Biographies
TOMASZ TOMASZEWSKI
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TOMER IFRAH
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MARIO MARINO
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ABRAHAM NOWITZ
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KATIA REPINA
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HOW HWEE YOUNG
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CHRIS RAINIER
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PAUL CONROY
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NOVEMBER 2012 BACK ISSUE
Specializing in press photography, Tomasz Tomaszewski has had his photos published in the world's
major magazines appearing in several dozen countries: Stern, Paris Mach, Geo, New York Times,
Time, US News & World Report, and numerous others. He has also authored a number of books -
including Remnants, The Last Jews of Poland; Gypsies, The Last Once; In Search of America; A
Stone's Throw and has co-illustrated over a dozen collective works. His numerous individual
exhibitions have been held in the U.S., Canada, Israel, Japan, Madagascar, the Netherlands, Germany,
France, Italy and Poland. He is the winner of Polish and international awards for photography. For over
twenty years, he has been a regular contributor to National Geographic Magazine, where 18 of his
photo essays have been published. Tomaszewski teaches photography in
Poland, the U.S., Germany, and Italy.
Born in Israel in 1981, Tomer Ifrah began photographing documentary stories in 2007, after his first
trip to Ethiopia. Since then he has 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.
As well as working in Israel, Tomer frequently travels around the world for assignments and
independent documentary projects.
Born in Austria in 1967, Mario Marino is based in Germany.
Next Exhibition :
Afrika Museum, Berg en Dal, Holland
8 december 2012 - 21 april 2013
Faces of Africa
http://www.afrikamuseum.nl/tentoonstellingen/verwacht.php
Abraham Nowitz is a photographer, poet, visual artist, and teacher. Taught and inspired by his father,
Abraham received his first photography lesson at the age of nine, and at the age of fourteen he
began writing poems. His passion for photography and writing has taken him across the globe, from
Peru to Morocco to Siberia. After studying creative writing at the University of Maryland, Abraham
went on to receive a Master's degree in Russian Studies at the European University at St. P
etersburg, and a Master's of Fine Arts in Poetry from Brooklyn College in New York City.
Over the past ten years Abraham has brought photography and poetry together in a unique visual
arts practice through which he investigates questions of memory, place, and the unconscious. In 2011
his interest in education and the arts led him to co-found The School of Making Thinking, an experimental artists' residency
program dedicated to exploring interdisciplinarity, collaboration, and innovative pedagogy. Abraham now lives in Minneapolis,
Minnesota, where his current work uses digital media to explore the possibilities of experimental literature.
His poems have been featured in journals including the New Delta Review and Drunken Boat, and his photographs have
been published in National Geographic World, National Geographic Traveler, Conde Nast Traveler and a number of Insight
guide books. He is represented by the National Geographic Image Collection, Corbis, and Getty Images.
Born in 1988;Moscow, Russia. Based in Barcelona.
Graduated from Higher School of Economics, Moscow with a degree in Management. While
studying she understood that her passion was bigger for photography. That's why she decided at the
age of 21 to move to Barcelona to study photojournalism.
Participated in several group exhibitions, like the festival Visa Off in Perpignan, France.
She is really interested in portrait and documentary photography; especially in long term multiple
projects.
How Hwee Young currently works for the european pressphoto agency, covering China and the region.
Singaporean born, her career began in 2001 where she joined the leading newspaper in Singapore
The Straits Times as a photojournalist. She is primarily drawn to covering events involving the human
condition like the 2004 Asian Tsunami or the 2009 Indonesian Padang Earthquake, earning an Award
of Excellence by Communication Arts 46th Annual photography exhibition in 2005 for her work on
the Asian Tsuanami. Her diverse coverage includes the Grand Prix of Singapore, Beijing Olympics,
Australian Open, APEC & G8 summits etc.
One of the few female photojournalists in the field, over the last ten years, her images have been
published on front covers and featured in major newspapers and magazines including the British Times, The International
Herald Tribune, the LA Times, The Sydney Herald, the Telegraph, the NewYork Times, Time magazine, Der Spiegel, GEO
Magazine amongst others.
Chris Rainier is considered one of the worlds leading documentary photographers,- and is a National
Geographic Society Fellow who has spent his career documenting endangered cultures and
traditional language loss.
He was Awarded the Lowell Thomas Award by the Explorers Club for his efforts on cultural
preservation in 2002, - and has been recently elected a Fellow of the Royal Geographic Society of
London, England
In the 1990's Rainier spent over ten years documenting the remaining tribes of New Guinea. He has
led numerous documentation projects of indigenous groups - with extensive expeditions in Australia,
Africa, Asia, and South America. He has travelled to all seven Continents - including the North Pole.
During his tenure for the National Geographic Society he has been the co-founder - and Co-Director of both the Enduring
Voices Language Preservation Project - and the All Roads Photography Program ( giving support to Indigenous groups desiring
to document their own traditional language and culture) Rainier's photographs and books have been widely collected around the
world.
He has completed photographic projects for: The United Nations, UNESCO, Amnesty International, Conservation International,
Smithsonian Institution, Time Magazine, The New York Times, and the National Geographic Society. Rainier lectures
throughout the World on preserving ancient cultural stories using modern technology. He is the Director of The Last Mile
Technology Program giving support to under-represented and Indigenous cultures with computers, cameras and video
equipment - empowering them to tell their own stories and not be left behind of the Digital Divide.
Paul Conroy started out in life in the military. He was a forward observer for a battery of M107
heavy artillery guns. During this time he developed a passion for music and photography.
He became involved in journalism when a group of road protestors invited him along to film and
shoot stills on a mission to the Balkans, he did and has never looked back. When they reached their
destination Conroy stayed on to make a documentary. It took him six months and the film played the
festival circuit and won him a commission from channel 4 to make an hour documentary 'Bad Trip'
Conroy then made films for the BBC documentaries unit on the 2001 UK elections. After that he was
off to Iraq where he first met Colvin and they became firm friends. His Iraq film won many plaudits
and was screened at festivals in the US and the UK.
To fund his many jaunts as a freelancer Conroy became head of photography and film for Joss Stone the UK singer. His work
for Stone enabled him to take on some of the riskier assignments to the Congo and other of Africa's dangerous civil wars.
Conroy then worked camera for SKY TV SOS lampedusa. He and colleague Sergio Ramazotti spent weeks in Tunisia infiltrating
a gang of smugglers who were some of the most prolific smugglers on the coast.Conroy was one of the first journalists to enter
Libya when the gates broke down. He covered the war for agencies and the News of the world. The Sunday Times soon noticed
his work and he was sent on assignment with Marie Colvin. Together they went to Misrata for two days and ended up staying
two months.Over the next six months he was in Libya either with Colvin or Mikes Amoore, Kabul correspondent with the paper.
After Libya Conroy was sent with Amoore to Syria, they entered the country illegally in January and reported from the town of A
Quasyr. Their assignment was ended dramatically when the Free Syrian Army helped them flee Assad troops.Conroy was then
assigned to go back to Syria with Colvin. It was to be their last ever assignment together as Colvin was killed in a rocket attack
on 22 Feb 2012.
Conroy was born in Liverpool and joined the army at 16. He, like Colvin had a passion for sailing. At
the height of the Libyan conflict, Conroy won permission from The Sunday Times foreign editor to sail
his boat into the country if all land routes were blocked
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TOMASZ TOMASZEWSKI
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ABRAHAM NOWITZ
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KATIA REPINA
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HOW HWEE YOUNG
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CHRIS RAINIER
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PAUL CONROY
To commission Paul or to request prints of his work: e: mykalshnikov@gmail.com
NOVEMBER 2012 BACK ISSUE
Specializing in press photography, Tomasz Tomaszewski has had his photos published in the world's
major magazines appearing in several dozen countries: Stern, Paris Mach, Geo, New York Times,
Time, US News & World Report, and numerous others. He has also authored a number of books -
including Remnants, The Last Jews of Poland; Gypsies, The Last Once; In Search of America; A
Stone's Throw and has co-illustrated over a dozen collective works. His numerous individual
exhibitions have been held in the U.S., Canada, Israel, Japan, Madagascar, the Netherlands, Germany,
France, Italy and Poland. He is the winner of Polish and international awards for photography. For over
twenty years, he has been a regular contributor to National Geographic Magazine, where 18 of his
photo essays have been published. Tomaszewski teaches photography in
Poland, the U.S., Germany, and Italy.
Born in Israel in 1981, Tomer Ifrah began photographing documentary stories in 2007, after his first
trip to Ethiopia. Since then he has 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.
As well as working in Israel, Tomer frequently travels around the world for assignments and
independent documentary projects.
Born in Austria in 1967, Mario Marino is based in Germany.
Next Exhibition :
Afrika Museum, Berg en Dal, Holland
8 december 2012 - 21 april 2013
Faces of Africa
http://www.afrikamuseum.nl/tentoonstellingen/verwacht.php
Abraham Nowitz is a photographer, poet, visual artist, and teacher. Taught and inspired by his father,
Abraham received his first photography lesson at the age of nine, and at the age of fourteen he
began writing poems. His passion for photography and writing has taken him across the globe, from
Peru to Morocco to Siberia. After studying creative writing at the University of Maryland, Abraham
went on to receive a Master's degree in Russian Studies at the European University at St. P
etersburg, and a Master's of Fine Arts in Poetry from Brooklyn College in New York City.
Over the past ten years Abraham has brought photography and poetry together in a unique visual
arts practice through which he investigates questions of memory, place, and the unconscious. In 2011
his interest in education and the arts led him to co-found The School of Making Thinking, an experimental artists' residency
program dedicated to exploring interdisciplinarity, collaboration, and innovative pedagogy. Abraham now lives in Minneapolis,
Minnesota, where his current work uses digital media to explore the possibilities of experimental literature.
His poems have been featured in journals including the New Delta Review and Drunken Boat, and his photographs have
been published in National Geographic World, National Geographic Traveler, Conde Nast Traveler and a number of Insight
guide books. He is represented by the National Geographic Image Collection, Corbis, and Getty Images.
Born in 1988;Moscow, Russia. Based in Barcelona.
Graduated from Higher School of Economics, Moscow with a degree in Management. While
studying she understood that her passion was bigger for photography. That's why she decided at the
age of 21 to move to Barcelona to study photojournalism.
Participated in several group exhibitions, like the festival Visa Off in Perpignan, France.
She is really interested in portrait and documentary photography; especially in long term multiple
projects.
How Hwee Young currently works for the european pressphoto agency, covering China and the region.
Singaporean born, her career began in 2001 where she joined the leading newspaper in Singapore
The Straits Times as a photojournalist. She is primarily drawn to covering events involving the human
condition like the 2004 Asian Tsunami or the 2009 Indonesian Padang Earthquake, earning an Award
of Excellence by Communication Arts 46th Annual photography exhibition in 2005 for her work on
the Asian Tsuanami. Her diverse coverage includes the Grand Prix of Singapore, Beijing Olympics,
Australian Open, APEC & G8 summits etc.
One of the few female photojournalists in the field, over the last ten years, her images have been
published on front covers and featured in major newspapers and magazines including the British Times, The International
Herald Tribune, the LA Times, The Sydney Herald, the Telegraph, the NewYork Times, Time magazine, Der Spiegel, GEO
Magazine amongst others.
Chris Rainier is considered one of the worlds leading documentary photographers,- and is a National
Geographic Society Fellow who has spent his career documenting endangered cultures and
traditional language loss.
He was Awarded the Lowell Thomas Award by the Explorers Club for his efforts on cultural
preservation in 2002, - and has been recently elected a Fellow of the Royal Geographic Society of
London, England
In the 1990's Rainier spent over ten years documenting the remaining tribes of New Guinea. He has
led numerous documentation projects of indigenous groups - with extensive expeditions in Australia,
Africa, Asia, and South America. He has travelled to all seven Continents - including the North Pole.
During his tenure for the National Geographic Society he has been the co-founder - and Co-Director of both the Enduring
Voices Language Preservation Project - and the All Roads Photography Program ( giving support to Indigenous groups desiring
to document their own traditional language and culture) Rainier's photographs and books have been widely collected around the
world.
He has completed photographic projects for: The United Nations, UNESCO, Amnesty International, Conservation International,
Smithsonian Institution, Time Magazine, The New York Times, and the National Geographic Society. Rainier lectures
throughout the World on preserving ancient cultural stories using modern technology. He is the Director of The Last Mile
Technology Program giving support to under-represented and Indigenous cultures with computers, cameras and video
equipment - empowering them to tell their own stories and not be left behind of the Digital Divide.
Paul Conroy started out in life in the military. He was a forward observer for a battery of M107
heavy artillery guns. During this time he developed a passion for music and photography.
He became involved in journalism when a group of road protestors invited him along to film and
shoot stills on a mission to the Balkans, he did and has never looked back. When they reached their
destination Conroy stayed on to make a documentary. It took him six months and the film played the
festival circuit and won him a commission from channel 4 to make an hour documentary 'Bad Trip'
Conroy then made films for the BBC documentaries unit on the 2001 UK elections. After that he was
off to Iraq where he first met Colvin and they became firm friends. His Iraq film won many plaudits
and was screened at festivals in the US and the UK.
To fund his many jaunts as a freelancer Conroy became head of photography and film for Joss Stone the UK singer. His work
for Stone enabled him to take on some of the riskier assignments to the Congo and other of Africa's dangerous civil wars.
Conroy then worked camera for SKY TV SOS lampedusa. He and colleague Sergio Ramazotti spent weeks in Tunisia infiltrating
a gang of smugglers who were some of the most prolific smugglers on the coast.Conroy was one of the first journalists to enter
Libya when the gates broke down. He covered the war for agencies and the News of the world. The Sunday Times soon noticed
his work and he was sent on assignment with Marie Colvin. Together they went to Misrata for two days and ended up staying
two months.Over the next six months he was in Libya either with Colvin or Mikes Amoore, Kabul correspondent with the paper.
After Libya Conroy was sent with Amoore to Syria, they entered the country illegally in January and reported from the town of A
Quasyr. Their assignment was ended dramatically when the Free Syrian Army helped them flee Assad troops.Conroy was then
assigned to go back to Syria with Colvin. It was to be their last ever assignment together as Colvin was killed in a rocket attack
on 22 Feb 2012.
Conroy was born in Liverpool and joined the army at 16. He, like Colvin had a passion for sailing. At
the height of the Libyan conflict, Conroy won permission from The Sunday Times foreign editor to sail
his boat into the country if all land routes were blocked
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current
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