The magazine of the photo-essay

Jan 2017 back issue

Dan Giannopoulos To commission him or to request prints of his work: www.gianphotography.com I am a London-based documentary photographer working on social and humanitarian issues. I have travelled extensively in over 60 countries and have shot photo essays on a wide range of subjects, from healthcare provision for the elderly in Nepal, to treatment of disabled Syrian refugees in Jordan. Most recently my work has been focused closer to home, with my latest project covering the rise of motorbike stunt groups on the streets of London. I am drawn to stories of outsiders. Groups or individuals on the fringes of mainstream society. I often explore the bonds that outsiders share with one another when they reject or are rejected by the status quo. Graduating from The London College of Communication with a first class honours degree in Photojournalism, my work has been published by TIME, Sunday Times Magazine, CNN, The Guardian, Washington Post, Mashable and The BBC among many others.

John Bulmer To commission him or to request prints of his work: www.johnbulmer.co.uk John Bulmer was a pioneer of colour photography in the early 1960s working for the Sunday Times Magazine from the very first issue till the 1970s. He was brought up in Herefordshire, became a passionate photographer, and when he went to study engineering at Cambridge continued taking photographs- first for the University newspaper Varsity and then for Image, a picture magazine that he co- founded. He also started shooting stories on Cambridge for Queen Magazine, the Daily Express newspaper, and finally a story on the Night Climbers of Cambridge which sold to Life Magazine. This ended his career at Cambridge, and he went up to London where he was offered a job as photographer on the Daily Express. At the time the Express was the foremost paper in Britain for photography, and did many assignments in association with Paris Match.

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 (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.

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Ronald Patrick To commission him or to request prints of his work: www.ronaldpatrick.com I was born and raised in Santiago de Chile. When I had to decide at 17 what to do with the rest of my life, I thought a Business and Economics career would save my existence. It was after 3 years working for a multinational company in San Francisco, CA, that I understood that I needed to follow my instincts and passion, and decided shifting to photography. Since then I’ve been fortunate to travel extensively and document stories that are important to me and believe that have to be told. My personal work has to do with things that are vanishing in our world, from cultures, to trades, to natural resources, and how these changes affect us, and how we affect each other and our surroundings. My work has been published in Time Magazine, Stern, Monocle, Vice, The Guardian, International Herald Tribune, Friday Magazine (Japan), Lens Culture and Wall Street journal amongst others. Corporate work I’ve done includes clients such as Nike, The North Face, Government

Thomas Kelly To commission him or to request prints of his work: www.thomaslkellyphotos.com Thomas L. Kelly first came to Nepal in 1978 as a USA Peace Corps Volunteer, and has since worked as a photo-activist, documenting the struggles of marginalized people and disappearing cultural traditions all over the world. Funded by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation he has been recording the lives of sex workers and the traditions of prostitution across South Asia. Thomas has worked extensively for the German Government’s Development Agency, GIZ, and accompanied international journalists on press trips to Vietnam, Cambodia and Nepal. Furthermore, he documented for GIZ in Bangladesh, the Rule of Law/Restorative Justice, Sustainable Energy Development, Improvement of Textile Factory Standard projects and Adolescent Girls in Nepal, Between Tradition and Modernity for an International Traveling Exhibit. He has also worked for UNICEF, Save the Children Fund (USA), DFID, U.K., Aga Khan Foundation, Institute of Child Health (ICH), U.K., Family Health International, on the subject of Early Child Development Support Program, Bangladesh National Midwifery Program, Safer Motherhood/Saving Newborn Lives, Conflict and Resolution and Violence Against Women among other subjects. Thomas has also taught digital photo

Michael Hintlian To commission him or to request prints of his work: www.hintlian.com Michael Hintlian is a photographer based in Boston. His work has appeared in major U.S. dailies and international periodicals, and has been widely exhibited and collected. His photo-documentary Digging: The Workers of Boston's Big Dig was published in 2004. He is currently at work on major projects in the United States and travels extensively. Hintlian has served on the faculties of The School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, The New School for Social Research, and Parsons School of Design, New York. Currently he heads the Documentary Photography department at New England School of Photography in Boston.

Magnus Hastings To commission him or to request prints of his work: www.magnushastings.com Award winning photographer Magnus Hastings exploded onto the London gay scene with an exhibition of his work shown at The Box in central London. His colorful in your face images got a lot of attention and the show was picked up by Time Out Magazine. Hastings was quickly sought after and immediately put to work shooting countless celebrity covers for British gay magazines such as QX, Boyz, Attitude, Bent and AXM. In 2005, Hastings travelled to Sydney, Australia to focus on the thriving drag scene and was quickly offered a ten page spread in Blue Magazine showing his unique brand of pop art drag photography. His reputation as a respected drag photographer began to spread fast. Upon returning to the UK, Hastings found himself increasingly in demand all throughout Europe. He was hired by GQ Magazine, People Magazine (USA), Cosmopolitan Magazine (Italy), Glamour Magazine (UK), US Weekly, Sunday Times Magazine, Observer Magazine, Attitude Magazine, AXM, Bent Magazine, Grazia Magazine (Holland) and many more.

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.

Michel Szulc Krzyzanowski To commission him or to request prints of his work: www.szulc.info Michel Szulc-Krzyzanowski was born in Oosterhout in 1949 and studied at the Academie St. Joost in Breda, the Netherlands. In 1970 he graduated in photography and free graphic art at the Koninklijke Akademie voor Kunst en Vormgeving in ’s-Hertogenbosch, the Netherlands. After graduation he started working independently and exclusively on his own photography as an autonomous artist-photographer. The photography of Michel Szulc Krzyzanowski can be divided in two fields. On the one hand he makes autonomous-conceptual photography on a deserted beach in Mexico and in American deserts. This work is exhibited in museums and galleries and purchased by art-collections. On the other hand he makes autonomous-documentary photography that is published in books, magazines, newspapers, websites and presented in exhibitions. His autonomous-conceptual photography has been exhibited in many museums worldwide a.o. the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam, the Centre Beaubourg in Paris,

Xiomara Bender To commission her or to request prints of her work: www.xiomara-bender.com Xiomara Bender was born in 1987 in Basel, Switzerland and lives and works in Berlin, Germany Awards & Exhibitions 2016 Solo Exhibition / Thurn & Taxis Palais Frankfurt am Main, „North Korea / The Power of Dreams“ 2016 Bookrelease „North Korea / The Power of Dreams“ Kehrer Verlag, Heidelberg, Germany & Book presentation Helmut Newton Foundation, Museum für Fotografie, Berlin / www.kehrerverlag.com 2016 Solo Exhibition / Künstlerhaus Meinersen „North Korea / The Power of Dreams“ Meinersen, Germany / www.kuenstlerhaus-meinersen.de 2016 Fine Art Photography Awards - Category „Wildlife & Animals“ Nominee „Great Migration“ 2014 C/O Berlin Foundation „Close Up!“ Young photojournalists 1st prize „Abrakadabra“ 2014 Group Show „Ein Blick“ / Galerie Neurotitan, Berlin „Grenzwertig/Borderline“

Joana Toro Mora To commission her or to request prints of her work: www.joanatoro.com Photographer and storytelling exploring issues of immigration and identity. Joana is a self-taught photojournalist based in New York City and Colombia. She worked as a staff photographer with the major magazines and newspapers in Colombia. In 2011, Joana migrated to the United States to pursue her career as a documentarian and artist. Her work is included in Collections such as ai-ap Latin American Photography, EnFoco and exhibited in international photo festivals: GuatePhoto Guatemala, Just another Festival India Photoville US,and Pinyao China, among others. Her projects have been Published on The New York Times, NYT LENS blog, and other international publications.

Peter Voss To commission him or to request prints of his work: www.vossonline.de Peter started 5 years ago his amateur photographer ' career ' with Canon cameras from 14 - 800 mm lenses for wildlife photography . In Botswana, Kenia, Namibia, Ethiopia he found out that the indigenous peoples living there are much more interesting. He sold his camera equipment and switched to Medium Format Phase One Cameras. Now he travels worldwide with three PhaseOne XF Bodies, three IQ 180 Backs (80 Mio. Pix each) and five Schneider LS Lenses (28,55,80,150,240mm) He uses three big flash lights - Profoto B1 and Brise Light. He has published five photobooks and is soon to publish three more: Greenland, Bangladesh and Myanmar.

He soon started shooting stories for Town Magazine, a new fashion magazine that became well known for good photography, using others such as Terrence Donovan, David Bailey and Don McCullin. John Bulmer did many groundbreaking stories for them including; The Black Country, Nelson, The North, as well as overseas stories in South America, Africa, New Guinea and Indonesia. The Sunday Times then produced the first of the Colour Supplements, later copied by all the newspapers. John Bulmer shared the cover of the first issue with David Bailey - a picture of a footballer he took surrounded by pictures of Jean Shrimpton’s armpit! This was a small start but John soon had a contract to shoot sixty pages a year, and travelled to nearly 100 countries on their behalf. The writer Martin Harrison, in his book about photography in the 60’s “The Young Meteors” describes the start of the Colour Magazines:-“The switch to colour was, therefore, quite sudden and few photographers were prepared for it.”John Bulmer was recognised immediately for having made the necessary adjustment and thinking specifically in terms of colour became one of the most prolific contributors of colour reportage to the Sunday Times Colour Section.Many of Bulmer’s most important assignments were abroad, but he was also acknowledged as an adroit recorder of provincial Britain. His reputation as a recorder of the industrial cityscape was probably gained at Town, where he was responsible for stories on Nelson, Lancashire, The Black Country, and The North is dead” His work was several times singled out for awards by the Design and Art Directors Club and he has had pictures shown at the Gallery of Modern Art in New York, the Photographers' Gallery in London, and the National Museum of Photography in Bradford. By the early seventies the Sunday Times changed course, looking for stories on “Crime, Middle class living and Fashion” as described to Bulmer by the new editor. It was time for a change and John Bulmer moved sideways into making documentary films. He filmed a programme on the life of Van Gogh in the South of France, directed by Mai Zetterling, and went on to direct many films on travel and untouched tribes in the most inaccessible parts of the world. These were primarily shown on BBC, Nat Geo and Discovery Channel.He has now returned to Herefordshire to catalogue and show his huge collection of still photographs, many of which have never been seen.

My work has been exhibited internationally and has been recognised by awards including:- The Ian Parry Scholarship, British Life Photo Awards, The Photocrati Fund, Travel Photographer of The Year, International Photo Awards and the Kuala Lumpur Photo Awards. among others. www.instagram.com/dan_gian/

Christopher Pillitz To commission him or to request prints of his work: www.christopherpillitz.com Christopher was born and raised in Argentina to an Argentine mother and British father. He began his photography career after a false start in hotel management. In the intervening 33 years he has worked in over 85 countries for many, if not most of the world’s leading current affair publications, such as the Sunday Times magazine, The Observer, The Telegraph, Stern, GEO, Figaro, Time, Newsweek, The Smithsonian, New York Times, Paris Match, El Pais amongst others. The range of subject matter has been very diverse, but always with a keen interest in humanistic social documentary. He has published 9 books, amongst them on China, India, The Vatican and two on Brazil. His most recent marking Brazil’s hosting the football World Cup in 2014, a project that he worked on intermittently over several years to give a flavour of what football culturally means to one of the world’s premier soccer nations. In more recent years divides his time between personal documentary projects and major blue chip advertising campaigns. Christopher currently lives in London.

of Chile, Lan Airlines, Bloomberg, Copec (Chile) and Ultramar (Chile) amongst many others. I’ve published 4 books on documentary photography, some of them being personal projects and some commissioned work. For the past year I’ve embarked on an overland journey from South East Asia to Europe, documenting different stories on the way, and certainly documenting my own story.

Christopher Roche To commission him or to request prints of his work: www.chrisrochephotographer.com Christopher Roche was born in Quebec, Canada to Irish parents. He has since lived in Africa and several cities around Europe. Dividing his time between working as a filmmaker and a photographer he is now based in London. He has won many awards internationally and his photographs have been published in the national press, magazines such as the Royal Photographic Society Journal and exhibited at Royal Geographical Society in London and at United Nations Office at Geneva. He is currently working on a long-term project ‘Devotion’ that explores different faith traditions around the world. From the Buddhist monasteries of Tibet to the rock hewn churches of Ethiopia; from the Sufi shrines of Iran to the burning Ghats of India and the animists in the Peruvian Andes, the project captures both the intimate and epic nature of varied spiritual practices. Christopher Roche has published two photographic books on this theme, ‘The Priests and Pilgrims of Ethiopia‘ and ‘Banaras, Holy City‘.

Awards include: 2016 Travel Photographer of the Year Finalist Outdoor Photographer of the Year Finalist PX3 Prix de la Photographie, Paris (Press) 1st Place Sony World Photography National Award Moscow International Foto Awards Honorable Mention Siena International Photo Awards Honorable Mention 2015 The Wanderlust Photo Portfolio of the Year 1st Place International Photographer of the Year (People, Travel) 1st Place International Photographer of the Year (People, Portrait) Honorable Mention International Photography Awards (Traditions and Culture) Honorable Mention 2014 Wild Frontiers Photo of the Year 2014. 1st Place.

the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Ludwig Museum in Cologne and in the San Francisco Museum of Modern Arts: these museums also acquired his work for their art-collections. 4 photo-books have been published of his work. His autonomous documentary photography has been published in 13 photo-books, in numerous magazines, newspapers, websites as well as exhibitions and radio- and TV programs worldwide.

2013 International Photography Award (IPA) - Category Editorial - Honorable Mention „Trip to ZAMBIA. Tribute to LOVE!“ 2013 Dialog Marketig Award (ddp) in bronze & ddp 1st prize „The Incredible Journey of Xiomara Bender“ with Lufthansa Direct marketing. 2012 International Photography Award (IPA) - Category Spaces Outside, one Picture - Honorable Mention „Himalayas - The top of the world covered in monsoon rains“ Since 2014 Freelance Photographer for Men‘s Health, Maxi, Harpers Bazaar Germany, Der Tagesspiegel, danmag Magazin, C/O Berlin, Mfuwe Lodge Sambia „The Bush camp Company“ Tiroler Festspiele Erl and many more. 2015 Photoassistent to Andreas Mühe

workshops in Nepal, India, Bhutan, and Portugal with the Fred Robert’s Photographic Workshop to High School students. The collaborative Development Agencies have been Save The Children, Aga Khan Foundation, and the Bhutan Foundation. His editorial work has appeared in publications worldwide, including, the New York Times, Time, Newsweek, National Geographic, and The Observer, U.K., From 1990-1991 he was the Corporate photographer for The Body Shop Int., UK specializing in documenting the Press Campaigns of the Company. He currently represents the quarterly magazine Hinduism Today, USA, throughout South Asia covering feature stories. Apart from photography, he has produced and directed films and videos on prostitution, violence against women, and esoteric ethnic practices, among other subjects for Discovery Communications, USA, National Geographic, and the BBC. He has researched and photographed the books: Sacred Landscape-Pilgrimage in Tibet: In Search of the Lost Kingdom of Bon, Tibet: Reflections from the Wheel of Life; The Hidden Himalayas; Kathmandu: City on the Edge of the World, Abbeville Press, N.Y., N.Y., Himalayan Style, Fallen Angels: Sex Workers of South Asia, The Tibetan Book of the Dead, Roli Books Int. New Delhi, India,) Millennium: Tribal Wisdom and the Modern World, Viking Penguin, N.Y., N.Y. and Cultural Traditions on Hinduism- Sadhus, Cuerpos Pintados, Santiago, Chile. Thomas was the AV Technical Advisor for The Youth Expression Project, YEP, a program in South Asia to help young people (ages 15-23) to identify and voice their concerns about parental and societal values, HIV/AIDS, drug abuse, unwanted pregnancy, and sexual abuse. The project was about aiding them to understand their problems, concerns, hopes, fears, frustrations, and learning how to use media (writing, photography, video) to express those concerns on a public platform. Their media outputs were directed to parents, teachers and the general public. Thomas Kelly and his wife, Carroll Dunham operate the National Geographic Adventure trips in Mongolia and Nepal.

She published her first monograph, Masked (oodee, London, 2014). Masked was inaugurated with a group exhibition at the Galería Valenzuela Klenner in Bogotá. Masked is sold out. She is member of Visura-Guild.

Hastings bold style effortlessly lent itself to the burlesque and cabaret scene. He soon found himself working with numerous personalities such as the super talented Meow Meow and burlesque superstar Immodesty Blaize. In 2006, Hastings was asked to contribute his “Pride of Soho" panoramic canvas to a touring exhibition of Europe. His work was the first in what was to become a signature style for which Magnus continues with, most notably working with fashion designer Marco Marco in Los Angeles, Hastings shoots his entire collections in one stylized shot. For the next few years Magnus focused on shooting celebrities, musicians and drag queens, being featured in many publications and gaining more and more momentum. He completely revamped the gay networking site Gaydar in 2009 creating an entirely new stylized look and feel. In 2010, Hastings’ was given the opportunity to work with Boy George these collaborations led to Magnus’ photographs being heavily featured in George’s 2011 coffee table book “The King of Queens,” including the cover shot, and Boy George agreeing to write the forward for Magnus’ own book “Why Drag?" Arriving in Los Angels in 2011, focusing on celebrity work and the world of drag, Hastings photographed many rising stars of both film and music. Artists included Hilary Duff, Lara Pulver, Dominic Cooper, Luke Evans, Josh Dallas, Janice Dickinson, Tracy Emin, Charlotte Church, Cheryl Cole, Lawson, Coverdrive, Girls Aloud, Paloma Faith, We Are Scientists, Sugababes, McFly, The Puppini Sisters ,Sophie Ellis Bextor, Matthew Rhys, Jaimie Alexander, Ellie Goulding, The Saturdays, Emma Rigby and Jaimie Alexander and also had a blog for Harpers Bazaar. Since 2011, Hastings has been the exclusive photographic director for cabaret performer Meow Meow, creating all the images for her international shows including “The Little Match Girl,” "Apocalypse Meow,” “An audience with Mew Meow" and “The Seven Deadly Sins.” In 2014, Hastings had a hugely successful exhibit of his drag photographs In NYC titled "Why Drag?” which consisted of oversized canvas photographs accompanied by short essays from each subject answering the question, Why Drag? this secured his place as the undisputed leader in the genre of drag photography. The success of the show led to a book deal with Chronicle Books, and Magnus set to work turning his vision into book form, traveling across the United States photographing the most incredible queens he could find. Magnus also made an appearance as guest "Celebrity Photographer” on season seven of RuPaul's Drag Race, and was integral in getting the new drag magazine "Queen Magazine international" off the ground acting as the magazines Director of Photography for the first few months . In spring of 2016 Magnus' book Why Drag? was released to much critical acclaim going straight to the top of the Photography book charts.

John Bartelstone To commission him or to request prints of his work: www.johnbartelstone.com John Bartelstone (b.1956) is a New York based architectural photographer. He originally trained as a recording engineer at Syracuse University’s Newhouse School. After work-ing in the recording industry for a few years, he enrolled in the Master of Architecture program at Columbia University and upon graduation, began a ten-year architecture ca-reer. In 1996 he started a new life as a freelance architectural photographer.

Frank Robert To commission him or to request prints of his work: www.frank-robert.com Frank Robert (born 1967 in Bensheim, Germany) studied Communication Design and Photography under Hans Puttnies at the University of Applied Sciences in Darmstadt. He has lived in Vienna since 2005 and over the past ten years has extensively photographed that city’s Prater amusement park. Robert’s works have been shown in numerous exhibitions. He is represented in Vienna by the Anzenberger Gallery.

Julie Dermansky To commission her or to request prints of her work: www.jsdart.com Julie Dermansky (b. 1966, New York City) is a transdisciplinary artist whose work is focused on documenting society’s impact on the natural world and social injustice. Her interest in world events led her away from a traditional studio practice that she began in 1989 and continued to 2005. Photography, Dermanky’s medium of choice since 2005, is often supplemented with video and reportage on the topics she investigates. She uses Freedom of Information Act Requests as a painter uses a paint brush. She embraces experimentation and is fearless in pushing the boundaries that blur the lines of how her work is perceived. Dermansky’s calling to be an artist emerged early. She started her career while still an undergraduate at Tulane University, creating large-scale ceramic sculptures, and has shown her work professionally for three decades. A Thomas Watson Fellowship enabled her to spend a year traveling to Europe and Africa to investigate monumental and architectural sculpture while creating travel journals. Returning to New York City, she worked as a sculptor at the Gas Station, an artists’ cooperative in the East Village.

In 1990 she opened a storefront gallery on Elizabeth Street where she held happenings and exhibitions. She was commissioned by the Percent for Art program and created four installations in New York City before moving upstate, where she continued developing her own visual vocabulary. At the end of 2004, Dermansky traded her studio and home for new digital gear and the pursuit of two personal projects that took her around the world: documenting natural history museums and sites of dark tourism (genocide memorials, and memorials of political injustice). She chose to make New Orleans home base in 2006 while documenting Tulane University’s natural history collection. This put her at ground zero for documenting the impacts of climate change. Her work raises awareness of environmental issues, and draws a connection between social injustice and climate change. She has documented the aftermath of earthquakes and storms, the military-industrial complex in Iraq, and the expansion of the industrial landscape across the country, uncovering information overlooked by the mainstream media. Dermansky is an affiliate scholar at the Rutgers University Center for the Study of Genocide and Human Rights. Her photographs have been published internationally, and her reports are published by The Atlantic, Al Jazeera, The Guardian, Truthout, and the Desmog Blog, among others. Her series "Fracking in the USA" was screened at the 2015 Visa pour l’Image, Perpignan’s International Festival of Photojournalism. Her multimedia reportage is at the intersection of art making and catalyzing positive social change. She mixes tragedy with irony, disarming the viewer and prompting them to take a closer look at that which they might otherwise ignore. She hopes the information that gives them context will contribute to a paradigm shift by exposing how fragile and interconnected the relationship is between humankind and the environment