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July 2014 back issue

Sam Branson To commission Sam or to request prints of his work: www.sundogpictures.co.uk Sam Branson is a social entrepreneur, adventurer and filmmaker. His passion for adventure and the environment has seen him endure many challenges, including one of the harshest environments known to man - the Arctic. Sam’s passion for the environment sparked his desire to create conversations about important topics and that’s why he set up his production company Sundog Pictures. Sam’s next big focus is the Virgin Strive Challenge; a gruelling attempt to get from London to the summit of the Matterhorn entirely under his own steam. The aim is to raise funds for a charity he co-founded called Big Change to invest in life skills programs around the UK, which will help young people develop the characteristics they need to thrive. Sam sits as a non-executive on the board of Virgin Group and has recently joined the Virgin Management as story guardian to oversee the content distributed across the group.

James Brabazon To contact James: www.jamesbrabazon.com James Brabazon is a journalist and documentary filmmaker. Based in the UK, he has travelled to over 70 countries – investigating, filming and directing in the world’s most hostile environments. He is the author of the international bestseller My Friend the Mercenary, a memoir recounting his experiences of the Liberian civil war and the Equatorial Guinea coup plot, published by Canongate. James has recently finished producing the Academy Award shortlisted feature documentary Which Way Is The Frontline From Here? (Goldcrest Films for HBO, 2013), which tells the life story of his friend and colleague the photographer Tim Hetherington, who was killed while working in Libya in April 2011. James first gained international profile as the only journalist to film the Liberian LURD rebel group fighting to overthrow President Charles Taylor. He spent six months travelling with the rebels in Liberia on the multiple award-winning documentary projects Liberia: A Journey Without Maps (2002: BBC2, SABC, CNN) and Liberia: An Uncivil War (2003: Discovery, BBC4).

Jurgen Schadeberg To commission Jurgen or to request prints of his work: www.jurgenschadeberg.com Jurgen Schadeberg was born in Berlin in 1931 and, while still in his teens, worked as an apprentice photographer for a German Press Agency in Hamburg. In 1950 he emigrated to South Africa and became Chief Photographer, Picture Editor and Art Director on Drum Magazine. It was during this time that Jurgen photographed pivotal moments in the lives of South Africans in the fifties. These photographs represent the life and struggle of South Africans during Apartheid and include important figures in South Africa’s history such as Nelson Mandela, Moroka, Walter Sisulu, Yusuf Dadoo, Huddleston and many others who have been documented at key moments such as during The Defiance Campaign of 1952, The Treason Trial of 1958, The Sophiatown Removals and the Sharpeville Funeral in 1960. His images also capture key personalities and events in the jazz and literary world such as the Sophiatown jazz scene with Dolly Rathebe, Miriam Makeba, Hugh Masekela and Kippie Moeketsi.

Vlad Sokhin To commission Vlad or to request prints of his work: www.vladsokhin.com Vlad Sokhin is a Russian photographer, based in Sydney, Australia. His work has been published in National Geographic Traveller, GEO Voyage, GEO, International Herald Tribune, Marie Claire, The Age, Vi Menn among others. Vlad is represented by the German agency "Focus" and collaborates with the United Nations Human Rights (OHCHR).

Dougie Wallace To commission Dougie or to request prints of his work: www.dougiewallace.com Largely self-taught, he took up photography seriously after having served four years in the army. Often known as ‘Glasweegee’, Wallace believes that his Glasgow upbringing has helped shape his style, which has been described as ‘hard edged’ and ‘visually exaggerated’, conveying a personalised point of view that is both believable and absurd. His work has featured in many publications including commissions for The New York Times and Stern Magazine, Germany. Other essays include: Travel, The London Omnibus and Reflection of life. Full biography and quotes: dougiewallace.com/about/

Milos Bicanski To commission Milos or to request prints of his work: www.milosbicanski.com Awards • 15th China International Photographic Art Exhibition silver award 2013 • The8th DAYS JAPAN International Photojournalism Awards 2012 Special Prize • Silver medal International Photo Biennale Tashkentale 2010 •Documentary Award, 2009, Humanity Photo Awards hosted by UNESCO and the China Folklore Photographic Association (CFPA) •Outstanding Achievement in Silhouette, 2008, Black and White Spider Awards •3rd Place, Nature and Environment News Singles, 2007, China International Press Photo Contest (CHIPP ) •Honorable Mention, 2007, Prix de la Photographie, Paris •1st Place, Spot News Stories, 2011, Yugoslav Press Photo (national press photo award) •1st Place, Spot News, 2007, Yugoslav Press Photo (national press photo award) •1st Place, Daily Life Stories, 2006, Yugoslav Press Photo (national press photo award) •1st Place, Portrait Stories, 2005, Yugoslav Press Photo (national press photo award)

David Shaw To commission David or to request prints of his work: www.davidshaw.com David Shaw, born in 1990 has recently graduated with a 1st Class Degree Honours in BA Photojournalism at London College of Communication, focusing his work on in depth investigations of human rights issues. He has spent extended amounts of time in Palestine, in the West Bank and recently Gaza for which he gained recognition in various awards and exhibitions. He has also worked in India, Greecen Nepal and Egypt and is now working on projects in Lebanon.

art in years to come", while another critic has written, "His photographs transcend the documentary form and enter the realm of art, they are poems in photographs". His photographs are now held in important public collections including, the Irish State Art Collection, Local government, private intuitions as well as by private collectors in America and Europe.

Charlie Waite To commission Charlie or to request prints of his work: www.charliewaite.com Charlie Waite is firmly established as one of the world’s leading Landscape photographers. His photographic style is often considered to be unique, in that his photographs convey an almost spiritual quality of serenity and calm. Charlie's photographs are held in private and corporate collections throughout the world, and he has held numerous solo exhibitions at prestigious venues in the UK, Japan and the USA. With over 30 books to his name, Charlie's images are recognised around the world. Charlie was recently featured in Amateur Photographer Magazine's series Icons of Modern Photography, and his images have received wide critical acclaim over many years. A recent article in Royal West of England Academy Art Magazine featuring Charlie's work commented “Waite’s landscapes are rare perfections of light, colour and composition, and offer the viewer a luxuriant portrait of a planet at peace”. In 2000 Charlie was awarded the prestigious honorary fellowship to the British Institute of

Guillermo Cervera To commission him or to request prints of his work: guillermocervera.photoshelter.com Guillermo Cervera is a freelance photographer with over 18 years of experience documenting armed conflict and social issues for the international press. His work has taken him from the frontlines of Bosnia in 1993, to the uprises in Libya and Cairo, Egypt in 2011, from rebel camps in Chad, to photographing gang wars in Caracas, Venezuela and the Tamil Tigers separatist militant group during the Sri Lanka Civil War in 2008. He has covered refugees and IDPs in Darfur, the rise of capitalism in communist Cuba, methamphetamine addition in southern Washington, D.C., American gospel churches and European Arms dealers. Cervera has worked primarily in the Peshwar region since 2008. He is currently based in Kabul, Afghanistan, where he is working unembedded on longterm projects on the daily life of the Taliban, and the economic force of the Western arms market. His photographs are regularly published in Marie Claire, The Guardian, La Vanguardia, ABC and El Mundo, among others, and have been exhibited in galleries in Madrid and Barcelona.

Jonathan Hyams To commission Jonathan or to request prints of his work: www.savethechildren.org.uk Jonathan Hyams is an award-winning photographer who works as a multimedia producer in Save the Children’s Humanitarian team . He regularly travels to conflict zones and humanitarian disasters around the world to document the stories of families and children affected by these crises. Notable assignments include documenting; the hunger crisis in Niger in 2012, Syrian refugees fleeing to Jordan & Lebanon and the devastation following Typhoon Haiyan in the Phillipines both in 2013. Jonathan’s work has featured in leading publications and media outlets including the BBC, Channel 4, CNN, Sky News, Reuters, I-D Magazine, The Financial Times, The Guardian, The Independent and The Telegraph. It has also featured in exhibitions in the UK, Canada, the USA and South Africa. After being named as ‘Emerging Talent by Reportage’ by Getty Images and winning the Nikon Young Photographer of the Year award in 2008, Jonathan has been shortlisted for

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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.

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

In 1964 Jurgen left South Africa for London and during the sixeties and seventies freelanced as a photojournalist in Europe and America for various prestigious magazines. He also taught at the New School in New York, the Central School of Art & Design in London and the Hoch Kunst School in Hamburg. During this period he curated several major exhibitions including “The Quality of Life” which opened the New National Theatre in 1976. Before returning to South Africa in 1985 Jurgen lived in London, Spain, New York and France. The photographs from this period represent a rich mix of social documentary work as well as some modernist, abstract images. Jurgen has had a series of major shows including Retrospectives at the South African National Gallery in Cape Town in 1996, Dublin in 2000, New York 2001, a group show at La Maison Europeene de la Photographie, Paris, 2002, Solo show Berlin in 2003, Budapest 2004, a Retrospective in Nicephore Niepce in Chalon Sur Saone in 2004, Neumunster - 55 Years Retrospective - Luxembourg 2005, Bochum Museum Retrospective 2005 and 2006 a touring exhibition of new work “Voices from the Land” in South Africa. Numerous shows followed between 2007-2014 including a Retrospective at the Darmstadt Kunsthalle, London, Valencia, Bayreuth, Koln, Belgium, Oslo, Tuscany, Kunsthalle Wien, Johannesburg, Hamburg, Osnabrueck, Paris. In 2007 Jurgen was awarded the Officer’s Verdienst Kreuz First Class by the German President and in 2014 he received the Lifetime Achievement Award from the ICP in New York. Jurgen has edited and published several photographic books including “The Finest Photos from the Old Drum”, “The Fifties People of South Africa”, “Mandela & The Rise of the ANC”, “Voices from Robben Island”, “Sof’town Blues”, and three new books in 2002 “The Black & White Fifties”, “The San of the Kalahari” & “Soweto Today”. “Witness - 52 years of pointing lenses at Life” was published in 2004 and in 2006 “Voices from the Land” . In 2007 he published “Jazz, Swing & Blues – 56 years of SA Jazz” and “Tales from Jozi “– new colour work of Johannesburg today and in 2008 he produced a Retrospective Photographic book of six decades of documentary photography in Europe, Africa and America published by Hatje Cantz. His books produced in 2012 are “Great Britain 1964/84” , “Jurgen Schadeberg visits Germany – 6 decades” and “Six decades of South African Photography”. Together with his producer wife Claudia Jurgen established The Schadeberg Movie Company to produce a series of some 15 documentaries and dramas about South African social, cultural and political history. Jurgen Schadeberg, sometimes known as “The Father of South African Photography”, is a principle figure in South African and World Photography. His major body of work, which spans 70 years and incorporates a collection of some 200,000 negatives, captures a wealth of timeless and iconic images. Jurgen Shadeberg continues to actively work on new major photographic projects, books and exhibitions, to tour international shows and to make his own silver archival hand prints. He now works in Berlin, Paris, South Africa and Spain.

James read history at the University of Cambridge (1991–94) and subsequently developed his career in photojournalism as acontributing reportage photographer for Katz Pictures in London and Gamma Press Images in Paris. From 1999 to 2002 he worked as a television news producer with Nairobi-based television agency Camerapix in Eritrea, Kenya and Zimbabwe, producing long and short form packages (BBC, SKY, TVNZ, ABC, CNN, SABC). Since 2002 he has worked on independent commissions with Discovery (The World’s Most Dangerous Places, Gabriel Films 2002–04); BBC2, for whom he made the BAFTA- and Grierson-nominated four-part current affairs series The Violent Coast in West Africa (2003–04); Channel 4, where he made twenty-one films in the critically acclaimed Unreported World series (2004–13) and was appointed the strand’s Deputy Series Editor (2008–09); and Dispatches (2005–11), where he has made six films. At Unreported World, James has made films in locations including Somalia (featuring an exclusive interview with a senior al-Qaeda commander); India (covering the fight between Maoist guerrillas, indigenous people and mining companies over land rights); Ivory Coast (documenting the violent struggle to control the international cocoa harvest); Colombia (exploring the mechanics of the trade in cocaine to the USA); Angola (considering American foreign policy in the light of Africa’s oil industry); Cameroon (examining the connections between the illegal trade in bushmeat and zoonotic viruses); Papua New Guinea (investigating violence fuelled by the narcotics trade with Australia); and Syria, filming the work of a volunteer doctor in the frontline town of Salma, in Latakia. For Channel 4’s Dispatches series, James has filmed and directed unique material with US troops in Baghdad (Iraq: The Reckoning, Juniper 2005) for which he gained a second BAFTA nomination; reported the inside story of the planned coup in Equatorial Guinea (My Friend the Mercenary, Hardcash 2005); investigated social and political turmoil in Paris and Birmingham during the Paris riots (Paris in Flames, Mentorn 2005); told the inside story of BP’s controversial operations in Alaska and Azerbaijan and political connections in Britain (In Deep Water, Fresh One 2010–11); investigated the finances of former Prime Minister Tony Blair in Britain, Kuwait and Palestine (The Wonderful World of Tony Blair, Blast Films 2011); and exposed the relationship between British aid money and human rights abuses in Rwanda (Where Has Your Aid Money Gone? October Films 2012). James’s work has often involved filming close-quarter combat, for which he was awarded the IDA Courage Under Fire Award 2004 and the Rory Peck Trust Sony International Impact Award 2003. His work in Liberia won many international accolades including the Rory Peck Trust Freelancer’s Choice Award 2003; the Special Jury Award IDFA 2004 and two Emmy nominations. James’s films have provoked major international political investigations in Liberia, the Democratic Republic of Congo and Jamaica. He has been called as an expert witness in two war-crimes trials. His written work has recently appeared in Newsweek, The Guardian Weekend Magazine, Monocle and The Independent. James lectures on the ethics and practicalities of journalism in hostile environments at universities across Britain, speaks frequently at the Frontline Club Forum and appears as a commentator on international current affairs. His company, Brabazon Media Limited, has an ongoing contract to provide Camera and Risk Assessment and Security Protocol Awareness Training for Channel 4’s Dispatches Investigative Journalism Trainee Scheme.

Max Houghton Max Houghton is senior lecturer in photography at University of the Arts, London. She edited the photography biannual, 8 magazine, for six years and now writes regularly for the international photography press. She has curated exhibitions in London, Brighton and New York.

Professional Photographers and in early 2007 was presented with Amateur Photography’s Power of Photography Award, which is given to a photographer whose work is deemed to effectively demonstrate the powerful and memorable images of which photography is capable. Also a sought after writer, public speaker and television presenter, Charlie has featured in numerous photographic and broadsheet publications, DVDs and television programmes on photography.

Biography Exhibitions • 2010 International Photo Biennale Tashkentale • 2010 International Orange Photo Festival , China •Greek Fires, 2007, Group Exhibition, Greek Foreign Press Association, Izmir, Turkey •“Transport,” 2005, group exhibition, Photo Biennale, Thessaloniki, Greece •“Transport,” 2005, Group exhibition, Gallery Mavromihali 55, Athens, Greece

-- and the recipient of -- numerous prizes, including the PX3 Portraiture Pro Culture award, The Times/Canon Young Photographer of the Year award, The Guardian/Royal Photographic Society’s Joan Wakelin Award, the Magenta Flash Forward award, Environmental Photographer of the Year and the Vice/CtrlAltShift, Gender, Power & Poverty Photography Prize. Jonathan studied Documentary Photography at the University of Wales.

Yves Choquette To commission Yves or to request prints of his work: www.yveschoquette.com Yves Choquette begin taking photos at the age of 11, taking his father’s Brownie Super 27 camera, without his permission, to shoot people throwing stones at soldiers in the street of Montreal, during the 1970 October crisis. He found out early that he was more attracted by stories than by simply shooting for the sake of it. Yves never took it seriously until a friend asked him in the 80’s to take a photographic road trip of his band, between Montreal and Chibougamau, to the far north east of Quebec. Since then, he have shot different documentaries covering mainly social or humanitarian issues. What motivates Yves is helping groups of people suffering from injustice, to gain media attention so their story can be known. Yves have been published in Latitude magazine,

Alison Baskerville To commission Alison or to request prints of her work: www.alisonbaskerville.co.uk Alison Baskerville has worked as a professional photographer since 2010. After completing a degree at the University of Westminster in Photojournalism she has worked as a freelance documentary photographer, specialising in the impact of conflict on the lives of both sides in conflicts around the world, including Afghanistan, Mali, Israel/Gaza and the Philippines. Her work has been published by the Times, The Guardian, Daily Telegraph, The Sunday Mirror and BBC online Features. She has also completed commissions for Plan International, Care International and the Royal British Legion. Her work has been exhibited in the Oxo Gallery in London. Prior to entering professional photography, Alison served with the Royal Air Force in various war zones including Iraq and Afghanistan. This experience, along with 3 years serving as a reservist photographer with the British Army, gives her a unique insight into

the impact of modern conflict on both those in uniform as well as civilians. Alison regularly speaks on her chosen subjects, appearing on BBC and Sky television as well as participating in seminars such as panel debates at the Imperial War Museum and guest speaking at the Southbank centres Women of the World Festival.

The Palestine Telegraph, SA Reporter, Demotix, Corbis as many other local newspapers and magazines. He also often partnerships with NGO such as MSF, COVA, Groupe L'Itinéraire, Mira foundation, Fauna Foundation, Global Compassion, the Post War Crisis Center and the St-James Center.

Suki Dhanda To commission Suki or to request prints of her work: "Suki Dhanda makes direct, positive and striking portrait photographs that enable her sitters to pose naturally. Some of her commissioned portraits are imbued with a sense of play, without the work feeling gimmicky or forced. This work – in both studio and on location – offers a fresh take on famous faces and reveals each subject as confident yet engaging. Her personal projects feature one or more individuals – imbued with a dignity through a meticulous use of light, colour and framing – as they undertake everyday activities. In all her work, a sense of clarity and humanity shines through. She is in possession of a style that is subtle, yet consistent, matched by an approach that is original, heartfelt and uniquely appealing." Janice McLaren The Photographers' Gallery

www.sukidhanda.com

Protim Banerjee To commission Protim or to request prints of his work: protimbanerjee1@gmail.com I am a self-taught and inspired photo enthusiast; I developed a serious interest in the art of photography only very recently. As a photo enthusiast I do not restrict myself to any particular genre of photography. I like to shoot anything and everything. I love to capture anything with an intension of seeing the most ordinary little thing differently. Apart from nature and its vibrancy I look for human action in different activities, rituals and lifestyles. A lot of times this gives a whole new look to something that’s rather regular or something we are used to. To me that’s what I love most about photography – looking at the world in new and different ways. I am grateful to different social networking platforms as they have helped me to get in touch with different photographers from different parts of the globe and enriched me by allowing me to view enormous different styles of photography of different genres. I would like to conclude by saying- “I am a simple person trying to learn the art of photography”