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Jan 2015 back issue

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.

Jack Fillery To commission Jack or to request prints of his work: www.jackfillery.com Jack Fillery is an award-winning photographer based in Peckham, London. He has exhibited both nationally and internationally, and was recently shortlisted for the Professional Photographer Magazine's Professional Photographer of the Year award. Commercially, he focuses on travel, portrait and food photography. His artistic exploration is furthered through personal work, ranging from still life to wildlife photography.

Thaddeus Pope To commission him or to request prints of his work: www.britishphotojournalist.com Born and raised in Brighton, England, Thaddeus Pope is a documentary photographer with a passion for creating socially committed, long-term photographic essays about people and the physical, mental and emotional spaces that people inhabit. Thaddeus sees the camera as a tool for self-expression, which allows him to explore these spaces and helps him describe the world as he sees it. Now based in Nagoya, Japan, where he works as the Media & Design Manager for The International Academic Forum (IAFOR), Thaddeus’s current professional photographic practice migrates between commercial assignments and the development of several documentaries exploring Japanese culture, with particular interest in the role of ritual and tradition in contemporary Japanese life. Thaddeus is available for assignment, commission and collaboration.

Jessica McGlothlin To commission Jessica or to request prints of her work: www.firegirlphotography.com Jessica McGlothlin (b. 1988) is a freelance photojournalist and writer. She calls Montana home but is a wanderer at heart; her adventures have taken her above the Arctic Circle on the Kola Peninsula in Russia to the Texas-Mexico border. Most recently she undertook a joint editorial / commercial assignment in Belize, enjoying bouncing from jungle ruins to fisherman’s boats and randomly making friends with Dutch Marines and fishing guides alike. She works with a variety of editorial and commercial clients in the outdoor, current events and disaster relief sectors. Jess currently lives in Manchester, Vermont, and enjoys traveling as much as is possible. Typically her fly rod and camera can be found near at hand.

Siddharth Setia To commission Siddharth or to request prints of his work: siddharth4586@gmail.com Born on 4th May, 1986 in Punjab, India. Siddharth currently lives and works in Gurgaon, India. Published three times on the National Geographic website under Daily Dozen 2012 Canon’s emerging artist of the year 2013 exhibition at United Art Fair, Delhi, India. Selected by National Geographic Channel India for an instawalk for the year 2013, 2014 Siddharth Setia roams around with a camera trying to capture everyday life through his lens. An instinctive photographer, known to capture photographs from daily life and make them everlasting. His play of shapes and colors in the photos he takes emphasize deeply his passion and love for photography. He comes from the beautiful city of Bathinda, Punjab, India. His eye for detail is totally self taught and it is his love for the unknown and the need to capture it through the visual medium that made him follow his dreams to become a freelance travel photographer. There are limitations to the use of language, but for Siddharth it is through photographs that he speaks. Take a look!

Brian David Stevens To commission Brian or to request prints of his work: www.briandavidstevens.com Brian David Stevens – Brian is a photographer working in London. He was born in Cambridge of Welsh parents and brought up in Yorkshire as a cruel genetic experiment. Recent projects have included photographing the British coastline and ancient woodland. Brian has just completed a ten year project shooting war veterans entitled They that are Left. He is currently not writing a book.

Lasse Burell To commission Lasse to request prints of his work: www.burellphoto.se Lasse Burell (born 1961, Uppsala, Sweden) is a Swedish freelance photographer. He lives and works in Stockholm, Sweden. He started out his career as an Art Director and Graphic Designer in advertising. Since 2003 he has worked as a freelance photographer with editorial and commercial clients. “My background in graphic design is probably visible in my photography. And, when I do picture stories and personal projects, I try to work intuitively. I would rather hang around in a gang and see what happens, rather than try to analyse it. I am very much interested in what connects us, and how we interact to each other, as human beings.

Sarker Protick To commission Sarker or to request prints of his work: www.sarkerprotick.com Sarker Protick was born and raised in Dhaka, Bangladesh. As a teenager he wanted to be a musician and songwriter, but discovered photography around the age 24, when visiting the Chobi Mela Photography Festival. After finishing a bachelor’s degree, he enrolled at Pathshala South Asian Media Institute. His photographs have been published in The New York Times, GEO, National Geography, The British Journal of Photography, Wired, Photo Plus and many others. In 2012, Sarker won the Prix Mark Grosset Internationales De Photographie and the World Bank Art Program. He also exhibited at Chobi Mela International Photography Festival, Noorderlicht Photo Festival, Photovisa Festival, Organ Vida Festival of Photography, Dhaka Art Summit, Tokyo month of Photography and Festival of Promenades Photographiques. In 2014, he was chosen by the British Journal Of Photography as the ‘One to watch’. The

He lives with his wife and three children in Devon, England.

Jayati Saha To commission Jayati or to request prints of her work: www.jayatisaha.com A renowned transaction lawyer who gave up her lucrative career for her first love, photography, Jayati Saha is a self-taught photo-artist, with an extremely sensitive eye that has captured moments glistening with human emotions. Her forte is seeing the unseen and the unnoticed. Based in Kolkata, India, she is peripatetic and her journeys have taken her to the India not known or seen by many. Her work has been widely appreciated and have been exhibited in India and abroad, used as tutorial material and form part of private collections. She is also a contributor at Getty Images Inc., USA.

Ingetje Tadros To commission Injetje or to request prints of her work: www.andrewwongpictures.com Renowned photographer and traveler Ingetje Tadros began a global photographic sojourn at seventeen. Leaving behind her small hometown in the Netherlands, she ambitiously set out to travel the planet. Over the course of 35 years of regular travel, she has visited more than 45 countries across six continents, all the while capturing striking images of the world's tribal people, and of lives and places that exist in relative obscurity. Her photography offers the viewer genuine moments of humanity and stunning expressive form. Whether she is photographing people in a market in a village in India, or during a festival in Papua New Guinea, Ingetje is always fully engaged with the people she encounters. The viewer never has the feeling she is pickpocketing people's private sacred moments to enthrall us with mere cultural novelty. Her photographs neither intend to shock nor illicit sympathy; therefore, we can visually engage with Tadros' subjects without the distortions imposed by a disparaging fog of pity. Through her great skill and sensitivity, she enhances our perceptions and engages us with the unfamiliar, enabling us to cast off our engrained, divisive tendencies - the formidable mental barriers that alienate "us" (the urban

James Hill To commission James or to request prints of his work: www.mjrhill.com James Hill is a leading photographer and photojournalist and his images have won many of photography’s most important prizes including World Press Photo, the Pulitzer Prize, the Visa d’Or at Perpignan’s Visa Pour L’Image, and awards from The Overseas Press Club of America and the NPPA. He began his career after studies at Oxford University and the London College of Printing, leaving England for the Soviet Union in the autumn of 1991. Plunged immediately into the strife of the war torn republics of the former Soviet Union he worked initially as a freelancer before joining The New York Times on contract in 1995. He was based first in Moscow and then in Rome, from where he departed to cover the battles of the US led war on terror in Afghanistan in 2001 and the invasion of Iraq in 2003. In recent years he has returned to Moscow and travels across the world focusing his attention on longer projects as well as in-depth news features. Hill is recognised, in particular, for blending a style of environmental portraits and landscapes, and mixing an

artistic and journalistic awareness of the world around him. His series of books and exhibitions have been supported by both governmental and commercial agencies. Among recent projects were “Victory Day,” an extensive portrait series of more than 500 Russian WWII veterans published with the support of the British Council and “Days of San Isidro,” a study on bullfighting commissioned by the Spanish Ministry of Foreign Affairs. His latest book, “Somewhere Between War and Peace,” an examination of the emotional and artistic forces dominating a photographer’s career, is published by Kehrer Verlag. His work has been shown in solo exhibits in both state and commercial galleries worldwide. His photographs are also in the permanent collections of the Pushkin Museum, the Moscow Museum of Multimedia/Moscow House of Photography, The Houston Museum of Fine Arts, as well as institutional and private collections.

Eros Hoagland To commission Eros or to request prints of his work: www.eroshoagland.com Eros Hoagland has worked as an independent photojournalist and visual documentarian since 1994. He has concentrated on the exploration of countries and peoples immersed in cycles of violence across the globe. Assignments and personal projects have taken him throughout Latin America, Iraq and Afghanistan. His editorial clients have ranged from The New York Times and Time magazine, to Der Spiegel, The Times of London and Smithsonianmagazine. Hoagland was also featured in the 2012 HBO documentary series Witness, which chronicled the professional lives of conflict photographers around the world.

Rob Hornstra To commission Rob or to request prints of his work: www.thesochiproject.org Rob Hornstra (born 14 March 1975, The Netherlands) is a Dutch photographer and self- publisher of documentary work, particularly of areas of the former Soviet Union. Rob Hornstra studied Social and Legal Services at the Utrecht University of Applied Sciences from 1994 to 1998; for a year from summer 1996 he interned and then worked as a probation officer. From September 1998 he worked for over eight years as a host and bartender at Muziekcentrum Vredenburg (Utrecht). From 1999 to 2004 he studied photographic design at Utrecht School of the Arts. Since graduation Hornstra has combined editorial work for newspapers and magazines with more personal, longer-term documentary work in the Netherlands, Iceland, and the former Soviet Union. Hornstra considers himself a maker of photographic documentaries rather than a photographer; when not photographing for a particular purpose, he does not carry a camera. Further, he sees books as more important than exhibitions, and regards his own editing, publication and marketing of books of his photography as an important part of his work.

In 2006, together with the art historian Femke Lutgerink, Hornstra started work on Fotodok, an Utrecht-based organization that arranges exhibitions and other events for documentary photography. Itself inspired by Galerie Fotohof inSalzburg, Fotodok hopes eventually to create an exhibition space for documentary photography in Utrecht. Fotodok was launched in 2008; Hornstra stepped down as creative director in September 2009. Starting with his first collection, Communism and Cowgirls, Hornstra has published his own books. These skip forewords by other writers, biographical notes, ISBNs and the other trappings of conventionally published books; by taking advance orders and selling copies directly and also working through a small number of retailers, Hornstra is able to avoid normal distribution channels. Together with the writer and filmmaker Arnold van Bruggen, in 2009 Hornstra started the Sochi Project, which over five years would document the area of Sochi (Krasnodar Krai, Russia) and the changes to it during the preparation for the2014 Winter Olympics. Hornstra and Van Bruggen express surprise at the choice of a place so close to politically volatile areas such as Abkhazia and one that by Russian standards has exceptionally mild winters as the site for such a large winter event. Under the slogan slow journalism, the pair request donations from the public for the crowdfunding of a project whose scale is impossible for the mass media. Hornstra is represented by Flatland Gallery (Utrecht and Paris).

Vova Pomortzeff To commission Vova or to request prints of his work: www.pomortzeff.com Vova Pomortzeff (1974) is a freelance photojournalist and documentary photographer based in Prague, Czech Republic. He was born in the Soviet Union and graduated from t he Urals State Academy of Architecture and Arts in Yekaterinburg, Russia. His works have been awarded at numerous international contests including the Sony World Photography Awards (2011 and 2014), the Humanity Photo Awards (2014) and the China International Press Photo (2013) and published in many national and international newspapers and magazines. Vova Pomortzeff is represented by Agentur Focus (Germany).

Will Brown To commission Will or to request prints of his work: www.willbrown.net Will Brown was born in Media, Pennsylvania. He studied at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (PAFA), and in 1967 received a BFA in Painting from the University of Pennsylvania. His interest in photography and film developed as a result of his relationship with teacher and mentor Rudy Burckhardt. In 1966, he made a film about the oyster fishermen of the Chesapeake Bay. He also assisted Burckhardt on several films, including Cowgirl (1976). A solo exhibition of his photographs was mounted in 1971 at Swarthmore College, where Brown taught filmmaking and photography from 1967 until 1973. A second solo show followed at PAFA’s Peale House Gallery in 1973. Following this, Brown devoted his career to a freelance practice specializing in the photography of work by fine artists. Brown’s photographs were featured in Common Ground, Eight Philadelphia Photographers of the 1960s and 1970s (2009) and 35mm: Photographs from the Collection (2012), both at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, and Making Magic: Beauty in Word and Image, at the

James A. Michener Museum of Art (2012). In 2014 he had solo shows at the Fabric Workshop and Museum in Philadelphia and at the Laurence Miller Gallery, New York. The Picture that Remains, a book in collaboration of Brown's photographs and Devaney's poems was published by the Print Center of Philadelphia in 2014. Brown’s works are held in the collections of the Philadelphia Museum of Art, the Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library of Yale University, the Smithsonian American Art Museum, The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, the Boston Museum of Fine Arts and in numerous private collections. Will Brown is represented by Laurence Miller Gallery, New York. He lives in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and Montville, Maine with his wife the painter Emily Brown.

Nadav Neuhaus To commission Nadav or to request prints of his work: www.nadavneuhaus.com Nadav Neuhaus is a New York-based photojournalist covering international events and conflicts, including the earthquakes in Haiti and Japan, the drug wars in Mexico, and the Egyptian revolution. For more than 15 years, the Israeli native covered the Arab-Israeli conflict, including work with Israeli Special Forces in Gaza and stories about life in the Palestinian territories. He has also produced features about modern day gold diggers in California, illegal immigration along the U.S.-Mexico border, and the Mars Society, a group of international scientists training for the colonization of Mars. His work has appeared in newspapers and magazines around the world, including Time, Newsweek, National Geographic, The New York Times, Paris Match, VSD, Stern, Geo and The Independent (London).

La Lutte is Lasse Burells first personal project published as a book and exihibition.

same year, Sarker was selected for the World Press Photo – Joop Swart Masterclass. Sarker is currently teaching at Pathshala South Asian Media Academy.

economically-advantaged) from "them" (indigenous people and the world's chronically poor and vulnerable). In March of 2011, Ingetje published her first book, Tribal Ethiopia - a testament of her passion for documenting tribal people and championing issues of social justice. The book's 286 photos document the indigenous tribes of the Omo River Valley and their plight as people threatened with the of loss of their ancestral homeland and economic livelihood to modern development; a proposed massive hydroelectric plant project would eventually flood their valley.Over the course of her career she has been a volunteer photographer for the Amsterdam World Museum and a travel consultant for Nouvelles Frontieres. Ingetje currently freelances in Australia. She is also a prodigious contributor to world-renowned Getty Images (Creative and Editorial), AuroraPhotos and is a stringer for Demotix. Recently she signed a contract as Free Lance photographer with The Wideangle. Over the last years her work was (amongst others) awarded by Px3 Prix de la photografie Paris, Australian Geographic and the International Loupe Awards. She currently lives in Broome, Western Australia where she and her Egyptian-born husband own and run a Middle Eastern restaurant that also serves as an informal gallery for her work. She travels as much as she can in between running a busy restaurant.