The magazine of the photo-essay
June 2018 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
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Paddy Summerfield To commission him or to request prints of his work: www.paddysummerfield.com Oxford-based photographer, Paddy Summerfield, trained at Guildford School of Art in the Photography and the Film departments. Pictures he took in 1967, when he was still a first year student, were later published in Album, and spreads in Creative Camera received encouraging recognition of his expressive and psychological approach. He has spent a life-time making personal photographic documents, and teaching and running work-shops, as well as undertaking commissions. He started exhibiting in London in the late sixties, and his work has been shown in galleries, such as the ICA, The Barbican, The Serpentine, and The Photographers' Gallery, National Museum of Photography Film & Television, Bradford. In 1976, Sir Nicholas Serota (when he was director there,) invited Summerfield to exhibit Beneath The Dreaming Spires at the Museum of Modern Art, Oxford, his first one-man show.
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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.
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Andy Moxon To commission him or to request prints of his work: www.andymoxon.com I’ve worked all over the world during my professional life, and as a documentary photographer my work has been published, collected and exhibited globally. I’m especially interested in the power of photography to tell stories via meaningful narrative and its role in the writing of modern history.
Anton Gautama To commission him or to request prints of his work: www.antongautama.com Anton Gautama began taking pictures with a mobile phone. Since 2015 he has been working hard as a photographer with a passionate focus on documentary photography. He believes that the essence of the medium is the ability to help us understand life. Gautama seeks unique moments that generate powerful emotional responses. With patience and determination, the photographer often immerses himself for months at a single location pursuing his photographic observations. The photographs from Anton Gautama have been featured in fotofest, on-line and printed magazine platforms since 2016, such as “LensCulture” and “National Geographic Travel.” His first monograph Pabean Passage, published in 2016, reveals the milieu of traditional Indonesian spice markets through intimate colour street photography. In October 2015 Anton Gautama opened a private photo gallery
in Malang in order to share his passion of photography. In keeping with his interest in exploring and preserving Indonesian culture, he also restored a full set of Javanese gamelan and placed it inside the gallery. Born as a fourth son in 1969 in Makassar, South Sulawesi, Indonesia, Anton Gautama is based in Surabaya, Master in Business Administration from Hawaii Pacific University, USA.
Gary M Jones To commission him or to request prints of his work:   www.gelatojones.com Gary M. Jones is a British journalist based between Europe and Asia. His focus is words – notably long-form magazine features – with photography increasingly playing a core role. His work has appeared in quality publications worldwide, including The Times and Sunday Times, Time Magazine, The Observer, The Sunday Telegraph, The Independent, Sydney Morning Herald, The Australian, British GQ, Wallpaper, South China Morning Post, Globe & Mail, Toronto Star, LA Weekly, USA Today and Marie Claire, among many others.
Niko J Kallianiotis To commission him or to request prints of his work:   www.nikokallianiotis.com Niko J. Kallianiotis was born in Greece and is an educator and photographer based in Scranton,Pennsylvania. He started his career as a freelance editorial photographer for several publications and then as a staff photographer for The Watertown Daily Times in Watertown, New York. He is currently an Adjunct Assistant Professor of photography at Drexel University in Philadelphia and a contributing photographer to The New York Times.
George Vogiatzakis To commission him or to request prints of his work:   intagram  website G.V. was born in Athens in 1967. He is a mechanical engineer and musician.  In 2016, he published a book (“New Little Series” - Photohoros Publications), while many of his pictures have been included in various albums of the Photocircle 1998- 2014 and in the album "Photographic Aspects and Views" - Athens 2001" which was included in the exhibition of the same name that was held in Benaki Museum. He took part in various exhibitions, such as: "Photographic Meetings in Kythera" (2004 & 2005), "Faces" (Athens International Airport), "Photosynkyria 2006" (personal exhibition in the Stereosis gallery curated by Hercules Papaioannou), "Photobiennale 2008", "20 years Photocircle" (Benaki Museum, 2008), "Family" (Benaki Museum 2015, curated by Platon Rivellis) and others, and one of his photos was included in the Agfa calendar for 2004, which is available worldwide. 
Mark Klett & Byron Wolfe To commission them or to request prints of their work: www.klettandwolfe.com Mark Klett and Byron Wolfe have been collaborating on landscape photography projects since the mid 1990’s. They have published four books related to historic images of the American West: Third Views, Second Sights (2004); Yosemite in Time (with writer Rebecca Solnit, 2005); and Reconstructing the View (2012) and Drowned River, the Death and Rebirth of Glen Canyon on the Colorado (with writer Rebecca Solnit, 2018). They have authored an interactive, multimedia DVD and two websites related to rephotographing historic images. They believe that historical photographs are an excellent platform from which to make new artwork and to challenge perceptions of history.  Their interest lies in the collision points of land, use of photographic media, change and the measurement of time.
Wade Davis To commission him or to request prints of his work: www.daviswade.com Wade Davis is a writer, photographer, and filmmaker whose work has taken him from the Amazon to Tibet, Africa to Australia, Polynesia to the Arctic. Explorer-in- Residence at the National Geographic Society from 1999 to 2013, he is currently Professor of Anthropology and the BC Leadership Chair in Cultures and Ecosystems at Risk at the University of British Columbia. Author of 22 books, including One River, The Wayfinders and Into the Silence, winner of the 2012 Samuel Johnson prize, the top nonfiction prize in the English language, he holds degrees in anthropology and biology and received his Ph.D. in ethnobotany, all from Harvard University. His many film credits include Light at the Edge of the World, an eight-hour documentary series written and produced for the NGS. Davis, one of 20 Honorary Members of the Explorers Club, is the recipient of 11 honorary degrees, as well as the 2009 Gold Medal from the Royal Canadian Geographical Society, the 2011
Explorers Medal, the 2012 David Fairchild Medal for botanical exploration, the 2015 Centennial Medal of Harvard University, the 2017 Roy Chapman Andrews Society’s Distinguished Explorer Award, and the 2017 Sir Christopher Ondaatje Medal for Exploration. In 2016, he was made a Member of the Order of Canada. In 2018 he became an Honorary Citizen of Colombia.
Joachim Hildebrand To commission him or to request prints of his work: www.joachim-hildebrand.de Joachim Hildebrand studied Fine Art Photography at the Istituto Europeo di Design in Madrid under, among others, Elger Esser, Joan Fontcuberta, and Martin Parr. His works have been exhibited internationally and honored several times with awards such as the European Architectural Photography Prize. Joachim Hildebrand lives and works in Frankfurt am Main, Berlin, and Ellmau. Website:
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Gourab Guha To commission him or to request prints of his work: email
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Jess Dugan To commission her or to request prints of her work: www.jessdugan.com Jess T. Dugan (American, b. 1986 Biloxi, MS) received her MFA in Photography from Columbia College Chicago (2014), her Master of Liberal Arts in Museum Studies from Harvard University (2010), and her BFA in Photography from the Massachusetts College of Art and Design (2007). Dugan has exhibited at venues including the Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery, the Aperture Foundation, the Museum of Contemporary Photography, the San Diego Museum of Art, the Cornell Fine Arts Museum at Rollins College, the Catherine Edelman Gallery, the Griffin Museum of Photography, and at many colleges and universities throughout the United States. In April 2018, she will present a solo exhibition at the Transformer Station in Cleveland, OH. Public collections include the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, the Museum of Contemporary Photography, the Harvard Art
Museums, the Birmingham Museum of Art, the St. Louis Art Museum, the Grand Rapids Art Museum, the Archive of Documentary Arts at Duke University, the Cornell Fine Arts Museum at Rollins College, Fidelity Investments, JP Morgan Chase, and the Kinsey Institute for Research in Sex, Gender, and Reproduction. Dugan’s first monograph Every Breath We Drew was published in 2015 by Daylight Books and coincided with a solo exhibition at the Cornell Fine Arts Museum. Her second monograph, To Survive on this Shore, will be published in 2018 by Kehrer Verlag and will coincide with a solo exhibition at projects+gallery in St. Louis, MO. Dugan is the recipient of a Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant, a Light Work artist residency, an Artist Fellowship from the Regional Arts Commission in St. Louis, and was selected by the White House as a 2015 Champion of Change. In 2016, Dugan was honored as a Commended Artist by the Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery in Washington, D.C. for her photograph Self-Portrait (Muscle Shirt), exhibited in The Outwin 2016: American Portraiture Today. Her second monograph, To Survive on this Shore, will be published by Kehrer Verlag in 2018. She teaches workshops at venues including the Anderson Ranch Arts Center in Snowmass Village, CO and the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, MA. In 2015, Dugan founded the Strange Fire Artist Collective to highlight work made by women, people of color, and LGBTQ artists. She is represented by the Catherine Edelman Gallery in Chicago, IL.