Biographies
KAREN ROBINSON
To commission Karen or to request prints of her work: www.karenrobinson.co.uk
ALAN CUMMING
To commission Alan or to request prints of his work: www.alancummingphotography.com
RICHARD NOWITZ
To commission Richard or to request prints of his work: www.nowitz.com
Karen is a freelance photographer based in London. Her portraits and reportage have been widely
published in newspapers and magazines worldwide.
“From the beginning of my career my natural interest in human rights issues led me to remote,
marginal and threatened communities all over the world; I visited Saddam's Iraq between the Gulf
Wars, street children in post-Ceausescu Romania and Madha-Pradesh, India to witness the land-
rights struggle of the indigenous Adivasi people.
I was later commissioned to document the lives of cocoa farmers in Ghana, nomadic Arab tribes-
people in Israel, subsistence farmers in Mexico, the Inuit of northern Alaska and drought afflicted
villagers in Tajikistan.
I was commissioned by Amnesty International, Anti-Slavery International, Unicef and Panos Pictures to produce a set of images
on sex-trafficked Lithuanian women in the UK and Lithuania, highlighting the fact that slavery is a fact of life in modern Britain.
The work was first exhibited in St Paul's Cathedral and is still touring regionally.
In recent years I have applied my experience and natural empathy to commercial portraiture. I am
comfortable working unobtrusively in highly-charged situations, such as backstage at the Southbank
Centre, or dynamically under pressure of time with politicians and celebrities.
Alan Cumming won an instamatic camera in a raffle when he was 8. Sadly his inability to frame
family members in the centre of any picture led to his camera being confiscated and instead he
spent his time wandering around the forest he lived in making up stories and pretending to be other
people.
This eventually led to him becoming an award-winning actor of international renown, storming the
West End with his Hamlet, followed immediately by his Emcee in Cabaret, which transferred to
Broadway and made him an overnight US sensation. He has since graced the New York stages with
turns in Chekhov, Coward and as Mack the Knife, the Pope and Dionysus. He will return this summer
in a one man Macbeth.
He has also had an eclectic film career, working with Stanley Kubrick then The Spice Girls, playing a superhero, a God, a
horse, and winning many awards for his work as actor, writer producer and director. He will next be seen in the indie Any Day
Now.
He has written a novel Tommy's Tale and is at work on a memoir, performed a cabaret show I Bought A Blue Car today at
venues around the world including the Sydney Opera House and released an award-winning album of the same name. He is
currently on TV as Eli Gold (a man in a suit- go figure!) in the CBS hit The Good Wife, for which he has been nominated for
Emmy, SAG and Satellite awards. There were also two fragrances- Cumming and Second Cumming, and oh, well, you get the
idea.
Over the years he has worked out the framing thing, and Alan Cumming Snaps! is his first exhibition of
photographs, and he was recently published for the first time in Headmaster magazine.
Over the past 35 years, Richard has traveled to more than 35 of the world’s countries
across six of its continents.
Richard Nowitz has been a National Geographic photographer since 1991 and a contract
photographer for Insight Guides since 1982, with over 40 book titles to his credit.
Richard has won numerous awards for his travel photography from the Society of
American Travel Writers (SATW), including the Society’s highest photography honor,
Photographer of the Year, in 1998. His clients include National Geographic Traveler, Conde Nast Traveler, Time-Life Books and
Endless Vacation, among many others.
NADAV NEUHAUS
To commission Nadav or to request prints of her work: www.nadavneuhaus.com
Nadav Neuhaus is a New York-based photojournalist covering international events and conflicts,
including the earthquakes in Haiti and Japan, the drug wars in Mexico, and the Egyptian revolution.
For more than 15 years, the Israeli native covered the Arab-Israeli conflict, including work with Israeli
Special Forces in Gaza and stories about life in the Palestinian territories. He has also produced
features about modern day gold diggers in California, illegal immigration along the U.S.-Mexico border,
and the Mars Society, a group of international scientists training for the colonization of Mars.
His work has appeared in newspapers and magazines around the world, including Time, Newsweek,
National Geographic, The New York Times, Paris Match, VSD, Stern, Geo and The Independent
(London).
SEAN HAWKEY
To commission Sean or to request prints of his work: www.hawkey.co.uk
As a youngster Sean painted a lot - murals and pavements - and began taking photographs. Later,
after a spell in prison, a few years of work in demolition and carpentry, a short career in science, a
year in a marginal barrio in Peru, he went to El Salvador to support the revolution, the struggles
against injustice.
He taught 'architecture for the poor' at universities, and in the war zones he met people using
photography and video to make changes in the world, He got hooked, and began working in
communications. Sean worked for years on indigenous land rights advocacy using communications
as a strategic component. Then he spent a few years as a magazine editor and communications
advisor, always using a camera. “I have gradually pared my working life down to its most effective
and enjoyable essence, which is as a photographer.”
Sean first job as a photographer was in 1991 in Haiti and the Dominican Republic, with the journalist John Medcalf, looking at
slavery in the sugar industry. Recently, he spent a year in Central America documenting food security and fairtrade farming.
Sean has lived in 40 countries, including ten years in Latin America. He currently lives with his five
children in the UK.
KAUSHIK SAHA
To commission Kaushik or to request prints of his work: www.kaushiksaha.com
Born in Calcutta, presently residing in Delhi.
After 15 years in the advertising industry, Kaushik quit to devote more time to photography. He currently work as a
communication consultant.
“Photography for me is a way of exploring and understanding the culture of which I am a product, but in a way also an outsider,
thanks to my 'English' education.”
MICHELLE FAY NOWITZ
To commission Michelle or to request prints of her work: http://society6.com/michellefay
Michelle Fay Nowitz is a mixed media artist, poet, and photographer. Inspired at a young age by her
father and older siblings, Michelle studied photography, along with various other mediums such as
drawing and painting.
In her travels around the world with her father, Michelle became fascinated with the natural world,
and began exploring it in her art. Her most recent work uses photography as a starting place for multi
media collage works that explore questions of sexuality, gender, and the natural world.
Michelle's photographic work has been published in several Insight guide books. She lives and works
in Chicago, and is currently attending The School of the Art Institute of
Chicago.
MARK HENLEY
To commission Mark or to request prints of his work: www.markhenleyphotos.com
Born in Oxford, U.K.(1966), Henley studied literature at York, before finding himself in China during
the tumult of 1989. He lived in Asia for ten years between Tokyo, Hong Kong and Beijing, seeing the
Japanese bubble burst, Hong Kong handed back to China, and the rising of the latter to global power.
He has photographed in over 50 countries over the last two decades, tracking global issues from
Casablanca to Mexico City, Dar es Salaam to Jakarta, Moscow to Mumbai.
The realities of 'Socialism with Chinese Characteristics' have been a particular concern, and he
returned repeatedly to China, producing a body of work which culminated in the ground breaking book
and exhibition China [sur]real, which toured throughout mainland China, testing the limits of subject
becoming audience, confronting Chinese national pride, sexual taboos, political icons and generally outraging various provincial
officials. China [sur]real, Timezone8 Books, 2007.
After six years in Zurich, he is currently based in Geneva. His recent work on the crisis in the Swiss Banking Industry, 'Bank on
Us' won the Swiss Press Photo award for 2012, while its the multimedia version 'The Vaults' won an award at Les Nuits
Photographiques 2012 in Paris.
He is represented by Panos Pictures in London.
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KAREN ROBINSON
To commission Karen or to request prints of her work: www.karenrobinson.co.uk
Karen is a freelance photographer based in London. Her portraits and reportage have been widely
published in newspapers and magazines worldwide.
“From the beginning of my career my natural interest in human rights issues led me to remote,
marginal and threatened communities all over the world; I visited Saddam's Iraq between the Gulf
Wars, street children in post-Ceausescu Romania and Madha-Pradesh, India to witness the land-
rights struggle of the indigenous Adivasi people.
I was later commissioned to document the lives of cocoa farmers in Ghana, nomadic Arab tribes-
people in Israel, subsistence farmers in Mexico, the Inuit of northern Alaska and drought afflicted
villagers in Tajikistan.
I was commissioned by Amnesty International, Anti-Slavery International, Unicef and Panos Pictures to produce a set of images
on sex-trafficked Lithuanian women in the UK and Lithuania, highlighting the fact that slavery is a fact of life in modern Britain.
The work was first exhibited in St Paul's Cathedral and is still touring regionally.
In recent years I have applied my experience and natural empathy to commercial portraiture. I am
comfortable working unobtrusively in highly-charged situations, such as backstage at the Southbank
Centre, or dynamically under pressure of time with politicians and celebrities.
Alan Cumming won an instamatic camera in a raffle when he was 8. Sadly his inability to frame
family members in the centre of any picture led to his camera being confiscated and instead he
spent his time wandering around the forest he lived in making up stories and pretending to be other
people.
This eventually led to him becoming an award-winning actor of international renown, storming the
West End with his Hamlet, followed immediately by his Emcee in Cabaret, which transferred to
Broadway and made him an overnight US sensation. He has since graced the New York stages with
turns in Chekhov, Coward and as Mack the Knife, the Pope and Dionysus. He will return this summer
in a one man Macbeth.
He has also had an eclectic film career, working with Stanley Kubrick then The Spice Girls, playing a superhero, a God, a
horse, and winning many awards for his work as actor, writer producer and director. He will next be seen in the indie Any Day
Now.
He has written a novel Tommy's Tale and is at work on a memoir, performed a cabaret show I Bought A Blue Car today at
venues around the world including the Sydney Opera House and released an award-winning album of the same name. He is
currently on TV as Eli Gold (a man in a suit- go figure!) in the CBS hit The Good Wife, for which he has been nominated for
Emmy, SAG and Satellite awards. There were also two fragrances- Cumming and Second Cumming, and oh, well, you get the
idea.
Over the years he has worked out the framing thing, and Alan Cumming Snaps! is his first exhibition of
photographs, and he was recently published for the first time in Headmaster magazine.
Over the past 35 years, Richard has traveled to more than 35 of the world’s countries
across six of its continents.
Richard Nowitz has been a National Geographic photographer since 1991 and a contract
photographer for Insight Guides since 1982, with over 40 book titles to his credit.
Richard has won numerous awards for his travel photography from the Society of
American Travel Writers (SATW), including the Society’s highest photography honor,
Photographer of the Year, in 1998. His clients include National Geographic Traveler, Conde Nast Traveler, Time-Life Books and
Endless Vacation, among many others.
NADAV NEUHAUS
To commission Nadav or to request prints of her work: www.nadavneuhaus.com
Nadav Neuhaus is a New York-based photojournalist covering international events and conflicts,
including the earthquakes in Haiti and Japan, the drug wars in Mexico, and the Egyptian revolution.
For more than 15 years, the Israeli native covered the Arab-Israeli conflict, including work with Israeli
Special Forces in Gaza and stories about life in the Palestinian territories. He has also produced
features about modern day gold diggers in California, illegal immigration along the U.S.-Mexico border,
and the Mars Society, a group of international scientists training for the colonization of Mars.
His work has appeared in newspapers and magazines around the world, including Time, Newsweek,
National Geographic, The New York Times, Paris Match, VSD, Stern, Geo and The Independent
(London).
SEAN HAWKEY
To commission Sean or to request prints of his work: www.hawkey.co.uk
As a youngster Sean painted a lot - murals and pavements - and began taking photographs. Later,
after a spell in prison, a few years of work in demolition and carpentry, a short career in science, a
year in a marginal barrio in Peru, he went to El Salvador to support the revolution, the struggles
against injustice.
He taught 'architecture for the poor' at universities, and in the war zones he met people using
photography and video to make changes in the world, He got hooked, and began working in
communications. Sean worked for years on indigenous land rights advocacy using communications
as a strategic component. Then he spent a few years as a magazine editor and communications
advisor, always using a camera. “I have gradually pared my working life down to its most effective
and enjoyable essence, which is as a photographer.”
Sean first job as a photographer was in 1991 in Haiti and the Dominican Republic, with the journalist John Medcalf, looking at
slavery in the sugar industry. Recently, he spent a year in Central America documenting food security and fairtrade farming.
Sean has lived in 40 countries, including ten years in Latin America. He currently lives with his five
children in the UK.
KAUSHIK SAHA
To commission Kaushik or to request prints of his work: www.kaushiksaha.com
Born in Calcutta, presently residing in Delhi.
After 15 years in the advertising industry, Kaushik quit to devote more time to photography. He currently work as a
communication consultant.
“Photography for me is a way of exploring and understanding the culture of which I am a product, but in a way also an outsider,
thanks to my 'English' education.”
MICHELLE FAY NOWITZ
To commission Michelle or to request prints of her work: http://society6.com/michellefay
Michelle Fay Nowitz is a mixed media artist, poet, and photographer. Inspired at a young age by her
father and older siblings, Michelle studied photography, along with various other mediums such as
drawing and painting.
In her travels around the world with her father, Michelle became fascinated with the natural world,
and began exploring it in her art. Her most recent work uses photography as a starting place for multi
media collage works that explore questions of sexuality, gender, and the natural world.
Michelle's photographic work has been published in several Insight guide books. She lives and works
in Chicago, and is currently attending The School of the Art Institute of
Chicago.
MARK HENLEY
To commission Mark or to request prints of his work: www.markhenleyphotos.com
Born in Oxford, U.K.(1966), Henley studied literature at York, before finding himself in China during
the tumult of 1989. He lived in Asia for ten years between Tokyo, Hong Kong and Beijing, seeing the
Japanese bubble burst, Hong Kong handed back to China, and the rising of the latter to global power.
He has photographed in over 50 countries over the last two decades, tracking global issues from
Casablanca to Mexico City, Dar es Salaam to Jakarta, Moscow to Mumbai.
The realities of 'Socialism with Chinese Characteristics' have been a particular concern, and he
returned repeatedly to China, producing a body of work which culminated in the ground breaking book
and exhibition China [sur]real, which toured throughout mainland China, testing the limits of subject
becoming audience, confronting Chinese national pride, sexual taboos, political icons and generally outraging various provincial
officials. China [sur]real, Timezone8 Books, 2007.
After six years in Zurich, he is currently based in Geneva. His recent work on the crisis in the Swiss Banking Industry, 'Bank on
Us' won the Swiss Press Photo award for 2012, while its the multimedia version 'The Vaults' won an award at Les Nuits
Photographiques 2012 in Paris.
He is represented by Panos Pictures in London.
OCTOBER 2012 BACK ISSUE
Back to
current
issue