The magazine of the photo-essay
March 2020 back 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 18
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.
Anne Helene Gjelstad
To commission her or to request prints of her work: annehelenegjelstad.com
Anne Helene Gjelstad is a Norwegian award-winning photographer and educator
whose work has been exhibited worldwide. Her passion is photographing people and
for the last eleven years she has portrayed the lives of the older women on the
Estonian islands of Kihnu and Manija in the Baltic Sea. For her, Big heart, strong
hands, is her contribution to record and help preserve the future of this unique
culture.
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, Rosie and Ted.
Martin Parr
www.martinparr.com
Martin Parr is one of the best-known documentary photographers of his generation.
He has now published over 100 books and edited another 30. He has curated two
photography festivals, Arles in 2004 and Brighton Biennial in 2010. In 2016 Parr
curated the Barbican exhibition, Strange and Familiar. He has been a member of the
Magnum agency since 1994 and was President from 2013 to 2017. Parr’s work has
been collected by many major museums. Parr established the Martin Parr
Foundation in 2017.
Colin Westerbeck and Joel Meyerowitz
To commission them or to request prints of their work: www.laurenceking.com
Colin Westerbeck is internationally acknowledged as the foremost expert on street photography. Formerly a Curator
of Photography at the Art Institute of Chicago and Director of the California Museum of Photography, he currently
teaches the history of photography and UCLA.
Joel Meyerowitz is one of the world’s most acclaimed photographers and a master of street photography. He began
making spontaneous colour photographs on the streets of New York in 1962
alongside Tony Ray-Jones and Garry Winogrand, and was instrumental in
changing attitudes towards colour photography.
Martin Usborne
To commission him or to request prints of his work: hoxtonminipress.com
Martin Usborne is a photographer based in London and also co-founder of Hoxton
Mini Press. His work has been exhibited throughout the world.
Maxim Marmur
To commission him or to request prints of his work: Facebook
Maxim Marmur is a famous Russian photographer who has come a long way from
local newspapers to his position as a news photographer at the major global news
agencies. Marmur’s creative success is dictated by the trademark style of his visual
research. Every moment captured in his photographs overcomes the immediate
nature of reportage and acquires the quality of a self-contained piece of
photography. The grandeur of every fleeting moment of life—this is what we
experience when looking at Marmur’s photographs.
Mike Brodie
To commission him or to request prints of his work: ridindirtyface.squarespace.com
Born in 1985, Mike Brodie began photographing when he was given a Polaroid
camera in 2004. Working under the moniker 'The Polaroid Kidd,' Brodie spent the
next four years circumambulating the United States, amassing an archive of
photographs that make up one of the few, true collections of American travel
photography. Brodie made work in the tradition of photographers like Robert Frank,
William Eggleston and Stephen Shore, but due to never having undergone any
formal training he always remained untethered to the pressures and expectations of
art market.
Brodie compulsively documented his exploration of the tumultuous world of transient
subcultures without regard to how the photographs would exist beyond him. After
feeling as though he documented all that he could of his subject, his insatiable
wanderlust found a new passion, and as quickly as he began making photographs, he has left the medium to continue in
his constant pursuit of new adventures.
In 2008, Brodie received the Baum Award for American Emerging Artists and has a forthcoming book to be published by
Steidl, as well as numerous international shows. Brodie recently graduated from the Nashville Auto Diesel College (NADC)
and is now working as a diesel mechanic. Although Brodie has stopped making photographs, the body of work he made in
only four short years has left a huge impact on the photo world, and is now being
made available to the public.
Josef Koudelka
To commission him or to request prints of his work: www.delpire-editeur.fr
Koudelka was born in 1938 in the small Moravian town of Boskovice,
Czechoslovakia. He began photographing his family and the surroundings with a
6×6 Bakelite camera. He studied at the Czech Technical University in Prague
(ČVUT) between 1956 and 1961, receiving a degree in engineering in 1961. He
staged his first photographic exhibition the same year. Later he worked as an
aeronautical engineer in Prague and Bratislava.
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