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August 2015 back issue
Susana Giron
To commission Susana or to request prints of her work: www.susanagiron.es
Spanish Documentary Freelance photographer. Graduated in Photography and Visual arts
at Miguel Hernandez University (2007/09). Founder member of BLUEPHOTO collective
based in Sevilla (Spain) since 2010. She develop her work as documentary photographer
since 2008, working also for some ONG like MSF. She is based in Madrid working for
several international media like Stern, GEO France or El País.
Her photo documentary projects speak about the everyday, stories that run out of focus of
the media but linked with contemporary issues. One of her last project “The last King of
America” have been awarded and published around the world. The project speaks about
Julio Pinedo, a humble farmer that by tradition has been crowned as monarch of
afrobolivian community, being, as a result, the only Monarchy on the whole American
continent. Also her project “The Cathedral of Don Quixote” has been on the main
international media: CNN, Polka magazine, La Nación,… Here, Giron tell us about the
Marion Normand
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Marion Normand was born in 1987 in Annecy. After her studies in philosophy and literature, she attended the Ecole
Nationale Supérieure de la Photographie d’Arles and graduated in 2012.
Her work often focuses on housing; the way in which people invest in their spaces and make them livable. Passionate
about reportage, she decided, after study, to relocate in Lebanon, where she remained from 2012 to 2014. Here she
began to develop her project, Bab el Tebanneh, and to collaborate with the French and international press.
Her work has been exhibited in France, in Italy and in Lebanon, and published in many international newspapers and
magazines.
Damian Bird
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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 12 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.
He lives with his wife and four children in Devon, England.
Sasha Maslov
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Sasha Maslov was born in Ukraine in 1984. Inspired and taught by his father, Guennadi
Maslov, and later his teacher and mentor, Oleg Shishkov, he became an aspiring young
photographer who now resides in New York city. Sasha works in editorial photography
and is best known for his social documentary projects around Eastern Europe, especially
in his native country.
Peter Kennard
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Peter Kennard was born in London in 1949. He is Senior Tutor in photography at the
Royal College of Art and his workis in many major collections including Tate, the V&A and
the Imperial War Museum.
His work has been published in numerous publications including The Guardian, The
Observer, Sunday Times, The Telegraph, The Independent, The Scotsman, New statesman
and Time Magazine.
Vianney Le Caer
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I am a 26 years old French photojournalist based in London. My background is in political
science and I am currently studying photojournalism on the MA course at the London
College of Communication.I like to focus on current affairs, especially in conflict and post-
conflict areas.
Dmitry Samochernov
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I was born in Russia in 1978.
I am a programmer, and for the last few years have worked as a teacher at the academy
program.
Eight years ago I started to seek out and photograph abandoned places. At the same time
I went to live in Japan.
I like the feeling of mystery surroundung abandoned places and I like to learn new things
about what I see. I like to be able to inform people about things that might otherwise only
be known by specialists.
Ivan Tykhy
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Ukrainian, born in 1982 in Kiev.
Discovered photography at the age of 18. For three years (2005-2008) worked as staff
photographer for UKRINFORM Ukrainian National Press Agency.
Since 2008 - independent photographer. Traveller. Expressing own feelings and reflections
about modern world changing every second at a time around me.
My work is being published in magazines, newspapers and online media in Ukraine and
throughout the world, such as National Geographic, Geo.ru, Foto&Video, Life Force
Magazine, Street Photography Magazine, etc.
Phil Moore
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b. 1982, United Kingdom
I read Computer Science at the University of Sheffield, where I graduated with a first-
class B.Sc. in Artificial Intelligence with honours, before pursuing a Ph.D. in Knowledge
Management Using Intelligent Web Techniques whilst working as a research associate in
the Web Intelligence Group at Sheffield.
I then spent three years working in Paris, France, as technical director of an online media
company.
Information is what has driven me through my professional career: in its early stages, the
management and access to information, and then to its presentation, and making it usable.
In 2011, I began working in photo-journalism—becoming a primary source of information—
whilst covering South Sudan's referendum for independence, and its subsequent split from
Khartoum.
Zhang Xiao
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Zhang Xiao was born in 1981 in Yantai, Shandong Province, China. Graduated from the
Yantai University, Art Design of Architecture Department. He was a photographer for the
Chongqing Morning Post and is now an artist based in Chengdu, Sichuan Province,
China. He won the Houdengke Documentary Photography Award in 2009, the Three
Shadow Pho¬tography Award in 2010, the Prix HSBC Pour la Photographie in 2011.
Ryan Schude
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Ryan Schude is known for his pop art colour schemes, startling portraits and mischievous
tableaus teeming with cleverly-organised chaos. He has won several prestigious
photography awards, including ADC Young Guns, Prix de la Photographie and Magenta
Flash Forward.
K M Asad
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K M Asad (born 1983) is a Dhaka based Bangladeshi documentary photographer and
journalist. He is at present a contributing photojournalist at Zummapress news agency.
Asad emerged as a photographer in 2004 and a year later joined Pathshala the South
Asian Institute of photography. He became interested in both colour and black and white.
He was recently awarded - 2014 Lucie Awards (IPA) - deeper perspective photographer
of the year.
His work is in the permanent collection in the Kiyosato Museum of Photographic Arts
(KMOPA) in Japan.
Joni Sternbach
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Joni Sternbach uses early photographic processes to create contemporary portraits and
environmental landscapes. Her longterm projects involve the pursuit and understanding of
the western landscape and the series SurfLand, which captures portraits of surfers in
tintype. Sternbach’s first monograph, SurfLand, was also a solo exhibition, at the Peabody
Essex Museum in Salem, Massachusetts in May 2009. SurfLand traveled to Blue Sky
Gallery and the Southeast Museum of Photography. In 2012, Surfland Revisited, 2006-
2011 opened to acclaim at Rick Wester Fine Art in New York City.
Sternbach was a 2013 artist-in-residence at the Ucross foundation in Wyoming and the
initial Art Park/Atlantic artist-in residence for their residency program in 2011 in Byron Bay,
Australia. She is the recipient of many grants including NYFA and CAPS and the 2011
Clarence John Laughlin and 2010 Santo Foundation awards. Sternbach’s work has been
included in many group exhibitons, including the groundbreaking photographic exhibition, Pleasures and Terrors of Domestic
Comfort, organized by Peter Galassi at the Museum of Modern Art. Sternbach’s work is in many public collections. A partial list
includes the National Portrait Gallery, London; Nelson-Atkins Museum, Kansas City; Museum of Photographic Arts, San
Diego; San Francisco Museum of Art; Maison Européenne de la Photographie in Paris, France; Saint Louis Art Museum and
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston.
Joni Sternbach was born in the Bronx, New York. She graduated from New York University/International Center of
Photography (ICP) with an M.A. in Photography in 1987. She is currently a visiting artist at Cooper Union and a faculty
member at both ICP and Penumbra Foundation all in New York City where she teaches wet-plate
collodion.
Palani Mohan
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Indian born, Australian raised, and now living in Hong Kong, Palani Mohan’s work has
been widely published by many of the world’s leading publications. He is the author of four
books and has just completed his fifth, on the Eagle Hunters of Mongolia, which will be
published in September 2015. His work is part of the collection of the National Portrait
Gallery in London and his images have been shown widely around the globe including at
the prestigious Visa Pour L’Image in Perpignan, France. He has been recognized with
awards including World Press Photo, Picture of the Year International, CHIPP,
Communication Arts, and Sony International.
Eugenio Grosso
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Sicilian born Eugenio Grosso moved to Milan at 18 to study BA Scenography at the Academy
of Fine Arts of Brera, graduating in 2007 with honours. From 2007, he worked as a part-time
commercial photographer and then as full-time photojournalist since 2009. He is a regular
contributor to Italian publications such as Corriere della Sera, la Repubblica and la Stampa. He
has recently finished a MA in Documentary Photography and Photojournalism at Westminster
University in London. He works and lives in London.
story of Justo Gallego, a man who is building a Cathedral alone for the last 55 years. Today he is still working and he is 89
years old. Currently she is working in a long term project about surrogate maternity in Georgia.
Her pictures and reportages are published regularly in international media like: Stern, Days Japan, El Pais, el Mundo, Le
Figaro, CNN, GEO France, Terramater, Polka, Vokrug Sveta, Geographical magazine, Mujer hoy, La Nación, Art Magazine.
Her work also has been on the screanings of such places and festivals like: Arles voies Off 2013, VISA de la ANI Perpignan
2014 or Center of Documentary Photography Barelona. She was represented by Polaris images (2009-2012) and Cordon
Press Reportage | Corbis (2012-2014).
She was awarded with Fototraballo’2012 grant for the project “Faith, passion, destiny”. This project was shortlisted at Sony
awards 2012 and received 3 honorable mentions at IPA awards. She won the Spanish National Journalism Award “Donana”
in 2013. Third prize at China International Press Photo Awards (2013). She has been shortlisted at VISA’s de la ANI
Perpignan 2014, SONY World photography awards 2012, Photoespaña Ojo de Pez 2013 and Kolga Tbilisi Photo 2014
among many others awards.
She has two published books: “Legacies” was published by Artual in 2010 and “Faith, Passion, Destiny”, published by
Nortempo foundation in 2012. Also she has exhibited in: Encontros da imagem 2014 and 2009 (curated by Rui Prata),
Fotoencuentros CajaMurcia 2010 (curated by Rui Prata and Paco Salinas), Argentinian Biennal of Documentary photography
2012 and 2014 among others. Others projects have been exhibited at Backlight Festival (Finland 2011) and many galleries
in Spain, Austria, France, Italy, Israel.
Since then, I have covered several conflicts, including Libya, Syria, Somalia, the Democratic Republic of the Congo and
Central African Republic, as well as the drought in the Horn of Africa and several of the continent's elections.
I am currently interested in innovative ways of viewing and engaging with visual and audio documentary.
Nancy Baron
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Nancy Baron's background in documentary filmmaking, has led to her current dedication
to fine art documentary photography. She documents the world nearby, mostly in Los
Angeles and Palm Springs, where she lives. Baron's work is held in public and private
collections, has been exhibited in galleries across the United States, featured in online
magazines internationally, and screened at the Palm Springs Photo Festival, Les
Rencontres D'Arles, GuatePhoto in Guatemala, and Picture Society in Denver, Colorado.
Her first monograph, THE GOOD LIFE > Palm Springs, published by Kehrer Verlag, is
currently available in Europe and will be available in the U.S. and Canada in Fall, 2014.
Yasir Mehmood
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Although Yasir is an Interior Designer by profession his real passion is photography in general
but nature and Wild photography in particu¬lar. To him photography is synonymous with
oxygen, as he has to make a few clicks of camera everyday to keep his spirit satiated and
healthy. For Yasir photography is not just a hobby, rather for him it is a tool of insight into nature.
He specializes in insect photography, where with Yasir’s gift of seeing nature differently, he
sees insects as objects of beauty, which are as beautiful as any other ele¬ment of nature and
worthy of being photographed.
This passion of his does not only make him see things differently, but it is a means of
introspection for him as well. With every angle, every frame and with every shutter of the lens, it
is actually an aspect of his personality and the gift he is born with; that unravels to Yasir. It
might seem a cliche, but photog-raphy is what he likes to do, it is what he was born to do and
wishes to continue doing it for the foreseeable future so that more and more people could see
the world as Yasir sees it and the wild that is worthy of being praised and cherished.
