The magazine of the photo-essay
July 2018 back issue
“A free, really high quality photo-essay magazine. Fabulous!”
Stephen Fry. British actor, writer and film maker
Damian Bird
To commission him or to request prints of his work: www.damianbirdphotography.com
Damian Bird (born London, 1972) is a photographer, photojournalist and lecturer 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 15 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.
His first book Seabird was released in November 2017. He continues to have his work
Jeffrey Milstein
To commission him or to request prints of his work: www.jeffreymilstein.com
Jeffrey Milstein (www.jeffreymilstein.com) infuses his photography with his lifelong
creative passion and fascination for flight. Milstein’s photographs have been
published in GQ, American Photo, the Daily Mail, the Guardian, Elle Décor,
Eyemazing, Die Zeit, Liberation, Wired, PDN, Esquire, Fortune, Time, the Los
Angeles Times, and the New York Times, among other publications.
His work has been shown in group and solo shows at museums, and galleries in the
US and internationally, among them the Portland Museum of Art, Portland, OR; The
Ulrich Museum of Art, Wichita, KS; The 2008 New York Photo Festival (“New
Typologies” show curated by Martin Parr); Young Gallery, Brussels, Belgium; Blue
published in national and international newspapers and magazines including The Times, the Telegraph, the Express, the
Observer, GQ, Esquire, Daily Mail, Dazed & Confused,The Face, Country Life, Coast and Geographical magazine.
He lives in Devon, England with his wife, four children and his dachshund, Jessie.
Mark Klett
To commission him or to request prints of his work: www.markklettphotography.com
Mark Klett is a photographer interested in the intersection of places, history and
time. His background includes working as a geologist before turning to photography.
Klett has received fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the Pollock-
Krasner Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the Japan/US
Friendship Commission. Klett’s work has been exhibited and published in the United
States and internationally for forty years, and his work is held in over eighty museum
collections worldwide. He is the author/co-author of seventeen books. Klett is
Regents’ Professor of Art and Distinguished Sustainability Scholar at Arizona State
University.
David Hlynsky
To commission him or to request prints of his work: www.davidhlynsky.com
David Hlynsky was born in 1947 in the US of American-born parents. All four of his
grand parents had immigrated from Eastern Europe about the time of the First World
War. David Hlynsky attended Ohio State university where he received a fine arts
degree in painting in 1970. In 1971, he took a job with a Toronto small press
publisher, The Coach House Press. He has had a productive career as
photographer, magazine editor and professor at Sheridan College and the University
of Toronto. He has made works of public art, collaborated in experimental theatre
and was an early experimenter in holography and digital animation.
Jojakim Cortis & Adrian Sonderegger
To commission them or to request prints of their work: www.ohnetitel.ch
Jojakim Cortis studied photography at Zürich University of the Arts (ZHDK), and has
been working as a freelance photographer since 2006, as well as a technical
assistant and lecturer at ZHDK since 2009. Adrian Sonderegger also studied
photography at ZHDK. He has been working as a freelance photographer for over
ten years.
Alice Hawkins
To commission her or to request prints of her work: www.wefolk.com/alice-hawkins
Born and brought up in Suffolk, Alice studied photography at Camberwell College of
Art. She was was immediately commissioned by i-D after a picture editor spotted her
work at her degree show. Best known for her portrait and fashion photography and
filmmaking, Alice creates jubilant, playful, touching and unashamedly glitzy images.
She contributes to titles such as POP, Love, Vogue and PonyStep and has
collaborated on many campaigns including Diesel, Agent Provocateur and Topman.
With a unique flair for storytelling and being naturally attracted to the outrageous,
unconventional or exuberant, her work continually celebrates individuality across the
globe. A compilation of her images entitled “Alice’s Adventures” was published in
2017 by Thames & Hudson. She lives in London.
Lawrence Schwartzwald
To commission him or to request prints of his work: www.lawrenceschwartzwald.com
Born in New York in 1953, Lawrence Schwartzwald studied literature at New York
University. He worked as a freelance photographer for the New York Post for nearly
two decades and in 1997 New York Magazine dubbed him the Post’s “king of the
streets.” Books and literature have shaped several of his photo series including
“Reading New York” and “Famous Poets,” both self-published in 2017. Schwartzwald
lives and works in Manhattan.
Sky Gallery, Portland, OR; and University of the Arts, Philadelphia, PA; among others.
Milstein’s work is held in numerous museum collections, among them Akron Art Museum, Akron, OH; New Britain Museum
of American Art, New Britain, CT; Smithsonian Museum, Washington, D.C.; Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA);
Southeast Museum of Photography, Daytona Beach, FL; Center for Photography, Woodstock, NY; George Eastman House,
Rochester, NY; Musée de l'Elysée, Lausanne, Switzerland; Portland Art Museum, Portland, OR; and The Ulrich Museum of
Art, Wichita, KS.
He is represented by Paul Kopeiken Gallery, Los Angeles; Benrubi Gallery, New York; Bau-XI Gallery, Toronto; and
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Raised in Los Angeles, where he frequently returns to shoot at the International Airport, Milstein makes his home in
Woodstock, NY.
Deborah Samuel
To commission her or to request prints of her work: www.deborahsamuel.com
Deborah Samuel was born in Vancouver, Canada. Her family moved to Toronto and
then to Ireland before she was 14. She studied art in Ireland at Limerick College of
Art and Design and then returned to Canada to study photography at Sheridan
College.
Deborah Samuel was quickly recognized for the distinct style of her fashion
photographs and for her intuitive and intense portraits of celebrities, musicians and
writers like Leonard Cohen, Margaret Atwood, Rush and Queen Noor, while she
refined her personal work and exhibited extensively. Professional opportunities required time spent in New York, London
and Los Angeles before she ultimately decided to settle in LA where she became an in demand editorial portrait
photographer. Deborah Samuel worked for magazines such as GQ, Rolling Stone, Esquire, Spin and Entertainment Weekly,
in addition to directing music videos for musicians and bands for numerous record companies. Concurrently, in the
galleries, Deborah Samuel’s photographs of nudes explored the pursuit of perfection in the media age- a prescient topic.
Later her work evolved into formal portrait studies of animals and nature. In 2012, The Royal Ontario Museum in Toronto
exhibited Elegy, a solo exhibition of her subtle photographs of animal bones.
Deborah Samuel currently lives in Santa Fe, New Mexico where she keeps a studio, one dog and a horse. She shows her
photographs in the United States, Canada and internationally. Her work resides in the collections of the Royal Ontario
Museum, Winnipeg Art Museum and Santa Barbara Art Museum as well as numerous private and corporate collections.
Deborah Samuel has lectured and led photography workshops throughout North America. She has published three books,
Dog and Pup, a collection of canine portraits, and The Extraordinary Beauty of Birds: Designs, Patterns and Details.
Langdon Clay
To commission him or to request prints of his work: www.langdonclay.com
Langdon Clay was born in the middle of a hurricane in New York City in 1949. He
grew up in New Jersey and Vermont and went to school in New Hampshire and
Boston. He got his first camera on St. Patrick's day 1968. His first roll of film was of
Grand Marshall Robert Kennedy leading the parade in New York. Three months
later the presidential candidate was assassinated.Clay moved to New York in 1971
and spent the next 16 years photographing there and around the country and in
Europe for shelter magazines and books like JEFFERSON'S MONTICELLO by
Howard Adams and MY CHATEAU KITCHEN by Anne Willen. In 1987 he moved to
Mississippi and has worked from there with his wife photographer Maude Schuyler
Clay. They have three children; Anna, Schuyler, and Sophie.
