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Nov2015 back issue

Thomas de Wouters To commission Thomas or to request prints of his work: www.thomasdewouters.com In 1993, at the age of 24, Thomas de Wouters leaves for a worldwide trip, he thus learns to have a dialogue with the people he meets through the lens of his Nikon. For him it is another way of speaking man’s language, by picturing his daily life. On his return marriage, children, own company… for nearly 15 years its device will be relegated to the attic. After a separation in 2010 and Lebanon, Algeria, Morocco, Cuba, it is mainly Maïdan’s revolutionary engagement, in February 2014, which leads him to his first real reportage, testimony of Ukrainian life jammed between different social ideals where Berkouts and Revolutionary forces face each other on either side of human and political barricades. A publication and three exhibitions of this work will be organized this same year in Brussels

Alexandra Lier To commission her or to request prints of her work: www.alexandralier.com Alexandra Lier received her creative / photo and film education at the academy of communication and design in Frankfurt, Germany. A long time before that, she started with her father’s Leica and worked in her own black and white darkroom, testing and experimenting with different materials. Alexandra Lier works as a creative director for big brands. As a photographer and photojournalist she works for magazines and fashion brands. Her work has been featured in many magazines, blogs, newspapers and shown on art shows like Scope Basel and Bloom Cologne. As a photographer, she specializes in long-term projects, and loves to tell stories in depth. These long-term projects are driven by passion. It´s important to Alexandra to see the topic from all the angles, to be trusted and to know and learn about the project.

Jeremy Horner To commission Jeremy or to request prints of his work: www.jeremyhorner.com Jeremy Horner's photographs are characterized by a painterly colour palette with strong compositions, making them constantly in demand by leading publications such as National Geographic, GEO, Conde Nast Traveller, Newsweek, Colors and the Telegraph. After graduating as a geologist he wandered into the Himalaya in 1987 with a camera. His work from Nepal was immediately published and he has since travelled to over 100 countries on assignments around the globe. A concerned photographer, he has undertaken 20 assignments for UNICEF, from Nicaragua to North Korea and he joined Panos Pictures in 1995.

John Jochimsen To commission John or to request prints of his work: email The son of a Times newspaper journalist, John Jochimsen was born in 1929 in London where he witnessed the Depression and saw out the war with his mother while his father continued to work in Fleet Street at the Times. Leaving school at 16 he joined the government’s Colonial Film Unit, then part of the Ministry of Information, after which he moved to its successor, the Central Office of Information. Then National Service in the RAF and an eighteen month period as staff photographer with the News of the World. Next he was made Chief Photographer of the PR Branch of the UK Atomic Energy Authority. John’s progress was rapid for by his early 20s, he had been trusted with high-profile and sometimes dangerous assignments abroad as Britain struggled to hold her colonies together as the end of Empire approached. He covered Princess Elizabeth and the Duke of Edinburgh’s honeymoon tour to Kenya in 1952 when her father the King died and she became Queen. During his four month tour of East Africa and the Sudan, he also witnessed the start of the Mau Mau uprising. He captured political struggle and civil unrest

Lucas Foglia To commission Lucas or to request prints of his work: www.lucasfoglia.com Lucas Foglia (b. 1983) grew up on a farm in New York and lives in San Francisco. He graduated with a MFA in Photography from Yale University and with a BA in Art Semiotics from Brown University. His photographs have been widely exhibited in the United States, Europe, and Asia, and are in the permanent collections of the Denver Art Museum, International Center of Photography, Philadelphia Museum of Art, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, and Victoria & Albert Museum. Foglia’s first monograph, A Natural Order, and his second monograph, Frontcountry, were published by Nazraeli Press to international critical acclaim. He is represented by Fredericks & Freiser Gallery, New York, and Michael Hoppen Contemporary, London.

Sam Jones To commission Sam or to request prints of his work: www.samjonespictures.com Sam Jones is an acclaimed photographer and director whose seminal portraits of President Obama, Sandra Bullock, George Clooney, Bob Dylan, Kristin Stewart, Robert Downey Jr, Amy Adams, Jack Nicholson, and many others have appeared on the covers of Vanity Fair, Rolling Stone, Esquire, GQ, Time, Entertainment Weekly and Men’s Journal. His photos have received numerous awards from American Photography, Communication Arts and Life magazine’s respected Eisie award; and his image for the cover of Wilco’s Yankee Hotel Foxtrot was published in “The Greatest Album Covers of All Time”. His collection of candid celebrity portraiture, The Here And Now: The Photographs of Sam Jones, was published by Harper Collins. Other published works include Non-Fiction, a collection of cinematic portraiture, and Some Where Else, a photographic book and musical collaboration with musician Blake Mills. In 2013 he launched Off Camera with Sam Jones on Directv’s Audience Network. Off Camera is an hour long show created out of his passion for long form conversational

James Mollison To commission James or to request prints of his work: www.jamesmollison.com James Mollison was born in Kenya in 1973 and grew up in England. After studying Art and Design at Oxford Brookes University, and later film and photography at Newport School of Art and Design, he moved to Italy to work at Benetton’s creative lab, Fabrica. Since August 2011 Mollison has been working as a creative editor on Colors Magazine with Patrick Waterhouse. In 2009 he won the Royal Photographic Society’s Vic Odden Award, for notable achievement in the art of photography by a British photographer aged 35 or under. His work has been widely published throughout the world including by Colors, The New York Times Magazine, the Guardian magazine, The Paris Review, GQ, New York Magazine and Le Monde. His latest book Playground was published in April 2015 by Aperture Foundation- a series of composites of moments that happened during a single break time, a kind of time-lapse photography. His fourth book Where Children Sleep was published in November 2010- stories of diverse children around the world, told through portraits and pictures of their bedroom. His third book, The Disciples was published in 2008 – panoramic format portraits of music fans photographed before and

William Davies To commission William or to request prints of his work: www.williamdaviesfilms.com William Davies is a freelance film maker and photographer. After living for three years in Nairobi covering East Africa, and two in Thailand working as the South East Asia correspondent for AFP he now lives in Oxford, England, with his partner, young son and dog.

Steven Saphore To commission Steven or to request prints of his work: www.worldininfrared.com My name is Steven Saphore and I’m a photographer from Fiji. Documenting the war faced by native wildlife on the frontlines of urbanisation, my work across the Pacific explores the symbiotic relationship between human survival and the conservation of nature. In 2012, I created 'World In Infrared' an international art/science/humanities project dedicated to pioneering the use of infrared photography in the field of photojournalism. The ability to perceive the world beyond the limits of human vision can offer ground- breaking perspective shifts on a wide range of global issues.

Brian Vanden Brink To commission Brian or to request prints of his work: www.brianvandenbrink.com I began my life in photography in 1971 in Omaha, Nebraska, but it wasn’t until two years later when I first started to work with a large format view camera that my career direction became more clear. My wife and I moved to Maine in 1978, and I began to specialize in architectural photography. Today my professional work consists of shooting beautiful houses for architects, interior designers, landscape architects or magazines and books about residential design. However, I also love to photograph architecture just because I find it interesting, beautiful, curious or fun. My personal work is about abandoned architecture, rural architecture or industrial/post industrial structures and their relationship to the landscape. I find this to be a fascinating world of shapes, textures, spatial relationships and history. I love to photograph how and where we live, seeing in our architecture an expression of what we value and what is important to us. I am attracted to photographing design, whether it is represented by a hot dog stand, a Romanesque cathedral or a private residence. My primary tool is the light, which defines space and adds emotion. After working with a view camera for over 30 years, I have

and Paris. At the 2014 VISA festival in Perpignan, his first meeting with the professional world of photojournalism reinforced the obviousness of his photographic choice: the street is captured in its brilliant or destructive truth, man is seized in his everyday life offered gross to public look, for what he is without frills added, without touching up or cropping. After a serious brain operation in January, with this impression of near death, the photographer’s look has become more refined in April 2015 during a second report in Ukraine, in Luhansk. The instantaneousness of “the Forgotten” plunges the public into the reality of the social outcasts of the Ukrainian system, families doomed by the conflict to manage as they can, children without a future and old people without appeasement in their old age. Awarded at the VISA Festival 2015, where five of his shots are once again exposed as “Coups de Coeur” of the ANI, “The Forgotten” seduces the New York Times which devotes an article in its Lens Blog edition dated 23rd of September and in its International paper edition dated 25th. One of the photos is also displayed within the framework of the collective exhibition organized by the FournierMajoie Foundation at the Bozar in Brussels in October of this same year.

During 6 years of exploring Latin America he published four books including: Living Incas andThe Life of Colombia. He has produced books on Brunei and Saudi Arabia by royal commission, and wrote and shot Island Dreams: Mediterraneanfor Thames and Hudson. His long-term project on Buddhism across Asia is to be published soon, and he is currently finalising a books of Portraits. Jeremy has participated in several prestigious book projects of the world's leading photographers. His corporate clients include BP, Ford, Bloomberg, Orient-Express and the UAE government. He conducts occasional bespoke workshops in Southeast Asia.

Pavel Volkov To commission Pavel or to request prints of his work: www.volkovpavel.com Pavel Volkov (22.05.87). Photographer from Russia, actually lives in Moscow. Started his career as a freelancer working for various photo agencies in Saint Petersburg and Moscow, covered different social topics concerning Russia and relevant events in the country. Covered the events on the Maidan, in Crimea and south-east of the Ukraine as well. Interested in projects related to social problems of the Russian society. The author of several documentary projects related to youth subcultures: football hooligans, fight clubs, street fighting. His works were shown in the evening screening at the Visa Pour L’image 2014 festival. Publications in The Yew York Times lens blog, International New York Times, Der Spiegel. Washington Post, Harpers Magazine, Rolling Stones New York, undici11.

Ken Schles To commission Ken or to request prints of his work: www.kenschles.com Ken Schles is the author of five monographs: Invisible City (Twelvetrees Press, 1988; reprint Steidl Verlag, 2014); The Geometry of Innocence (Hatje Cantz, 2001); A New History of Photography: The World Outside and the Pictures In Our Heads (White Press, 2007); Oculus (Noorderlicht, 2011) and Night Walk (Steidl Verlag, 2014). Writing on the ecology of the image, his essays have appeared in Vision Anew (University of California Press, 2015), on the FOAM (NL) blog, where he was a foreign correspondent and in publications by Aperture. Exhibited by The Museum of Modern Art, noted by the New York Times Book Review, cited in histories of the medium (Parr/Badger, Auer & Auer, 10x10 American Photobooks) and issued by some of the foremost photography book publishers of our time (Steidl, Hatje Cantz, Twelvetrees Press), Ken Schles' books are considered "intellectual milestones in photography" (Süddeutsche Zeitung), "hellishly brilliant" (The New Yorker)

and "insight into the mind of a great photographer" (Hotshoe). A NYFA Fellow, Ken Schles has work collected in more than 100 museum and library collections throughout the world.

after concerts. In 2007 he published The Memory of Pablo Escobar– the extraordinary story of ‘the richest and most violent gangster in history’ told by hundreds of photographs gathered by Mollison. It was the follow-up to his work on the great apes – widely seen as an exhibition including at the Natural History Museum, London, and in the book James and Other Apes (Chris Boot, 2004).

Shib Shankar Chatterjee To commission Shib or to request prints of his work: gmail Shib Shankar Chatterjee is an Indian New Delhi and Northeast based journalist, who can shoot (both still and video) and edit. He has worked as a Photographer & Broadcast Cameraman, covering conflict zones and issues like ethnic-violence, women and child topics, India-Bangladesh international border skirmishes, international border disputes and refugee problems of India-Nepal, India-Bhutan, India-Bangladesh, India-Myanmar & India-China, and environmental issues like – Flood and Cyclone in Northeast India (including, West Bengal State), Earthquake in Nepal, Insurgency, Business & Commerce, etcetera. He has also worked as a contributor, reporter, photographer and producer in the national and international houses like – Associated Press (AP), Agence France-Presse (AFP), Press Trust Of India (PTI), India Today, Frontline, Outlook, Business Today, The Times Of India, Hindustan Times, The Statesman, The Telegraph, The Assam Tribune, Asia Times, News Blaze and BBC World Service’s (Radio & Online) section, including Indian

news channels –Doordarshan(DD), New Delhi Tele Vision (NDTV), CNN-IBN and CNBC-TV18. He has pictures for books by leading authors published by Cambridge University Press, Anthem Press, Mc-Graw Hill (University) Press and Others renowned National and International Publishing Houses, etcetera. Apart from routine coverage, he has also filed footage and worked as a Researcher in three international documentary films – (including one Indian National Documentary Film on ‘Ethnic Clash in Northeast India’), – “World’s Apart” on ‘International Borders Of The World’ (released in French & English Languages) from Canada under Quebec & Canadian Broadcasting House of Productions & International Documentary Film “Derrière les murs”, a film by Claude-Pierre Chavanon on ‘International Borders Of The World’ (releases in French & English Languages) from Paris (France) under Auteurs Associés Broadcasting House of Productions and Munhwa Broadcasting Corporation (MBC), 267 Sangam-ro, Mapo-gu, Seoul, Korea. He got the Media Fellowship Award in 2002 from National Foundation For India (NFI), New Delhi, India. Presently he is working on a book on the one of the aforementioned issues as a Photographer-cum-Researcher.

Peter Dazeley To commission Peter or to request prints of his work: www.peterdazeley.com PETER DAZELEY FRPS, known as Dazeley, is a celebrated London photographer renowned for fine art and advertising photography. He was born in West Kensington and studied photography at Holland Park School (now known as the Socialist Eton). Being dyslexic he left school at 15 without any formal qualifications. He feels his dyslexia is an asset because it gives him the ability to look at problems and objectives from a different point of view; he is a meticulous planner and imaginative problem solver. "Making the ordinary look extraordinary is Dazeley's gift,” says Sarah Ryder Richardson, who represents Dazeley in the UK. He is a life member of the Association of Photographers and in June 2013 the Royal Photographic Society awarded him a Fellowship, their highest distinction, in recognition of original work and outstanding ability. He is married and has a daughter and a son; they live in Coombe Hill, Surrey.

recently transitioned to a digital camera, which opens the door to a completely different way of working, which is very exciting.

in Malaya, Singapore, Borneo and Sarawak where he lived with the head-hunting Dyak tribes and became involved with the pirates of Borneo. Other tours took him to Malta, Cyprus, Libya and Liberia. In the UK, John went behind the scenes at military installations for the Ministry of Defence, gaining a privileged view of the armed forces at work and compiling a stunning and unique portfolio. Major industrial and commercial contracts followed his move into freelancing and the establishment of a London studio in the 60s. His pictures regularly appeared in international magazines, including Paris Match as he got the contract to cover the six year building of the QE2 for Cunard. Over the years John photographed and met countless world leaders and royalty, including Haile Selassie, Winston Churchill, Soviet premiers Khrushchev and Bulganin, US Presidents Jimmy Carter and Ronald Reagan with his wife Nancy, Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, The Queen and Queen Mother, the Shah of Persia and King Hussein of Jordan. John published a war-time adventure and romance, King’s Flight in 2010 before releasing his memoirs 80 Years Gone In a Flash in 2011. His latest book being a picture anthology, Through the Lens of a Photojournalist (2013). Retiring at 67 from a farm in Slinfold, West Sussex, John, now 86, lives in nearby Southwater where he has been a Sussex police volunteer for more than 18 years. John is widowed and has two daughters, Sally and Jane (also a published author) and two sons, Paul and Rob.

interviews. Via worldwide broadcast, online magazine, and podcast, Jones shares his conversations with the artists, actors, and musicians who fascinate and inspire him most. Robert Downey Jr., Sarah Silverman, Dave Grohl, Laura Dern, Tony Hawk, Matt Damon and Will Ferrell have all appeared on the show. Most recently, Jones directed the feature length Showtime Documentary "Lost Songs: The Basement Tapes Continued", a film that reexamines Bob Dylan’s Basement Tapes and documents new recordings of lost Dylan lyrics by Elvis Costello, Marcus Mumford and others in Capitol Records Studios. His candid, intimate style and innate ability to capture the essence of his subjects made the documentary a natural medium for Jones. In 2002, Jones started his feature-length documentary career with I Am Trying To Break Your Heart, which chronicles beloved indie-rock band Wilco’s tumultuous recording of their acclaimed fourth album, “Yankee Hotel Foxtrot”. The film was hailed as “beautifully photographed”, and “engrossing” for its compelling look at the struggle between art and commerce; and Jones’ ability to create intimacy with his subjects was compared to that of Jean Luc Goddard’s work with The Rolling Stones in Sympathy for the Devil. Variety called Jones “one of the few intelligent filmmakers destined for serious artistic success,” and Rolling Stone named I Am Trying To Break Your Heart the fifth best rock film of all time. Jones lives in Los Angeles with his wife and three daughters.

Brian Griffin To commission Brian or to request prints of his work: www.briangriffin.co.uk Born in Birmingham on the 13th April 1948 but lived in the Black Country until going to Manchester Polytechnic (1969 – 72) to study photography. Since 1972 has lived in London as a freelance photographer getting his first commission for Management Today in November 1972. First exhibited in the “Young British Photographers” in 1975. Received “Freedom of the city of Arles, France” in 1987. Published the book “Work” in 1988 with a one-man show at the National Portrait Gallery. Work went on to be awarded the Best Photography book in the World at the Barcelona Primavera Fotografica 1991. In 1989 the Guardian newspaper proclaimed him to be “The Photographer Of The Decade”. Also “Life” magazine used the photograph “A Broken Frame” on its front cover of a special supplement “The Greatest Photographs Of The 80’s”. From 1991 until 2002 worked as a film director making TV Commercials, Music Videos and Short Films.

In 2003 worked on Birmingham’s bid to become the European Capital City Of Culture followed by a retrospective at the Art Museum Reykjavik Iceland in 2005. He then produced a book and exhibition for the Royal opening of St. Pancras Station and High Speed 1 in 2007. In 2009 He became the patron of the Derby Festival of Photography and continues to be the Festivals patron. For the London Olympics in 2009 he launched the photography project “Road To 2012” at the National Portrait Gallery alongside Lord Coe and Dame Kelly Holmes. In 2010 he had a major retrospective of my portraiture “Face to Face” in Birmingham. September 2013 he received the “Centenary Medal” from the Royal Photographic Society in recognition of a lifetime achievement in photography. Recently he has been commissioned and exhibited at “Marseille Provence 2013 European Capital of Culture”, also for “Reference Works” the photography project to celebrate with a book and exhibition the building and opening of the New Birmingham Library. This was followed by a retrospective of his corporate photography in Bologna Italy during October 2013. On March 3rd 2014, he received a Honorary Doctorate by Birmingham City University for his lifetime contribution to the City of Birmingham.

Patrick Ward To commission Patrick or to request prints of his work: www.patrickwardphoto.com During the last five decades Patrick Ward, born in London in 1937, has continuously photographed the English at play, bringing a wry and affectionate eye to his images of their eccentric and often bizarre rituals.His interest in photography began while completing compulsory military service in the 1950s. The only escape from army camp then was an evening course and Patrick chose photography. By some miracle his then girlfriend sent him the seminal book, The Family of Man, a photographic monument to the joys and tribulations of life, as edited by the great Edward Steichin. The dye was cast. A full time photography course was followed by a much more rewarding learning curve assisting John Chillingworth, of Picture Post fame. His was a generous influence, helping Patrick to make the leap from student to working photographer. Patrick then went freelance and was lucky to catch the new wave of newspaper colour magazines springing up in the early 1960s. He worked with the Observer and Sunday Times magazines and later for the Telegraph Magazine during the 1960s and 1970s, travelling widely on assignments. In 1980 a Bicentennial Fellowship allowed him to explore America for a year and this led on to assignments from American journals, Including National Geographic Traveler and

the Smithsonian Magazine.Throughout this period Patrick continued his personal project of photographing the English at play, mostly in black and white. Patrick’s primary concern has always been to simply and honestly document individual people, whatever their social background. In 2014 Patrick published a collection of his personal work titled Being English.

Thom Davies To commission Thom or to request prints of his work: www.thomdavies.com Dr Thom Davies is social scientist who uses photography as part of his research. He focuses on long-form ethnographic projects, often examining the experiences of exclusion and marginalisation. He has conducted in-depth research in Chernobyl and Fukushima, and has more recently been researching the refugee crisis in Calais. He regularly uses participatory methods when conducting research with vulnerable communities, including asking those he is researching to make photographs to tell their own stories, such as his ‘Disposable Citizens’ project in Chernobyl. He is currently working on a project about ‘Cancer Alley’ in Louisiana, USA.