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Jules Allen
To commission him or to request prints of his work: www.julesallenphotography.com
Jules Allen’s photographs, over four decades, expresses the essential truth that a
culture’s power is clearest when presented on its own terms and thus, evocative of the
contemporary black experience. His images place subjects, drawn from the richness of
black life, within universal paradigms.
Born in San Francisco, CA, in 1947, attended California State University, where he took
his first formal photography class, studying with Jack Welpott, a well known, “west coast”
portrait and landscape photographer, student and protégé of Ansel Adams and Edward
Weston. Allen obtained a B.A. in Fine Arts in 1973 and M.S. in Clinical Counseling
Psychology in 1975, the latter was a conscious choice to facilitate the understanding of
human behavior.
Prior to moving to New York, Allen worked as a psychiatric social worker within the
criminal justice system in the San Francisco Bay area, which he found an enlightening
and profoundly disturbing experience, and credits it as providing a major developmental
shift that helped to shape his life and approach to photography. Working as a New York
John Claridge
To request prints of his work: www.nickyakehurst.com
There is always something new to appreciate about 'ground-breaking' professional
photography. John Chillingworth wrote in his series evaluating photography's 'greats',
that he has seldom, if ever, met someone with the same natural creative needs as the
good and great of earlier generations. Whatever the rule, John Claridge is the exception.
Another case of déja vu? An East End education (or lack of it). Left school at 15 –
talked his way into his first job in photography and the rest is history!
Well, no! John Claridge is, in every way, a one-off. True, the boy from Plaistow, with a
handful of 'jack-the-lad' cultural contemporaries could have drifted into dead-end
employment, or brushes with the law, or worse, but there was something different about
him.
As a consequence, in 1960, at the behest of the West Ham Labour Exchange, he dressed
in his best East End 'duds'. with hair plastered a jaunty angle and armed only with a
bucketful of determination, the boy from Plaistow went 'up West'. The interview resulted
Mario Marino
To commission him or to request prints of his work: www.mariomarino.com
Mario Marino is a travel portrait photographer, Austrian born and based in Germany.
Marino has been photographing various peoples in their native lands since 2000. His
work is exhibited in museums and galleries around the world: Amsterdam, Basel, Berlin,
Brusells, Cologne, Dubai, Gent, London, Munich, Nijmegen, Paris, Salzburg, Schwaz,
Stockholm & Würzburg. Central to his pictures is a fascinating portraiture in which he
maintains an empathetic connection to his subjects. Each image conveys a sense of
simple joy of being and living in the world. “To me it’s essential to show the beauty
and dignity of people. Empathy and walking is the key to my work. A normal day
consists of about 8 - 10 hours walking around looking for people (15 to 20 kilometers
a day). I try to read people’s lives, the circumstances they live. I’m fascinated by their
cultural background and identity.”
Mindaugus Kavaliauskas
To commission Mindaugus or to request prints of his work: www.Kavaliauskas.eu
Mindaugas Kavaliauskas was born in 1974 in Kaunas, Lithuania, where he lives until
present working as photographer, curator of photography, editor and publisher of books
of photography. He studied Art History and Photography in Kaunas, Arles, Paris and
Lausanne. He is founder and director of NGO “Šviesos raštas”, institution for promotion
of photographic art (since 2003). He is an invited jury panel member, invited curator
within international photo festivals, photography competitions, awards, such as European
Central Bank Annual Photography award (Frankfurt), Fotofest (Houston), Photo Espana
(Madrid), etc. He is recipient of numerous national and international awards, scholarships,
honor titles for achievements in photography; member of the Union of Art Photographers
of Lithuania (1993-) and board member (2005-2009); founder and director of KAUNAS
PHOTO festival (Lithuania, 2004-). He works as educator, lecturer of photography at
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 13 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 four children in Devon, England.
David Phipps
To request prints of his work: www.proud.co.uk
The Phipps collection spans the history of Formula One from 1960-1985, capturing
some of the most memorable and iconic moments in racing history. David Phipps started
covering F1 in 1960 as a Photo-Journalist photographing a few rounds of the series.
Whilst he was in Norfolk, where the Lotus F1 team was based, he got to know Colin
Chapman very well and offered to photograph for him. David soon received a contract
for the team and became firm friends with many of the Lotus drivers and future World
Champions. These included Jim Clark, Graham Hill, Emerson Fittipaldi, James Hunt,
Nicki Lauda, Mario Andretti, Jochen Rindt and Nigel Mansell and countless others. As
a result of the team becoming more successful and receiving big contracts in the 1970s
with sponsors, his agency began to grow.
David was also the Editor of the famous Autocourse annual publication which is still
produced to this day. As you can see from the images from the Phipps/Sutton Images
collection he was extremely close with all the drivers, teams and media with F1,
travelling on the same flights and staying in the same hotels. As a result of this, Phipps’
images were able to capture personal side of the drivers and candid behind the scenes
Boris Nemeth
To commission him or to request prints of his work: www.borisnemeth.com
Boris Németh was born in 1979 in Šaľa, Slovakia. He studied photography at the
Academy of Fine Arts and Design in Bratislava. He completed his post-graduate studies
in 2011 and currently works there a as part-time teacher of photojournalism.
He has worked at .týždeň magazine as a photojournalist since 2006, while exhibiting in
Slovakia and abroad. In addition to winning several photography awards, he is
represented in the collections of the Slovak National Gallery, Central European House of
Photography Bratislava and the VÚB Foundation.
He has worked with documentary and photojournalism in several authorial cycles and
series.
In 2010, Németh began to cooperate with the photographer Ján Viazanička. Together
they capture the more or less visible changes in Slovakia and the changes in the
Arlene Gottfried
To commission her or to request prints of her work: www.arlenegottfried.com
Arlene Gottfried, born in Brooklyn, graduated from the Fashion Institute of Technology in
New York, and worked as a photographer at an ad agency before freelancing for top
publications, including The New York Times Magazine, Fortune, Life, and The
Independent in London. Gottfried has exhibited at the Leica Gallery in New York and in
Tokyo, and at the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C., among others. Her
photographs can be found in the collections of the Brooklyn Museum of Art, The New
York Public Library, and the Maison Européenne de la Photographie in Paris. She is the
recipient of numerous awards, including the Berenice Abbott International Competition of
Women's Documentary Photography. Gottfried is the author of Mommie (powerHouse
Books, 2015), Bacalaitos & Fireworks (powerHouse Books, 2011), Sometimes
Tim Whitby
To commission him or to request prints of his work: www.pixelrights/timwhitby
Tim’s career in photo-journalism started in London in 1995 working for a small London
based news agency. Since then he has covered a huge range of events and
commissions on behalf of Getty Images for clients including MTV, Rimmel, Prada and
Sky.
Tim's portrait and fashion work has been published internationally and he has also
worked on-set shooting stills for NBC productions and on the film, A Hundred Street, due
for release in 2016.
A selection of his Editorial work can be seen here:
www.timwhitbyphotography.photoshelter.com
KayLynn Deveney
To commission her or to request prints of her work: www.kaylynndeveney.com
KayLynn Deveney was born in Albuquerque, New Mexico. The first of two children, she
came home from the hospital in a new Mercury and a desert wind storm.
KayLynn has earned a bachelor’s degree in journalism from the University of New Mexico,
a master's degree in documentary photography at the University of Wales, Newport and a
practice-based Ph.D. in photography, also in Newport, that focused on the ways
contemporary and historical photographic diaries and self-books address myths of
domesticity.
KayLynn’s photographic work has been exhibited internationally and is held in permanent
collections including those of The Museum of Contemporary Photography in Chicago,
Illinois, Light Work in Syracuse, New York and the Portland Art Museum in Oregon.
KayLynn's first photographic book, The Day-to-Day Life of Albert Hastings, was published
Walter Astrada
To commission him or to request prints of his work: www.walterastrada.com
Walter Astrada, 1974, Argentina. Started as a staff photographer at La Nacion. He would
later join Associated Press (AP) in Bolivia and later in Argentina, Paraguay and the
Dominican Republic. He’s worked as a freelancer for Agence France Presse (AFP) in the
Dominican Republic from 2005 to 2006, and was represented and distributed by World
Picture News.
During 2008 and 2009 he covered Eastern Africa, out of Uganda.
He works as a freelancer and has finalized two long-term projects, one about violence
Frederico Rios
To commission him or to request prints of his work: www.federicorios.net
Federico is a Colombian photographer whose work focuses on developing documentary
photography on social issues in Latin America.
He has worked for over 10 years as a photojournalist and his work has been featured in
international publications and media.
In 2012 he published the photo book "the Path of the Condor" and in 2013 published the
book "Fiestas de San Pacho, Quibdo". Fellow XXVII Eddie Adams Workshop. New York /
2014.
Photography Violence and Society in Latin America. El Salvador / 2012.
He is a member of the curatorial committee of @everydaymacondo instagram project.
For more information on Federico's work, to get in touch regarding employment
opportunities, or to just say hello, feel free to get in touch.
George S Zimbel
To commission him or to request prints of his work: www.georgezimbel.com
George S. Zimbel continues to produce new work and print previously unseen images
from his archive. His activity reflects his feeling that creative people speed up as they
get older because they have a backlog of ideas and projects along with the realization
that time is finite.
George Zimbel has been married to Elaine Sernovitz, a writer and psychotherapist since
1955. They have four children: Matt, Andrew, Ike, and Jodi and nine grandchildren. They
live in Montreal, their city of choice.
In an era of increased manipulation of the photographic image by computer technology,
Zimbel's commitment to the "straight" photograph has become stronger. He sees the
early 21st century as a period in which classic photography will have it's last flowering.
http://georgezimbel.com/biography/
Santanu Dey
To commission him or to request prints of his work: www.facebook.com
I was born in Kolkata, it was at the age of 10 when I found a deep interest in painting.
Inclined toward this passion I realized how beautiful everything is in colors, as well as in
monochrome. I love to trek and climb mountains. In mid-2013, before my trek my family
gifted me a Sony Digital camera, and I started my journey as a photographer. I started it
as my hobby but now it is my passion. Be it street photography or documentary
photography or capturing nature, I always try to do something unique. I am happiest to
be behind the camera as it fills my mind with joy.
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Philip Wolmuth
To commission him or to request prints of his work: www.philipwolmuth.com
Philip Wolmuth is a documentary photographer and occasional writer based in London.
In 1976 he set up North Paddington Community Darkroom, a pioneering photography
project working with community organisations in a deprived neighbourhood in the west
of the city. In 1982 he left to work as a freelance, working for a wide range of
organisations and publications, focusing on political, social and economic issues, and
the impact of public policy on communities and individuals in the UK and abroad.
Alice Smeets
To commission her or to request prints of her work: www.alicesmeets.com
Photographer. Journalist. Filmmaker. Artist. Project Manager. Teacher. Student. Traveler.
There isn’t just one word to describe what I’m doing. I am a free spirit. I follow my heart
and make my dreams and ideas come true. All in the pursuit of opening people’s eyes to
what’s really happening in our world and at the same time exposing the beauty so that
change can happen.
I was lucky to assist one of the greatest photojournalists of the last century, Philip Jones
Griffiths, who taught me valuable lessons about photography and life.
Since 2007 I have been traveling to and living in Haiti to document the country and its
people with my camera and learn about the human race through observation.
workshops. He is author of tens of articles in magazines and portals, intro texts to books. Besides all these activities,
Mindaugas Kavaliauskas continues to practice photography. Travel'AIR resulted out of frequent flights to photo festivals,
exhibitions and portfolio reviews.
against women, and the other—the Under Pressure Project—about people with multiple sclerosis in Europe.
He’s completed two long term reportage stories. Violence Against Women (2006 – 2012) and Under Pressure: Living With
MS in Europe (2010-2013)
Astrada also gives lectures and workshops on photjournalism, documentary photography and film making.
He’s been the recipient of 3 World Press Photo awards, The Bayeux-Calvados award for War Correspondents, NPPA-BOP,
‘Photojournalist of the Year’ and ‘Best of Show,’ the PGB ‘Photographer of the Year’ and ‘Picture of the Year,’ and PDN
annual, Days Japan 1st Prize, POYi’s, Alfred I. du Pont Award for Excellence in Broadcast and Digital Journalism –
Columbia School of Journalism, 68th Pictures of the Year • 1st Issue Reporting Story – Multimedia and Alexia Foundation
and Getty Editorial grants, among others.
He is currently traveling on a Royal Enfield on the aim to do a world tour started in Barcelona, Spain in May 1st, 2015.
in a job at McCann-Erickson in the Photographic Department.
He strode forward with the kind of youthful exuberance, which college-educated contemporaries often failed to comprehend,
let alone emulate, Claridge grew in stature.
During the two years he worked at McCanns, not only did he have his first one-man show, he was inspired by many, namely
the legendary designer Robert Brownjohn. His work that was exhibited at this first one-man show was acclaimed in the
photographic press as 'shades of Walker Evans'. At seventeen he turned up on the doorstep of Bill Brandt's Hampstead
home – to give him one of his treasured prints. Gentle and polite, Brandt invited him in; sought the young Claridge's
opinion on his current work and sent him away feeling ten feet high.
Recommended by established photographers and art directors, he became David Montgomery's assistant between the ages
of seventeen and nineteen.
By the tender age of nineteen he had opened his own studio near London's St Paul's Cathedral.
His ideas and his images matured rapidly. A mix of editorial and advertising commissions brought him and his easy
confidence to the attention of 1960s advertising trend-setters The result of which has been the presentation of over 700
awards for his work.
His by-line became familiar in many of the monthly magazines of the day and his reputation began to move from a national
to an international level.
By the age of twenty-three, as well as having a home on the Essex marshes and a de rigueur E-type Jaguar, although his
real sporting love was and still is the motorbike, he had written, produced and shot a short film titled "Five Soldiers". An
American Civil War tale which, when shown on a university campus in the US, caused a riot among the students as it was
compared with the war in Vietnam … the press said compared the film tp Luis Buñuel. The film was eventually banned
but made its way onto the underground circuit.
A doyen of the 'golden age'. He realises now that he had been working in the 'golden age of advertising', and as the years
melted into decades, the commissions took him around the world. Tourist boards in the Bahamas, India and the US
recognised his highly individual visual talent.
Banks, whisky distillers, international corporations, car manufacturers, all were prepared to give him his head to creative
images that inspired their ad agency art directors to greater and more stunning campaigns. The result of which has been
the presentation of over 700 awards for his work.
So, what is it that makes John Claridge great? He is a man of the world, whose influence will be transmitted to future
generations of photographers.
Throughout his working decades, he has, maintained a mile-high wall of professionalism, which, despite today's clients who
sometimes attempt to stifle creativity, as well as the virtual absence of passion in the business, he holds true the belief that
his photography is from the heart – no the head!
John’s work has moved on over recent years. Here is what eminent photography critic and historian Helena Srakocic-
Kovac recently had to say about John’s work: “When you decided to pull back from advertising … which, I think, is such
a shame because you revolutionised it and elevated it to an art form … you have been substituting it with work of
equivalent value, guts and visual strength but so very different … so much to see … to me at times it appears as if it's
not yours … unstructured and scattered in its beauty … you used to tell stories and now it's more about feelings and
moments in life …”
His work is held in museums and private collections worldwide, including The Arts Council of Great Britain, Victoria & Albert
Museum, National Portrait Gallery and The Museum of Modern Art.
images. David developed a strong rapport and respect from the F1 drivers as he took the images and captured amazing
moments in F1s history.
In 2010 I co-founded a non-profit organization called Viv Timoun with projects in Haiti.
Infos at www.vivtimoun.org
Recently I directed my first documentary “AIDependence” demonstrating the negative influence of the aid industry on the
Haitian population using Haiti as an example for the happenings of most developing countries. Infos at
www.aidependence.com
commercial photographer in editorial, advertising and entertainment, Allen actively pursued the development of a personal
vision. Early influences in photography for Allen were Edward Weston, Cartier Bresson and Robert Frank, as well as Roy
deCarava, with whom he studied at Hunter College and obtained a Masters in Fine Arts in 1985.
The recipient of numerous grants and awards, Allen has been widely exhibited in the U.S. and abroad. His photographs are
included in museums and private collections worldwide, inclusive of the Museum of Modern Art, the Studio Museum in
Harlem, the Brooklyn Museum, the Smithsonian, the National Gallery, the Schomburg Center for Culture & Research and
others.
Mr. Allen currently lives and works in New York as a photographer and a professor in the Department of Art and Design at
Queensborough College. He has published four books, “Hats and HatNots,” “Black Bodies,” “Double Up,” and “In Your Own
Sweet Way,” books of photographs in collaboration with QCC Art Gallery Press. His fifth book, “Marching Bands,” tells the
story of marching bands, through their rhythm, precision and discipline.
relationships between people and the space in which they live. (Publications: Transformations of Slovakia, 2012;
Transformations of Slovakia – the 1150th anniversary of St. Cyril and Methodius in Great Moravia, 2013). In 2013, Németh
presented a selection from his independent work in the publication On The Road.
Overwhelming (powerHouse Books, 2008), Midnight (powerHouse Books, 2003) and The Eternal Light (Dewi Lewis
Publishing, 1999). A lecturer and a singer, Gottfried lives and works in New York City.
It is a passion for travel though, that continues to drive a personal photographic journey for Tim as he strives to tell the
personal stories of people he meets and highlight the amazing cultures that still exist in a post modern world. A fascination
for people and the environments they find themselves in will always be at the heart of his photography.
by Princeton Architectural Press in August, 2007 and was chosen as an official selection for the Arles Contemporary Book
Prize, 2008, selected by PhotoEspana to be shown in "The Best Photography Books" exhibition held at the National Library
of Madrid, June and July, 2008, and chosen as one of 20 nominees for the New York Photo Awards "Best Photography Book"
award, 2008.
In December 2008, KayLynn received an artist grant from the prestigious Anonymous Was a Woman Foundation.
In August 2015, KayLynn exhibited her work in the Dali International Photography Exhibition in China and was honored to
receive the Redpoll Trophy.
KayLynn's new book, All You Can Lose Is Your Heart, has just been published by Kehrer Verlag.
KayLynn now lives in Northern Ireland and is a full-time lecturer in the Belfast School of Art at the University of Ulster. But in
the summer, she returns to New Mexico, her friends, her family, and the wind.
