The magazine of the art-form of the photo-essay
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Stephen Fry. British actor, writer and film & documentary maker
Dec 2015 back issue
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
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.
Anna Mia Davidson
To commission Anna or to request prints of her work: www.annamiadavidson.com
Anna Mia Davidson is a freelance photographer based in Seattle, Washington. She
believes strongly in the power of images to influence, inspire, and impact the way we
see the world around us.
Anna Mia Davidson has photographed worldwide. She has been documenting the
positive aspects of Cuban society since 1999 and was awarded sponsorship by the
Blue Earth Alliance. Her photographic work has been awarded several honors from
juried exhibitions and publication competitions including the Talent and Creativity
Award for Photojournalism, the Cesar Chavez Certificate for Commitment to Justice,
Diversity, and Nonviolence from the University of Colorado, and the 2004 Golden Light
Top Photographers Award for Documentary photography.
Mario Macilau
To commission Mario or to request prints of his work: www.mariomacilau.com
Mário Macilau is one of Africa’s most exciting photographers – his powerful and
sensitive work has been widely exhibited to growing critical acclaim.
Macilau, who is a painter as well as a photographer, started his journey in to
photography in around 2003 from the streets of Maputo. His career began in earnest
when he traded his mother's cell phone for his first camera in 2007. He specializes
in long term projects often focusing on socially and economically marginalized groups.
Brian Vanden Brink
To commission Brian or to request prints of his work: www.brianvandenbrink.com
I began my life in photography in 1971 in Omaha, Nebraska, but it wasn’t until two years
later when I first started to work with a large format view camera that my career direction
became more clear. My wife and I moved to Maine in 1978, and I began to specialize in
architectural photography. Today my professional work consists of shooting beautiful
houses for architects, interior designers, landscape architects or magazines and books
about residential design. However, I also love to photograph architecture just because I
find it interesting, beautiful, curious or fun. My personal work is about abandoned
architecture, rural architecture or industrial/post industrial structures and their
relationship to the landscape. I find this to be a fascinating world of shapes, textures,
spatial relationships and history. I love to photograph how and where we live, seeing in
our architecture an expression of what we value and what is important to us. I am
attracted to photographing design, whether it is represented by a hot dog stand, a
Romanesque cathedral or a private residence. My primary tool is the light, which defines
space and adds emotion. After working with a view camera for over 30 years, I have
Ronan Guillou
To commission Ronan or to request prints of his work: www.ronanguillou.com
Ronan Guillou (French – 1968) lives in Paris, and works in France and the United
States. His photographs on America led in 2011 to the publication of a first work Angel
prefaced by filmmaker and photographer Wim Wenders (Trans Photographic Press
Publishing). Since then, the author has been continuing to weave his photographic and
human link with America. In 2013 he published a map of Las Vegas Valley (Poetry
Wanted Publishing), and in 2014 exhibited the series “Truth or Consequences”, which
combines photographs, sound, and writing. Ronan Guillou’s works are shown in solo
and group exhibitions in France and abroad, and are part of private and public collections.
Country Limit is the author’s second book.
Ronan Guillou it represented by NextLevel gallery – Paris, France
www.nextlevelgalerie.com
Amlan Biswas
To commission Amlan or to request prints of his work: amlan-biswas.simplesite.com
Amlan BIswas is a freelance photographer from Kolkata, India. He currently works with
a number of different stock photo agencies including: Drik Images, Camerocks, FotoLibra,
Photospin etc.
Amlan works for several NGO and Corporate organizations including some national and
international Govt. bodies. He is as associated with one of the leading e-commerce
websites as its empanelled photographer.
He is a regular contributor to different photojournalism websites, mainly Demontix and he
is associated with a Begali bi-monthly news magazine, as a travel photographer/journalist
on assignment basis.
Emine Gozde Sevim
To commission Emine or to request prints of her work: www.eminegozdesevim.com
Emine Gozde Sevim(b. 1985) is a New York-based, Istanbul-born photographer.
Educated at Bard College in New York’s Hudson Valley, Sevim has dedicated the last
seven years to creating an alternative visual narrative in the context of post 9/11 era.
Her work explores the condition of the individual in the context of collective memory in
moments of global historic significance. As part of her comprehensive project in the
region, she documented provincial daily realities in Afghanistan (2007) and Israel and
the West Bank (2010), in Egypt (2011-2013), and in Turkey (2013-ongoing). She is a
grantee of the 2015 Magnum Foundation Emergency Fund and is represented by the
Doha/Dubai based gallery East-Wing.
Her on-going body of work about the Middle East has been included in various
exhibitions and publications internationally and has won numerous international awards
and recognitions.
Alain Laboile
To commission Alain or to request prints of his work: www.laboile.com
Born on May 1, 1968 in Bordeaux, France, Alain Laboile is a photographer and father of
six.
In 2004, as he needs to put together a portfolio of his work as a sculptor, he acquires a
camera, and thus develops a taste for macrophotography, spurred by his passion for
entomology.
Later on, he points his lens towards his growing family which becomes his major subject,
be it in a realistic depiction of their atypical lifestyle in “La Famille”, or in bizarre stagings
around a pond in “Réflexion autour du bassin”.
The family album quickly goes beyond the private setting and seduces the web. Tens
of thousands of internet users all over the world await, daily, the new images of this
Nikki Toole
To commission Nikki or to request prints of her work: www.nikkitoole.com
Nikki Toole was born in Scotland and now lives in Melbourne. She has studied Film
and Photography in London and Edinburgh, and has exhibited in Australia, Britain, USA
and Germany.
Her work has been selected 5 times as a finalist in The National Portrait Prize. Last
year she was honoured to judge the prize.
Her work explores the mindsets and internal dialogues that form many 21st Century
subcultures.
Patrick Brown
To commission Patrick or to request prints of his work: www.patrickbrownphoto.com
The acclaimed photographer Patrick Brown has already assembled an impressive
volume of outstanding photographs, tracing the eclecticisms of our time across the globe.
Faultless in the portrayal of the human condition, hopes, and disillusionment, the
everyday and the extraordinary are captured in the instinctive and the single releases of
the shutter. Patrick Brown's images are testament to his remarkable versatility of
approach and commitment to the profession.
An ongoing journey of discovery, Patrick’s subjects as well as the process of
photography is imbued with the freshness and the enthusiasm animated by the prefect
marriage of technique and intuition.
Patrick Brown's images demand involvement and invited contemplation. A finely tuned
sensibility to his subject matter creates a prefect balance; the camera, the photographer
become almost imperceptible, without every being invasive or distant.
He lives with his wife and four children in Devon, England.
Robert Young Pelton
To commission Robert or to request prints of his work: www.comebackalive.com
Robert Young Pelton is the author of The World’s Most Dangerous Places, Licensed to
Kill, Hired Guns in the War on Terror and most recently Raven. He has worked for CBS
60 Minutes, ABC Investigative, CNN and National Geographic.
ryp@comebackalive.com
She has exhibited her photographs both nationally and internationally. When she is not working on her own photographic
projects, Anna Mia Davidson works for many different international news and magazine publications such as Vanity Fair,
The New York Times, Christian Science Monitor, Associated Press, Reader's Digest, AARP and The International Herald
Tribune as well as various commercial clients.
The book project Embed in Egypt was shortlisted for the coveted MACK’s First Book Award in London (2014) and as a
result was added to the National Media Museum Collection in Bradford, U.K. Embed in Egypt was shown at international
festivals such as Just Another Photofestival, New Delhi; Photo Ireland; Hamburg Triennale
der Photographie; Voies Off/Rencontres d'Arles Festival.
French“tribe”insolently living on the edge of the world.
In December 2012, the New York Times celebrates Alain Laboile's talent. The first exhibitions ensue in Japan and the
United States, then the“La Famille”series joins the Musée français de la photographie collection in 2014.
Alain Laboile is represented in France by Galerie Intervalle .http://www.galerie-intervalle.com/
Alain Laboile's work has been recently published by Kehrer Verlag.
Nikki’s work is collected worldwide by private collectors and national galleries.
Craig Semetko
To commission Craig or to request prints of his work: www.semetko.com
Craig Semetko is an American photographer living in Los Angeles. Born and raised near
Detroit, Michigan, Semetko became a comedy writer and performer after graduating
Northwestern University and discovered photography as another means of storytelling
while performing in a show that took him around the world. His comedic background has
given him a highly developed sense of the absurd and ironic, resulting in a strong theme
of humor throughout his work.
In 2008 Semetko was featured with famed photographer Henri Cartier-Bresson at the
Open Shutter Gallery in Durango, CO, in an exhibition entitled: “Street Photography:
From Classic to Contemporary--Henri Cartier-Bresson and Craig Semetko.” He’s had
solo exhibitions at numerous galleries, including the Leica Galeries in NYC, Los
Angeles, Miami, Salzburg, Singapore, Frankfurt, and Solms. In 2014 he was one of ten
photographers invited by Leica Camera to be part of the “10x10" exhibit at the grand
opening of the new Leica headquarters in Wetzlar, Germany. He exhibited at the Vadehra
Art Gallery in Mumbai in 2015, and regularly teaches workshops internationally.
Semetko’s first book, UNPOSED, featured a foreword by Elliott Erwitt, and his second
book, INDIA UNPOSED, won Best Category, Best Art Book 2014 from the international organization Printing Industries of
America.
Semetko’s photographs can be found in private collections throughout Europe, Asia, and the US.
Patrick Brown is the recipient of the 3P Photographer Award, World Press Award, Days Japan Award, Picture Of The Year
Award, New York Photographic Book Award and NPPA’s Best of Photojournalism Award for his work. His work has been
exhibited at prestigious galleries and museums, including the International Centre of Photography in New York, the
Metropolitan Museum of Photography in Tokyo, and Visa pour l’Image in France.
His book documenting the illegal animal trade in Asia for over a dacade called Trading to Extinction was selected by
AmericanPhoto, as one of the of best documentary books of 2014.
Patrick has been represented by the prestigious agency Panos Pictures since 2003 and continues to cover social issues
that are often forgotten by the mainstream media today.
Ayan Mukherjee
To commission Ayan or to request prints of his work: ayancoolest@gmail.com
I am freelance commercial photographer from Kolkata, India. I love travel and travelling is in
my blood. I love documenting new places and people of that place.
Nacho Hernandez
To commission Nacho or to request prints of his work: www.nachohernandez.net
Born in Madrid, Spain, I am currently based in Manila, Philippines, from where I have
easy access to the Southeast Asia, East Asia, and Asia Pacific regions. I am particularly
interested in editorial and documentary photography, and in photography with a
humanitarian focus.
I have shot on assignment for or had my work featured by publications such as The New
York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Guardian weekend magazine, Le Monde
weekend magazine, The Washington Post, El Pais Semanal, Courrier International, and
Asian Geographic, among many others. Other clients include organizations such as The
Olympic Games (London 2012), The World Bank and numerous NGOs, such as
Médecins Sans Frontières, CARE and Heifer International. I have exhibited my work in
Europe and the US, including a solo exhibition about the Sahrawi people at the US
Congress in Washington DC.
I graduated from Georgetown University (International Relations and Development), and
4 the Washington School of Photography.
When not on assignment, I am currently working on two long-term personal projects: One on rugby, my passion, the other
on the Philippines, my home.
Alessandro Iovino
To commission Alessandro or to request prints of his work: alessandro-iovino.com
Alessandro Iovino is an Italian photographer born in Parma. He started his photography
career in june 2013 after obtaining a diploma in studio photography at speos
photography school in london.
Starting a photography career changed the course of his life. Before attending the
photography master in london, alessandro studied economy and marketing at the
University of Parma.
From 2009 to 2012, he travelled to many destinations on the western hemisphere,
maybe he was running away or he just or maybe he was just looking for a challenge, but
after that he decided that traveling would become an essential part of his life.
While moving from australia to new zealand, crossing the south asian countries and
finding the incredible wonders of india, alessandro took a great interest in visual arts,
especially photojournalism. In 2014, he discovered cesura, the italian collective and independent agency born from the will
and the perseverance of 5 people who strongly believed in photography and in what their master, the magnum
photographer alex majoli handed down to them.
Cesura it’s the natural consequence of an idea of photography that goes beyond the fact of making good pictures but rather
passing the knowledge of what we still consider a work of art. Alessandro is currently working and collaborating with cesura.
Photography is an obsession and a very truthful mirror that reflect who you are and what you feel without masks and lies.
“I travel not to become blind.” Josef koudelka
recently transitioned to a digital camera, which opens the door to a completely different way of working, which is very
exciting.
Krzysztof Pierzgalski
To commission Krzysztof or to request prints of his work: www.pierzgalski.com
Krzysztof Perzgalski is a biologist and is impassioned by travel and photography. As an
active nature conservation worker in Poland he helps many unique and threatened
species of flora and fauna to survive. He`s a documentary photographer; interested in
man in relationship with the environment and nature. In his photo-essays shows small
communities living in close contact with nature, cultivating old traditions. He has
photographed the remotest regions of the globe, including: the Mongolian Nomads, the
Evenks in eastern Siberia (the Zabaykalsky Krai), Andean highlanders in Ecuador, the
Semangs in Malaysia, the Hutsuls in Ukraine, landscapes of the Kamchatka Peninsula.
He has made three picture stories about nature for National Geographic Poland. Also
published in other titles of social, geography and natural sciences and photography. His
images have won awards in competitions and he is the author of several exhibitions of
travel and ethnic groups. For the last seven years he has taught photography.
