The magazine of the photo-essay
March 2019 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 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 16
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.
Don McCullin
To commission him or to request prints of his work: www.donmccullin.com
Sir Don McCullin was born in 1935 and grew up in a deprived area of north London.
He got his first break when a newspaper published his photograph of friends who
were in a local gang. From the 1960s he forged a career as probably the UK’s
foremost war photographer, primarily working for the Sunday Times Magazine.
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 dachshunds, Jessie and Wilhelmina.
George Coles
To commission him or to request prints of his work: www.thestraggler.net
I was born in 1959, in the early 70s as shrapnel from parental collapse I arrived at a
boarding school in Brighton. To begin with it was utter misery but In hindsight one of
the best things that has ever happened to me. I’ve never really left Brighton since
and probably never will. In 1982 my eureka moment was to discover a book of
photographs by Henri Cartier Bresson which was soon followed by the works of
Robert Frank, Lee Friedlander, Andre Kertesz, Tony Ray Jones and Martin Parr. My
first Leica camera was in my hand not long after and thus began a 30 year love affair
with these beautiful machines. I taught myself the rudiments of developing and
printing and have only ever worked in black and white.
In the early nineties after a series of trips to Eastern Europe the cameras were put
on a shelf in favour and necessity of making a living, paying a mortgage, renovating
a house, and three children.
Rajib Singha
To commission him or to request prints of his work: email
Rajib Singha is a self-taught photographer and a teacher by profession who lives in
West Bengal, India. Rajib has contributed to multiple citizen journalism sites such as
Reuters Your View, Yahoo News, BBC Your View and others, along with national
news dailies. As well, Rajib has won multiple photography competitions nationally
and internationally.
Barry Lewis
To commission him or to request prints of his work: www.barrylewisphotography.com
Originally a chemistry teacher, Barry won a place to study photography at the Royal
College of Art, London, after which he became a photo- journalist, film-maker and
founder of the agency Network Photographers. In the late 1980s he discovered
Miami Beach and, captivated by the spirit of the place, began to document this area
in transition. As well as his photojournalism and portraiture work for international
publications from The Sunday Times to Life magazine, he has directed over 20
documentaries, commercials and art films. He now divides his time between London
and a village in the Corbières region of southern France.
David Eustace
To commission him or to request prints of his work: www.davideustace.com
David Eustace was born in Glasgow, Scotland in 1961. His simple and no nonsense
portraits seem reflective of his life’s experiences, prior to being a photographer he
served with HM Royal Navy before working as a Prison Officer in Scotland’s most
notorious Prison HMP Barlinnie. Void of any gimmicks, "there is an honesty to his
work". His highly successful Deutsche Bank sponsored “EGO” Exhibition in Cork St;
London (which was the subject of a 30 minute BBC documentary) was described as
“Beautiful, calm portraiture, a true rarity these days. He has worked for most major
magazines and his list of sitters include: Sir Paul McCartney, Sophia Loren, Sir John
Mills, Eve Arnold, Dame Judy Dench, James Earl Jones, Ewan McGregor, John
Hurt, Alec Baldwin and Radiohead, to name a few. There are private collections of
his work worldwide, including Deutsche Bank, The National Portrait Gallery, London
and The Glasgow Museum of Modern Art. David’s photography is not solely
restricted to Portraiture, his Fashion, Landscape and Documentary work is also widely recognized and this versatility has
led to him being respected as a “photographers photographer”.
Then in 2010 in a moment of “it’s not what you do you regret, it’s what you don’t do” the cameras were dusted off, I built
a darkroom in the basement of my house and was hooked again. In those intervening years ‘digital’ had arrived and passed
over my head, the world was now saturated with images that were quick ,easy, clean to produce. I found myself now as an
anomaly and a vestige, self exiled away for hours in a small room, using time warp techniques regarded with all the
reverence/suspicion of a medieval alchemist.
I have not found a definitive killer answer for my persistence with this form of image production, maybe it is nostalgic
bloody mindedness but I still get a buzz from the red lit womb like world of the darkroom it is like Alice falling down a
rabbit hole and entering another world. Thanks for looking at the photos, I hope you enjoy them as much as I do making
them.
XX George Coles
Sarah Williams
To commission her or to request prints of her work: email
David Hicks
To commission him or to request prints of his work: www.hixposure.co.uk
David’s business Really Good has long established itself as a leading supplier of
fun and humorous cards and gifts. Full of ideas which fell outside of the brand values
they had become known for, in 1997 David also launched Soul, a much more
design-led, card, stationary and gift company. Soul has also flourished, and today
the brands are responsible for producing many of the gift sector’s bestselling
products – Really Good’s ‘Man Tin’ has sold more than 700,000 units globally.Since
college, David has always been engrossed in photography using it has his creative
outlet, and David has long been photographing whilst successfully running both
Really Good and Soul. David has travelled to over 90 countries, and when travelling
he finds unique and different ways to photograph everyday life. Searching towns and
streets, David captures the moments showcasing how we live, collecting moments of
how different cultures go about their everyday lives.
Alyscia Cunningham
To commission her or to request prints of her work: www.Alyscia.com
Alyscia Cunningham is an entrepreneur, author, filmmaker and photographer who
has contributed to the Smithsonian, National Geographic, Discovery Channel and
AOL. After the success of her first book, Feminine Transitions, a photography book
encompassed with portraits of raw feminine beauty, Cunningham published her
second photography book and upcoming documentary film, I Am More Than My
Hair. The book features 138 portraits of 46 females and the stories of their
experience with hair loss as well as females who cut their hair in solidarity of a loved
one. The film includes interviews and dives into the connection of their emotions in
relation to the media's portrayal of beauty standards. Alyscia creates these, and
future projects, with the consideration of art for social-change.
Alyscia specializes in promoting our natural beauty because she believes the media
does a good job of focusing on our insecurities by bombarding us with ads proclaiming that their appearance without
enhancements is inadequate or faulty. Her portraits are unaltered by Photoshop and reveal women as they are naturally,
without the façade they put on for others.
Her work has been featured on Fox5 News, The Huffington Post, Cosmopolitan, The Washington Post, APlus, and
Proud2BMe.
