The magazine of the photo-essay
Feb 2017 back issue
Malcolm Lightner
To commission him or to request prints of his work: www.malcolmlightner.com
MALCOLM LIGHTNER is a photographer who works and resides in New York. Born in
1969 in Naples, Florida, he is a fourth generation native Floridian. Malcolm has been
the recipient of numerous awards and grants and his work has been featured in a
range of exhibitions including Art + Commerce Emerging Photographers and NYPH
(New York Photo Festival). Malcolm's photography is included in the permanent
photography collections at the Southeast Museum of Photography in Daytona Beach,
Florida. His work has appeared in The Oxford American, VIEW, Dazed & Confused,
The Atlantic, VICE, WIRED, SLATE, Dear Dave, Aint-Bad and Life, among other
publications. Malcolm is a member of the photography faculty at the School of Visual
Arts in New York City since 2002.
Ioana Moldovan
To commission her or to request prints of her work: www.ioanamoldovan.com
Ioana Moldovan is an Eddie Adams Workshop alumnus. She is a freelance
photojournalist and writer and has documented stories from Ukraine to Ethiopia and
the Middle East. Her work has been published by The New York Times, Al Jazeera
English, Huffington Post, or Radio France International. Her photos have illustrated
books and have been shown in theatre shows and exhibitions.
Ioana Moldovan was one of the ten Eastern-European photographers selected for a
Masterclass in Documentary Photography by the Dutch NOOR Photo Agency. In 2016
the U.S. Embassy in Bucharest presented her with the “Women of courage” award for
outstanding achievement in highlighting truth through photojournalism. At the Eddie
Adams Workshop 2016, Moldovan was awarded the Bill Eppridge Memorial Award for
excellence and truth in photographic journalism.
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 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.
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.
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Stephen Fry. British actor, writer and film & documentary maker
Anne Rearick
To commission her or to request prints of her work: www.annerearick.com
Anne Rearick's humanist vision is documentary in nature, but also uniquely personal.
Rearick works slowly, often photographing over the course of years and in the process
deepens her relationship to people and place. In doing so, Rearick endeavors to
portray and celebrate the full range of day-to-day experience of her subjects and in
many respects stands with her subjects instead of in front of them.
Rearick received a Masters of Fine Arts Degree from the Massachusetts College of Art
in 1990 and has worked as a photographer and teacher for the past 27 years. She has
been the recipient of several awards and grants, most notably a Guggenheim fellowship
to photograph the culture of amateur boxing, the European Mosaique prize to explore
rural communities of Italy and Scotland, the Prix Roger Pic from SCAM, a Fulbright
fellowship to the Basque Country of France and two New England Foundation for the
Arts/Mass Cultural Council grants.
In 2016, a monograph of Rearick’s decade-long exploration of post-apartheid life in
South African townships entitled, Township, was published by Editions Clémentine de
Jutta Benzenberg
To commission her or to request prints of her work: www.juttabenzenberg.com
Jutta Benzenberg studied photography at the “Staatliche Fachakademie für
Fotodesign” München (DE) and worked afterwards as a photographer for different
magazines and theatres. Additionally, she worked with some TV-stations such as BR
first as a camera assistant and at privat TV as a cameraman as well.
1991 she travelled for the first time through Albania with the Albanian writer Ardian
Klosi to shoot photographies of those upset times, to capture Albanian portraits and
landscapes. After several Albania-journeys Jutta Benzenberg and Ardian Klosi
published a book in spring 1993 in Salzburg, Austria, under the title: Albanisches
Überleben – Albanian Survival at the Otto Müller Verlag in Salzburg.
Since then Jutta had many exhibitions on Albanian themes in different cities of
Germany, France, Austria, Italy, Switzerland and Albania.
Jutta Benzenberg’s and Ardian Klosi’s second book Bukuri e rëndë – Sombre Beauty
Maciej Dakowicz
To commission him or to request prints of his work: www.maciejdakowicz.com
Maciej is an experienced Polish photographer, traveller and teacher of photography
workshops. He holds a PhD in computer science, but abandoned science to focus on
photography. He is one of the founders of the Third Floor Gallery in Cardiff and a
member the international street photography collective In-Public. His interests are in
documentary, travel and street photography. Maciej’s photos have been widely
published and exhibited around the world, shown at photo festivals and he is a
recipient of numerous awards. Maciej’s first monograph Cardiff After Dark was
published in October 2012. Currently he is based in Bangkok.
Marissa Roth
To commission her or to request prints of her work: www.marissarothphotography.com
Born and raised in Los Angeles, Marissa Roth is an internationally published freelance
photojournalist and documentary photographer. She has worked on assignment for
various prestigious publications including The New York Times, and was part of The
Los Angeles Times staff that won a Pulitzer Prize for Best Spot News Coverage of the
1992 Los Angeles Riots.
Her work has been exhibited in solo and group exhibitions and a number of images
are in museum, corporate and private collections. One Person Crying: Women and
War, Roth’s 31-year personal photo essay that addresses the immediate and lingering
impact of war on women in different countries and cultures around the world, is
currently an international travelling exhibition, with a forthcoming book. Infinite Light: A
Photographic Meditation on Tibet, is also a current project, and a traveling exhibition.
The book, with a foreword by His Holiness the Dalai Lama, was released in April 2014.
The Crossing, a just completed project about the Atlantic Ocean, will also be a
forthcoming book and exhibition. Roth’s first exhibition as curator, My War: Wartime
Marylise Vigneau
To commission her or to request prints of her work: www.marylisevigneau.com
Raised in Paris in a conventional family Marylise Vigneau developed an early taste for
peeping through keyholes and climbing walls.
She studied “Compared Literature” at la Sorbonne and her thesis was about cities as
characters in Russian and Central-European novels. Her education is essentially
literary but photography became more and more her language during her life’s journey.
She is documenting life mainly in Asia focusing on cities and on what time,
development or isolation do to them. She likes to play with opposites; absence and
presence, emptiness and fullness, isolation and multitude, fondness and irony, the very
near and the far away. The inner and the strange.
Her work has been shown in Angkor Photo Festival, Foto Istanbul, Yangon Photo
Festival, Nairang Gallery in Lahore and Focus Photography Festival in Mumbai. It has
also been published in Pix Quarterly (India), Asia Life and Milk in Cambodia as well as
in Eyes Open (Italy).
Claudio Cambon
To commission him or to request prints of his work: www.claudiocambon.com
Claudio Cambon has been a documentary photographer for over 25 years, since
obtaining his undergraduate degree from Yale University, where he studied with Richard
Benson, Jo Ann Walters and Stephen B. Smith. He also studied briefly at the San
Francisco Art Institute with Linda Connor and Jack Fulton. He has photographed all
over the world: in Italy and Germany, where his parents are from and where he has
lived for various periods of his life, across the American West, where he worked as a
hand on cattle ranches, in Bangladesh, where he documented the last voyage,
breaking and recycling of an American merchant ship (published as the book
Shipbreak by Edition Patrick Frey, Zurich, in September 2015), and in Mexico, where
he photographed life in the rural, indigenous areas of the country for extended periods
of time. In 2011 he began a long-term project about religious festivals in Bangladesh
and Eastern India under the auspices of a Fulbright fellowship; this project is now
focusing on Tantric traditions in Assam. He has been a member since 2014 of Oh
Les Murs!, a Paris-based photographic collaborative currently engaged in
documenting the river Seine from source to sea. Claudio has exhibited, lectured, and
been published and collected internationally; in the summer of 2011, his work formed
Emmanuel Georges
To commission him or to request prints of his work: www.emmanuel-georges.com
Emmanuel Georges is a photographer and graphic designer from Strasbourg.
his works range from documentary, ethnographic (Argentina 92 & Puna, Nationale 4,
Neudorf) to intimate testimony (Du Spleen, Merlimont-Plage, Mamie-Dijon, Kibitz) and
plastic research (Automation, America Rewind , Photo 2000).
Alexandre Deschaumes
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Self thaught photographer and musician inspired by ethereal atmospheres.
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Frank Kunert
To commission him or to request prints of his work: www.frank-kunert.de
After graduating from high school, Frank Kunert (born 1963 in Frankfurt, Germany)
trained to be a photographer from 1984 to 1987. It was during this period that he
discovered his love for staged studio photography. After gaining experience as a
photographer's assistant, in 1992 he decided to work freelance. For several years
now, Frank has been devoting himself predominantly to designing and taking
photographs of his small worlds, which he also regularly present in exhibitions. In
2006 he received the Silver Medal at the 3rd Biennial Dimensional Salon in New York,
and in 2009 the German Photo Book Award in Silver.
Kim Verkade
To commission her or to request prints of her work: www.kimverkade.nl
I’m Kim Verkade (1992), a documentary photographer and filmmaker based in The
Hague, The Netherlands. In 2014 I graduated at the Royal Academy of Art in The
Hague in Photography (BA). My work usually has a personal starting point, such as
my own experiences and memories from my childhood. I always try to place the
subjects in a larger social context for example in ‘Eternal Light’ where I went back to
the place where I grew up and noticed the strange relationship between human and
nature, but also with my most recent work ‘Broadcast Myself’ about how teenage girls
present themselves through Youtube, and how they try to find their own identity.
Something I remember and recognize a lot.
Her ongoing work about Cambodia has been exhibited in November 2015 at the Delhi Photo Festival and screened at the
Angkor Festival 2015. Her work about the Lahore Mental Hospital in collaboration with Aun Raza was exhibited at QR Photo
Gallery in Bologna, Italy in February 2016.
In October 2015, she joined the Anzenberger Agency in Vienna.
Carol Beckwith & Angela Fisher
To commission them or to request prints of their work: www.africanceremonies.com
www.carolbeckwith-angelafisher.com
Thirty years of work on the African continent have carried Carol Beckwith and Angela
Fisher across 270,000 miles and through remote corners of 40 countries in exploration
of more than 150 African cultures. In the process, this team of world-renowned
photographers has produced fourteen widely acclaimed books and made four films
about traditional Africa. They have been granted unprecedented access to African
tribal rites and rituals and continue to be honored worldwide for their powerful photographs documenting the traditional
ceremonies of cultures thousands of years old. As an intrepid team of explorers, they are committed to preserving sacred
tribal ceremonies and African cultural traditions all too vulnerable to the trends of modernity.
The Beckwith-Fisher images are the result of a long, enduring and deeply respectful relationship with African tribal peoples.
This, combined with their photographic skills, creates an intimate portrayal of ceremonies long held secret that might have
never been recorded. Their work preserves and presents the power, complexity and celebration found within the rituals of
African tribal life.
Their extraordinary photographs are recorded in fourteen best-selling books and in their films. Their new book “Painted
Bodies” (2012) follows “Maasai” (1980), “Nomads of Niger” (1983), “Africa Adorned” (1984), “African Ark” (1990), “African
Ceremonies” (1999), “Passages” (2000), “Faces of Africa” (2004), “Lamu: Kenya’s Enchanted Island” (2009), and “Dinka”
(2010). The special limited-edition books, hand printed in Santiago, Chile, are titled “Surma,” “Karo,” “Maasai,” and “Dinka.”
“African Ceremonies,” their defining body of work, is a double volume, pan-African study of rituals and rites of passage
from birth to death, covering 93 ceremonies from 26 countries. This book won the United Nations Award for Excellence for
“vision and understanding of the role of cultural traditions in the pursuit of world peace.”
Honored twice with the Annisfield-Wolf Book Award in race relations for “outstanding contributions to the understanding of
cultural diversity and prejudice,” Angela and Carol are also winners of the Royal Geographical Society of London’s Cherry
Kearton Medal for their contribution to the photographic recording of African ethnography and ritual.
The photographers have made four films about traditional Africa, including Way of the Wodaabe (1986), The Painter and
the Fighter, and two programs for the Millennium Series Tribal Wisdom and the Modern World. Numerous exhibitions of
their photography and films have been shown in museums and galleries around the world. In 2000 their Passages
exhibition opened at the Brooklyn Museum of Art featuring 97 mural photographs, six video films and a selection of African
masks, sculpture and jewelry. This exhibition has traveled to seven museums on three continents.
Aware that traditional cultures in Africa are fast disappearing, Carol and Angela are working with an urgency to complete
the third volume of their ongoing study of African Ceremonies with the goal of covering the remaining traditional
ceremonies in the 13 African cultures in which they have not yet worked. This book entitled African Twilight is scheduled
for publication in 2013.
la Féronnière, Paris. A book of Rearick’s Basque photographs, Anne Rearick's Eye (editioned as Miresicoletea), was
published in 2004 by Éditions Atlantica, Paris. Public Collections include the Bibliotheque Nationale in Paris, the Centre
Nationale de L’Audiovisuel in Luxembourg, and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. Terrence Malick’s new
documentary The Voyage of Time (2016) contains video footage shot by Rearick in South Africa and the French Basque
country. Anne Rearick is a member of Agence VU, Paris.
Claude le Gall
To commission him or to request prints of his work: www.clgp.fr
1947. Born in a little village on the north coast of Brittany.
1962. First photographs taken with a bakelite camera ( 6x9 cm)
1970s. Becomes a teacher of English and, at the same time, develops a deep interest
in photography. Documents his environment, in particular the life of local kelp-
gatherers whose activity will come to an end a few years later.
1981. Exhibition on Brittany at the Canon gallery in Paris.
1982. Starts work on Ireland. The project will be concluded in 1994. Some of this work
will be shown in France and in Poland.
1986. Starts a project on Galicia, the so-called Celtic part of Spain. This work is still in
progress and part of it was exhibited at Museo do Pobo Galego in Santiago de
Compostela in 2012.
1993-2013. Work distributed by Agence VU in Paris.
Has become a free-lance again and is currently organizing the work he has done over
the past 46 years.
part of the Italy Pavilion at the 2011 Venice Biennale, 81 years after his grandmother and 101 years after his grandfather,
both painters, last exhibited there. He lives in Paris, France.
sponsored by the Swiss culture foundation Pro Helvetia was published in Tirana in 2004. With the photographies of this
book she exhibited at the Biennial Arts Festival Tirana (AL), Think Pink (Prishtina, KO), Goethe Institut (Thessaloniki and
Athens, GR) among others.
2011 their last book ”Ahead with the Past” sponsored by the Swiss Foundation DEZA, was published by Fotohof Salzburg
Austria.
Her last Solo and Group Exhibitions were held in Rumania, Kosovo, Greece, Germany, Montenegro, Serbia, Albania and
in USA.(Washington DC)Latin America, North Africa, Africa.
Jutta Benzenberg is based in Tirana and since 2015 also in Berlin and Munich, where she works as a freelance
photographer and for a cultural project “Albania meets Germany”.
Lydia Panas
To commission her or to request prints of her work: www.lydiapanas.com
Lydia Panas' images have been exhibited widely in the US and internationally. Her
work has garnered many prestigious awards and has been featured in periodicals such
as The New York Times Magazine, Photo District News and Popular Photography. Her
photographs are held in numerous public and private collections including the
Brooklyn Museum; Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; Allentown Art Museum of the Lehigh
Valley; Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago; Museum of Photographic Arts,
San Diego; and Zendai MoMA, Shanghai among others. Panas has degrees from
Boston College, School of Visual Arts and from New York University/ International
Center of Photography. She is the recipient of a Whitney Museum Independent Study
Fellowship and a CFEVA Fellowship. Lydia has taught in the education department of
The Museum of Modern Art, as well as Kutztown University, Muhlenberg, Cedar Crest,
Moravian and Lafayette Colleges, and taught workshops at Maine Media Workshops,
Houston Center of Photography, Athens House of Photography, Athens, Greece, La
Fototeca in Guatemala and upcoming, at the Anderson Ranch Arts Center in Snow
Mass, CO. She has given lectures at the International Center of Photography, The
School of Visual Arts, The Tsereteli Museum of Modern Art, Athens House of Photography, Allentown Art Museum among
many others. Her first monograph "The Mark of Abel" (Kehrer Verlag) was named a Photo District News Book of 2012, a
Best Book by Photo Eye Magazine, as well as a best coffee table book by the Daily Beast. Her second, “Falling From
Grace…” was released in October 2016.
Julia Solis
To commission her or to request prints of her work: www.juliasolis.com
Julia Solis has photographed abandoned spaces since the late 1990s and is the
author of New York Underground: The Anatomy of a City (Routledge 2007) and
Stages of Decay (Prestel 2013). As the proprietress of darkpassage.com, she has
organized parlor games in notable ruins and subterranean spaces for over a decade.
Most recently, she is the co-founder of Seafoam Palace, a new museum of curiosity
in Detroit.
Photographs by Vietnam Veterans, opened at The Highground Vietnam Veterans Memorial Park in Neillsville, WI, on August
6, 2016.
A commissioned portrait project by The Museum of Tolerance/ Simon Wiesenthal Center, to photograph the Holocaust
survivors who volunteer there, Witness to Truth, is on permanent exhibition at the museum. Roth has 3 additional books to
her credit; “Burning Heart: A Portrait of The Philippines”, “Real City: Downtown Los Angeles Inside/Out”, and “Come the
Morning”, a children’s book about homelessness.
Dror Garti
To commission him or to request prints of his work: www.drorgarti.com
Dror Garti, photo-journalist, born in 1971 in Jerusalem, Israel. Dror started his career
on a long photographic journey to New-Zealand and Australia. When he returned he
decided to focus on the documentary genre as his main passion. He started his career
working for local newspapers in the Reshet Shoken network and then moved to work
for various magazines. He is involved in documenting diverse communities in Israel -
the Samaritans, Ultra-Orthodox Jews in the Hassidic courts, Asylum Seekers and
more. Dror is based today in Israel and works for few photo agencies including Israel’s
leading agency – Flash90, Hoogte Hollandse (Holland), COSMOS (France) and INA
(Sweden).
