The magazine of the photo-essay
July/August 2022 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: 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 at Canford School and 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 20
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 his latest book is
due to be release at the end of 2019.
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, Daily Mail, Dazed & Confused, The Face, Country Life, Coast and
Geographical magazine. He lives in Devon, England with his wife, four children and
his five dachshunds: Jessie, Rosie, Ted, Dot and Daffodil.
Tommy Walker
To commission him or to request prints of his work: www.tommywalkermedia.com
Tommy Walker is an award-winning journalist who has predominantly reported within
the Asia region. Originally from the U.K, Tommy has been living overseas for nearly
a decade. As of April 2022, he has been reporting in Eastern Europe amid Russia’s
war in Ukraine.
In 2019 and 2020, Tommy covered the Hong Kong anti-government protests and
news on the national security law. As well as reporting from the frontline of dozens of
street demonstrations, Tommy has interviewed now-jailed media mogul Jimmy Lai
and high profile activists Joshua Wong, Agnes Chow, Tony Chung and Lee Cheuk
Yan. In addition, Tommy’s photography work of protests and political figures in Hong
Kong has been published by leading media outlets worldwide.
In 2021, Tommy partly relocated to Taipei, Taiwan, a city that has a rapidly growing status as a media hotspot in Asia.
But amid Myanmar’s military coup during the pandemic, Tommy was based in Thailand to cover the anti-coup revolution.
He has interviewed key politicians, activists, journalists and soldiers of Myanmar’s rebel armies. Tommy worked from
Bangkok and Mae Sot to cover the events.
While in Bangkok, Tommy has reported on Thailand’s continuing anti-government youth movement that began in 2020. He
has attended several heated clashes between demonstrators and police in the city’s Din Daeng suburb.
Press freedom has been a key focus of Tommy’s reportage. For The Telegraph, he interviewed Indonesian journalist Veby
Mega Indah – blinded by a rubber bullet in 2019 – during Hong Kong’s anti-government protests. Tommy has also worked
closely with Voice of America, reporting about press freedom in Asia, while he has interviewed 2021’s Nobel Peace Prize
Winner Maria Ressa from the Philippines. In November 2021, Tommy was a part of the VOA Press Freedom team that won
the inaugural Media Freedom Award at the Association for International Broadcaster (AIB) awards.
Russia’s war in Ukraine in early 2022 saw Tommy report on the ground, filing both text and images with newspapers,
broadcasters and media agencies. Tommy worked at the Poland border before reporting in Ukraine, covering news
throughout the country including from the frontlines in Kharkiv,
Dnipropetrovsk and Mykolaiv.
Arianne Clement
To commission her or to request prints of her work: www.arianneclement.com
After obtaining a master’s degree with honours in photography from University of the
Arts London, Arianne Clément travelled far and wide to find inspiration, often getting
involved in humanitarian projects with the marginalized, her preferred subjects.
She now devotes her work principally to portraying the elderly. Her celebrated
portraits of seniors have been exhibited nationally and internationally, and won her
several prizes, grants and honours.
What these distinctions reflect first and foremost is the sensitivity and boldness of
her work and the unique connection she manages to create with her models.
Her pictures and stories have been published in major newspapers and prestigious journals all around the world and her
work has been met with enthusiastic response online, creating a buzz in social media.
Werner Mansholt
To commission him or to request prints of his work: www.werner-mansholt.de
Werner Mansholt, born 1949, lives and works in Darmstadt, Germany. He studied
photography with well-known photographers such as Arno R. Minkkinen, Anja
Niedringhaus, Martino Marangoni, Wolfgang Zurborn, Andreas Herzau, Eva Leitolf,
Philipp Blenkinsop, Kadir v. Lohuizen, Simon Norfolk (Masterclass). His work was
exhibited in Germany (Berlin, Cologne, Hamburg, Darmstadt etc.), Finland,
Georgia, Poland etc. and published in magazines, calendars, newpapers, almanacs
and books/ catalogues. In 2013 he published the book Besuch bei Detlef Kraft (with
a text of Celina Lunsford). Awards, amongst others: Shortlist Fotofestival
Schömberg 2013; shortlist Tbilisi Kolga-Festival 2012, Honorable mention at Prix de
la Photographie Paris 2007, Honorable Mention, Lucie-Award, Los Angeles 200
Jeff Rothstein
To commission him or to request prints of his work: www.jeffrothsteinphotos.com
A native Brooklynite and living in Manhattan for many years, I've been shooting New
York City since the dawn of the 1970s.
Wandering the streets with my cameras, I consider myself an urban observer. I try to
capture the city's environment - structures, signs and, most of all, the fleeting moments
of people on the streets that will soon disappear into thin air.
Over the years, my photos have appeared in a variety of publications, including
Black & White magazine, SHOTS, Street Photographers Notebook special monograph
edition, London Evening Standard, Daily Mail, Mojo, YES Yoko Ono exhibition catalog,
and Fillmore East: The Venue That Changed Rock Music Forever.
My photobook, Today's Special: New York City Images 1969-2006, was published by
Coral Press Arts in June 2017. It is in the collections of many university and institutional
libraries. Numerous features on my work/book have appeared in the press.
Recent exhibitions include ImageNation Paris (group) at Galerie Joseph Le Palais
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May 2022, Porec Museum, Croatia, August - September 2021 (solo); H.P.F. Christopher, New York City, July 2017(solo); and
Winter, Analog Forever magazine, December 2019 (online group).
Upcoming exhibitions: New York Public Library, Mulberry St. branch (solo), Fall 2022
My project Gotham Memories: New York City Images Of The 1970s And 1980s won the Urban Photo Awards 2021 exhibition
prize at the Poreč Museum (Croatia).
Images from my book, Today's Special, were picked as vintage award winners in Black & Whitemagazine's contests in 2019,
2020, 2021, and 2022
