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Jonathan Griffiths
To commission him or to request prints of his work: www.alpineexposures.com
Based in Chamonix, France, Jonathan has climbed the world over and established
himself as one of the world’s leading mountain sports photographers. A highly
accomplished Alpinist himself, Jonathan continues to push himself to shoot what has
never been shot before. This approach has taken his climbing to a level that sees him
regularly tie in with climbers such as Ueli Steck and embarking on cutting edge ascents
to visually document expeditions in the Alps, Patagonia, Alaska and the Himalayas. It’s
a method that puts authentic climbing at its heart: an increasingly rare but refreshing
approach to adventure photography in a climate where style is valued more than
substance.
Monidipta Saha
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I am based in Kolkata, India. I am a researcher in a scientific research laboratory and a
lways seek out new things in every sphere of life. That instinct spreads into my passion
for photography where I get millions of chances to click new moments or frames related
to life. I have had an affection for photography since childhood, when I first started using
my father’s film camera.
I started photography seriously in 2012 with a little compact camera. Photography is
fast becoming my breathing space. I am interested in photojournalism and travel and
stories which highlight the concerns of society, people and their untold stories. As a
photographer, I always believe that the lens should be a reflection of the true stories of
life and a photographic work must have a narration from life which will distinguish it from
a mere picture.
Clive Arrowsmith
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Clive Arrowsmith is a London based, celebrated international photographer.
After leaving art school where he studied painting and design, he began taking
photographs whilst working as a graphic designer for television.
Leaving television to work as a photographer, he soon gained commissions from leading
fashion magazines, most notably, British & French Vogue, Harpers, The Sunday Times
Colour Magazine,Vanity Fair, Esquire U.S.A, and F.T. "How to Spend It".
Clive continues to work in this genre in both editorial and advertising photography and is
equally known for his music and celebrity images; Paul McCartney, Wings, Mick Jagger,
Jeff Beck, George Harrison, Daniel Barenboim, Anna Netrebko, Art Garfunkel, Def
Leppard, Prince Charles, Michael Caine and Damien Hirst to name a few.
Lincoln Clarkes
To commission him or to request prints of his work: www.lincolnclarkes.com
Lincoln Clarkes is an award-winning photographer who was originally a painter before
refocusing his efforts on fashion and portraiture while living in London and Paris.
Portraits include Debbie Harry, Helmut Newton, Noam Chomsky, Patti Smith, Vivienne
Westwood, Michael Moore, and Oliver Stone. Clarkes' photographic works have been
presented in numerous solo and group exhibitions at galleries and museums in
Vancouver, Victoria, Seattle, and Toronto. Several film and television documentaries
and scholarly essays have explored his practise. Lincoln's photographs have been
featured in Vice, LA Times, The Guardian, The Observer, Saturday Night, and
Cosmopolitan UK. He currently operates between Vancouver, Toronto, Detroit and
London.
Jesse Rieser
To commission him or to request prints of his work: www.jesserieser.com
Jesse was born and raised in the Midwestern United States, in the city of Springfield,
Missouri. Good weather and a desire to change his surroundings brought him west. At
Arizona State University he majored in photography and art history while attending the
Herberger Institute of Art and Design. Before completing his BFA, he studied and
assisted with London's top assignment commercial and fashion photographers. These
experiences laid the groundwork to strive for equally important careers in fine art and
assignment photography.
Jesse has had the honor to work with top clients and be recognized by the several
awards his field has to offer. His clients include: AT&T, Coca Cola, Disney, ESPN, The
Ford Motor Company, The John Paul Getty Museum, The NFL, Visa, and Warner
Brothers.
His work has been honored by the Communication Arts Photography Annual, PDN
Photo Annual (4x), American Photography Annual (4x), Photolucida’s Critical Mass Top
Lee Craker
To commission him or to request prints of his work: www.leecraker.com
What I try to do more than anything is to capture life. Events, stories and even scenic
elements always have a connection to people and culture, and it is the human element
I am drawn to. Whether it be sadness or joy, laughter or tears it is the people and their
stories that make me passionate about photography. This documentation I feel is
important on many levels, and can be deeply satisfying. In my mind that is what image
making is all about, photographing what you love to photograph. Your heart has a story
to tell, and camera is the voice through which you communicate. My photography is a
William Albert Allard
To commission William or to request prints of his work: www.williamalbertallard.com
The son of a Swedish immigrant, William Albert Allard was born in 1937 in Minneapolis,
Minnesota. He studied at the Minneapolis School of Fine Arts and the University of
Minnesota.
Allard is a photographer of people. From the beginning of his illustrious career in 1964 as
a National Geographic photographic intern, Allard has contributed to 42 Geographic
articles as a staff, freelance, and contract photographer and writer. His stories for the
magazine have included "Rodeos: Behind the Chutes," "India's Untouchables,"
Bohemian Rhapsody," and "Hutterite Sojourn."
Allard has published five previous highly acclaimed books including his first, Vanishing
Breed, of which the Associated Press said, "This is a classic." Published in 1982,
Vanishing Breed was nominated for The American Book Award for 1982, and was the
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 13 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.
He lives with his wife and four children in Devon, England.
George Holz
To commission him or to request prints of his work: www.georgeholz.com
George Holz was born in Oak Ridge, Tennessee, graduated from the Art Center College
of Design in Pasadena, California, and assisted for Helmut Newton, whom he credits
with guiding his career. As a fledgling photographer, he lived in Milan and Paris, where
he shot beauty and fashion for major European magazines such as Italian Vogue and
French Elle. Afterward, he moved to New York City, where he set up his famous studio
on Lafayette Street, traveling frequently to Los Angeles and Europe to shoot fashion,
advertising, and portraiture for major publications such as Vanity Fair and Harper’s
Bazaar. His fine-art nudes have been exhibited in galleries and museums around the
world.
Holz works as an adjunct professor and lectures internationally at museums and
universities. He is presently based in the rustic Catskill Mountains of New York, where
he lives on a farm with his family, two dogs, and flock of East Friesian sheep.
Joydeep Mukherjee
To commission him or to request prints of his work: www.joydeepmukherjee.com
I am a photographer who believes that an artist's work must be good consistently to be
considered as an art. One must have ‘eyes like a shutter and mind like a lens’!!.... I
always ‘work for a cause, not applause…I live life to express, not impress’!!
From my early days, I have been interested in various kinds of sports, trekking and
travelling but it was only in 2003 that I stepped into the world of photography. During a
trek to the Annapurna Base Camp – Nepal I got interested in photography. From this
time forth this passion became an integral part of my life.
According to me a photographer must be technically competent to use the various
techniques to change a photograph from a mere snap to a “snapshot of someone’s life”.
Photographs can be used to narrate a story, and thus should not cater to the aesthetic
aspect only. Despite my hectic working hours at a reputed Kolkata-based MNC, the
passion for photography remains undiminished.
Robert Herman
To commission him or to request prints of his work: www.robertherman.com
Robert Herman believes that it is the photographer, not the camera, that makes the
photograph and with that in mind, he has just released one of the first photography
books that features photographs taken entirely on an iPhone, with the Hipstamatic app.
The Phone Book, published by Schiffer Books shares over 120 photographs taken on
Robert’s international travels between 2010 and 2015. From Naples, to Bilbao,
Johannesburg to New York City, Robert has created an iPhone map of the world. “The
Phone Book is a thread to broadening one’s artistic sensibility, knowledge, visual literacy,
and sense of connection with people and places throughout the world”. The book can
also be ordered on Amazon and his site.
Robert Herman, (Brooklyn, NY, 1955), received a BFA in filmmaking from New York
University and a masters from the School of Visual Arts. He has won a PX3 Prix de la
Photographie People’s Choice Award, the Alitalia per L’arte Rome Prize, and was
selected for Artist’s Wanted/Exposure Top Fifty. Herman’s work is held in major
collections, including the George Eastman House, and the Telfair Museum in
Savannah, GA. Internationally, his work has been exhibited at the Istanbul Photography
Xavier Zimbardo
To commission him or to request prints of his work: www.xavierzimbardo.com
Xavier Zimbardo was born in France in 1955. He studied history, geography, literature
and psychology at Paris University. He became a freelance photographer as an
autodidact and travelled worldwide, working for many magazines. His love for India,
here he learned pranayama yoga, goes back a long way. As an author he has undertaken
personal researches into the metamorphosis of photographs through their degradation
and erosion. He has published a dozen books in Europe and in the USA. His work is
held in prestigious museums, such as the BNF (French National Library), the Maison
Européenne de la Photographie (MEP), the Museum of Fine Arts of Houston, and others.
In 2006 he created PHOTSOC, an International Festival of Social Photography, in the
poorest suburbs of Paris, to provide young authors with an opportunity to present their
work. He teaches local associations to express their everyday life through the
photographic medium. He joined Getty Images in 2011 and lives in Sarcelles near Paris.
Scarlet Page
To commission her or to request prints of her work: www.scarletpage.com
Scarlet Page studied photography at the University of Westminster in the early ’90’s.
She quickly developed her own fresh, documentary style travelling America with The
Smashing Pumpkins, The Beastie Boys and the other acts on the Lollapolooza tour of
1994 and the following year she had a shot feature in The Verve’s ‘A Northern Soul’
album artwork which really got things started.
Since then Scarlet has gone on to work with some of the music world’s biggest acts. She
worked closely with Robbie Williams on various projects including album art and the
book ‘Somebody Someday’ and she toured the World with The Darkness. Her other
credits include The Foo Fighters, The Red Hot Chili Peppers, The Rolling Stones,
Stereophonics, The Black Crowes and Placebo with pictures appearing in The Times,
The Independent, Mojo, Q, Uncut and Clash amongst others. She continues to be
commissioned by all the major record labels to shoot artwork and press campaigns for
high profile bands.
Scarlet has had various exhibitions of her own and has contributed to collective shows
winner of the Wrangler Western Heritage Award for Outstanding Western Art Book, 1983, and was awarded the Leica
Medal of Excellence, 1983.
Other books include:
The Photographic Essay
A Time We Knew: Images of Yesterday in the Basque Homeland
Time At the Lake: A Minnesota Album
Portraits of America
Allard received the University of Minnesota Outstanding Achievement Award, 1994.
The Joseph A. Sprague Memorial Award, 2002
University of Minnesota School of Journalism and Mass Communications Award for Excellence, 2004
Since Geographic's elimination of a photographic staff in 2008, Allard is now once again a freelance photographer and writer.
Allard lives near Charlottesville, Virginia with his wife Ani, their son Anthony, and two dogs, Buster and Lizzy.
George Webber
To commission him or to request prints of his work: www.georgewebber.ca
George Webber has been photographing the people, landscape and urban environment
of the Canadian west for over thirty-five years.
He was inducted into The Royal Canadian Academy of Arts in 1999. In 2010 he was the
recipient of the National Magazine Gold Award for Photojournalism.
His books include: Badlands, Requiem, A World Within, People of The Blood, Last Call,
In This Place, Prairie Gothic and Badlands. Webber’s work can be found in museums
and archives in Canada, France, Germany, Belgium, Switzerland and Australia.
James Fennell
To commission him or to request prints of his work: www.jamesfennell.com
James Fennell lives and was brought up at Burtown House, in County Kildare,
Ireland, one of two houses from the 18th Century in Co. Kildare to have never
been sold. As well as running Burtown House, and its 10 acres of gardens, an
organic restaurant, art galleries, artisan shop and sculpture park, all set within the
gardens and parkland, James is a photographer specialising in Interiors,
Portraiture and Travel. On assignment around the world, he captures in his work
the vastly different people, architecture, culture and lifestyles that have led him
to numerous countries. James has produced over twenty books on many subjects
including interiors, architecture, art, food, people and their lifestyles. Whether
working for clients like Conde Nast, or compelled to shoot simply because that’s
what a photographer does, he captures striking images that have appeared in
magazines and advertising campaigns worldwide.
He lives at Burtown House with his wife, two daughters and son.
Kevin Bubriski
To commission him or to request prints of his work: www.kevinbubriski.com
Kevin Bubriski has exhibited worldwide; his work is in the permanent collections of the
Museum of Modern Art, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, and the International Center of
Photography, all in New York; the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; the Yale
University Art Gallery, New Haven; the Center for Creative Photography, Tucson; and
the Bibliotheque Nationale, Paris. A recipient of fellowships from the Guggenheim
Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the Asian Cultural Council,
Bubriski worked for nine years in Nepal, and has photographed his journeys to India,
Tibet, and Bangladesh. Author of Portrait of Nepal (Chronicle), which won the Golden
Light Documentary Award in 1993, and Power Places of Kathmandu: Hindu and
Buddhist Holy Sites in the Sacred Valley of Nepal (Inner Traditions).
Bubriski lives in Vermont with his wife.
Duffy (1933 - 2010)
Duffy Archive: www.duffyphotographer.com
Duffy was one of three photographers who defined the look of London's 'Swinging Sixties'.
Together with David Bailey and Terence Donovan they were affectionally named by
Norman Parkinson as the 'Black Trinity' and were elevated to celebrity status and known
only by their surnames.
Duffy started his photographic career at Vogue in 1957 and worked for all the top glossy
fashion magazine as well as the new Sunday newspaper magazines. In addition to his
fashion and portraiture work Duffy is perhaps best known for his work with David Bowie.
He shot five sessions with Bowie, the most recognised is the Aladdin Sane album cover
nicknamed the 'Mona Lisa of Pop' and an image off the contact sheet was released in
2013 as the lead image for the worldwide touring Victoria & Albert museum's exhibition
'David Bowie is'.
Duffy was an eclectic and innovative photographer who shot several award winning
Clive is also an accomplished landscape and still life photographer with a large collection of stock photos available at
Celebrity Pictures Ltd.
Clive Arrowsmith is the only photographer to have photographed the Pirelli Calendar two years in succession.
Having worked on many major stills advertising campaigns; De Beers, Revlon, G.H.D. Morello, Caroline Castigliano, Lexus,
Hassleblad etc, Clive has continued to broaden his creative scope moving on to direct commercials for Heinz, Revlon,
Hamlet Cigars (winner of The Silver Lion Cannes Film Festival), Rapeed Sunglasses, Greenmail Whitney Beer and music
videos of artists like Lee Griffiths, Jamiroquai, Jools Holland, ZTT and Def Leppard.
Clive has recently been working in Taiwan on the Free Tibet campaign with the Heavy
Metal band, Chthonic, and has also photographed His Holiness the Dalai Lama several times.
50 (2x), Center's Review Santa Fe 100, Art Director’s Club Young Guns (Top 50 International Emerging Creative Under 30),
Luezer’s Archive (200 Best Ad Photographers Worldwide) and a recipient of the Magenta Foundation’s Flash Forward
award in 2012.
Beat Presser
To commission him or to request prints of his work: www.beatpresser.com
Beat Presser was trained to become a photographer and cinematographer in Basel,
Switzerland, where he was born and raised, then in Paris and New York. After his
education in photographic studios, darkrooms, on filmsets, advertising agencies and
newspapers, the Cooper Union University in New York and other places he started
work as a freelance photographer and cameraman on his own account. Beat Presser
worked over the years in many different fields: Fashion, Advertising, Portrait
Photography, Industrial Photography, Reproduction of paintings, for Newspapers, as a
director of photography for documentary-, advertising- and featurefilms. In the mid-
seventies he edited The Village Cry his own photography newspaper and in 1981 he
was invited to become the still photographer and assistant cameraman for Werner
Herzog¨s epic Fitzcarraldo, starring Claudia Cardinale and Klaus Kinski. A unique
experience for the now 29 year old. In the jungle of Peru, during the difficult and seven
months long realisation of Fitzcarraldo, for a first time he takes notes and starts to
write short stories, all written longhand in small little books that would fit into one of his
pockets, always ready to register impressions, observations and incidents. But it took another 25 years till his texts were
published. Nevertheless already seventeen photography books on different subjects on his early work, the Swiss Alps, on
Klaus Kinski and Werner Herzog, on Architecture, Buddhism, on Magic Places and other themes have been published by
many different reknown publishing houses by now. Most of the with his own writing. Apart from commissioned work as a
photographer or on filmsets earlier on, BP organises exhibits on his own work, teaches photography as a guest professor
in different universities around the globe.
Henk Van Rensbergen
To commission him or to request prints of his work: www.henkvanrensbergen.com
Henk Van Rensbergen has flown all around the globe as the pilot of a Boeing 787 and is
a pioneering urban explorer. He took his first photos of abandoned buildings at the age
of twenty. It was to become a lifetime’s work.
Over 10,000 copies have been sold of Abandoned Places 1, 2 and 3.
commercials and pop music videos and is one of the few photographers to have shot three Pirelli calendars (the first in 1965
and two more in 1973 for different divisions)
Duffy's work has been exhibited in museums and galleries worldwide and is highly collectable.
Duffy is known as a 'photographers photographer' and was recently voted one of the top 100 most influential photographers
of all time.
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Museum and the Museum of Modern Art in Cartagena, Colombia. His monograph The New Yorkers, a collection of
photographs of New York City, shot between 1978-2005 on Kodachrome, was published to great critical acclaim and is now
in its second printing.
including the Visions of Dylan show in 2007. She has also worked extensively for charities, including the ABC Trust, the
PDSA, Teenage Cancer Trust and Warchild. For the latter, Scarlet photographed artists and celebrities and their children for
a fund raising exhibition held at the Proud Gallery in Camden and later at the Royal Albert Hall.
Scarlet’s exhibition ‘Resonators’ showed at Proud Camden at the end of November 2015 and she has just released an
accompanying book.