Biographies
The magazine of the art-form of the photo-essay.
ADAM HINTON www.adamhinton.net/blog
CRISPIN HUGHES www.crispinhughes.com
GUILLERMO CERVERA www.guillermocervera.photoshelter.com
JULIO ETCHART www.julioetchart.com
STEFAN BONESS www.iponphoto.com
ZACH CANEPARI www.canepariphoto.com
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VINCENZO FLORAMO www.floramo.it
SERGEY MAXIMISHIN www.maximishin.com
Guillermo Cervera is a freelance photographer with over 18 years of experience documenting
armed conflict and social issues for the international press. His work has taken him from the
frontlines of Bosnia in 1993, to the uprises in Libya and Cairo, Egypt in 2011, from rebel
camps in Chad, to photographing gang wars in Caracas, Venezuela and the Tamil Tigers
separatist militant group during the Sri Lanka Civil War in 2008. He has covered refugees
and IDPs in Darfur, the rise of capitalism in communist Cuba, methamphetamine addition
in southern Washington, D.C., American gospel churches and European Arms dealers.
Cervera has worked primarily in the Peshwar region since 2008. He is currently based in
Kabul, Afghanistan, where he is working unembedded on longterm projects on the daily life
of the Taliban, and the economic force of the Western arms market. His photographs are
regularly published in Marie Claire, The Guardian, La Vanguardia, ABC and El Mundo,
among others, and have been exhibited in galleries in Madrid and
Barcelona.
Adam began his photographic career at the age of 12 when his Father bought him a
basic SLR camera. He became fascinated with a new way of looking at the world and the
ability to record things of importance.
When Hinton was 15, he received the first installment of compensation from the Government
following a knife attack (his attacker had a thing against punks) and instinctively he knew
what he was going to spend the money on: more lenses. When he received the rest of the
money at 18 he spent it all on a set of professional cameras and lenses. From that moment
onwards, photography has been the constant focus for him. It has enabled him to vocalise
his other interest: politics. Studying photojournalism in the 80s enabled Hinton to articulate
his feelings, beliefs and values into a visual medium that he could communicate to others.
He would take photos at all the demonstrations he went to: anti-apartheid, anti-nuclear, the
miners' strike and the picket lines at Wapping. He hoped, and still does, that his images could
portray something of the way we live today, how each action has a reaction, that nothing
is without cause or response.
Hinton believes in the good of people. “Wherever I have travelled, the people I have met and
stayed with have been welcoming and open. Even in the most dire situations, when almost
everything seems negative, I find myself photographing the positives. When I stayed with a family in the favelas of Rio de
Janeiro I found that in spite of the level of violence surrounding people living there, it was outweighed by the community's
cohesion. They had, without any external help, organised football and ballet classes for the children and adults, art clubs,
after-school care and had built their own library. Families supported each other and the community had a strong sense of
social solidarity. This is what I wanted to photograph, not the violence and danger. When I first started taking pictures I
found that the social documentary style of B&W suited my work brilliantly (things were more black &
white to me then). However, as time has gone by, I have moved away from the more traditional image to
something I think is more fluid and spontaneous.”
Zach (b.1979, USA) is an independent photographer and filmmaker specializing in
documentary and editorial projects. His career began in 2003 shooting portraiture
for American culture magazines such as XLR8R, RIDES and the SF Guardian. Before
that he studied photography in Paris at the SPEOS Photographic Institute and later
entered the Masters Program at the Academy of Art in San Francisco. From 2007-2009
he lived in New Delhi, India working as a photojournalist in the region. As a
photographer, his work has taken him to India, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Mexico, China,
Eastern Europe, and Nigeria for a number of clients including The New York Times, The
Guardian, Newsweek, TIME Magazine and The Chicago Tribune. In 2009, Zack and
filmmaker Drea Cooper created California is a place, a series of short documentaries
about California. The series was featured as part of the Sundance Film Festival's New
Frontiers section and was nominated for the IDFA DocLab award for Digital Storytelling.
As a director, his clients include K-Swiss, RayBans, Adidas, Toyota and NPR.
He is currently based in Los Angeles.
Floramo was born in Trieste, Italy in 1968. After completing his studies at the Technical Industrial Institute and attending the two
year courses at Metropolis photography school in Madrid, Spain, 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.
For the last few years he has been spending most of his time in India 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. With this project he collaborated with Amnesty International's magazine in Denmark,
Rearview mirror magazine, Witness journal and exhibits his pictures in Barcelona and Madrid.
He has collaborated with international NGOs and develops different awareness photo projects.
In India he has become intimately involved with the customs, celebrations, institutions, and street life of the people of Varanasi.
With his photos he got honorable mentions in 2010 by “Paris Prix de la Photographie” and by “International Photo Award”.
In 2011 he was shortlisted at the KL Photo awards, nominated at IPC 2011 and his work “The Recyclers” was awarded
with the bronze medal at “Paris Prix de la Photographie”.
Vincenzo presently lives between Europe and South East Asia where he has a base at Mae Sot City,
Thailand.
Sergey Maximishin was born in 1964 and spent his childhood in Kerch, the Crimea. In
1982 he moved to Leningrad and served in the Soviet army as a photographer the
Soviet Military Force Group on Cuba from 1985 to 1987. He graduated from Leningrad
Politechnical Institute in 1991 with a B.A. in physics and worked in the laboratory of
scientific and technical expertise in the Hermitage Museum. Maximishin graduated from
St-Petersburg Faculty of photojournalism in 1998. In 1999-2003 he was a staff
photographer for the "Izvestia" newspaper. Since 2003 he has worked with the German
agency 'Focus.'
Maximishin has won many awards for his photography including:
World Press Photo:
· First Place in "Arts and entertainment" (single) category in 2004
and
World Press Photo:
· First Place in "Daily life" (single) category 2006
Stefan Boness is a photojournalist based in Berlin and Manchester.
His photos have received several awards including a World Press Photo Award and a Fuji
Euro Press Photographer of the Year in Germany Award. His work is being published in
quality magazines and newspapers throughout the world.
In his long-term documentary projects in the tradition of conceptual
'Landscape-Photography' Stefan Boness captures the reality of a designated place in
the present in the context of its underlying historical dimensions. His book-project entitled
'Flanders Fields' is a photographic search on the battlefields of World War I in the region
around Ypres in Belgium. In 'Asmara - The Frozen City' he uncovers the legacy of Italian
colonial avant-garde architecture in the capital of Eritrea in the Horn of Africa. His most
recent project 'The Re-Making of Manchester' has as its focus urban development in
present-day Manchester. Once the birthplace of the industrial revolution Manchester today
is characterised by tremendous changes in its urban landscape that might make it a
symbol for successful post-industrial regeneration.
Julio Etchart grew up in Uruguay and later settled in the UK where he studied
Documentary Photography at Newport Art College. He has since travelled round the world
for international media and has also worked as a still photographer, consultant and
researcher for film and TV companies.
Etchart regularly takes commissions from recording labels, PR and touring agencies,
promoters and magazines to cover musical events, festivals, dance and theatre and
also produces audiovisual material and touring displays for Non Governmental
Organizations like War on Want, Save The Children, OXFAM, Christian Aid, CAFOD,
VSO, UNICEF, the British Council and the European Union. A co-founder of Reportage
Photos, Etchart now distributes his colour photographs online through Still Pictures and
his black and white material through Panos Pictures in the UK.
After being awarded a World Press Photo First Prize in the Environment category,
Etchart produced 'The Four Elements', a touring exhibition on ecological issues,
sponsored by the European Union.
His long term project on children's play around the world, 'Toys' was published by Mets
& Schilt of Amsterdam in Dutch, German and English. It is distributed
by Pluto Books in the UK. His photo-book: Katha: in the footsteps of
George Orwell in Burma, was published in 2010
Hughes is a London based photographer documenting social issues in the UK and internationally.
He collaborates on video and art projects with Susi Arnott of Walking Pictures and undertakes participatory photography
projects internationally with photographer Gideon Mendel.
Khaled Hasan, born in Dhaka in 1981, is a storyteller, inspiring people to appreciate and
empathize with the cultures and societies he documents. Hasan began working as a
photographer in 2001. He has graduated from South Asian Media Academy and
Photojournalism (Pathshala). His works have been published and exhibited worldwide.
Hasan has worked as a freelancer for several daily newspapers in Bangladesh and
international magazines. His works have been published in major magazines and
newspapers in the world: Sunday Times Magazine, American Photo, National Geographic
Society, Better Photography, Saudi Aramco World Magazine, Guardian, Telegraph, The
Independent and The New Internationalist, Himal Southern, Women's e-News.
Hasan's documentary project 'Living Stone' has won numerous international awards
including the 2008 All Roads Photography Contest of National Geographic Society, the
2009 Grand Prix "Europe and Asia - Dialogue of Cultures" International Photography
Contest organized by Museum of Photography, Mark Grosset Documentary Prize 2009
and UNESCO's Humanity Photo Documentary Award 2009.
His other awards include 2009 CIWEM's Environmental Photographer of the Year, 2009
View Book Photo Story Documentary Jury Prize, Netherlands; Alexia Foundation Student
Award (Award of Excellence), 2009 CDP Emerging Documentist Award, 6th Days Japan
KHALED HASAN www.khaledhasan.com
Photojournalism Awards, Finalist of Emerging Vision Incentive in Picture of the Year International, 2010, Golden Medal
Award TashkentAle-2010, Uzbekistan, 2011 Emerging Photographer in Contemporary World by Nikon Asia, 2011, Audience
Choice Award, 2011Women's Voices from Muslim World Film Festival, Honorable Mention in Professional Category of Photo
Philanthropy First Activist Award, 2009.
Hasan always wants to show a documentation of a culture, to tell a story as a messenger of the community. It is essential
for him to create communication and trust with his subjects. Through photography, he hopes to help the society to
empathize with hidden social, political and environmentally suffered people. It is important to realize that no documentation
will ever be finished. This work informs his identity that has started from one point but has no ending.
Recently he has been awarded as a Dart Center Ochberg Fellowship for 2011. He was chosen as one of ten Ochberg
Fellows out of a large and exceptionally competitive pool of journalists across the globe. He is the first Bangladeshi
independent photojournalist who has got this prestigious award. He has been selected alone
through Asia Pacific.
The magazine of the art-form of the photo-essay.
ADAM HINTON www.adamhinton.net/blog
CRISPIN HUGHES www.crispinhughes.com
GUILLERMO CERVERA www.guillermocervera.photoshelter.com
JULIO ETCHART www.julioetchart.com
STEFAN BONESS www.iponphoto.com
ZACH CANEPARI www.canepariphoto.com
All of our advertising is certified by Google and therefore may be viewed safely.
VINCENZO FLORAMO www.floramo.it
SERGEY MAXIMISHIN www.maximishin.com
Guillermo Cervera is a freelance photographer with over 18 years of experience documenting
armed conflict and social issues for the international press. His work has taken him from the
frontlines of Bosnia in 1993, to the uprises in Libya and Cairo, Egypt in 2011, from rebel
camps in Chad, to photographing gang wars in Caracas, Venezuela and the Tamil Tigers
separatist militant group during the Sri Lanka Civil War in 2008. He has covered refugees
and IDPs in Darfur, the rise of capitalism in communist Cuba, methamphetamine addition
in southern Washington, D.C., American gospel churches and European Arms dealers.
Cervera has worked primarily in the Peshwar region since 2008. He is currently based in
Kabul, Afghanistan, where he is working unembedded on longterm projects on the daily life
of the Taliban, and the economic force of the Western arms market. His photographs are
regularly published in Marie Claire, The Guardian, La Vanguardia, ABC and El Mundo,
among others, and have been exhibited in galleries in Madrid and
Barcelona.
Adam began his photographic career at the age of 12 when his Father bought him a
basic SLR camera. He became fascinated with a new way of looking at the world and the
ability to record things of importance.
When Hinton was 15, he received the first installment of compensation from the Government
following a knife attack (his attacker had a thing against punks) and instinctively he knew
what he was going to spend the money on: more lenses. When he received the rest of the
money at 18 he spent it all on a set of professional cameras and lenses. From that moment
onwards, photography has been the constant focus for him. It has enabled him to vocalise
his other interest: politics. Studying photojournalism in the 80s enabled Hinton to articulate
his feelings, beliefs and values into a visual medium that he could communicate to others.
He would take photos at all the demonstrations he went to: anti-apartheid, anti-nuclear, the
miners' strike and the picket lines at Wapping. He hoped, and still does, that his images could
portray something of the way we live today, how each action has a reaction, that nothing
is without cause or response.
Hinton believes in the good of people. “Wherever I have travelled, the people I have met and
stayed with have been welcoming and open. Even in the most dire situations, when almost
everything seems negative, I find myself photographing the positives. When I stayed with a family in the favelas of Rio de
Janeiro I found that in spite of the level of violence surrounding people living there, it was outweighed by the community's
cohesion. They had, without any external help, organised football and ballet classes for the children and adults, art clubs,
after-school care and had built their own library. Families supported each other and the community had a strong sense of
social solidarity. This is what I wanted to photograph, not the violence and danger. When I first started taking pictures I
found that the social documentary style of B&W suited my work brilliantly (things were more black &
white to me then). However, as time has gone by, I have moved away from the more traditional image to
something I think is more fluid and spontaneous.”
Zach (b.1979, USA) is an independent photographer and filmmaker specializing in
documentary and editorial projects. His career began in 2003 shooting portraiture
for American culture magazines such as XLR8R, RIDES and the SF Guardian. Before
that he studied photography in Paris at the SPEOS Photographic Institute and later
entered the Masters Program at the Academy of Art in San Francisco. From 2007-2009
he lived in New Delhi, India working as a photojournalist in the region. As a
photographer, his work has taken him to India, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Mexico, China,
Eastern Europe, and Nigeria for a number of clients including The New York Times, The
Guardian, Newsweek, TIME Magazine and The Chicago Tribune. In 2009, Zack and
filmmaker Drea Cooper created California is a place, a series of short documentaries
about California. The series was featured as part of the Sundance Film Festival's New
Frontiers section and was nominated for the IDFA DocLab award for Digital Storytelling.
As a director, his clients include K-Swiss, RayBans, Adidas, Toyota and NPR.
He is currently based in Los Angeles.
Floramo was born in Trieste, Italy in 1968. After completing his studies at the Technical Industrial Institute and attending the two
year courses at Metropolis photography school in Madrid, Spain, 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.
For the last few years he has been spending most of his time in India 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. With this project he collaborated with Amnesty International's magazine in Denmark,
Rearview mirror magazine, Witness journal and exhibits his pictures in Barcelona and Madrid.
He has collaborated with international NGOs and develops different awareness photo projects.
In India he has become intimately involved with the customs, celebrations, institutions, and street life of the people of Varanasi.
With his photos he got honorable mentions in 2010 by “Paris Prix de la Photographie” and by “International Photo Award”.
In 2011 he was shortlisted at the KL Photo awards, nominated at IPC 2011 and his work “The Recyclers” was awarded
with the bronze medal at “Paris Prix de la Photographie”.
Vincenzo presently lives between Europe and South East Asia where he has a base at Mae Sot City,
Thailand.
Sergey Maximishin was born in 1964 and spent his childhood in Kerch, the Crimea. In
1982 he moved to Leningrad and served in the Soviet army as a photographer the
Soviet Military Force Group on Cuba from 1985 to 1987. He graduated from Leningrad
Politechnical Institute in 1991 with a B.A. in physics and worked in the laboratory of
scientific and technical expertise in the Hermitage Museum. Maximishin graduated from
St-Petersburg Faculty of photojournalism in 1998. In 1999-2003 he was a staff
photographer for the "Izvestia" newspaper. Since 2003 he has worked with the German
agency 'Focus.'
Maximishin has won many awards for his photography including:
World Press Photo:
· First Place in "Arts and entertainment" (single) category in 2004
and
World Press Photo:
· First Place in "Daily life" (single) category 2006
Stefan Boness is a photojournalist based in Berlin and Manchester.
His photos have received several awards including a World Press Photo Award and a Fuji
Euro Press Photographer of the Year in Germany Award. His work is being published in
quality magazines and newspapers throughout the world.
In his long-term documentary projects in the tradition of conceptual
'Landscape-Photography' Stefan Boness captures the reality of a designated place in
the present in the context of its underlying historical dimensions. His book-project entitled
'Flanders Fields' is a photographic search on the battlefields of World War I in the region
around Ypres in Belgium. In 'Asmara - The Frozen City' he uncovers the legacy of Italian
colonial avant-garde architecture in the capital of Eritrea in the Horn of Africa. His most
recent project 'The Re-Making of Manchester' has as its focus urban development in
present-day Manchester. Once the birthplace of the industrial revolution Manchester today
is characterised by tremendous changes in its urban landscape that might make it a
symbol for successful post-industrial regeneration.
Julio Etchart grew up in Uruguay and later settled in the UK where he studied
Documentary Photography at Newport Art College. He has since travelled round the world
for international media and has also worked as a still photographer, consultant and
researcher for film and TV companies.
Etchart regularly takes commissions from recording labels, PR and touring agencies,
promoters and magazines to cover musical events, festivals, dance and theatre and
also produces audiovisual material and touring displays for Non Governmental
Organizations like War on Want, Save The Children, OXFAM, Christian Aid, CAFOD,
VSO, UNICEF, the British Council and the European Union. A co-founder of Reportage
Photos, Etchart now distributes his colour photographs online through Still Pictures and
his black and white material through Panos Pictures in the UK.
After being awarded a World Press Photo First Prize in the Environment category,
Etchart produced 'The Four Elements', a touring exhibition on ecological issues,
sponsored by the European Union.
His long term project on children's play around the world, 'Toys' was published by Mets
& Schilt of Amsterdam in Dutch, German and English. It is distributed
by Pluto Books in the UK. His photo-book: Katha: in the footsteps of
George Orwell in Burma, was published in 2010
Hughes is a London based photographer documenting social issues in the UK and internationally.
He collaborates on video and art projects with Susi Arnott of Walking Pictures and undertakes participatory photography
projects internationally with photographer Gideon Mendel.
Khaled Hasan, born in Dhaka in 1981, is a storyteller, inspiring people to appreciate and
empathize with the cultures and societies he documents. Hasan began working as a
photographer in 2001. He has graduated from South Asian Media Academy and
Photojournalism (Pathshala). His works have been published and exhibited worldwide.
Hasan has worked as a freelancer for several daily newspapers in Bangladesh and
international magazines. His works have been published in major magazines and
newspapers in the world: Sunday Times Magazine, American Photo, National Geographic
Society, Better Photography, Saudi Aramco World Magazine, Guardian, Telegraph, The
Independent and The New Internationalist, Himal Southern, Women's e-News.
Hasan's documentary project 'Living Stone' has won numerous international awards
including the 2008 All Roads Photography Contest of National Geographic Society, the
2009 Grand Prix "Europe and Asia - Dialogue of Cultures" International Photography
Contest organized by Museum of Photography, Mark Grosset Documentary Prize 2009
and UNESCO's Humanity Photo Documentary Award 2009.
His other awards include 2009 CIWEM's Environmental Photographer of the Year, 2009
View Book Photo Story Documentary Jury Prize, Netherlands; Alexia Foundation Student
Award (Award of Excellence), 2009 CDP Emerging Documentist Award, 6th Days Japan
KHALED HASAN www.khaledhasan.com
Photojournalism Awards, Finalist of Emerging Vision Incentive in Picture of the Year International, 2010, Golden Medal
Award TashkentAle-2010, Uzbekistan, 2011 Emerging Photographer in Contemporary World by Nikon Asia, 2011, Audience
Choice Award, 2011Women's Voices from Muslim World Film Festival, Honorable Mention in Professional Category of Photo
Philanthropy First Activist Award, 2009.
Hasan always wants to show a documentation of a culture, to tell a story as a messenger of the community. It is essential
for him to create communication and trust with his subjects. Through photography, he hopes to help the society to
empathize with hidden social, political and environmentally suffered people. It is important to realize that no documentation
will ever be finished. This work informs his identity that has started from one point but has no ending.
Recently he has been awarded as a Dart Center Ochberg Fellowship for 2011. He was chosen as one of ten Ochberg
Fellows out of a large and exceptionally competitive pool of journalists across the globe. He is the first Bangladeshi
independent photojournalist who has got this prestigious award. He has been selected alone
through Asia Pacific.