FORCE
The magazine of the photo-essay
August 2017 back issue
“A free, really high quality photo-essay magazine. Fabulous!”
Stephen Fry. British actor, writer and film maker
Christopher Bickford
To commission him or to request prints of his work: www.chrisbickford.com
Christopher Bickford is a photographer and writerbased on the Outer Banks. His
work has appeared in National Geographic Traveler, the New York Times,Time
Magazine, Surfline, Outside Magazine, Milepost Magazine, Outer Banks Magazine,
and numerous other publications worldwide.He is currently represented by the
National Geographic Creative agency. His book Legends of the Sandbar, on which
this photo-essay is based, is published by Burn Books and is available for purchase
internationally through Amazon.com, or at www.LegendsoftheSandbar.com.
More information on Chris is available at www.chrisbickford.com.
Instagram/twitter: @chrisbickford
Nina Poppe
To commission her or to request prints of her work: www.ninapoppe.com
Nina Poppe (*1979 in Münster/ Germany), studied photography at the art school in
Utrecht the Netherlands and documentary film at the art academy in Cologne
Germany.
Her first photo book ‚ama‘ about japanese snail divers, was published at Kehrer
publisher in 2011 and was shortlisted for the Aperture First Photo Book Award. ‚Ama‘
was exhibited in international museums and festivals like FOAM Amsterdam,
Fotografia Festival Rome and Museum of Modern Art Arnhem.
Nina Poppes work is about social phenomena. She often combines her photos with
previous inspirations. Next to her photography she creates short experimental
documentaries with a tension between the autonomous and documentary image.
She lives and works in Cologne. She is represented by Robert Morat Gallery Berlin
and Julia Garnatz Cologne.
Damian Bird
To commission him or to request prints of his work: 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 14 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.
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.
Thomas Wrede
To commission him or to request prints of his work: www.thomas-wrede.de
Thomas Wrede was born in 1963 in Iserlohn, Germany. He studied Fine Art at the
Academy of Fine Arts in Münster from 1986 – 1992 (master class). In 1991, Wrede
studied photography under the direction of Dieter Appelt at the Berlin University of
Arts. Now he is a professor for photography and media at the University of Fine Arts
in Essen (HBK Essen).
During the last few years numerous museum exhibitions presented his works in- and
outside of Europe. In 2017 the Sinclair House Museum in Bad Homburg (Frankfurt)
exhibit a comprehensive overview of Thomas Wrede.
The following group exhibitions should be mentioned: at the Akademie der Künste
Berlin „Vertigo of Reality“, 2014; at the National Museum for History and Art,
Sarah Cooper & Nina Gorfer
To commission them or to request prints of their work: www.coopergorfer.com
Cooper & Gorfer comprises the artists Sarah Cooper (US, 1974) and Nina Gorfer
(Austria, 1979). The artist duo is known for their distinct painterly aesthetics and
hybrid image collages. Their work often revolves around issues of cultural identity
and the genius loci, in search for the connection between people, story and place.
Their imagery is often based on comprehensive research travels.
Cooper & Gorfer are photographers in origin but strive away from realistic
representation. Using an advanced collage technique, they construct their photo-
based works like paintings. They distort proportions and shift time and space, stage
rigorously, and use stylized poses and gestures to break up the world into parts and
Derry Moore
To commission him or to request prints of his work: www.derrymoore.com
DERRY MOORE (b. 1937) is a British photographer who made his name
photographing the interiors and portraits of European aristocracy, including those of
Queen Elizabeth II and the Queen Mother.
Among his recent books is An English Room (Prestel, 2013).
Elinor Carucci
To commission her or to request prints of her work: www.elinorcarucci.com
Born 1971 in Jerusalem, Israel, Elinor Carucci graduated in 1995 from Bezalel
Academy of Arts and Design with a degree in photography, and moved to New York
that same year. Her work has been included in many solo and group exhibitions
worldwide, solo shows include Edwynn Houk gallery, Fifty One Fine Art Gallery,
James Hyman and Gagosian Gallery, London among others and group show include
The Museum of Modern Art New York, MoCP Chicago and The Photographers'
Gallery, London.
Her photographs are included in the collections of The Museum of Modern Art New
York, the Brooklyn Museum of Art, Houston Museum of Fine Art, among others and
her work appeared in The New York Times Magazine, The New Yorker, Details, New
York Magazine, W, Aperture, ARTnews and many more publications.
Margo Davis
To commission her or to request prints of her work: www.margodavisphoto.com
Margo Davis began photographing in her early twenties. Her first photographs were
of family, friends, and people she encountered in her native New England. One of
the first photographs in the show is a 1967 portrait of a young girl in a Boston
neighborhood. It is an early example of the photographer’s natural talent for working
with people and capturing both personality and the essence of a moment with her
camera.
Davis’ interest in portraiture followed her through her many life’s journeys and
explorations. As an artist she experienced the feminist and cultural movement of the
sixties and seventies. She became interested in the history of the African diaspora
and traveled to Africa, the Caribbean, and Brazil with her camera as a tool of both
discovery and connection with the people she met. Among her many travels she
Soren Dahlgaard
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Søren Dahlgaard, Danish artist born 1973.
Education: Slade school of Art London 1997-2002. PhD Candidate University of
Melbourne in practice-led research 2015-2018.
Exhibitions internationally for 10 years at places such as: Venice Biennale,
Photographers Gallery London, The National Art Gallery Denmark, ECCO – Cultural
Centre, Brasilia, ARoS Museum of Art Denmark, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art,
Denmark, KOES - Museum of art in Public Spaces, Denmark, KIASMA Museum of
Contemporary Art, Finland, Gwangju Biennale Korea, Digital Art Center, Israel, CCA
Andratx Contemporary Art Center, Mallorca Spain, CCBB Brazil, Centre for
Contemporary Art Ujazdowski Castle, Warsaw, Singapore Biennale, The National Art
Gallery, Maldives, Te Tuhi Arts Center, New Zealand, Galleria Civica Museum of
contemporary art, Trento, Italy, Lianzhou International Photo Festival China & MoMA
PS1.
LIFE
Kanishka Mukherji
To commission him or to request prints of his work: kanishka2385@gmail.com
I am Kanishka Mukherji. I am currently working as a banker in SBI. Photography
happened to me three and a half years back when I started taking pictures with a
point & shoot camera.Gradually i started realizing the difference between a picture
and a photograph,and what started as a hobby eventually metamorphosed into an
indispensable part of my life.Being an introvert, I use my photography as a medium
to express myself,my thoughts,my emotions. I believe that " Every photograph I
create, creates me " and hence I click to create myself.According to me, a
photograph is a bridge between the subject and the viewer. A photograph should
compel the viewers to think and be one with the subject. Despite my busy work
schedule I manage to take some time out to sneak into the world and bring out the
untold stories from the life of people.Life is a quintessential element of my
photography because they say, "it is more important to click with people than to click
the shutter".
Luxembourg, 2013; the Seoul Museum of Art, South Korea, 2011, the Art Museum, Wuhan in China, 2009 and at the 3rd
Moscow Biennale, 2009. Since 1998 Wrede has shown his works in several solo gallery exhibitions in the United States (
New York, San Francisco and Los Angeles). In Germany Thomas Wrede is represented through the galleries Beck &
Eggeling, Düsseldorf; Mike Karstens, Münster and Wagner + Partner, Berlin.
Wrede's photographs have also been placed in major art collections, for example: Hall Art Collection, New York; The
West Collection Philadelphia; Global Art Collection Hudson Bay Company, New York; Kunst-am-Bau projects in Berlin for
the German State; UBS, Zürich and Lucerne; DZ-Bank, Frankfurt; LWL-Museum für Kunst und Kultur, Münster;
Staatsgalerie Stuttgart.
Wrede published all photographic series in several monographic books. Here is a selection: Strange Paradise, 2005;
Anywhere, 2010, Manhattan Picture Worlds, 2011; Inszenierung und Wirklichkeit, 2013; Die eine Ansicht (co-author
Günther Kebeck), 2017; Modell Landschaft. Fotografie, 2017.
Upcoming solo exhibitions:
„Modell Landschaft Fotografie“, Kunsthaus Nürnberg, September – November 2017
„Real Landscapes“, Galerie Thierry Bigaignon, Paris, September – November 2017
„Modell Landschaft Fotografie“, Von-der-Heydt Kunsthalle, Wuppertal, May – August 2018
rearrange them into an enigmatic and exaggerated ensemble. Like art history’s Mannerists, PreRaphaelites, or
Surrealists, Cooper & Gorfer strain observable reality through a complex psychological filter of dreams, moods, fears
and wounds, both their own and those they have encountered.
Cooper & Gorfer began their collaboration in 2006. They live and work in Gothenburg, Sweden and Berlin, Germany.
The artists are represented by gallery Christian Larsen (www.christianlarsen.se)
She was awarded the ICP Infinity Award in 2001, The Guggenheim Fellowship in 2002 and NYFA in 2010. Carucci has
published three monographs to date, Closer, Chronicle Books 2002 and Diary of a dancer, SteidlMack 2005 and MOTHER,
Prestel 2013.
Carucci currently teaches at the graduate program of photography at School of Visual Arts and is represented by Edwynn
Houk Gallery.
Lars Borges
To him or to request prints of his work: www.larsborges.com
Lars Borges is a photographer based in Berlin and London. Among his clients are
adidas, Dior, H&M, Nike, Volkswagen, Blackberry and Microsoft, his work has been
published in GQ, ELLE, Esquire, Neon, Rolling Stone, The Guardian, Stern,
ZEITmagazin.
photographed the island people of Antigua and the Fulani people of Nigeria. Closer to home, Davis photographed many
of the artists, musicians, and writers of the West Coast. This work resulted in the publication of two books Antigua Black:
Portrait of an Island People (Scrimshaw Press, 1973)and Women Writers of the West Coast (Capra Press, 1984).
Margo Davis portraits contain an intimacy and artistic craftsmanship that provide the viewer with a powerful connection
to her subjects. Her portraits are remarkable in their use of light, composition, and environment. Davis combines a strong
expressive ability with a genuine sensitivity to the nature of the people she photographs. As a whole, the portraits in the
show reveal elements of her feminism, her politics, and the values of her social environment. But what these
photographs express above all else is a strong sense of the artist’s compassionate nature and humanistic concerns.
Davis’ work has grown and expanded along with her artistic vision. She is an avid traveler and continues to
photographically investigate the cultures she visits. She has also traveled metaphorically inward to explore the
possibilities of the portrait as an expression of the inner world. Some of the most recent portraits in the show are
montage work inspired by the writings of Joseph Campbell and Jungian ideas of the unconscious. And although she
experiments with many forms of photography, Davis always finds herself drawn to “the landscape of the face” and all the
feeling and life that her skilled eye can evoke from the people she photographs.
Margo Davis received her BA from University of California, Berkeley and her MA from San Jose State University. She has
been a lecturer and instructor at colleges and universities throughout the Bay Area as well as at the Ansel Adams
Yosemite portrait workshops and the Friends of Photography. Her photographs are in the collections of the Stanford
University Museum and the Bibioteque Nationale, France.
Sandipan Mukherjee
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Hello friends Its Sandipan Mukherjee. Well by profession I am a Mechanical
Engineer & by passion a Amateur Photographer, as arts & creativity is always much
prior for me and I have chosen Photography as a better option to flash my
excellence on the same and furnishing my dream to place myself as a future
professional photographer.
I feel a great touch for work surrounds with Street Life, People, Culture
Environment & Ritual etc. Whenever & wherever is it I breath an endearing flavor to
discover the activity , Sacrifice & Survival of the human beings throughout their
Life. I am a very emotional fellow on that scenario I really used to get a touch over
the variac emotions of the Sociology allied to the Human life.
You may watch out some of my works at the Link mentioned below.
https://www.instagram.com/sandy.photonalist/?hl=en
https://www.flickr.com/photos/sandy_the_photonalist/
