The magazine of the photo-essay
May 2018 issue
“A free, really high quality photo-essay magazine.  Fabulous!” Stephen Fry. British actor, writer and film maker
Joel Meyerowitz To commission him or to request prints of his work: www.joelmeyerowitz.com  Joel Meyerowitz started making spontaneous colour photographs on the streets of New York in 1962 with friends  such as Tony Ray-Jones and Garry Winogrand. He has since become known as one of the most important street photographers of his generation. Instrumental in changing attitudes  towards colour photography in the 1970s, he is known as a pioneer, an important innovator, and a highly influential teacher.
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Damian Bird To commission him or to request prints of his work: www.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 15 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. He continues to have his work
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Manuello Paganelli To commission him or to request prints of his work: www.manuellopaganelli.com Manuello Paganelli grew up in several exotic places such as Santo Domingo, Italy and Puerto Rico.  He went to school in Tennessee and planned to become a medical missionary doctor then shortly after purchasing a camera for the very first time his life totally changed when he read a magazine article about a great photographer. He was so astonished by this man's life and art that as soon as he finished reading the article he decided to call him. Manuello dialed information for Carmel by the Sea, California and that is how his friendship and mentoring with Ansel Adams began. His first photo break came soon after when he landed a job at the Chattanooga Times and after a couple of years he went to work in the Washington, DC area. In 1989 he began to explore Cuba, its land, it people, and its complex relationship with the USA. IN 1995 he had his first solo photo show of his work on Cuba and that same year earned him a fellowship grant.  On reviewing his exhibit the Washington
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Paul Mobley To commission him or to request prints of his work: www.hindaschuman.net Paul Mobley grew up near Detroit, Michigan, and was always drawn to the arts. He started playing piano at the age of five, eventually getting his very first job playing at a local piano bar. But when his childhood dream of becoming a rock star didn’t quite pan out, he turned to another passion: photography. After winning a Kodak scholarship, his fate was sealed. He went on to study at Detroit’s College for Creative Studies, and then moved to New York City and, in the early days of his career, apprenticed with Annie Leibovitz.Today, Mobley devotes his career to documenting incredible Americans—including celebrities ranging from Amy Schumer to Zac Brown and citizens ranging from farmers to firefighters. His diverse group of clients includes corporations such as Apple, Delta Airlines, ESPN, and Ford, and his work has appeared in magazines such as Esquire and People. He has won a number of
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Hinda Schuman To commission her or to request prints of her work: www.hindaschuman.net I am an international award winning photographer based in Philadelphia PA. Five images from “A True Story” were selected as first place winners in the open category of the international competition- PRIDE PHOTO. (http://www.pridephotoaward.org/the-contest/the-winners-of-the-2011-edition. The exhibit was held in Amsterdam during the fall of 2011.  I was a staff photographer at The Philadelphia Inquirer for twenty years. Since leaving the Inquirer, where I covered features, sports, and breaking news. I have been teaching photojournalism, night & lowlight, travel and street photgraphy classes at University of the Arts Continuing Education Division. I also instruct individuals and conduct workshops in digital photography from my studio in
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Yamuna Flaherty To commission her or to request prints of her work: www.yamunaflaherty.com Yamuna Flaherty is a multidisciplinary storyteller, published author, and explorer passionate about human rights issues. Her global journeys have resulted in spiritually-inspired work through which she seeks to challenge the social stigma of marginal peoples and expand the consciousness of liminal cultural identities. Born in Calgary, Canada, she is a regular traveler to India where she has matrilineal roots and has lived for many years.
Lizzie Sadin To commission her or to request prints of her work: www.lizzie-sadin.com Born in France, Lizzie Sadin devotes the first ten years of her career to the educational and social work. She is successively an educator, a youth worker and a vocational trainer: adults, workers in retraining programs, and illiterate young people. She developed a singular outlook on the world around her. Inspired by the pictures of humanist photographers such as Sebastiao Salagado, Eugene Smith, Dorothea Lange or Walker Evans, she decides in 1992 to focus on photography and, in turn, bear witness to realities that are too often overlooked. She joined Robert Doisneau’s Rapho agency in 1994 and concentrates on in-depth reportages on human rights. This human-centric field of expertise lead her to tackle a variety of subjects: conflict zones in Israel and Kosovo, to climate issues in the Amazon and Silesia, to illegal immigration in Europe. Lizzie is particularly committed to the issues of women in the world. For three years, from 1996 to 1998, she produces “Est-ce ainsi que les
Simon Heyworth Simon Heyworth, along with Tom Newman and Mike Oldfield was one of principle people in the creation of Mike Oldfield’s album Tubular Bells, and the launching of Richard Branson’s Virgin empire. He started his own company Super Audio Mastering in July 2002. The Studio is housed in a spacious granite walled Roundhouse in an idyllic location on Dartmoor in Devon (South West-UK). Before this he was the director of London-based Chop 'Em Out.
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Gary M Jones To commission him or to request prints of his work:   www.gelatojones.com Gary M. Jones is a British journalist based between Europe and Asia. His focus is words – notably long-form magazine features – with photography increasingly playing a core role. His work has appeared in quality publications worldwide, including The Times and Sunday Times, Time Magazine, The Observer, The Sunday Telegraph, The Independent, Sydney Morning Herald, The Australian, British GQ, Wallpaper, South China Morning Post, Globe & Mail, Toronto Star, LA Weekly, USA Today and Marie Claire, among many others.
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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 dachshund, Jessie.
Post wrote "Manuello Paganelli's Cuban photographs are a brilliant window on a land and people too long hidden from North American eyes, Working in the tradition of Cartier-Bresson and Robert Frank, Paganelli brings an artist's eyes and a native son's sensibility to his superb photographs." In the early 1990s he started work on his Black Cowboys series and in March 2009 part of his documentary was featured at the Annenberg Space for Photography. In the summer of 2012 Paganelli was invited for a photo show in St Petersburg, Russia, of his Black Cowboys documentary at the prestigious Manege Museum during the Photo Vernissage 2012. Now he lives in Westwood, Los Angeles, California and when he is not traveling the USA or the world on freelance assignments then he spend his time with his family, their two dogs, Irish Wolf Hound and a Tibetan Terrier, riding his Vespas or practicing martial arts which he learned as a child from master Bruce Lee. His award-winning work has graced the covers and pages of many well-known magazines including BLOOMBERG BUSINESSWEEK, BLOOMBERG MARKET, FORBES, NEWSWEEK, MEN'S JOURNAL, PEOPLE, TIME, READER'S DIGEST, ESPN, SPORTS ILLUSTRATED and many more.
Philadelphia. I have always thought of myself as a storyteller /journalist/ documentary photographer. I have also been doing freelance assignments on location for news media and local institutions.  I came to photography after an eight year career as a teacher specializing in reading for grades K-12. However, in 1978 I left teaching, which I loved and felt had the potential to change individual lives, to follow my true passion, photography, which I also believe has the power to enrich and enlighten people's lives. Now I get to link these two themes in my life, teaching and photography.
prestigious industry awards, including the Western Heritage Award (Outstanding Photography Book) for American Farmer and the Foreword Reviews Gold Award (Photography) for If I Live to Be 100, his book about centenarians. When time permits, Mobley also enjoys giving lectures and teaching at photography workshops nationwide.In addition to his corporate, advertising, and editorial work, Mobley has published four books of his photography with Welcome Books: American Farmer (2008), Everyday Heroes (2012), If I Live to Be 100 (2016), and American Firefighter (2017). For all four books, Mobley traveled around the country to meet the subjects in their hometowns and photograph these ordinary citizens leading their extraordinary lives. Mobley has also put together a traveling exhibition of his American Farmer photographs that will tour museums and colleges around the United States until 2022.Whether photographing a celebrity to help promote her latest project or a 100-year-old farmer to honor his family’s legacy, Mobley approaches his work the same way. His goal is always to capture the soul of the subject and present a compelling, heartfelt portrait that will instantly make you stop and think, I need to know more about this person. Mobley’s combination of contagious enthusiasm and impeccable skill puts subjects at ease no matter what the situation and leads to powerful, intimate photographs that are authentic, timeless, and uniquely his. Mobley splits his time between New York and Los Angeles and lives with his wife, Suzanne, and their rescue shar-pei, Jessie. They have two daughters, Camden and Paige. In his spare time, he loves traveling, especially in Mexico; sampling tequila; and visiting Michigan to eat his mother’s Italian cooking.
femmes vivent?” [“Is this how women live?”], a photo reportage on domestic violence in France. With the “Mâles en poing” project, the photojournalist looks at the perpetrators of violence: men. In 2000, Lizzie Sadin goes to India and brings back an eye-opening account of infanticide and the selective elimination of baby girls in the country. The trafficking of women becomes a major area of concentration from 2004, when she produces a reportage on the marriage of underage girls in Ethiopia. In 2007 and 2009, respectively, she investigates the status of women in Moldavia and sex tourism and the exploitation of minors in Madagascar but also the trade in women in Israel “Promised Land, Promised Woman…” in 2010 for the Prix Pierre Boulat. Lizzie Sadin has also spent several years working on the conditions of detention of children around the world. Her illustrated book “Mineurs en peine” won the Visa d’Or award in 2007 and was published in paperback by Actes Sud.
Samuel Zeller To commission him or to request prints of his work:   www.samuelzeller.ch I'm a freelance photographer based in Geneva, Switzerland. After formal studies in graphic design, I worked in various agencies for international clients in the field of design, graphic design and 3D rendering. In 2016 I decided to leave my day job to pursue a career in photography. I specialize in editorial, architecture, travel and fine art photography. My work is influenced not only by my experience as a designer, but also by my parents, both artists, and my love for art. In my free time, I manage Fujifeed, a website and community which publishes Fujifilm photographers. I'm also a Fujifilm ambassador.
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Claus Stolz To commission him or to request prints of his work:   www.clausstolz.de Claus Stolz 1988–92 Studied at the Freie Kunstakademie Mannheim, Germany, with Gerd Lind, Wolfgang Reindel and Rolf Schneider. (Exhibition/Publication lists here: https://www.clausstolz.de/cv-english) Claus Stolz is a member of the German Photographic Association (DGPh) and lecturer at the Freie Kunstakademie Mannheim (Mannheim, Germany)
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