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May 2015 back issue
Daniel González Acuña
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I obtained a PhD in Archaeology (2008) and also a postgraduate degree in
Photojournalism and Documentary Photography at the University of Seville (2011). In the
development of these studies, I received a grant from the International Cooperation Office
of the same university to make a photographic project about the situation of Christian
minorities in the Palestinian Territories. Finally, this work was published as book by the
University.
My photographs have been published in newspapers (Wall Street Journal, ABC, El Mundo,
El Correo de Andalucía, La Razón), Revista Ejército, digital platforms of photojournalism
and specialized media in archaeology and performing arts.
At the present, I collaborate with several news agencies and specialized media in
performing arts, as well as making social photographic reports.
Robert Young Pelton
To commission Robert or to request prints of his work: www.comebackalive.com
Robert Young Pelton is the author of The World’s Most Dangerous Places, Licensed to
Kill, Hired Guns in the War on Terror and most recently Raven.
He has worked for CBS 60 Minutes, ABC Investigative, CNN and National Geographic.
ryp@comebackalive.com
Michal Fattal
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Born 1979 in Jerusalem, Michal is a freelance photojournalist based in Jerusalem, Israel.
Between 2003 and 2006 she studied Photography and Digital Media at Hadassah
College Jerusalem and Graduated with Honors, after having earned the Scholarship for
Excellency.During the last year of college, she started working as a freelance
photojournalist and for a few years worked as a staff photographer for Flash90 news
photo agency. Since 2010 she is working for Israeli daily Ha'aretz among other magazines,
newspapers and photo agencies around the world, as we as taking part in solo and group
exhibitions.
Her work has been published in International media such as New York Times, Huffington
Post, LA Times, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, NRC Handelsblad, Foreign Policy, Clarin,
Grazia, La Razon, among others.
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.
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" on every project and always
presents them in large format prints to the filmmakers. David went on to cover movies such
He lives with his wife and four children in Devon, England.
Iva Zimova
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Iva Zimova was born in the former Czechoslovakia. In 1982 she immigrated to Canada
and studied at both the Dawson College Institute of Photography and Concordia
University. Iva contributes to the Czech NGO People in Need Foundation and exhibits
her photographs internationally. She is represented by Panos Pictures.
Stuart Freedman
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Stuart Freedman is a photographer and writer based between London and New Delhi.
A member of Panos Pictures he has, over the last two decades, covered stories from
Albania to Zambia. His work has appeared in, amongst others, Life, Geo, Time, The
Sunday Times magazine, Der Spiegel, Condé Nast Traveller and Smithsonian.
He has been exhibited widely and his work has received recognition from Amnesty
International, POYi, World Sports Photo, The AOP, The RPS, UNICEF and the World
Press Masterclass.
Alex Telfer
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Telfer works within the Advertising, Design and Editorial sectors, areas that he has always
had great desire to be involved His commitment to photography has also led to him to
directing TV Commercials which has enabled him to transfer his photographic knowledge
into the moving image, a process that he continues to develop and enjoys immensely.
In 2005 he purchased a disused nineteenth century Church and set about transforming it
into his ‘Creative Hub.’ The facility has enabled Telfer to build within it a team of highly
skilled creative individuals who take care of all his production requirements. Telfer’s
Production team have all been selected and developed with one unified goal, to deliver
the best possible results to any given shoot.Recently Telfer has worked on Assignments for
Nike, Nikon, Sony Music, Ernst & Young, Glaxo Smith Kline, Land Rover, EMI, and the BBC.
Current honours and awards include being recognised by Campaign Magazine as their
‘Number One Advertising Photographer of 2009’. Other prestigious accolades include The
Ian McNaught Davis
To commission Ian or to request prints of his work: www.ianmcnaughtdavis.com
Ian McNaught Davis is a South African photojournalist and features writer who currently
lives in his one-man tent as he slowly travels up Africa on his bicycle.
He has worked as a documentary photographer for several NGOs in Africa and has shot
editorial commissions for GQ, Men's Health, Sunday Independent and various South
African newspapers.
He is especially interested in photographing the idiosyncrasies of everyday human
behaviour.
With a vague route and an open schedule, he is accepting both commissions for projects
and refreshments from generous motorists.
Maciej Grzybowski
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Born in 1980. Cinematographer, photographer.
Graduate from Wojciech Gerson profiled High School of Fine Art in Warsaw and the Leon
Schiller National Film School in Lodz, Cinematography and Television Production
Department.
Per Olof Stoltz
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I've been photographing since my early teenage years, but it wasn't until I turned 28 that
I made it my living. For ten years I worked as a press photographer, and another ten or so
as a freelancer. It was a great time, but it took away that personal relationship with
photography that I had before. All images became work.
In 2009 I quit freelancing full time, and moved from the south of Sweden to Gothenburg.
From that moment I've struggled to find my way back to that personal relationship with
photography. I've taken care of my almost forgotten projects, even turned one into a
travelling exhibition. And started to make my own pictures again. Telling my own stories.
That's where I am now.
(And I do take assignments, just not as many as before.)
Janhavi Welinkar
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Janhavi Welinkar is currently pursuing her Graduate Diploma in Photography from The
One School Goa in India. Visual storytelling and fine art are her prime interests. She is
focused on making a career in photography curation or travel photography. While she isn’t
glued to a computer screen, she is a voracious reader and treats her camera as her fifth
limb.
Robert Hutinski
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I was born 1969 in Celje, Slovenija; this is where I live.
I have held some solo and several group exhibitions at home and abroad.
I have received several Slovenian and international awards and prizes for my photos.
Some nominations and awards:
- PX3 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013
- Kontinental Award 2013
- IPA International Photography Awards 2010, 2011, 2012
- Photographic association of Slovenia -Photography of the year 2007, 2008, 2009
- EMZIN Photography of the year 2010, 2012, 2013
My work is represented by:
The Unlimited Grain Gallery
American Photography Annuals 2009 and 2010, Communication Arts Photography Annual 50 and 51, Lurzer’s Archive Top
200 Ad Photographers Worldwide 2010, Creative Review Photography Annual and The International Photography Awards.
With Representation throughout the world, travel is a major part Telfer’s life. Home however, remains his native, rural
Northumberland in the North of England. Here he resides with his wife Helen,
son James and Sally the Labrador.
Vincenzo Floramo
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In 1992 Vincenzo began to live a nomadic life between Asia, South America, North
America and Europe, which still continues.
He has been committed to exploring, learning, connecting with and photographing the
diverse expressions of human experiences that he encounters within these varied cultures.
He has collaboration with international NGO and develops different awareness photo
projects.
In the last six years he has been spending most of his time between Burma and Thailand
where he has become involved with several groups.
In Thailand he has spent extended periods of time living in the refugee camps, getting to
know and photographing the Burmese there, in Burma he worked on different assignments and personal projects.
His works have been publish on The Guardian,Io Donna, Foreign Policy, Aljazeera, El Pais, Bangkok Post,South China
Morning Post and Internazionale.
Catherine Karnow
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Born and raised in Hong Kong, the daughter of an American journalist, San Francisco-
based National Geographic photographer, Catherine Karnow, seems destined to have
photojournalism at the center of her life. She studied photography in high school, and
graduated Brown University with honors degrees in Comparative Literature and Semiotics.
After a brief career as a filmmaker -- her film Brooklyn Bridge premiered at the Berlin Film
Festival -- she turned her attention to photography full time in 1986.
For twenty-five years Karnow has covered Vietnam. In 1994, she was the only non-
Vietnamese photojournalist 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.”
Her work appears in National Geographic, National Geographic Traveler, Smithsonian, French GEO and many other
international books and magazines. She has also participated in several Day in the Life series, Passage to Vietnam, and
Women in the Material World. Catherine Karnow is known for her vibrant, emotional and sensitive style of photographing
people.
Her retrospective: Vietnam 25 Years Documenting a Changing Country is at the Art Vietnam Gallery, by whom she is
represented, in Hanoi until May 8.
To take a photo workshop from Catherine Karnow visit: catherinekarnowphotoworkshop.com
From 2014, he is also director of studies and teacher of the Continuing Training Course Photography of Performing Arts, at
the Faculty of Communication of the University of Seville.
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 roleas 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.
Tomer Ifrah
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Born in Israel in 1981, Tomer ifrah began photographing documentary stories in 2007,
after his first trip to Ethiopia. Since then he become committed to documentary
photography, taking on long term projects while addressing social issues and daily life
stories. He has won several awards for his documentary work in Israel – representing a
variety of issues. Along with working in Israel, Tomer frequently travels around the world
for assignments and independent documentary projects.
Steve Shapiro
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Steve Schapiro has a knack for being at the right place, at the right time.
In the 60s working for Life and other magazines he covered Robert Kennedy’s
Presidential Campaign, the Selma March with Martin Luther King, Muhammad
Ali playing monopoly at home, Jacqueline Kennedy in Washington and everything
from Presidents to poodle, He has gained a strong reputation for his photo documentary
work and is represented in museums all over the world.
When Life and Look folded, he worked as a special photographer on films,
Taschen publishing brought out his book ‘The Godfather Family Album” with photographs
from all 3 Godfather films, and also his book on ‘Taxi Driver” with Robert De Niro.
He has done posters for films as diverse as Midnight Cowboy, Godfather 3, and Billy
Madison.
His recent show in Chicago was devoted to Andy Warhol, Lou Reed, the Velvet
Underground, and David Bowie. In September his book “BLISS” about the Neo Hippie Movement today will be published
and later in the fall Taschen will release His photo book on Civil Rights and Selma.