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March 2015 back issue

Norman Seeff To commission Norman or to request prints of his work: studio@normanseeff.com After graduating with honors in science and art, Norman Seeff qualified as a medical doctor and for three years worked in emergency medicine in Soweto, South Africa focusing on the management of traumatic shock. Wishing to explore his passion for creative expression in all its forms, he relocated to New York in 1968 and switched careers from science to the arts. Seeff established himself as a successful ‘rock’ photographer and designer of album art and in 1971, he was offered the position of Creative Director at United Artists Records in Los Angeles. His innovative approach to collaborative art-direction resulted in multiple Grammy nominations for graphic design. Two years later, Seeff went freelance and opened a studio on the Sunset Strip.

Ulla Lohmann To commission Ulla or to request prints of her work: www.ullalohmann.com Photojournalist, Documentary Film Maker, TV presenter works regularly for National Geographic, GEO, Discovery, BBC. See her full CV here

Ingetje Tadros To commission Ingetje or to request prints of her work: www.ingetjetadros.com Renowned photographer and traveler Ingetje Tadros began a global photographic sojourn at seventeen. Leaving behind her small hometown in the Netherlands, she ambitiously set out to travel the planet. Over the course of 35 years of regular travel, she has visited more than 45 countries across six continents, all the while capturing striking images of the world's tribal people, and of lives and places that exist in relative obscurity. Her photography offers the viewer genuine moments of humanity and stunning expressive form. Whether she is photographing people in a market in a village in India, or during a festival in Papua New Guinea, Ingetje is always fully engaged with the people she encounters. The viewer never has the feeling she is pickpocketing people's private sacred moments to enthrall us with mere cultural novelty. Her photographs neither intend to shock nor illicit sympathy; therefore, we can visually engage with Tadros' subjects without the distortions imposed by a disparaging fog of pity. Through her great skill and sensitivity, she enhances our perceptions and engages us with the unfamiliar, enabling us to cast off our engrained, divisive tendencies - the formidable mental barriers that alienate "us" (the urban

Juan Teixeira To commission Juan or to request prints of his work: www.juanteixeira.com Juan Teixeira is a documentary photographer based in Galiza (Spain). He studied Advertising, but soon realized that this was not his place. Through a series of trips to South America and Southeast Asia, he noted that photography was a way to interact and explore the world in a very personal way, like a spectator who tries to understand what is happening around them. Since then, he has focused on trying to understand the world around him, focusing on people and their relationships with other people, society, nature and the time and place that each will live. He currently heads the company ‘Ese Instante’ which combines with the realization of social reports, collaborations with media and personal travels.

Adriane Ohanesian To commission Adriane or to request prints of her work: www.adrianeohanesian.com I am an independent American freelance documentary photographer and photojournalist based in Nairobi, Kenya. In 2008, I received my B.A. in Cultural Anthropology and Conflict Resolution from Colorado College, and graduated from the International Center of Photography’s photojournalism and documentary photography program in 2010. Upon the completion of my degree I moved to Khartoum, Sudan and have been photographing mainly in Africa ever since. Beginning in 2012, I worked in South Sudan covering the news and photographing special reports for Reuters News Agency, focusing on healthcare, Sudanese refugees living in South Sudan, the fighting in the Nuba Mountains of South Kordofan, and the conflict over oil. My experiences living and photographing in Sudan and South Sudan have resulted in a commitment to documenting communities that are at war with their own governments. I am interested not only in the military aspects of these conflicts, but also the impact that these conflicts have on the civilian populations. Since relocating to Kenya I have continued my work in South Sudan and have recently become interested in the fight against al Shabaab in Somalia.

David James Born in Birmingham, England, David James moved to a village in Hertfordshire, north of London, aged 4. An MGM film crew were shooting outside the village school and David (age 9) knew at that moment that he wanted to be a photographer in the film industry. At age 16 he joined the Stills Department at MGM Studios (UK) working in the lab as an assistant to many different photographers. The head portrait photographer, Dave Boulton, became his mentor and arranged for David to go out to Israel/Cyprus as a printer on Preminger directed Exodus. This lead to other jobs and once again it was his mentor, Dave Boulton ,who gave him his break into shooting stills by getting him his first set job, on a Ken Annakin comedy. More films followed quickly including Bunny Lake Is Missing, reuniting David with director Otto Preminger….of whom he was initially terrified; the unit publicist sent the first set of David's stills to Preminger and the director promptly tore them up. A friend of Preminger's on the set persuaded David to resubmit the same photos in a much larger format, leading the director to put his arm around David and tell him, "these stills will be noticed….it is all about showmanship." Since that moment David has chosen a limited collection of his personal stills "Selects"

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.

Roxanne Lowit To commission Roxanne or to request prints of her work: www.roxannelowit.com For over three decades, the unique lens of Roxanne Lowit has captured the faces, personalities, and spaces of modern culture. To review her incomparable work is to step behind the proverbial velvet rope. To see her images is to witness the creation and the celebration of fashion and art and theater and film, pleasure and joy and aesthetic delight. A shooting star, Lowit has photographed thousands of luminaries, including Andy Warhol, Salvador Dali, Kate Moss, Yves Saint-Laurent, Johnny Depp, Madonna, and George Clooney. To witness her work is not only to see these famous faces closeup but also to peer at their beauty, their vulnerability and their humanity, all captured by a passionate storyteller whose greatest tool is her humble, empathetic presence. More than a photographer, she is a true artist, a modern-day successor to Manet and Toulouse-Lautrec. Just as they colorfully chronicled the whirl of Parisian life in the 19th century on canvas, she has captured the creative classes of the last three decades in her photographs, offering unprecedented visual entrée to the beau monde of New York, Paris, and Milan.

Sean Hawkey To commission Sean or to request prints of his work: www.hawkey.co.uk My name is Sean Hawkey and I'm a photographer and journalist. I’ve worked in 50+ countries, mainly on issues of social interest stories, development, humanitarian crises, solidarity. My work has been featured in the New York Times, BBC, The Guardian, Morning Star, Huffington Post, The Telegraph, Science Magazine, the Journal of the Royal Photographic Society and has been used by 200+ organisations including Fairtrade networks in 30 countries, ACT Alliance and its member organisations around the world, DanWatch, the Centre for Journalism Ethics, World Council of Churches, World Health Organisation, World Bank, UNESCO, UNISDR, International Dalit Solidarity Network, Greenpeace, Climate Action Network and the RMT trade union. My photographs have been exhibited as joint and solo exhibitions in Mexico, Ireland, France, Germany, Austria, UK and Spain. Before freelance photography I worked in international aid, I taught architecture and I ran communications for global NGOs. I'm based in the UK and I'm working freelance.

Photo: Emily Hope, courtesy of Twin magazine.

Rachel Molina To commission Rachel or to request prints of her work: www.rachelmolina.co.uk Born in London in 1980, Rachel Molina was educated at a Steiner school and at the internationally renowned BRIT school where she majored in theatre production. However an earlier introduction to photography had sown the seeds of a greater passion, and she moved on to study photojournalism at Tower Hamlets College before furthering her photographic studies at the highly acclaimed London College of Printing (now the LCC). Rachel has travelled extensively in Europe, North America and Australasia. These experiences are used as the basis of her photographic style creating work that resonates with the captured energy and vibrancy of the subject.

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

Catherine Karnow To commission her or to request prints of her work: www.thephotosociety.org Born and raised in Hong Kong, the daughter of an American journalist, San Francisco- based photographer Catherine Karnow shoots for National Geographic, National Geographic Traveler, Smithsonian, French & German GEO and other international publications. She has also participated in several Day in the Life series, Passage to Vietnam, and Women in the Material World. Catherine has covered Australian Aborigines; Bombay film stars; victims of Agent Orange in Vietnam; Russian "Old Believers" in Alaska; Greenwich, Connecticut high society; and an Albanian farm family. In 1994, she was the only non-Vietnamese photo-journalist to accompany General Giap on his historic first return to the forest encampment in the northern Vietnam highlands from which he plotted the battle of Dien Bien Phu. She also gained unprecedented access to Prince Charles for her 2006 National Geographic feature, "Not Your Typical Radical."

Catherine also teaches Photography Workshops. Visit: catherinekarnowphotoworkshop.com

In his evolution as a photographer of public personalities, Seeff realized that to accomplish the vitality and authenticity he was looking for in his images required nothing short of a paradigm shift in his interaction with artists and innovators. His sessions became a nurturing and challenging environment for a co-creative relationship with artists and evolved into a laboratory for the exploration of the fundamental dynamics of creativity, from the ‘inside’ out. Responding to the emotional authenticity and depth of the creative communication between himself and artists, Seeff brought a film crew into a session for the first time in 1975. This session was with Ike and Tina Turner. To date Seeff has documented over 500 sessions with artists of many disciplines including musicians, actors, writers, directors, actors, scientists, entrepreneurs, politicians, etc. including renowned creators and innovators such as Ray Charles, Joni Mitchell, Steve Jobs, Steve Martin, John Huston, The Rolling Stones, Johnny Cash, Martin Scorsese, Billy Wilder, Bob Fosse, will.i.am, Tina Turner, Alicia Keys, Sir Francis Crick, Nobel winners and hundreds of others. He has worked in creative collaborations with institutions such as The California Institute of Technology, The Experience Museum, Rocketdyne, The Jet Propulsion Lab, Apple, Glaxo Wellcome, Paramount TV, Motorola, General Motors, Mitsubishi, Toyota, TEDx, The Annenberg Space for Photography, Lexus, YPO, GM, Nissan, The Red Bull Music Academy etc. Seeff’s first book “Hot Shots”, won the New York Directors Club award for best photographic book of the year and his second book, “Sessions!” has become a collector’s item. In the ‘90s Seeff shifted creative disciplines to directing television commercials for major international brands, winning multiple awards including a Belding for his first national campaign. In 2000 Seeff returned to his sessions, but now focusing on long-form, multimedia projects exploring the dynamics of creativity. His first feature documentary, “Triumph of the Dream”, explores the creative process of the NASA scientists and engineers of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory responsible for landing two rovers on Mars in 2004. Many of the team responsible for the Spirit and Opportunity rovers were also responsible for the Curiosity rover which landed on Mars in October, 2012. Seeff views himself as a conduit for the voices of the hundreds of creative and innovative individuals working at the higher reaches of human potential with whom he has interacted over many decades. His groundbreaking content is currently being prepared for global release via multiple interactive digital platforms. “I have spent decades working with hundreds of the world’s consummate innovators, photographing and filming them in the act of creation. They know that they are the creators of their own works and that their creations are an expression of self determined choice. The truly innovative creators have always worked in ways that are radically divergent from consensus assumptions and beliefs about the fundamental nature of how we create. Innovative creativity is not a linear process. It occurs in the multi- dimensional minds outside of ordinary consciousness and ‘down-steps’ into awareness in quantum leaps of revelation. All creation begins in the mind as a dream that is birthed in the core dimension and resource of imagination. What I have discovered is that we all have access to the same inner resources of creation. The great creators do not have some magic bullet. They know how to access those resources and utilize them. Knowing this, we can empower our own creativity, to design and craft a future in response to our visions and dreams.” Thomas Schirmbock, Director of the Zephyr Space for Photography at the REM Museum in Mannheim waited patiently for almost 10 years for Seeff to agree to his first retrospective (September 2014-March 2015). Here is how Schirmbock describes his work, "The music industry used the record cover to give a visual representation of the sound. Norman Seeff is one of the masters of this art form, both as a designer and photographer. His ideas helped form the visual experiences of a whole generation. They were never aggressive, never broke taboos, but expanded the visual space of the record to include the viewer. The artists are infinitely distant from us, yet Seeff has the gift of showing them as people like us. That sounds so easy, yet no one else has achieved this as successfully as Seeff. Perhaps it is his interest in human nature, the quality which enabled him to work in the largest African hospital as a medical student in South Africa, which later also gave him the ability to transform his public encounters with people into intimate meetings in front of the camera. The people who look out of his pictures at us often gaze with alert, relaxed eyes. This alert presence has its origin in Norman Seeff's talent, developed over the years, for removing his subjects' shyness and then releasing them emotionally." This selection of Norman Seeff's photography is from NORMAN SEEFF: THE LOOK OF SOUND the catalogue for his first retrospective and is available at: Amazon

Joseph Rodriguez To commission Joseph or to request prints of his work: josephrodriguezphotography Joseph Rodriguez was born and raised in Brooklyn, New York. He began studying photography at the School of Visual Arts and went on to receive an Associate of Applied Science at New York City Technical College. He worked in the graphic arts industry before deciding to pursue photography further. In 1985 he graduated with a Photojournalism and Documentary Diploma from the International Center of Photography in New York. He went on to work for Black Star photo agency, and print and online news organizations like National Geographic, The New York Times Magazine, Mother Jones, Newsweek, Esquire, Stern, and New America Media. He has received awards and grants from the USC Annenberg Institute for Justice and Journalism, the Open Society Institute Justice Media Fellowship and Katrina Media Fellowship, National Endowment for the Arts, the Rockefeller Foundation, Mother Jones International Fund for Documentary Photography, and the Alicia Patterson Fellowship Fund for Investigative Journalism. He has been awarded Pictures of the Year by the National Press Photographers Association and the University of Missouri, in 1990, 1992, 1996 and 2002. He is the author of, Spanish

Harlem, part of the “American Scene” series, by the National Museum of American Art/ D.A.P., as well as East Side Stories: Gang Life in East Los Angeles, Juvenile, Flesh Life Sex in Mexico City, and Still Here: Stories After Katrina. Recent exhibitions include the Institute for Public Knowledge, New York, NY; Moving Walls, Open Society, New York, NY; and Cultural Memory Matters, 601 Art Space, New York, NY.

on every project and always presents them in large format prints to the filmmakers. David went on to cover movies such as Women In Love, Fiddler on the Roof, his first war movie was as aerial stills photographer on Battle of Britain. The genres of Musicals and War are his favourites and also have resulted in some of his most well-known work including Dogs of War, Saving Private Ryan, Schindler's List, and the TV mini-series Band of Brothers and The Pacific. Saving Private Ryan was an opportunity for David to honour the work of his "hero", Robert Capa and to virtually become a war photographer..without risking his life. The latter 4 films form part of his 10 collaborations with Steven Spielberg that began with Schindler's List and continues later this year with Spielberg's next project Lincoln. Musicals include Jesus Christ Superstar, Chicago, Shall We Dance, Hairspray and Nine, Dreamgirls in which he had his one and only credited acting role as a photographer in Rock of Ages teaming him up again with Tom Cruise. Most of the films that David worked on in the UK were American productions, and when the British industry contracted and diminished in the 1980s, he decided to relocate with his wife and 2 daughters, to Southern California. Before leaving the UK David had an assignment for Special Photography on Ridley Scotts Legend, his first opportunity to work with Tom Cruise. Since moving Stateside, David has worked with Tom on 6 films including MI-Ghost Protocol. Moving to USA also coincided with huge changes in still photography and he enthusiastically embraced the challenges of digital photography while continuing to study the ever evolving and exciting world of movie stills. David has covered many TV mini-series and TV movies, also for the past 2 years has had the privilege of shooting the Academy Awards behind the scenes, with exclusive access to the green room. There are more than a dozen books that feature David's stills photography starting with Jesus Christ Superstar, including Memoirs of a Geisha, Last Samurai, Superman Returns and the most recent- also the one of which he is most proud - the book that he both wrote and photographed for Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull. David's work has featured in several international exhibitions and he has won many awards and accolades, including the 2006 ICG/Publicists Guild Award for Excellence in Still Photography and the SOC Lifetime Achievement Award. His stills have been published in magazines and newspapers around the globe and are included in the archives of the Academy's Margaret Herrick Library, and the Professional Photographers of America. A source of great pride is that both his daughters have followed him and pursued careers in the film industry. (Deya is a senior publicist at Warner Bros, Chia works for the SVP of Physical Production at Paramount) both have worked with and on projects involving their father as the stills photographer.David's other enduring passion, apart from his family and photography, is fly-fishing; perhaps 2012 will bring the trifecta of a fishing trip with his family and his beloved Leica camera.

A pioneer, Lowit has always done things differently. A native New Yorker, she was originally a textile designer. But she found her true calling crafting imagery of a different kind, and then created an entirely new genre of photography by taking her camera where nobody else wanted to go: backstage at fashion shows. While everyone else was fixated on the runway, she captured the real action was where the rest of the photographers weren’t looking. Her epiphany typifies her keen eye for new possibilities—and it transformed fashion photography forever. But she has gone even further, elevating her medium into fine art. Lowit’s work has been exhibited in many of the world’s major museums, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art; the Whitney Museum of American Art; the Victoria & Albert Museum; the Warhol Museum; and the Museum of Modern Art in Moscow. Her photographs are part of the permanent collection of Japan’s prestigious Kobe Fashion Museum. She has also been featured in one-woman shows in New York, Paris, Berlin, Amsterdam, and London, as well as at group exhibitions at the Gagosian Gallery, Colette, and Art Basel Miami. Three books have collected Lowit’s indelible images. Moments (1990) and People (2001) are visual time capsules of international nightlife. Backstage Dior (2009), featuring a foreword by John Galliano, lasers in on the inimitable creativity and incomparable energy of that storied house. Lowit’s photography has been a longtime mainstay in the American, Italian, French, and German editions of Vogue, as well as in Vanity Fair , Tatler , GQ, W, and numerous other publications. Her groundbreaking advertising work has included memorable campaigns for major brands from a host of industries, including Acura, Armani, Coca-Cola, DeBeers, Dior, Land Rover, Moët & Chandon, and Vivienne Westwood.

Klaus Pichler To commission Klaus or to request prints of his work: www.kpic.at Klaus Pichler was born 1977 and lives in Vienna, Austria. After graduating from university in 2005 he decided to follow his heart and quit his profession as a landscape architect to become a full time photographer. He still has had no photographic education at all and he likes it this way. He creates free photo projects which are widely published, exhibited internationally and partially published as books. The topics that interest him in his photographic work are both the hidden aspects of everyday life in its varying forms, as well as social groups with their own codes and rules. He likes to get a view behind the scenes and to work on his projects with a conceptual approach.

economically-advantaged) from "them" (indigenous people and the world's chronically poor and vulnerable). In March of 2011, Ingetje published her first book, Tribal Ethiopia - a testament of her passion for documenting tribal people and championing issues of social justice. The book's 286 photos document the indigenous tribes of the Omo River Valley and their plight as people threatened with the of loss of their ancestral homeland and economic livelihood to modern development; a proposed massive hydroelectric plant project would eventually flood their valley.Over the course of her career she has been a volunteer photographer for the Amsterdam World Museum and a travel consultant for Nouvelles Frontieres. Ingetje currently freelances in Australia. She is also a prodigious contributor to world-renowned Getty Images (Creative and Editorial), AuroraPhotos and is a stringer for Demotix. Recently she signed a contract as Free Lance photographer with The Wideangle. Over the last years her work was (amongst others) awarded by Px3 Prix de la photografie Paris, Australian Geographic and the International Loupe Awards. She currently lives in Broome, Western Australia where she and her Egyptian-born husband own and run a Middle Eastern restaurant that also serves as an informal gallery for her work. She travels as much as she can in between running a busy restaurant.

Rachel lives in South East London with her husband and two children.

Aman Chotani To commission Aman or to request prints of his work: www.amanchotani.com Aman Chotani, A professional travel photographer who has learned the art from Nat Geo Photographer Louis Kleynhans in Africa. Selected in the Nat Geo Covershot 2014 Tv Show, his work has found acclaim across major exhibitions and brands. His motto - travel to beautiful, rusty, adventurous locations to capture untold stories, unseen traditions and unprecedented experiences. His fresh, young and undying spirit and zeal to be best in the field motivates him to be the best in the field.

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