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February 2015 issue
George Nickels To commission George or to request prints of his work: www.georgenickels.com George Nickels is a freelance photojournalist, and the focus of his work covers social conflict and humanitarian issues across Asia. His in-depth photography and editorial provide an often un-reported aspect of current affairs and news. His work has been published in leading magazines and newspapers worldwide including Vice, National Geographic, South East Asia Globe, Jakarta Globe, Daily Mail and Asia Life to name a few. Based in Siem Reap, Cambodia, George is available for international reportage, editorial, travel assignments and corporate projects, and has a wealth of experience to assist the promotion of brands, and business.  
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Lorne Resnick To commission Lorne or to request prints of his work: www.lorneresnick.com Los Angeles based photographer, Lorne Resnick, was born and raised in Toronto, Canada. His passion for travel and photography keeps him moving around the globe exploring different cultures and countries, capturing unique moments. His pursuit of unique and compelling images has led him to Papua New Guinea, Vietnam, Greenland, Cuba, China, across Europe and 22 countries in Africa. From his first book of photographs,  Live in Concert: 10 years of Rock and Roll, published in 1987, to his latest work-in-progress, fine art coffee table book Cuba Dreaming, Resnick has always strived to create images that probe beyond the everyday facade to capture the essential meaning and character of his subjects. He has lived in Amsterdam for six years working on commercial projects and spent more than a year in each of Cuba and Africa working on long-term book projects. Resnick’s striking commercial and fine art images have been exhibited in galleries across Europe and America, and have been used commercially for annual reports, billboards, television, web sites and for worldwide advertising campaigns. He currently has eleven fine art posters published of his travel work.
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Richard Perry To commission Richard or to request prints of his work: www.richperryphotography.com Having worked for many years as a teacher and administrator in public and private education, Rich finally gave in to the persistent artistic voice inside himself which has now become a calling. Soon after “seeing the light” he was taking fine art photographs and enrolled in classes at the School of The Museum of Fine Arts in Boston and the Massachusetts College of Design and Art. For the last few years he has been concentrating exclusively on his photography which includes documentary, fine art, portraiture. He has shown in galleries and museums in the US and is in private collections across the country. EDUCATION BA Hobart College MA University of Hartford
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Francisco Seco To commission Francisco or to request prints of his work: www.franciscoseco.com Francisco Seco (Spain, 1974) is a self-taught photographer who became a photojournalist by chance in 2004. Graduated in Sociology, he started his professional career as a photographer in Madrid working for different newspapers. He is currently based in Lisbon, Portugal, where he has worked as stringer for the American news agency The Associated Press since 2010. Francisco has also been freelancing in Portugal for the Spanish newspaper El País, the American, The New York Times and its global edition The International New York Times in 2013-14.
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Serge Clement To commission Serge or to request prints of his work: www.sergeclement.com Serge Clément was born in Valleyfield in 1950. He has been a photographer since 1975. His work has been shown in several countries, including Canada, France, Spain, Portugal, Belgium, the Netherlands, Germany, the Czech Republic, Italy, Syria, China and Japan. His solo exhibitions include Cité fragile during the Mois de la Photo in Paris (1994), Vertige- Vestige at the Universidad de Salamanca in Spain (1998) and the Centre Photographique d’Île-de-France (1999), Persona at the Galerie Occurrence (Montreal, 2000), Fragrant Light at the Rotonde-Exchange Square (Hong Kong, 2000), Fragments at the 10 Chancery Lane Gallery (Hong Kong, 2010) and Courants ~ contre-courants at the Musée de la Photographie in Charleroi, Belgium (2010). Clément’s work has also featured in several group exhibitions, including Présence de la photographie dans la collection du Musée du Québec at the Musée National des Beaux- Arts du Québec (Quebec City,1995), Photographie au présent at the Bibliothèque Nationale de France (Paris, 1998), Streetwalk at OP Fotogallery (Hong Kong, 1998), The Frame, the Setting and the Site at the Centro de la Imagen (Mexico City, 2000) and Branching Out at
Ragnar Axelsson To commission Ragnar or to request prints of his work: www.rax.is Ragnar Axelsson.  Born in Iceland 1958, (aka) RAX has worked for Morgunbladid, Iceland's biggest newspaper from 1976 and as a freelance shooting shooting projects in various parts of the world for numerous magazines and agencies. He has had his work  published in: LIFE, National Geographic, Le Figaro, Stern, La Vanguardia, TIME, to name a few. The Golden Circle.  Photographs by Páll Stefánsson, Ragnar Axelsson and Mats Wibe- Lund. Reykjavík: Iceland Review, 1989. Reykjavik. A book in color. (Icelandic) (English) Faces and figures: Contemporary Scandinavian photography. New York: American Scandinavian Foundation, 2001. Through the vastness near Snæfell by Ólafsson, Guðmundur Páll has photographs by Axelsson and also Friðþjófur Helgason and Jóhann Ísberg. Faces of the North, a book on vanishing lifestyles in the North Atlantic; Greenland, Iceland and the Faroe Islands, 2004.
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Christopher Chadbourne To commission Chris or to request prints of his work: www.christopherchadbourne.com Christopher Chadbourne has taught design at the Graduate Schools of Design at Columbia, Princeton and Harvard Universities. For 22 years he served as Founder and Creative Director of one of the United States leading exhibition design firms which crafted storylines, developed multimedia and designed graphics and  theatrical set installations for museums.  Urged by his mentor and friend, Magnum photographer Constantine Manos, he picked up his camera and quit the day job 5 years ago. His interest in American culture and place led to his first book, titled ,  “STATE FAIR: The Last Living Munchkin From the Wizard of Oz and Other Stories”, recently released in Europe and the U.S.A. by Kehrer Verlag. Bill Kouwenhoven, former  international editor of  Hotshoe magazine, wrote the Introduction. He sets forth why it is a uniquely American phenomenon, while drawing parallels between the photographs and the writings of David Foster Wallace. In the interim, STATE FAIR has been exhibited in museums and international festivals and/or featured in magazines in the USA , South America and Europe.  At Fest Foto , the International Photography Festival in Brazil, a film of  STATE FAIR was one of the works discussed under the conferences theme: ‘Surrealism’s Impact On Photography as
Sadeq Naseri To commission Sadeq or to request prints of his work: naseri.sadeq@gmail.com Sadeq Naseri was born in 1980 in Afghanistan, but grew up in Iran, Mashhad city in the small town of Gulshahr. After finishing his education, and whilst looking for a job and better studying opportunities, Naseri returned to Afghanistan as soon as the international community stopped the on- going civil war. He had his first work experience in media during Afghanistan’s first presidential election. He produced programs and broadcast them in provincial areas. The programs mainly encouraged people to distinguish their future by actively participating in the election. In 2005, Naseri took part in a survey with Altaye Consulting Institute, a French active research and marketing institute. He evaluated the provincial and districts authorities performances through existed indicators and benchmarks. In 2009, Naseri worked as a program officer for Action Aid Organization in Bamyan and in
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Mark Tipple To commission Mark or to request prints of his work: www.marktipple.com Mark Tipple has emerged as a notable documentary photographer over the past 3 years, working closely with organizations seeking social change in Australia and surrounding countries. His progression has seen the formation of Gallery Project, a concept to sell fine art prints and fund further projects of the organisations he works with. As the principal photographer of The Underwater Project; an ongoing reportage showcasing Australia’s relationship with the ocean, Mark aims to connect the different areas of his work to bring light to stories traditional media shies away from. Mark's clients include Edify, The Salvation Army, World Vision, Christian Surfers, House With No Steps, Planet Ocean, Beyond Water, Nanda Dian Foundation, and 100Revs. His work has appeared in publications such as The Australian, The Telegraph, The BBC, The Independent, National Geographic and Discovery Channel.
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AWARDS:The Annual Icelandic Photojournalists Awards (Est. 1991): More that 20 awards, including Photographer of the year, four times, and Documentary story of the year, six times.The Oskar Barnack Award, 2001. Honourable Mention Festival Photo de Mare, Vannes, Grand Prix.
Ken Light To commission Ken or to request prints of his work: www.kenlight.com Ken Light a photographer whose work has appeared in books, magazines, exhibitions and numerous anthologies, exhibition catalogues and a variety of media, digital and motion picture. His most recent book Valley of Shadows & Dreams (Heyday Book) was published in 2012. This work was published in the New York Times, Newsweek/Daily Beast, N.Y. Review of Books, Huffington Post Voces and this work was exhibited in one person shows at the Oakland Museum of California, Umbrage Gallery, Arte Americas and S.E. Museum of Photography. His previous book was Coal Hollow (University of California Press)  and was published in 2005. This book presents arresting black and white photographs and powerful oral histories that chronicle the legacy of coalmining in southern West Virginia. His book, Texas Death Row (1997) is a look at life inside the death house as the condemned wait to be executed in Americas largest and most active Death Row. This work was published in Newsweek Magazine (6 pgs), Paris Match (France -- 8 pgs), Tempo (Germany -- 6 pgs), London Telegraph, Nieuwe Revu (Amsterdam -- 6 pgs) and in Japan, Korea, Holland, Denmark, Mexico, Spain, Italy as well as on Newsweek Online, and MSNBC.com Online.
He is also the author of Delta Time published in 1995 by the Smithsonian Institution Press. This book looks at rural Black poverty, cotton and the southern landscape. Delta Time has 104 photographs and an essay by legendary civil rights organizer Bob Moses. This work has been published in VSD in Paris, Granta, the London Independent, Spanish Elle with Walker Evans and in the Academy Award nominated documentary film Freedom on My Mind. His other books are To The Promised Land (Aperture 1988), With These Hands (Pilgrim Press 1986), and In the Fields (Harvest Press 1982), which examine the lives of farm workers and their journey from Mexico illegally to the United States and with an introduction by Cesear Chavez. He got his start in 1969 photographing for alternative newspapers and magazines. His photographs from this period were widely published in posters, books and hundreds of A text, Witness In Our Time: The Lives of Social Documentary Photographers was published by the Smithsonian Institution Press in October 2000 and a 2nd edition was published in 2010 . It is in its fourth printing and has been adapted by numerous University and College documentary photo programs as well as being translated and published in Turkey. He has exhibited internationally in over 225 one-person and group shows, including one person shows at the International Center for Photography, Oakland Museum of California, San Jose Museum of Modern Art, Visual Studies Workshop, Visa pour L’image Perpignan (France), International Fotoage (Germany), S.E. Museum of Photography, Yerba Buena Center S.F. and Smith College. His work is part of numerous collections including the San Francisco MOMA, the Houston Museum of Fine Arts, the International Center of Photography and the American Museum of Art at the Smithsonian, Library of Congress, Helmut Gernsheim Collection and many others including private collections. He received two National Endowment for the Arts Photographers Fellowships, a N.E.A survey and publication grant, the Dorothea Lange Fellowship and a fellowship from the Erna and Victor Hasselblad Foundation as well as grants from the Soros Open Society Institute, the American Film Institute, the California Arts Commission, International Fund for Concerned Photography, the Rosenberg Foundation and the Max and the Anna Levinson Foundation. His other awards include the Media Alliance Meritorious Achievement award in photography, the Thomas More Storke International Journalism Award as well as others. He is the Reva and David Logan Professor and curator of the Center for Photography at the Graduate School of Journalism at the University of California Berkeley, and was the 2012 Laventhol Visiting Professor at Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism. He has also taught workshops at many school and photo festivals including at the ICP in New York City, The Missouri Photo Workshop, S.F. Art Institute and in the School for Photographic Studies in Prague and Baltimore. He was a founder of the Mother Jones International Fund for Documentary Photography, which awarded grants to photographers worldwide, as well a founder of Fotovision a non-profit documentary photo organization which was based in the San Francisco Bay Area.
Resnick has won the Travel Photographer of the Year award, plus numerous commercial photography awards and now leads travel photography workshops around the world. The locations and schedules of which can be found here
Documentary and Fine Art’. Chris was a Critical Mass Finalist in 2011 and has been interviewed on National Public Radio. He serves on the Patients Advisory Council of the Michael J. Fox Foundation for Parkinson’s Disease Research. He is now working on his second book, WONDERLAND: How the Railroad Right-of-Way Shaped and Reveals the American Landscape’. He takes on a limited number of collaborative projects whose subject matter intrigues him.
2010, Naseri acted as an office manager for Action Aid Organization in Sorobi district of Kabul.  Additionally, Naseri performed as a Program Officer at JICA/IRDP in Yakowlang and Saighan districts in Bamyan city. As a journalist for radio Seda-e-Javan in Bamyan, Naseri provided writing and oral news despite the extreme social and security problems. The experience made him confident enough to deal with serious political issues. Naseri worked as a Trainer Civic Educator in Central Highland with JEMB. He has coordinated civic educational activities, monitored civic educators, trained them and met all district governors. His connection between government and JEMB is a good reference. His work has been published in different magazines including Fair  and Observer and he has had various solo and group exhibitions in Japan, Switzerland, USA and Denmark. 
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 ten 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.
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He lives with his wife and three children in Devon, England.
Vincent D Feldman To commission Vincent or to request prints of his work: www.vincentfeldman.com Vincent D. Feldman, a lifelong resident of Philadelphia, has been photographing architecture and the urban landscape for three decades. In the early 1990s his photography came to concentrate on the conflicts and questions that often surround historic buildings in Philadelphia.  Feldman’s photography helps uncover the stories attached to buildings, thus revealing the nature of the societies in which these structures were built—and then neglected. In the past eight years Feldman has additionally worked on portfolios shot in China and Japan as well as continuing his photography in the city of Philadelphia. His consistent attention has been to the meanings found in buildings that expose the nature of individual societies in particular periods and over time. His photography of Tokyo was debuted in Here and Now: Prints, Drawings and Photographs by Ten Philadelphia Artists at the
Philadelphia Museum of Art in 2011. Feldman received a Pew Fellowship in the Arts in 2001. His work is held in the Philadelphia Museum of Art and in museums and private collections internationally. He is a Master Lecturer in photography at the University of the Arts in Philadelphia.
Shelley Calton To commission Shelley or to request prints of her work: www.shelleycalton.com Texas-based photographer Shelley Calton had her first book, Hard Knocks: Rolling with the Derby Girls published in 2009 and her second book, Concealed:  She’s Got A Gun, will be released in spring of 2015.  She has had several solo exhibitions and has been included in many group exhibitions.   Most recently one of her portraits from Concealed was chosen for the Taylor Wessing Prize at the National Portrait Gallery in London.  Thirty images from Concealed were exhibited at Zoom Photo Festival in Quebec in October.  Her work is in the collection of the Museum of Fine Arts Houston, as well as many private collectors. Named by Oxford American in 2012 as one of 100 under 100 - The New Superstars of Southern Art.  Featured articles and interviews have been written in Texas Monthly, Houston Chronicle, Silvershotz, Shots, and Black and White International.  She has studied with many well-known photographers, among them Keith Carter and Debbie Fleming Caffery.
François Schaer To commission François or to request prints of his work: www.francoisschaer.com A Swiss photographer(1967), based in Geneva. Before settling in Geneva in  2007, he traveled and lived in Mexico, London, France, Laos, Sicily and Bruxelles where was working as a portraitist and a documentary photographer. He focuses his camera on themes as eclectic as the football in the slums of Nairobi, the snow and ski world in the Alps, the Mexican popular bullfight, the water management in Switzerland, childhood or the representation of women in London. His work is regularly published and exhibited in Switzerland and abroad. In 2013 he joined the swiss agency Phovea.
Photography: School of the Museum of Fine Art Mass College of Art Photography Atelier – Griffin Museum of Photography
the Sepia International Inc. / The Alkazi Collection of Photography (New York, 2007). Starting with his very first works (Affichage and Automobile, 1976–77; Notes urbaines, 1980–84; Suite européenne, 1984– 87), Clément has been interested in modern urban environments, revealing their archaeological and metaphysical depth. Beginning with his first solo publication (Cité fragile, 1992), the artist has explored various modes of expression, from classic documentary (Halloween, 1997) to installations (Persona, 2000; Parfum de lumière, 2004) via a poetic narrative (Vertige Vestige, 1998), urban perspectives (Fragrant Light, 2000; Sutures: Berlin 2000–2003, 2003) and photo book (Courants ~ contre-courants, 2007). Clément has received many grants from the Canada Council for the Arts and the Conseil des Arts et des Lettres du Québec, including the prestigious Studio du Québec à New York grant in 2007. His work features in many public and private collections both in Canada and abroad. He is represented by the Galerie Simon Blais (Montreal) and the Galerie Le Réverbère (Lyon), where his work has been shown several times.
Photo: Emily Hope, courtesy of Twin magazine.
Roberta Bayley To commission Roberta or to request prints of her work: www.robertabayley.com Merging edgy realism with high aesthetic art, Roberta Bayley remains the preeminent photographer of the Punk era. From her work at the famed CBGB club on the Bowery to her captivating chronicle of the British Punk scene, Bayley’s stunning portfolio of subjects includes Blondie, Richard Hell, the Sex Pistols, Elvis Costello, Billy Idol, Iggy Pop, Talking Heads, Television, The Clash, The Damned, The Dead Boys, The New York Dolls, Nick Lowe, Polystyrene and X-Ray Spex, and Joe Strummer. Known for her eclectic eye she shot in clubs, at concerts, in green rooms, backstage, and everywhere from the Lower East Side to Central Park. Bayley includes in her one-of-a-kind portfolio there are album covers
for Richard Hell’s Blank Generation, Johnny Thunder’s Heartbreakers L.A.M.F, and the Ramones self-named debut album, acknowledged by Rolling Stone magazine as among the 100 best of the rock era.  As chief photographer for the legendary Punk magazine, Bayley began photographing the soon-to-be famous progenitors of punk in 1975, amassing perhaps the earliest complete document of the New York punk scene’s formative days. She has toured with both rising and established rockers throughout the United States and England, and is the author of Blondie: Unseen 1976-1980, as well as the co-author (with Victor Bockris ) of Patti Smith: An Unauthorized Biography. Born in Pasadena, California and raised in a small town 20 miles north of San Francisco, Bayley took off for  London in the early’70s, working briefly for Malcolm McLaren and Vivienne Westwood in their Kings Road Shop Let It Rock. Moving to New York in 1974, Bayley adopted the city as her natural habitat .  Her photographs have been exhibited worldwide, including major cities from coast to coast in the U.S. and the U.K. as well as in Mexico City, Sydney, Paris, Amsterdam, Tokyo and Hong Kong.
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