The magazine of the photo-essay
Dec 2017 back issue
“A free, really high quality photo-essay magazine.  Fabulous!” Stephen Fry. British actor, writer and film maker
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 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.
Bayazid Akter To commission him or to request prints of his work: www.bayazidakter.net  Documentary Photographer/Photojournalist born Sirajgonj, Bangladesh in 1969. He has a B.A. (Hons.) and M.A. from the Department of History, University Dhaka. He has worked for: ‘The daily Navo Ovijhan’, ‘Dainik Dinkal’, ‘Dainik Janakantha’, Magazine: ‘Manchitro’, ‘Sangbadchitro’, ‘Ghar Shangshar’ and News Agency; ‘The Mirror News & Feature Services’, He contributes to ‘Cross Section’ Magazine Published in Tokyo, Japan and  ‘Banglapedia’ A National Encyclopedia of Bangladesh. He has held six Solo Photography Exhibitions in prestigious galleries in Dhaka and has been awarded many national photographic awards including 1st prize- Meena Media Award 2016 for News Photography by UNICEF. In 1996-1st Prize & 1996. Honorable mention-3, Prize 
Jonathan Moller To commission him or to request prints of his work: www.jonathanmoller.org  Jonathan Moller is an award-winning documentary photographer and human rights activist. He has published two books on Guatemala, a recent book about Peru, and is currently working on a new book about the diversity and dignity of young Cubans. Moller’s work is included in the permanent collections of numerous museums and institutions, among others: the San Francisco MOMA; the Museum of Fine Arts Boston; Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; the Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Buenos Aires; Museo de Arte del Peru, Lima; and the Museo de Antioquia, Medellín, Colombia. His photographs have been used by many NGOs in Latin America, the US and Europe for educational and advocacy purposes.
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Rajib Singha To commission him or to request prints of his work: email Rajib Singha is a self-taught photographer and a teacher by profession who lives in   West Bengal, India. Rajib has contributed to multiple citizen journalism sites such  as Reuters Your View, Yahoo News, BBC Your View and others, along with national  news  dailies. As well, Rajib has won multiple photography competitions nationally  and  internationally.
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Dave Jordano To commission him or to request prints of his work: www.davejordano.com Dave Jordano was born in 1948 in Detroit, Michigan.  He received his BFA in photography from the Center for Creative Studies in Detroit in 1974. In 1977 he established a highly successful commercial photography studio in Chicago, shooting major advertising campaigns for companies such as Crate & Barrel, Starbucks, Sears, Nestle, Kraft Foods, General Mills, Nintendo, and Kellogg’s.    As mid-career fine art photographer, Jordano has received numerous accolades and awards.  He first received an honorable mention in the Houston Center for Photography’s Long Term Fellowship Project in 2003, and then received the Curator’s Choice Award the following year. He is a four-time top 20 finalist in the Photolucida's “Critical Mass” national photography competition in Portland, OR as well as a three-time finalist in the LenCulture International Photography Awards.  In 2015 he was awarded the Peter Urban Legacy Prize and Best of Show Award from the Griffin Museum of
Brenda Tharp To commission her or to request prints of her work: www.brendatharp.com Brenda Tharp is a California-based photographer. Following a successful corporate career many years ago, she broke out to pursue her passion for the outdoors. She focuses on landscape, wildlife, and travel photography, and has produced three how-to books on photography, as well as taught thousands of students in workshops and seminars across the USA. Her award-winning prints are in private collections, and she has been in the top 100 of North America Nature Photography Association’s (NANPA) Showcase competition for several years running. Her images are used in a wide variety of editorial and commercial venues via her stock agency Danita Delimont, and through her own archive. She has contributed to many books produced by Chronicle, National Geographic, Michelin Travel Publications, Nature Conversancy and Sierra Club.
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Snorri Bros To commission them or to request prints of their work: www.snorribros.com The Snorri Bros began their artistic collaboration as breakdancers in their native Iceland, before graduating to a career in commercial photography that eventually led them to the United States. Settling in Brooklyn, they continued to photograph, shooting for the likes of Interview, Spin, and Details, and soon began to break into film and video
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Alec Byrne To commission him or to request prints of his work: www.alecbyrnearchive.com Alec Byrne covered the rock and roll scene in London from the mid-1960s through the mid-1970s—the heart of London’s rock revolution. After sitting in storage for close to four decades, his archive was reintroduced to the world in late 2012 with an acclaimed one-night-only show in Los Angeles attended by more than a thousand people. Since then, Alec’s work has been featured during the 2013 Rock and Roll Hall of Fame induction ceremony, exhibited at the South by Southwest music festival, featured in numerous magazines and album reissues, and accepted into the National Portrait Gallery in London. His first book, London Rock: The Unseen Archive, will be released in Dec. of 2017 by Insight Editions in the US and Virgin Books in the UK.
E F Kitchen To commission her or to request prints of her work: www.efkitchen.com After graduating from Bennett College in 1969, and following further studies in film at the New York University School of the Arts (Institute of Film and Television) in 1971, I worked in Paris, France, as a still photographer for O.E.T. Productions, a non-profit American theater/dance/film company. I was the set photographer on a French film, “Muzzers,” and cinematographer and assistant editor on another film, “Stuck.” Then I began my own film production company, Luc & Lisa, Inc., and produced a feature- length film called “Dream Center.” I then moved to Los Angeles and worked as an associate producer for Ed Pressman Productions on the film “Teen Angel.”
He lives in Devon with his wife, four children and his dachshund, Jessie.
Arthur Drooker To commission him or to request prints of his work: www.arthurdrooker.com Arthur Drooker has been an exhibited and published photographer since 1980. His work has been included in several solo and group shows, and in the collections of the Petersen Automotive Museum and the Music Center in Los Angeles. A Phi Beta Kappa graduate from the University of Pennsylvania with a degree in American Civilization, Drooker imbues his photography with an understanding and appreciation of cultures past and present.  He is the author and photographer of American Ruins (Merrell, 2007), Lost Worlds: Ruins of the Americas (ACC, 2011), and Pie Town Revisited (UNM Press, 2015). His work has been the subject of a feature story on CBS Sunday Morning and has been exhibited at the Virginia Center for Architecture, the Wichita Museum of Art, and the
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awarded in the color Photo contest, The External Publicity wing of the Ministry of Information, Government of the people’s Republic of Bangladesh “on the scenic beauty of Bangladesh, it’s People, Art-Culture, Customs-traditions, Everyday life, Archaeological sites, tourist spots and places of Interests”   He has also worked, for six years, as a chief photographer of the Daily Sun last six years. He is now freelance.
as well. Today, they are established commercial directors with clients  like Mercedes Benz, BMW, Hummer, Hyundai, Toyota, Cadillac, Jeep, Dodge, Dell and many many more. Worked with a long list of artists including R.E.M. Björk, Gwen Stefani, wu tang clan, Busta Rhymes to name a few.
Photography's annual competition, became a finalist in the triennial Outwin- Boochever Portrait Competition from the Nation Portrait Gallery, Washington DC, and received the prestigious $50,000 AIMIA-AGO Photography Prize in Canada.  Jordano has exhibited both internationally and nationally.  His work is  included in several private, corporate and museum collections, most notably the permanent collection of The Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago, the Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, and the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, the Detroit Art Institute, The Harris Bank Collection, and the Mary & Leigh Block Museum of Art, Northwestern University, and the Federal Reserve. His current book titled, “Detroit: Unbroken Down” was published in September of 2015 by PowerHouse Books and has won several “Best of 2015” Photo Book Awards.  His upcoming publication, “A Detroit Nocturne” will be published by PowerHouse Books and will launch in April, 2018.  Dave Jordano currently resides in Chicago, Illinois.
Books authored/photographed by Brenda are: Extraordinary Everyday Photography (2012), Creative Nature and Outdoor Photography (2010), and Expressive Nature Photography (2017).
During the early eighties I refocused my career on fine art photography, specializing in the art of platinum/palladium printing. My first group exhibition was in Paris in 1984, and my first solo exhibition was in 1985 at the Los Angeles Center for Photographic Studies. Over the years I have had twelve more solo exhibitions at sites around the United States. My work has been included in forty-nine group exhibitions internationally, including at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas;  the Meadows Museum of Art, Shreveport, Louisiana; the Museum of the Southwest, Midland, Texas; the Accademia di Belle Art, Genoa, Italy; and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. My work is in the permanent collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the Museum of Fine Arts in Houston, the Biblioteque Nationale in Paris, the George Eastman House in Rochester, and the Santa Barbara Museum of Art, among others. It is also in numerous private and corporate collections, including the Elton John Collection and the Polaroid Collection. Further, my photography has been published in The Greatest Album Covers That Never Were by Michael Ochs and Craig Butler (2003), Adam: The Male Figure in Art by Edward Lucie-Smith (1998), and Flora Photographica: Masterpieces of Flower Photography from 1835 to the Present by William A. Ewing (1991). My work appeared in exhibitions based on the latter book at the Vancouver Art Gallery, the New York Public Library, the Royal Ontario Museum, and the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts. In 2011, International Photography Awards awarded my project Suburban Knights: Return to the Middle Ages first place in the category Fine Art, Portrait. Suburban Knights is a collection of large-format black-and-white photographs of and interviews with present-day men and women who reenact medieval warfare. The project was published in book form by powerHouse Books in 2010. The book was reviewed in publications including the New Yorker and the Los Angeles Times, and an excerpt was published in Harper’s (October 2012). Suburban Knights was also shown as a solo exhibition at the Central California Museum of Art; Louis Stern Fine Art; powerHouse Arena; and the Leigh Yawkey Woodson Art Museum in Wausau, Wisconsin. I am currently at work on a new series called Shades of Wisdom. Like Suburban Knights, it will be a book and exhibition of photographs and interviews. This time, my subjects are octogenarians, whose lives and wisdom the project celebrates. I have further discussed this project in my enclosed statement of plans.
Art Museum of the Americas in Washington, D.C. In Conventional Wisdom, due in Fall 2016, Drooker’s observant photos and humorous text portray quirky conventions as unique expressions of community, culture, and connection and reveal that no matter what they’re about, where they’re held or who attends them, all conventions satisfy a basic human urge: the longing for belonging.
Lara Ciarbellini To commission her or to request prints of her work: www.laraciarabellini.com Lara Ciarabellini is an Italian photographer who works on collective memory and collective identity, also in relation to conflict, and their representation in visual arts. She holds a Master degree in Photojournalism and Documentary Photography from London College of Communication (2011-2012). Her main achievements are: finalist in The Aftermath Project, in 2011 and inclusion into the photographic book War is only half of story Vol 5; the Humanistic Photography award by 2015 Fodar Biennal of Photography (Bulgaria); the nomination for the mentorship program for emerging photographers LOOKBetween - part of the LOOK3 festival -, in Charlottesville (USA); the second place in the 2014 portfolio review during the Bratislava Month of Photography. 
She widely exhibits in European galleries and festivals: London, Berlin, Dublin, Rome, Savignano, Tbilisi, Bratislava, Slupsk (Poland), Vienna, Sarajevo, Riga, Kaunas, Ljubljana, and Balatonfüred (Hungary). In 2015-2016 her project about the WWI was part of the moving exhibitions Red Poppy Fields (Bratislava, Slupsk/ Poland, Vienna, Ljubljana, Balatonfüred/Hungary), organized by Photon Gallery. She is distributed by Anzenberger Agency. She is currently based in Rio de Janeiro.
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Daniel Gordon To commission him or to request prints of his work: www.danielgordonstudio.com Daniel Gordon (b. 1980 Boston, MA; raised in San Francisco, California, USA) earned a Bachelor of Arts from Bard College in 2004, and a Master of Fine Arts from the Yale School of Art in 2006. His notable group exhibitions include New Photography 2009 at the Museum of Modern Art in New York and Greater New York 2010 at MoMA PS1. He is the author of Still Lifes, Portraits, and Parts (Mörel, 2013), Flowers and Shadows (Onestar Press, 2011) and Flying Pictures (powerHouse Books, 2009). He is the winner of the 2014 Foam Paul Huf award, and exhibited his work in a solo exhibition at the museum in 2014. Gordon is represented by James Fuentes in New York City and had his first exhibition with the gallery, titled New Canvas, in February 2017. He is the co-director of Downstairs Projects in Brooklyn where he lives and works.
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