The magazine of the photo-essay

Aug 2016 back issue

Niladri Adhikary To commission him or to request prints of his work: facebook A banker by profession, the routine of life never ceases to impress him. Since his childhood he has taken a keen interest in drawing. Lately this has shifted to photography. The magic of photography has not only intrigued him but the power of a picture to convey a story has never failed to amaze him. For the past two years he has been traveling intensively accompanied by his camera. Street, life style and rituals are his favourite genre of photography. https://www.instagram.com/niladri.lovesphotography/ https://twitter.com/madnil4u

Giles Duley To commission him or to request prints of his work: www.gilesduley.com Giles Duley was born in 1971 in London. After 10 years as an editorial photographer in the fashion and music industries in both the US and Europe, Duley now focuses his work on humanitarian projects. Working with well respected charities such as Medecins sans Frontiers, IOM and UNHCR to highlight lesser known stories deserving of public attention and action. Although documenting challenging, and at times, horrific situations, Duley captures the strength of those who fight their adversity rather than succumb. His photographs draw the viewer to the subject, creating intimacy and empathy for lives differing from ours only in circumstance. In 2011, whilst on patrol with 75th Cavalry Regiment, United States Army in Afghanistan, Duley stepped on an improvised explosive device. He was severely injured, losing both legs and an arm. He is now back working.

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 Communication where he studied for a post graduate degree in Photojournalism. In 2011 he founded Life Force magazine with his business partner and wife of 13 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.

Daniel Meadows To commission him or to request prints of his work: www.photobus.co.uk b. 1952 From his seventies journey round Britain in the Free Photographic Omnibus, to his pioneering digital storytelling work with the BBC (Capture Wales 2001-07) and his more recent High Street Stories (2015), documentarian and teacher Daniel Meadows has spent a lifetime recording British society, challenging the status quo by working in a collaborative way to capture extraordinary aspects of ordinary life through photographs, audio recordings and short movies.

Gianfranco Gallucci To commission him or to request prints of his work: www.gianfrancogallucci.com Gianfranco Gallucci (b.1981) is an independent documentary photographer based in Rome. He works mainly getting involved in long term projects focused on landscape, social and cultural issues, exploring the relationship between us and the places we live. Graduated in Architecture at the University of Ferrara in 2008, with a research thesis on photography and urban system analysis, titled “Introducing Photography – PHOTO (+) DATA / backup – A feedback for the contemporary city”, curated by Vittorio Savi. He started approaching photography by himself in 2004, after independent studies on cinematography, while majoring in architecture at university. In 2009 got an internship at VU’ in Paris. The following year, he moved to Rome where he got a master in photojournalism at ISFCI and attended workshops with photographers like Patrick Zachmann, Davide Monteleone, Christina Garcia Rodero and others.

AJ Heath To commission him or to request prints of his work: www.ajheathphotography.com AJ Heath is a British portrait and social documentary photographer currently living and working in the Himalayan Kingdom of Bhutan. He has been a freelance photographer for the past 7 years and has worked for several NGOs in Africa, as well as being embedded with the British Army in Afghanistan. He recently gained a Masters in Photojournalism and Documentary Photography from the University of Arts London. His work has been published in international media including Al Jazeera, The Guardian, The Times, Evening Standard, The BBC, among others.

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Stefan Boness To commission him 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 a vant-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.

Keoki Flagg To commission him or to request prints of his work: www.gallerykeoki.com Keoki Flagg is an award winning, internationally published fine art photographer based in Lake Tahoe, California. A premier nature, outdoor sports and adventure p hotographer, he has worked on all seven continents creating images for many Fortune 500 corporations, including Disney and VISA, and the California and New Zealand Tourist Boards, the Discovery Channel, ESPN and Warren Miller Films, and Audubon, National Geographic Adventure, Archeology, Sunset, Men’s Journal, Outside, and Ski & Skiing Magazines. Born and raised in Hawai’i, Keoki spent much of his childhood living in Europe, instilling in him a multicultural orientation and a love of travel and adventure. He completed his formal education in fine art at Connecticut College, exploring the interlacing relationships of form and function in sculpture, mixed-media and photography. In 2003 he opened Gallery Keoki in the Village at Squaw Valley and online at gallerykeoki.com. The gallery now exclusively features his original, evocative, adventurous fine art in monumental scale, multiple planes and state-of-the-art media. Keoki also communicates his inspiring, motivating message in keynote speeches, public presentations and sold out multimedia lectures, such as the 2013 Explorers Club Annual

Janine Wiedel To commission her or to request prints of her work: archive.wiedel-photo-library.com Janine Wiedel is an American documentary photographer and visual anthropologist based in London who has been covering issues of social concern since the late 1960s. Whilst working mainly on long term projects aimed at publication and exhibition she has over the years built up a unique collection of stock images covering a wide range of social issues including: education, protest, youth, alternative lifestyles, multicultural communities, drugs and social exclusion.

Hermoine Macura To commission her or to request prints of her work: www.facesofthemiddleeast.com Hermoine Macura is the first Australian female English speaking TV News Anchor in the Middle East, and also one of the area’s most recognized faces. Prior to establishing Straight Street Media in 2012, Hermoine was one of the main Anchors on Dubai One TV’s Emirates News. Her portfolio includes the delivery of live-to- air news bulletins, frequently whilst being in the midst of breaking stories both locally and across the Middle East. Hermoine has also hosted a variety of other shows including the three hour live launch of the Burj Khalifa and Maak Ya Lebanon: which featured exclusive interviews with several key players in aid programs in Lebanon. The program was a part of a series that raised 55 Million Dirhams to help people caught in the conflict. Complementing her role as an anchor, Hermoine has also interviewed a variety of decision makers, and people in the know. From the Duchess of York to Hollywood Actor

Siddhartha Banerjee To commission him or to request prints of his work: www.facebook.com/siddharthab3 I am a final year student of Chemical Engineering in Jadavpur University, closely associated with Jadavpur University Photographic Club. I’m a freelancer and have been associated with the organizing of three editions of Montage - National and International photography competitions and exhibitions. I have been into photographing people as they attract me the most.

Roger Ballen To commission him or to request prints of his work: www.rogerballen.com Ballen is one of the most important photographers of his generation. He was born in New York in 1950 but for over 30 years he has lived and worked in South Africa. His work as a geologist took him out into the countryside and led him to take up his camera and explore the hidden world of small South African towns. At first he explored the empty streets in the glare of the midday sun but, once he had made the step of knocking on people’s doors, he discovered a world inside these houses which was to have a profound effect on his work. These interiors with their distinctive collections of objects and the occupants within these closed worlds took his unique vision on a path from social critique to the creation of metaphors for the inner mind. After 1994 he no longer looked to the countryside for his subject matter finding it closer to home in Johannesburg. Over the past thirty years his distinctive style of photography has evolved using a simple square format in stark and beautiful black and white. In the earlier works in the exhibition his connection to the tradition of documentary photography is clear but

His work has been exhibited and published worldwide in many respected publications including Vogue, GQ, Esquire, Rolling Stone, Sunday Times, The Observer and New Statesman.In 2010 he was nominated for an Amnesty International Media Award and was a winner at the Prix de Paris in 2010 & 2012.His self-portrait was selected for the 2012 Taylor Wessing Exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery.

Alyssa Schukar To commission her or to request prints of her work: www.alyssaschukar.com I’m a Chicago-based freelancer these days. I teach photo and video journalism at Columbia College, too. However, the first five years of my career were spent on staff at a newspaper in the Midwest. I traveled throughout the city, state and region on documentary and portrait assignments. I also spent two months reporting daily during a military embed in Afghanistan. On the job, I learned how to earn people’s trust and document their lives with empathy. I love to share stories of people and communities, and I’m in luck because there’s never been a better time to connect with audiences. With my camera, I can capture a singular moment of beauty or a narrative of experience through video. And with a few clicks or swipes, the visuals can be sent into the great, wide world, to an endless and eager audience. Recently, World Press Photo and Pictures of the Year International honored my work. I was also named the 2014 Great Plains Photographer of the Year. My images and videos have appeared in The New York Times Magazine, TIME Magazine, Rolling Stone, The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, the Chicago Tribune, USA TODAY, the Associated Press, Newsweek and The Saturday Evening Post, among others. I’ve

worked professionally in several countries outside of North America, including Afghanistan, India, Scotland and France. Recently, I participated in a national photo and video campaign for UPS.

In 2013 took part to “Naked City Project” campaign on the city of Rome, and “Confotografia”, a residency – documentary campaign on the territories of L’Aquila, the italian city devasted by the earthquake in 2009. In 2014 is invited by The Foundation of the First President of the Republic of Kazakhstan to work on a documentary project in the most remote areas of the South. His work has been published on italian and foreign magazines such as Taz Berliner Zeitung, Brand Eins, Mitbestimmung, Territorio, l’Espresso, National Geographic Italia, Domusweb, Urbanautica, among others, and exhibited in several institutions including Triennale di Milano and MACRO Museum in Rome. He is a United Nations accredited photojournalist.

Ana Pollard To commission her or to request prints of her work: www.pollachik.com Ana is a British photographer based in Abidjan, Côte d'Ivoire. She is currently completing an M.A. in photojournalism and documentary photography at London College of Communication.

Andrew Esiebo To commission him or to request prints of his work: www.andrewesiebo.com Born in Lagos, Nigeria. Andrew Esiebo started out in photography by chronicling the rapid development of urban Nigeria as well as the country's rich culture and heritage. As his work began to gain international recognition, Andrew started to explore new creative territories, integrating multimedia practice with the investigation of themes such as sexuality, gender politics, football, popular culture, migration, religion and spirituality. His work has been exhibited at the Sao Paulo biennials in Brazil, Dakart, Dakar, Senegal, Biennale Cuvee, Linz in Austria, Photo Quai biennials, Paris in France, Guangzhou Triennial, Beijingin China, the Chobi Mela V Photo Festival in Bangladesh, Noorderlitch Photo Festival in Netherlands, Bamako African Photography Encounters Bamako in Mali and the Lagos Photo Festival , Lagos in Nigeria among others. He is the winner of the 2011 Musee du Quai Branly Artistic creation prize.

Andrew has been awarded a number of artistic residencies by Institut Franicais (formerly Cultures France) Visa Pour Creation, Paris, Africa Beyond programme,Gasworks, London, Gyeonggi Creation Center, South Korea and at the Bag factory Art residency Johannesburg, South Africa. In 2010, he was selected for the Road to twenty ten project to form an All-Africa Dream Team of 16 journalists / Photographers to provide alternative stories from the World Cup in South Africa. His attention to social issues has seen him working for several local and international institutions including The Kings College London, University of Padova, Italy, The Photographers Gallery, London, Action Aids, WHO, UNICEF, Women for Women, MSH Nigeria and several others. His works have been published in books, magazines and websites such as New York Times, Courrier International, Le Point, Financial Times, guardian.co.uk, Marie Claire Italia, Time Out Nigeria, Mail & Guardian online, Bloomberg, Laia Books, Geo-Lino, KIT, CNN, AL Jazeera and African style magazine Arise. He is based in Nigeria from where he works around the world.

Geoffrey Hiller To commission him or to request prints of his work: www.hillerphoto.com Geoffrey Hiller’s work has been published in magazines in the USA, Europe, and Japan including Geo, Newsweek, Mother Jones and the New York Times Magazine. His award-winning multimedia projects about Vietnam, Eastern Europe, Ghana, Burma, and Brazil have earned recognition from National Public Radio, The Christian Science Monitor, the BBC and The Atlantic. Hiller was a Fulbright Fellow in Dhaka, Bangladesh in 2008–2009. Since then he has worked as a media trainer in India, Cambodia, Pakistan and Vietnam. His book Daybreak in Myanmar was published in 2014, and includes work from 1987 through the historic opening. His home is in Portland, Oregon.

Anderson & Low To commission him or to request prints of his work: www.andersonandlow.com Jonathan Anderson and Edwin Low have been collaborating as “Anderson & Low” since 1990. Their work includes portraiture, architectural studies, abstract images, reportage, nudes, and landscape and is noted for attention to concept, form, lighting, and printing. Their work is exhibited world-wide, residing in many public and private collections including: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Victoria & Albert Museum, London, National Portrait Galleries of both the UK and Australia, Museum of Fine Art, Houston, High Museum of Art, Baltimore Art Museum, Atlanta, National Gallery of Australia, Akron Museum, The National Gallery of Australia, the US Olympic Center, the Southeast Photography Museum, Florida, and Museet Fotokunst, Denmark.

through the 1990s he developed a style he describes as ‘documentary fiction’. After 2000 the people he first discovered and documented living on the margins of South African society increasingly became a cast of actors working with Ballen in the series’ Outland and Shadow Chamber collaborating to create disturbing psychodramas. The line between fantasy and reality in his series’ Boarding House and Asylum of the Birds (published in the Spring of 2014 by Thames and Hudson) has become increasingly blurred and in these series he has employed drawings, painting, collage and sculptural techniques to create elaborate sets. People are now often absent altogether; replaced by photographs of people used as props, by doll or dummy parts or where they do appear it’s as disembodied hands, feet and mouths poking disturbingly through walls and pieces of rag. The often improvised scenarios are completed by the unpredictable behaviour of the animals which appear snapped in an instant of observation. Ballen has invented a new hybrid aesthetic in these works but one still rooted firmly in photography.

Jan-Joseph Stok To commission him or to request prints of his work: www.janjosephstok.com Jan-Joseph Stok is a photojournalist with a Master in Photojournalism and Documentary photography obtained at the London College of Communication. With more than 10 years experience working in Africa across 25 English and French speaking African countries. He has worked extensively in Congo since 2005 and covered a wide range of topics for international press and Ngo's. For four years he worked as Africa/conflict photographer for the Dutch Newspaper Trouw. Nowadays he often works for International media and has been published in European and International newspapers and magazines around the world. He has a great experience in Human rights and environmental issues, also investigating stories on issues like minerals, Oil exploration, deforestation... He is the author of two journalistic books called ‘Blood Mobiles’ and Welcome in Darfur this is our lives. He has trained local photographers in Nigeria, Congo, Burundi, Rwanda and Uganda. He has received several awards, such as Best Photojournalist of the Year under 30 in 2006. In 2008, his picture of Laurent N'kunda dressed in his suit taken at his home was awarded best foreign picture of the year in the Netherlands. Jan-Joseph has strong field-experience, covering some of the most

difficult countries in the world such as Sudan (Darfur), Congo, Somalia, Chad and Afghanistan. He is very used to working in hard conditions, but the key of his work lays in building trust with people on the ground.

Michael Douglas, Hermoine has interviewed a wide variety of personalities and government officials in the country. Born in Sydney, Australia, Hermoine began her career in Journalism over fifteen years ago as a graduate of the University of Wollongong where she was also trained in photography. Originally a Print Journalist, her works have been published in a wide variety of publications internationally. Her first New York exhibition opened at the Agora gallery in November 2015. Hermoine is currently based between New York, Dubai and Iraq where she is working to help ease the suffering of refugees through her charity, The House of Rest.

Meeting in New York City, TEDxReno, hosted by the Nevada Museum of Art, and TEDxYouth at Facebook Headquarters in Menlo Park, California. Keoki has received numerous awards, among them the 2001 Banff International Photography Competition, the KT Award, and the Captain John Noel Award, and he was named the North Lake Tahoe 2012 Citizen of the Year, and serves on the Board of the Squaw Valley Institute.