
This is the life I dreamed of as a child growing up in rural Indiana: traveling the
world as a photographer for National Geographic Magazine (NGM).
I started at National Geographic in 1991 and feel so incredibly lucky to have
realized my childhood dream, to have the best job in the world!
I feel we have a great responsibility to not only show and excite the readers about
the natural world and it's fascinating people and cultures. But to give people a reason
to care. I want to give the readers of National Geographic what I always wanted - a front row seat next to the
photographer and writer - as apart of the team along for the adventure.
I am also now Director of Media for Panthera an organization whose mission it is to save the world's 36 cat species. I am
working with the same scientists I have done NGM stories with in the past - but now taking it a step further and helping to
ensure these cats have a future. To learn more about big cats and our programs go to www.panthera.org.
DENIS TARASOV www.denistarasov.com
SHANNON STAPLETON www.shannonstapleton.com
J.B. RUSSELL www.jbrussellimages.com
EVGENIA ARBUGAEVA www.evgeniaarbugaeva.com
TOM BRADLEY www.tom-bradley.com
BRETT ZIEGLER www.brettzieglerphotography.com
GEORGE GEORGIOU www.georgegeorgiou.net
ERIC BOUVET www.ericbouvet.com
STEVE WINTER www.stevewinterphoto.com
Shannon Stapleton is a staff photographer for Reuters based in New York City. His work has
been published in a variety of news publications around the world.
J.B. Russell is a Paris-based documentary photographer and filmmaker. He has worked
extensively in Europe, Africa, the Middle East, Asia and Latin America focusing on current
events, the human consequences of conflict and issues related to human security.
His work appears regularly in major magazines and newspapers worldwide. He also
collaborates frequently with international humanitarian organizations.
His work has received numerous accolades, including the Public Prize at the Bayeux War
Correspondents Competition, 1st place in the POYi competition, the Best of American
Photography annual and has been exhibited and frequently featured at Visa Pour L'Image
in Perpignan, France.
He is represented by Panos Pictures in London, Cosmos Photo in Paris and Contacto in
Madrid.
Evgenia Arbugaeva was born in 1985 in the Arctic town Tiksi in Russia.
She received her BFA degree in Management from International University in Moscow. In
2009 she graduated from Photojournalism and Documentary program at International Center
of Photography in New York.
Recently Evgenia has been awarded Magnum Foundation Emergency grant to continue her
project "Tiksi, the far North".
She now lives and works between Russia and New York.
Born in 1985, Tom grew up in London and the Wye Valley. He took up photography after he
left school and went travelling in Africa.
He attended Durham University and graduated in 2008 with a degree in Zoology. It was at
University that Tom began to take photography seriously and he got involved with every aspect
of photography there, putting on a university-funded exhibit of college life in his final year.
He now works as a professional photographer specialising in documentary photography. Most
of his work is abroad and has predominantly been in Africa.
In the first two years of working his time was divided between photographing for his personal
project Leprosy Eliminated? and volunteering for the NGO that run the world's largest hospital
ship, Mercy Ships. The leprosy work has been previously nominated for the BJP project
Assistance Award and is now being funded by American Leprosy Missions. This coming year
he will be continuing it in Ghana, Cote d'Ivoire, Liberia, Myanmar, India and Nepal. In the last year he has worked in
Sierra Leone and the DRC on projects about epilepsy, female prisoners, grandmother being trained to become solar
panel engineers, disappearing fishing islands, tourism in war zones, and peacebuilding projects in areas affected by the
Lord's Resistance Army amongst other things. His work on Epilepsy in Sierra Leone was published by the New York
Times.
Brett is a Visual Journalist based out of Washington, DC. His work explores the beauty,
subtleties, and humor of daily life and the world around us.
He is currently on staff at U.S. News & World Report working as both a photographer and
assistant photo editor. Feel free to contact him with any questions, comments, commissions,
or assignments.
George Georgiou was born in London.
He has photographed extensively in the Balkans, Eastern Europe and Turkey for the last
decade, living and working in Serbia, Greece, and for five years in Istanbul, Turkey.
His work is focused on transition and identity and how people negotiate the changing urban
landscape they find themselves in.
George has exhibited internationally, including the New Photography 2011 exhibition at
MoMA, NY. In 2010, his monograph, Fault Lines/Turkey/East/West was published in 4
languages.
Awards include two World Press Photo prizes in 2003 and 2005, The British Journal of
Photography project prize 2010, Pictures of the Year International.
He is represented by Prospekt, Italy and Panos Pictures, UK.
Tarasov was born in 1971 in the Sverdlovsk, Russia.
He finished at the Ural State Law Academy (Russia) in 1997.
He has been active as a photographer since 2007 and between 2007-2011 he has
participated in more than 15 exhibitions in Russia, Italy, USA and the Philippines.
In 2007 he was in the top 10 for Young photographers of Russia. He held a personal
exhibition "From supervision" in the Photographic museum of Metenkov's House
(Yekaterinburg, Russia, 2008), and was the winner of "the Volga biennial 2010" (Nizhni Novgorod,
Russia).
In 2012 he was one of 22 young photographers to represent Russian photography at "Fotofest"
- 2012 in Houston, USA in an exhibition "The Young Generation".
Denis Tarasov lives in the Yekaterinburg, Russia.
Eric Bouvet (born 1961) began his photographic career in 1981 after studying art and graphic
industries in Paris.
His interest in photography was sparked when, at the age of 8, he watched the first live
television images of the Apollo 11 mission landing on the moon. It was then that he realized
the importance of news and historic moments, not to mention capturing them on film.
Bouvet worked as a staff photographer at the French photo agency Gamma during the 1980s,
and launched his freelance career in 1990. He first won international recognition with his 1986
pictures of the rescue efforts in the aftermath of a volcano eruption in Omeyra, Colombia. Since
then, Bouvet has covered conflicts in Afghanistan, Iraq, Iran, Chechnya, Sudan, Somalia, the
former Yugoslavia, Lebanon, Israel. Northern Ireland, Kurdistan, Surinam, Burundi and Libya.
He has covered major international events including the funeral of the Ayatollah Khomeini in Iran, the Tiananmen Square
in China, the fall of the Berlin Wall, Prague’s Velvet Revolution, the U.S. attack on Libya, the release of Nelson Mandela,
and Olympic Games.
He has also worked on many ‘society’ stories including life in Russian jails, young sailors on aircraft carriers, French
police working in the Paris suburbs, France’s last coal miners, and life at a pediatric clinic for children with cancer.
His work has been published in many international magazines including Time, Life, Newsweek, Paris-Match, Stern, NYT
magazine and The Sunday Times Magazine. He has also led photographic campaigns of UN and various NGOs and
charities including Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF), International Red Cross (ICRC), Medecins du Monde (MDM) and
Action Against Hunger (ACF).
Along the way, Bouvet has received five World Press Awards, as well as the Visa d’Or, the gold medal of 15th anniversary
of the photography, the Prix Bayeux-Calvados Award for War Correspondents, and the Prix Paris-Match Award.
I've been attacked by rhinos in India, stalked by jaguars in Brazil, charged by
a 11-foot grizzly in Siberia, trapped in quicksand in the world's largest tiger reserve in
Myanmar and slept in a tent for six months at -40 below zero tracking snow leopards.
Flown over erupting volcanoes and visited isolated villages where residents had never
before seen a blond foreigner-or a camera. I feel very lucky.
This is the life I dreamed of as a child growing up in rural Indiana: traveling the
world as a photographer for National Geographic Magazine (NGM).
I started at National Geographic in 1991 and feel so incredibly lucky to have
realized my childhood dream, to have the best job in the world!
I feel we have a great responsibility to not only show and excite the readers about
the natural world and it's fascinating people and cultures. But to give people a reason
to care. I want to give the readers of National Geographic what I always wanted - a front row seat next to the
photographer and writer - as apart of the team along for the adventure.
I am also now Director of Media for Panthera an organization whose mission it is to save the world's 36 cat species. I am
working with the same scientists I have done NGM stories with in the past - but now taking it a step further and helping to
ensure these cats have a future. To learn more about big cats and our programs go to www.panthera.org.