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Oct 2015 back issue
Salvatore Esposito To commission Salvatore or to request prints of his work: www.salvatoreesposito.it Salvatore Esposito is a documentary photographer who lives in Naples.  He began working as a photojournalist for a newspaper where he worked on chronicle and particularly on organized crime. After leaving the newspaper began working as a freelance for the Fotogramma Agency  of Milan and the historic French Agency Sipa Press in Paris, following all the news of greatest interest at the national level. His interest in "the human being" led him then to take care of reportage on "contemporary issues" of humanistic argument. Salvatore is a photographer committed to documenting  the issues related to the profound cultural changes of the human being. As a photographer, he specialized in long-term projects, and loves to tell in depth the topics and create elements to reflect on the consequences of the social changes of  human being today. It 'a narrator of humanistic tradition, with a photographic approach classic, penetrates into the stories photographing with empathy and humanity. Explores issues such as immigration, prostitution but especially organized crime, a subject that engages him still at one of the long-term work, convinced of political responsibility, says
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 Printing where he studied for a post graduate degree in Photojournalism.  In 2011 he founded Life Force magazine with his business partner and wife of 12 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.
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He lives with his wife and four children in Devon, England.
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George Bennett To commission George or to request prints of his work: www.georgebennettphoto.com George Bennett’s photographs have appeared in Sports Illustrated, Esquire, Vanity Fair, Time, New York Magazine, & The New York Times Magazine, among others. His six published books include Mannequins (Knopf), Fighters and Real Men (Doubleday), and Inside Track: A Photo Documentary of NASCAR (Artisan). In addition to his books and editorial work, Bennett has for years specialized in environmental portraits. He has photographed Presidents Bush, Clinton, and Carter as well as many other world leaders. His portraits of corporate CEOs and board chairmen have been featured in the annual reports of many Fortune 500 companies. Advertising clients have included Coca Cola, Sony, Philip Morris, General Electric, Dupont, TBS, Time Warner, ESPN and many others.
Fred Zafran To commission Fred or request prints of his work: www.fredzafranphotography.com Fred Zafran is a photographer living in Loudoun County, Virginia.  Zafran grew up in Philadelphia in the 50’s and 60’s and came to photography more than 45 years ago.  Although photography did not become his profession, it accompanied him over the decades as he built a career as a management consultant and IT executive and raised a family in the Washington DC area.  Now retired, Zafran devotes most all of his time to photography, traveling widely throughout the U.S. and abroad.  Fred Zafran’s photography explores the urban environment as metaphor and map of the inner human landscape.  Photographing at the boundaries of illumination and darkness, Zafran’s work is a gentle observation of the city, its streets, and a “few of us” as we wander through the day and unanticipated moments of quiet and solitude. Zafran’s work is represented by the Multiple Exposures Gallery in Alexandria, VA, and he exhibits in galleries throughout the DC metro area.  His photography was recently
Esa Ylijaasko To commission Esa or to request prints of his work: www.ylijaasko.com   'Esa Ylijaasko (1989) is a Finnish photographer originally from a small Northern town of Keminmaa, Finland. He graduated from Jyväskylä College of Arts in 2010. After working for newspapers in Finland and Chile, and doing own projects in Russia and Spain, Esa has concentrated (since 2013) on a personal long-term, in-depth documentary project of the Syrian civil war by following victims of the conflict. Esa is part of Raw View Magazine’s Mentor Program. His work has been published in The New York Times and Vice Magazine. Esa was named one of the Vice Magazine’s Top Photos of 2014. He currently lives in Istanbul.’
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Anderson & Low To commission Anderson & Low or request prints of their work: www.andersonandlow.com Jonathan Anderson and Edwin Low have been collaborating as “Anderson & Low” since 1990. Their work includes portraiture, architectural studies, abstract images, reportage, nudes, and landscape and is noted for attention to concept, form, lighting, and printing. Their work is exhibited world-wide, residing in many public and private collections including: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Victoria & Albert Museum, London, National Portrait Galleries of both the UK and Australia, Museum of Fine Art, Houston, High Museum of Art, Baltimore Art Museum, Atlanta, National Gallery of Australia, Akron Museum, The National Gallery of Australia, the US Olympic Center, the Southeast Photography Museum, Florida, and Museet Fotokunst, Denmark.
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Gustavo Jononovich To commission Gustavo or request prints of his work: www.jononovich.com Gustavo Jononovich was born in Argentina in 1979. He began his studies in photography in 2002. His work, mainly focused on the environment and the exploitation of the natural resources, has received numerous international recognitions. In 2011 and 2013 he won the POY-Latin America award. In 2012 he was granted by the Manuel Rivera- Ortiz Foundation and received the Sony Award from the World Photography Organization. His work has been exhibited and published around the world. 
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Paul Trevor To commission Paul or to request prints of his work: www.paultrevor.com Since abandoning his job as an accountant at 25, Paul Trevor's photographs have been widely published in books, magazines, films and tv. His work has always been motivated by a keen social impulse. Paul co-founded the Exit Photography Group whose joint projects over a decade produced two documentary books and various exhibitions. He was also a founder member of the Half Moon Photography Workshop and co-editor of its influential Camerawork magazine for four years. Paul's work is in public and private collections around the world.  
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Maxim Sarychau To commission Maxim or to request prints of his work: sarychau.com Maxim Sarychau is a visual artist, lives and work in Minsk, Belarus. He works on long- term documentary and art photography projects. Maxim is concerned about social issues and conflicts between human and nature. He experiments with new forms of visual storytelling at the edge of photography and video. Maxim studied photography on several education courses and programs in Belarus, Latvia and Russia. He balances between software development and work on personal photography projects. Projects of Maxim Sarychau were awarded in Belarus and Europe: Grand Prix at the "Belarus Press Photo 2015", finalist at the "PRAFOTA 2014" award (Belarus), 2nd place in the "Multimedia" at the festival "Photo Visa 2014" (Russia), 1st place in the "Right to speak" category at the film festival "toKino 2013" (Lithuania). Maxim projects also
He has recently opened a studio in Los Angeles, travels a lot looking for story ideas, shoots portraits and makes art in his loft downtown.
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Undertakes so one of his most complex work in Scampia, managing to break into a reality among the toughest in Europe, earning the trust of dealers of the Camorra, this will occupy him at first for about two and a half years so telling the periphery the most dangerous in Europe. The end result "Hell of Scampia" will be published numerous times in Italy and abroad and will also bring numerous awards including the Sony Award, the NPPA Award, the Prix du Documentaire, the Terry O 'Neill Award where among the other is reported for his courage. In 2008 he joined Photographer Staff of Contrasto Agency and in 2014 was invited by Manfrotto to become Ambassador of the company. His works have been published in major magazines such as The Sunday Times Magazine, National Geographic, Vanity Fair, L'Espresso, International among others.
one of the most dangerous mafia in the country: the Camorra.
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.
Alexander Petrosyan To commission Alexander or to request prints of his work: aleksandrpetrosyan.com   After taking up photography in the year 2000, Alexander Petrosyan realized that, in order to truly understand the world around him, he must first try to capture it through the camera lens, something at which he has continuously succeeded. Petrosyan finds true joy in exploring and portraying his subjects in innovative ways, photographing not only the beautiful but also the grotesque aspects of life. Working for My District magazine from 2003 to 2008, Petrosyan became a true professional, able to accurately present the three-dimensional with only two dimensions, and to illuminate the infinite levels of his environment in a single photograph. At present,  Petrosyan is a staff photographer for “Kommersant" (http://www.kommersant.ru/), where he continues to push the limits of his surroundings, proving that there is something extraordinary about even the most, seemingly, ordinary aspects of life. Petrosyan's work has been featured in a multitude of acclaimed publications, including, but not limited to: «Newsweek», «National Geographic», «GEO», «Russian Reporter",
"Spark", "Money", “Power“, "Kommersant", "News", "Arguments and Facts", "Komsomolskaya Pravda", and "Business Petersburg".
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Henri Cartier-Bresson   Cartier-Bresson travelled the world, and as a photojournalist he was assigned to India and China, witnessing historic events including Gandhi’s last days and the Communist victory in China. His reporting earned him global recognition. He formed the international photographic cooperative, Magnum Photos in 1947 with Robert Capa, David Seymour and George Rodger. ! His photographs were published in Life and other journals, and in books, most importantly Images à la sauvette 1952. Henri Matisse drew the artwork for the cover, and in his preface, Cartier-Bresson describes his photographic style. The title of the English edition, The Decisive Moment, describes Cartier-Bresson’s instinctive recognition of the exact moment to take the definitive photograph.
Eddie Kramer To commission Eddie or to request prints of his work: eddie-kramer.com For over five decades Eddie Kramer has painted the rock landscape with his aural and visual brush working with some of musichistory’s biggest names; The Rolling Stones, Eric Clapton, David Bowie, Bad Company, The Beatles, just  to name a few. Kramer is best known for three long-term associations: Jimi Hendrix, Led Zeppelin and Kiss. He not only produced and engineered music for these legendary artists but he also has set standards for rock production today, making Eddie Kramer a true innovator. After moving to London from South Africa, Eddie began his recording career working at three of the most legendary studios in rock, Pye Studios, Regent Sound and Olympic Studios, where he recorded Jimi Hendrix, The Rolling Stones, The Beatles, Traffic and a myriad of other major recording stars. In 1969 Jimi Hendrix hired Eddie and architect John Storyk to build a state of the art studio. After 13 months Electric Lady Studios was complete, and Kramer served as its Director of Engineering from 1970 -1974. Electric Lady became one of the world’s most popular recording studios. He then continued to man the boards for other projects, including the best-selling Woodstock soundtrack, which made Kramer one of the most pre-eminent producer/engineers of live albums by rock artists of the era. In 1999 he won a Grammy Award for his audio production of the video Jimi Hendrix live album The Band of Gypsys and in recent years, Kramer has received several more Grammy awards. The most recent highlight in Kramer’s career was an Emmy award for best sound in The American Masters Hendrix documentary “Hear My Train A Comin’. In addition to his legendary music career, he has been one of the key photographers of the rock world. His unique access and life long friendships with rock’s luminaries have given him access to a world others rarely see. Eddie’s photographs have been exhibited in some of the world’s most prestigious galleries and museums and have become prized possession of international collectors. Today Kramer continues to engineer and produce new artists and is currently working on his memoir, From the Other Side of the Glass.
became finalists of the festival Vilnius Photo Circle 2014/2015 (Lithuania), and was shown as a solo exhibition at the festival Warsaw Photo Days 2013 (Poland).
Bill McCullough To commission Bill or to request prints of his work: www.billmccullough.com Photographer Bill McCullough was born in 1963, in Dickenson Texas.  He graduated with a degree in Plan II economics from the University of Texas at Austin in 1986. Music and  photography have played important roles in his life, but do to significant hearing loss,  photography has taken center stage. He is a self-taught photographer with work published in New York Times Lens Blog, Spot magazine (Houston Center of Photography), and Photonews. The Museum of Fine Arts Houston and the Portland Art Museum both contain his photographs in  their permanent collections. He has received numerous awards and has published two limited  edition books, Technicolor Life, and Tone Poem. He currently resides and works in Austin, Texas. You can follow his work on Instagram @bill_mccullough
Dean Chalkley To commission Dean or to request prints of his work: www.deanchalkley.com Dean Chalkley is a photographer and filmmaker based in London. He grew up in the Thames estuary town of Southend-on-Sea. After training to be a tailor, he put the scissors aside in favor of the camera and studied at Blackpool and Fylde College, where he completed his photography degree. Whilst at college he began shooting for Dazed and Confused magazine in 1998. Since then, Dean has continued to depict his love for culture, and music especially his close and long running association with the NME Magazine that has produced many iconic images. In addition to his work within the world of Music Dean has undertaken high profile campaigns for brands including Ray-Ban, Adidas and Levis.
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featured at the American University Museum, Katzen Arts Center as part of an invitational photographic exhibition of leading DC artists.
Rachel Molina To commission Rachel or request prints of her work: www.rachelmolina.co.uk Born in London in 1980, Rachel Molina was educated at a Steiner school and at the internationally renowned BRIT school where she majored in theatre production. However an earlier introduction to photography had sown the seeds of a greater passion, and she moved on to study photojournalism at Tower Hamlets College before furthering her photographic studies at the highly acclaimed London College of Printing (now the LCC). Rachel has travelled extensively in Europe, North America and Australasia. These experiences are used as the basis of her photographic style creating work that resonates with the captured energy and vibrancy of the subject.
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