The magazine of the photo-essay
November 2016 issue
Peter Turnley
To commission him or to request prints of his work: www.peterturnley.com
Peter Turnley was recently the first N. American photographer since the Cuban
Revolution to be offered a major exhibit of photography at Cuba’s most important
museum, Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes of Havana. This exhibit, “Momentos de la
Condicion Humana” represents 130 photographs from more than 40 years of
witnessing life worldwide.
Turnley has been traveling to Cuba extensively since 1988, and has produced a
recent book “Cuba-A Grace of Spirit”. He also teaches photography workshops
worldwide, including several street photography workshops in Cuba.
Peter Turnley is renown for his photography of the realities of the human condition. His
photographs have been featured on the cover of Newsweek 43 times and are
published frequently in many of the world’s most prestigious publications. He has
worked in over 90 countries and has witnessed most major stories of international geo-
political and historic significance in the last forty years.
Chris Hunt
To commission him or to request prints of his work: www.chrishuntphotos.com
My interest in photography began when I was ten years old, after my grandmother
won a camera on Blackpool pier and gave it to me. Within four years I created a
darkroom in my parents house, (in our only bathroom, much to my parents annoyance)
and from then on I was forever taking photos. I eventually went to Manchester Poly to
study photography and after qualifying I started working as a freelance. I've been self
employed ever since and I'm extremely grateful to have forged a career out of my one
true passion. Link https://
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
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 13 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.
He lives with his wife and four children in Devon, England.
Arthur Grace
To commission him or to request prints of his work: www.arthurgrace.com
Arthur Grace began his professional career in 1973 as a staff photographer for United
Press International. During his award-winning career in photojournalism spanning three
decades, he covered stories around the globe as a contract photographer for Time
magazine and a staff photographer for Newsweek magazine. His photographs have
appeared in leading publications worldwide, including on the covers of Life, Time,
Newsweek, The New York Times Magazine, Paris Match and Stern.
Over the past twenty-five years, Mr. Grace has published five critically-acclaimed
photographic books: Choose Me: Portraits of a Presidential Race, Comedians, State
Fair, America 101, and Robin Williams: A Singular Portrait, 1986-2002. His work has
been exhibited in galleries and museums throughout the United States and abroad,
including a solo show at the High Museum of Art in Atlanta in the fall of 2012.
Mr. Grace’s photographs are in the permanent collections of numerous museums,
including the J. Paul Getty Museum, the National Portrait Gallery, the High Museum
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Szymon Barylski
To commission him or to request prints of his work: www.szymonbarylski.com
Szymon Barylski is a Polish photographer born in 1984 and based in Ireland. He has
been published, amongst others in: The Irish Times, National Geographic Poland,
The Eye of Photography, Edge of Humanity Magazine. He has had a number of
exhibitions in many countries including: 3rd Documentary Photography Days in
Istambul, MIFA Photography, The SE Centre for Photography- Documentary P
hotography. His pictures have been awarded in many competitions.
Szymon is involved in documentary photography and photo essays. To him,
photography is a tool for exploring and learning about the world. In his opinion, people
are an inexhaustible topic and a source of inspiration. Szymon says, “When travelling,
I meet people; as a result I create the image of my relationship with them. The
exploration of the environment where I take photos allows me to create emotional and
convincing scenes.“ He believes that it’s not possible to photograph things you do not
know well. That is why he prepares himself for each project researching in newspapers
and on the internet. Next he looks for an inspiration in other photographers‘ photos and
Nancy Baron
To commission her or to request prints of her work: www.nancybaron.com
Nancy Baron's background in documentary filmmaking has led to her current
dedication to fine art documentary photography. She documents the world nearby,
mostly in Los Angeles and Palm Springs, where she lives. Baron's work is held in
public and private collections and has been exhibited in galleries across the United
States, including three solo exhibits in Los Angeles and two in Palm Springs. Her
work has been published in many notable magazines and newspapers, including The
New York Times, Mother Jones, Photo District News, American Photo, Architectural
Digest, and Conde Nast Traveler. Her two monographs, The Good Life > Palm
Springs (2014) and Palm Springs > The Good Life Goes On (2016) are published by
Kehrer Verlag.
Valerie Kleeman
www.whickersworldfoundation.com
Valerie Kleeman, Whicker’s partner in life and work for over 40 years, is founder of the
Whicker’s World Foundation.
Alan Whicker left a very generous legacy for the promotion of curiosity in programme
making.
He wanted to stimulate and empower talent that might otherwise never find its place in
the is highly competitive industry. His foundation launches at a time when television
funding for documentaries is at an all-time low and yet interest in the form is growing a
pace in cinemas across the country.
David Pace
To commission him or to request prints of his work: www.davidpacephotography.com
David Pace is a Bay Area photographer, filmmaker and curator. He received his MFA
from San Jose State University in 1991. Pace has taught photography at San Jose
State University, San Francisco State University and Santa Clara University, where he
served as Resident Director of SCU’s study abroad program in West Africa from 2009
– 2013. He has been photographing in the small sub-Saharan country of Burkina Faso
annually since 2007, documenting daily life in Bereba, a remote village without
electricity or running water.
Pace’s images of rural West Africa have been exhibited internationally and have been
featured in The New Yorker, The Financial Times of London, National Geographic,
NPR’s The Picture Show, Slate Magazine, The Huffington Post, Verve, Feature Shoot,
PDN and Lensculture among many others. A monograph of his project Sur La Route
was published by Blue Sky Books in the fall of 2014, and an exhibition catalog was
published in 2016 by the Center for Photographic Art in Carmel, CA. His work is in the
collections of the San Jose Museum of Art, the Portland Museum, the Crocker
Thomas Roma and Giancarlo Roma
To commission them or to request prints of their work: www.thomasroma.com
Thomas Roma: Twice the recipient of Guggenheim Fellowships and a New York State
Council for the Arts Fellowship, Mr. Roma's work has appeared in one-person and
group exhibitions internationally, including one-person shows with accompanying
books at The Museum of Modern Art, NY and the International Center of Photography.
He has published 14 monographs to date and has taught photography since 1983,
becoming the Director of Photography at Columbia University School of the Arts in
1996 where he is a Professor of Art. His work is in numerous collections, including The
Museum of Modern Art, New York; The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; The Art
Institute of Chicago; The Los Angeles County Museum of Art; and The Canadian
Center for Architecture, Montreal.
Giancarlo T. Roma: Giancarlo Roma is a 2013 graduate of Columbia University with
a degree in English and African American Studies. He is the co-author of two books,
Show & Tell (2002) and The Waters of Our Time (2014), a contributing writer for Vice,
and was published in The New York Times in 2015. A former stockbroker, he is the co-
Lisa Kereszi
To commission her or to request prints of her work: www.lisakereszi.com
Lisa Kereszi was born in 1973 in Pennsylvania and grew up in Suburban Philadelphia
to a father who ran the family junkyard and to a mother who owned an antique shop.
In 1995 she graduated from Bard College with a Bachelor of Arts. In 2000 she
received a Master of Fine Arts degree from the Yale University School of Art in New
Haven, Connecticut. She has been on the faculty there as a Lecturer since 2004, and
serves as Director of Undergraduate Studies in Photography. She was appointed
Critic in 2012, and Director of Undergraduate Studies in Art in 2013.
Her work is in many private collections and in that of the Whitney Museum of
American Art, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Study Collection at the Museum of
Modern Art, the Altoids Curiously Strong Collection of the New Museum of
Contemporary Art, the Brooklyn Museum of Art, the Norton Museum of Art, the Ogden
Museum of Southern Art, the Berkeley Art Museum and the Yale University Art Gallery,
among others. She is represented by Yancey Richardson Gallery in New York, where
she had Winter 2005, Spring 2007 and Spring 2009 and 2012 solo shows. Other solo
shows include the Galleries at Moore College in Philadelphia, the Alcott Gallery at
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Pavel Wolberg
To commission him or to request prints of his work: www.pavelwolberg.com
1966 born in Leningrad [St.Petersburg] Russia.
Based in Tel-Aviv, Israel.
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Kathy Shorr
To commission her or to request prints of her work: www.kathyshorr.com
Kathy Shorr is a freelance photographer based in New York. Her work has been
exhibited widely at such galleries as Howard Greenberg Gallery, NY, and Sariedo
Gallery, NY. Her series, "Limousine," was included in the prestigious Visa Pour
L'Image, International Photo-Journaliosm Festival, in Perpignan, France. Her work
has been published in Popular Photography, Newsweek, French Photo, Camera
Austria, Photo Review, On Seeing, New York Observer, and The Village Voice. As
a freelance educational consultant, Ms. Shorr works with diverse groups of all ages
in helping to learn how to express themselves through the lens and screen arts.
Leslie Hall Brown
To commission her or to request prints of her work: www.lesliehallbrown.com
Leslie Hall Brown is a fine art photographer and psychotherapist from the USA. She
grew up in a small town known as the capital of the Cherokee Indian Nation in
Oklahoma, surrounded by a rich American Indian culture filled with enchantment. As an
adult the state of Missouri has been her home, with the last eight years on a small farm
in Ash Grove, Missouri. Leslie received the "Prix de la Photographie, Paris" (Px3) 2016
Best New Talent Award and first place from the 2015 (IPA) International Photography
Awards in the category of Fine Arts, Self Publish Book. In 2014 she was endowed with
the Julia Margaret Cameron Award, was a finalist for the 2014 Clarence John Laughlin
Award, and received gold, silver, and bronze medals in the 2014 "Prix de la
Photographie, Paris" (Px3). Her work has been published in print magazines and in
various online photography magazines. She has exhibited nationally and
internationally, in the US, Germany, Mexico, Spain, Thailand, Georgia, England and
France.
of Art, the International Center of Photography, the Minneapolis Institute of Art and the National Museum of American
History. His photojournalism archives are housed at the Dolph Briscoe Center for American History at the University of
Texas in Austin.
Turnley has photographed most of the world’s conflicts including the Gulf War-1991, the Balkans (Bosnia), Somalia,
Rwanda, South Africa, Chechnya, Haiti, the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, Indonesia, Afghanistan, Kosovo, the war in Iraq-
2003. Turnley has produced portraits and covered many of the modern world’s most influential people: Obama, Castro,
Gorbachev, Yeltsin, Putin, Mandela, Arafat, Schroeder, Ceausescu, Gaddafi, Chirac, Clinton, Reagan, Bush Sr, Lady Diana,
and Pope Jean Paul II among others.
Since 1975, Turnley has also continually photographed the life of Paris, his adopted home. Turnley was born in the U.S.,
but has lived more than half his life in Paris. Peter Turnley worked as the assistant to the famous French photographer
Robert Doisneau in his early days in Paris in 1981.
Peter Turnley has photographed extensively the life of Cuba since 1989 and has a new book out this fall, Cuba-A Grace of
Spirit.
A graduate of the University of Michigan, the Sorbonne of Paris, and the Institut d’Etudes Politiques of Paris, Turnley has
received Honorary Doctorate degrees from the New School of Social Research in New York and St. Francis College of
Indiana. He received a Nieman Fellowship from Harvard for the academic year 2000-2001.
Peter Turnley has won many international awards including the Overseas Press Club Award for Best Photographic
Reporting from Abroad, numerous awards and citations from World Press Photo, and the University of Missouri’s Pictures
of the Year competition.
He presently lives in both New York and Paris, and has published seven books of his work: Beijing Spring, Moments of
Revolution, In Times of War and Peace, Parisians, McClellan Street, French Kiss-A Love Letter to Paris, and Cuba-A Grace
of Spirit.
Shelley Calton
To commission her or to request prints of her work: www.shelleycalton.com
Throughout her practice, Texas-based photographer Shelley Calton has made it her
niche to reflect on the collective female experience and the resulting subcultures,
whether it is photographing roller derby girls or the delicate artifacts associated with
femininity. Her first book, Hard Knocks, Rolling with the Derby Girls was published in
2009 and her second book, Concealed, She’s Got a Gun, was released in spring of
2015. A portrait from Concealed was chosen for the Taylor Wessing Portrait Prize at
the National Portrait Gallery, London. Images from Concealed were exhibited at
Houston Center for Photography in 2016 and Zoom Photo Festival in Quebec in 2014.
Her work is in the collection of the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston and the National
Portrait Gallery, London, as well as private collections. Featured articles and
interviews have been written in The New York Times Lens, The Daily Mail.com,
Newsweek Japan, ABC.com, Slate, The Business Insider, and global, live interviews
on BBC World Service and BBC TV America.
University of North Carolina in Fall 2006 and also at the Matrix Gallery at UC Berkeley, the latter as part of her 2005 Baum
Award for Emerging American Photographers.
She was granted a commission to photograph Governors Island by the Public Art Fund the same year, which culminated in
shows at the Urban Center Gallery and the Mayor’s Office at City Hall and a 2004 exhibition catalog, Governors Island, as
well as a permanent installation on the island. Recent curatorial projects include 2015’s Side Show, at the Edgewood
Gallery at Yale, which investigated the intersection of carnival sideshow culture and visual art.
Four monographs are in print – Fun and Games with Nazraeli Press in 2009, and two with Damiani Editore: Fantasies in
2008 and her 2012 book, Joe’s Junk Yard, which was released in early Fall 2012. Released in 2014 by J&L Books is an
artist book as an offshoot of the junkyard book, entitled The More I Learn About Women. Kereszi lives and works in New
Haven, CT, and is working on a new series as a new mother.
Tom Parsons
To commission him or to request prints of his work: www.tomparsons.co.uk
I was born in South Africa. I have lived in the UK since a small child. I have had a
varied career from the Household Cavalry to the Wine trade and many things in between.
I am now lucky enough to be part of a profession that fulfills so many personal wishes.
From a creativity element to building relationships with people. Every day is different..
full of diversity and passion.
I have gained experience and cut my teeth assisting for a high profile world class
photographer. This has primarily been within portraiture but also in fashion, pop videos
and short films.
Projects I have been fortunate to have worked on include, behind the scenes on short
films and TV commercials, magazine fashion shoots, BTS for commercial brands, BTS
stills & PAK shots for a global brand launch for their online marketing campaigns. Stills
for a bespoke London Children's Fashion House (Product launch) & more to mention.
My first love though is portraiture and natural light. This has allowed me to work alongside and shoot an array of people from
bands / musicians, to artisans, actors and even Royalty.
I am currently available for portrait work, personal portraiture, corporate portraiture, head shots, life style and behind the
scenes stills photography.
I work within the south east predominantly but I am available to work nationally.
Museum in Sacramento, and Museum Villa Haiss in Zell, Germany. Pace received the 2011 Work-In-Process Prize from the
Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University and was a finalist for the 2015 Gardner Fellowship in Photography at
Harvard University. He is represented by Wirtz Art (formerly the Stephen Wirtz Gallery).
Pace has been a member of the Board of Directors of the San Jose ICA for 20 years, where he is currently the chair of the
Curatorial Committee. He is a member of the Acquisition Committee of the San Jose Museum of Art, and the Advisory
Board of Foothill College. He previously served as President of the Board of Directors of San Francisco Camerawork.
founder of the apps Clustr and Postcard, as well as an avid chess and guitar player.
Peter Dazeley
To commission him 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, known as the Socialist’s 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 lives with his family in Coombe Hill, Surrey.
conversations, as a result he creates real pictures.
Karen Knorr
To commission her or to request prints of her work: www.karenknorr.com
Karen Knorr was born in Frankfurt am Main, Germany and was raised in San Juan,
Puerto Rico in the 1960s. She finished her education in Paris and London. Karen has
exhibited and lectured internationally, including at Tate Britain, Tate Modern, The
University of Westminster, Goldsmiths, Harvard and The Art Institute of Chicago. She
studied at the University of Westminster in the mid-1970s, exhibiting photography that
addressed debates in cultural studies and film theory concerning the ‘politics of
representation’ practices which emerged during the late 1970s qnd early 1980s.
She is currently Professor of Photography at the University for the Creative Arts in
Farnham, Surrey.
