Life Force online photography magazine

The magazine of the photo-essay

Dec 2018 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: damianbirdphotography.com Damian Bird (born London, 1972) is a photographer, photojournalist and lecturer 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 16 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.His first book Seabird was released in November 2017.

Gabi Ben-Avraham To commission him or to request prints of his work: www.gabibest.com I am an Israeli photographer (58), I live in Tel Aviv and work in a software company. After flirting with an initial fascination with photography and film cameras in the 1980s, I went on to pursue a career as an IT manager and put my love for the still image aside. Fortunately, my interest never disappeared. While the passion lay dormant for decades, all it took was the gift of a camera from my wife to awaken my inclination towards photography again. Street Collective Flickr Facebook

Matthew Genitempo To commission him or to request prints of his work: www.matthewgenitempo.com Matthew Genitempo is an American photographer and book publisher currently living and making work in Marfa, Texas. He received his MFA in photography from the University of Hartford. Matthew was recently selected as one of PDN’s 30 Emerging Photographers and received the LensCulture Emerging Photographer Award.

Sunil Gupta To commission him or to request prints of his work: www.sunilgupta.net Born in New Delhi and now living in London, Sunil Gupta is an artist, writer and activist. He has a MA in Photography from the Royal College of Art, and is currently studying towards a doctorate at the University of Westminster. Gupta’s work has been seen in over 90 international solo and group exhibitions.

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, Daily Mail, Dazed & Confused,The Face, Country Life, Coast and Geographical magazine. He lives in Devon, England with his wife, four children and his dachshunds, Jessie and Wilhelmina.

Julian David Stone To commission him or to request prints of his work: www.juliandavidstone.com While experiencing the adventures that make-up his latest book, No Cameras Allowed - My Career as an Outlaw Rock and Roll Photographer, Julian David Stone grew-up in the San Francisco bay area. Eventually he relocated to Los Angeles after spending his college years at the California Institute of the Arts. He has since written screenplays for Disney, Paramount, Sony and MGM, the full-length play, The Elvis Test, as well as making several short-form documentaries on Frank Sinatra, for the Warner Brothers. He is also the writer and director of the hit cult comedy feature film, Follow the Bitch, which has played to packed houses all around the country and received numerous awards. Recently he began writing books with his debut novel, The Strange Birth, Short life, and Sudden Death of Justice Girl, about the world of the 1950s live television, currently being turned into a TV series.

Gary Briechle To commission him or to request prints of his work: www.garybriechle.com Gary Briechle was born in 1955 in Morristown, New Jersey. He attended Colgate University and received his MBA from Fairleigh Dickinson University. His work has appeared in several issues of the New York Times Magazine and he was awarded a 2015 Guggenheim Fellowship in Photography. With few exceptions, he draws and photographs daily. This is the artist’s second monograph with Twin Palms Publishers.

Keerthivasan.N Keerthivasan.N is a final year student of B.Sc (Photography) in ICAT DESIGN & MEDIA College, Chennai. He is very much passionate about documentary photography and want to be a professional photojournalist. According to Keerthi, documentary photography is one of the strongest medium to document the social issues and raise social awareness.

Ryan Hardman To commission him or to request prints of his work: www.ryanhardman.photography Photography has always been the passion, I have achieved a BA (Hons) in Photography. I have since gone on to Achieved LRPS qualification with the Royal Photographic Society. published in magazines, displayed my work in exhibitions locally and in London, I have been shortlisted for International exhibitions as a Street Photographer. I have been working with local companies to create commercial images, from products to portraits.