The magazine of the photo-essay
Oct back 2016 issue
Nick Hannes
To commission him or to request prints of his work: www.nickhannes.be
Nick Hannes (°Antwerp, 1974) is a Belgian photographer based in Ranst.
He graduated at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts (KASK) in Ghent in 1997. For the next
eight years he worked as a freelance photojournalist for mostly Belgian and Dutch
media. In between assignments he spent time in the Middle East, working on a political
documentary about the Kurdish people.
In 2006 he quit doing press assignments, in order to fully concentrate on self-initiated,
longterm documentary projects. He left for a one year round trip through the 15 former
Soviet republics, carrying only a bagpack and a camera. This big trip resulted in his first
book, Red Journey (Lannoo Publishers, 2009), which deals with the transitional phase
in post-communist society. Red Journey laid the foundation of Hannes’ distinctive
photographic style, in which irony, ambiguity and visual metaphors play a prominent role.
In 2010 he started Mediterranean. The Continuity of Man, an epic project that involved
Veronique de Viguerie
To commission her or to request prints of her work: www.veroniquedeviguerie.com
Veronique de Viguerie, multi-awarded French photographer represented by
Reportage by Getty Images, is based in Paris. Having completed a Master’s Degree in
Law in France, she studied photojournalism in England. She spent 3 years living and
working in Afghanistan. Since 2006, she has covered stories around the world in Iraq,
Somalia, Lebanon, Kashmir, Mexico, Algeria, Guatemala, Pakistan, Niger, Nigeria, Mali,
Syria etc. Her work Afghanistan Insh’Allah was exhibited in Visa pour l’Image in
Perpignan, in Paris and in the Scoop Festival in Angers. The Oil War in Nigeria was
exhibited in Bayeux festival for the war correspondents. Her pictures are regularly
published in Paris-Match, the New-York Times Magazine, Newsweek, El Pais, Stern,
Der Spiegel, Figaro Magazine, Geo, Marie-Claire, Mail on Sunday, the Guardian,
l’Optimum etc. She was especially noticed for having photographed the Taliban in
Afghanistan, the Pirates in Somalia, the Oil Pirates in Nigeria and the Sicarias (women
killers) in Colombia, the MNLA in Mali etc. She bravely takes on these challenging
assignments and personal projects in some of the most dangerous places on the
planet, often working with her French journalist friend and colleague Manon Querouil.
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.
Sharon Castellanos Tuesta
To commission her or to request prints of her work: sharoncastellanos.blogspot.com
Sharon Castellanos Tuesta (Lima - Perú, 1989) Self-taught photographer. She has
worked four years as a photojournalist for a national newspaper. Currently, she is
focused on photo essays around Cusco city.
* Awards, Recognitions: - Selected Participant / The New York Times Portfolio Review
2016 (USA). - Finalist / Scholarship: Roberto Villagraz 2016 - EFTI (Spain).
- Honorable Mention / Scholarship: MAPA Lens Escuela de Artes Visuales 2016 (Spain).
- Finalist / Red Bull Illume 2013. Photobook. Category: Lifestyle (Austria).
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Stephen Fry. British actor, writer and film & documentary maker
Julian Bound
To commission him or to request prints of his work: www.behance.net/julian_bound
Born in England, I am a photojournalist and have lived in Asia for several years with
my work featured on the BBC news, in the international press and National Geographic.
My work focuses on the social documentary of world cultures, religions and traditions.
My previous work has covered the soldiers of the Burmese Karen National Liberation
Army (K.N.L.A.), the Arab Spring of 2011 in Cairo, Egypt, and the Thailand political
uprisings in Bangkok during the riots there of 2009 and 2014. My photography work has
also included portraiture of His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama, and I have documented
the Tibetan refugee camps of Nepal and India, the road working Gypsies of western
India, the slums of Mumbai, India, and the train track slums of Jakarta, Indonesia.
I was present and documented the Nepal earthquake of 2015 and I am currently
working as an emergency deployment photographer for various NGO’s throughout Asia.
Between working on social documentary and NGO work, my photography focuses on
Nina Berman
To commission her or to request prints of her work: www.ninaberman.com
Nina Berman is a documentary photographer, author and educator, whose photographs
and videos have been exhibited at more than 100 venues including the Whitney
Museum of American Art, the Museum of Fine Arts Houston, the Portland Art Museum,
and Dublin Contemporary. She has received awards and grants from the New York
Foundation for the Arts, (NYFA), the Open Society Foundation, the Aftermath Project,
World Press Photo, Hasselblad and Pictures of the Year International. She is the
author of two monographs: Purple Hearts – Back from Iraq, and Homeland, which
examine the aftermath of war and the militarization of American life. She lives in New
York City, is an associate professor at Columbia University Graduate School of
Journalism and is a member of the NOOR photo collective.
Paddy Summerfield
To commission him or to request prints of his work: www.paddysummerfield.com
Oxford-based photographer, Paddy Summerfield, trained at Guildford School of Art in
the Photography and the Film departments. Pictures he took in 1967, when he was still
a first year student, were later published in Album, and spreads in Creative Camera
received encouraging recognition of his expressive and psychological approach. He has
spent a life-time making personal photographic documents, and teaching and running
work-shops, as well as undertaking commissions. He started exhibiting in London in the
Ted Grant
To commission him or to request prints of his work: www.tedgrantphoto.com
Photojournalist-Author-International Lecturer.
Regarded as Canada's premier living photographer,Ted Grant's career covers 60 years
as a photojournalist.
He's captured news, sporting events and important people throughout the world for
Canada's newspapers and magazines. He is the award winning photographer behind
the images of Pierre Trudeau sliding down the banister, and Ben Johnson becoming
the fastest man on earth.
Ted Grant is known in the trade as the "father of Canadian photojournalism"
For a more information visit: www.tedgrantphoto.com/Bio.htm
Mikel Landa and Luke Duggleby
To commission them or to request prints of their work: www.lukeduggleby.com
Luke Duggleby is a British born award-winning freelance photographer who has been
based in Asia for the last 10 years. After leaving the UK with a degree in photography
he moved east to develop his career as a travel, portraiture and documentary
photographer. His work involves undertaking photographic assignments for some of the
world’s biggest names in media as well as NGO’s, mostly around the Asian continent
but also further a field in Africa and South America.
Luke has been commissioned by and published in such publications as National
Geographic Magazine, The New York Times, The Guardian Magazine, The Smithsonian
Magazine and GEO to name a few. He is a roster photographer for Redux Pictures in
New York. Erde der Salz is his second published book, his first was called Il Lato
Invisible del Paradiso - Pellegrinaggi ai Confini del Tibet (The Invisible Side of Paradise
- A Pilgrimage in to Tibet's Borderlands) by publisher Nicolodi in Italy.
Rash Oyshe
To commission him or to request prints of his work: www.flickr.com
Rashed Shariar Oyshe. Born Bangladesh 1992.
In 2015 he graduated from Ahsanullah University of Science and Technology having
previously completed a basic course in Photography at Dhaka University, Dhaka, in
2012.
He has a Diploma in Documentary Photography from counter foto, Dhaka.
Sean Hawkey
To commission him or to request prints of his work: www.hawkey.co.uk
By name is Sean Hawkey and I'm a photographer and journalist. I’ve worked in 50+
countries, mainly on issues of social interest stories, development, humanitarian crises,
solidarity. My work has been featured in the New York Times, BBC, The Guardian,
Morning Star, Huffington Post, The Telegraph, Science Magazine, the Journal of the
Royal Photographic Society and has been used by 200+ organisations including
Fairtrade networks in 30 countries, ACT Alliance and its member organisations around
the world, DanWatch, the Centre for Journalism Ethics, World Council of Churches,
World Health Organisation, World Bank, UNESCO, UNISDR, International Dalit
Solidarity Network, Greenpeace, Climate Action Network and the RMT trade union. My
photographs have been exhibited as joint and solo exhibitions in Mexico, Ireland,
France, Germany, Austria, UK and Spain. Before freelance photography I worked in
international aid, I taught architecture and I ran communications for global NGOs. I'm
based in the UK and I'm working freelance
Willeke Duijvekam
To commission him or to request prints of his work: www.willekeduijvekam.nl
Willeke Duijvekam (1968) is a documentary photographer. Since she graduated from
the Academy of Photography in Amsterdam she has worked on individual freelance
assignments, as well as on long-term projects.
She focuses her attention on people whose lives have taken a significantly different turn
than most people’s lives. For instance, she has made portraits of monks, obese
children and young people with a visual handicap. By dedicating herself to her subject
for long periods of time, her lens is able to get beyond the surface. In her restrained
photos, intimacy and emotion are the motif, in which she reveals how those she
portrays go about their daily lives. Her assignments are often a continuation of her own
work.
In 2011, she won the World Press Photo Award in the Portrait Stories category with a
series entitled ‘Eva' (2007-2011), about a teenage girl with a gender identity disorder.
She has also won several PANL Awards, The Dutch Photo Academy Award, and she was
Rita Leistner
To commission her or to request prints of her work: www.ritaleistner.com
Rita Leistner is a politically engaged photographer and documentarian. Her books
include Unembedded: Four Independent Photojournalists on the War in Iraq and
The Edward Curtis Project. She teaches the history of photojournalism at the University
of Toronto and is represented by the Stephen Bulger Gallery.
Ross Halfin
To commission him or to request prints of his work: www.rosshalfin.com
Ross W Halfin (born 11 August 1957) is a British rock and roll photographer. He began
his career working for Sounds magazine in the 1970s, shooting various artists on the
punk scene including The Clash, The Jam, The Sex Pistols, 999, and The Adverts. After
linking up with writers Geoff Barton and Peter Makowski, Halfin moved on to working
mainly in the US with bands like AC/DC, UFO, Rush, Journey, Aerosmith, and Black
Sabbath.
Halfin established Kerrang! magazine in 1980 with Barton and produced images of
bands from that era. He has toured with many bands, including Metallica, Iron Maiden,
Def Leppard, Mötley Crüe, Van Halen, Aerosmith, The Black Crowes, Ozzy Osbourne,
Kiss, Soundgarden, Queens of the Stone Age, and The Mars Volta.
Tim Miles
To commission him or to request prints of his work: www.timmilesphotography.com
Tim Miles (born 1946) is an American photographer who lived in Sydney, Australia for
most of his childhood and traveled to almost every corner of the earth during his career
in the US Government. He has been exposed to many different cultures and beliefs and
has a deep concern about the human condition and what is happening to Mother Earth
through greed, hatred, indifference, and neglect. Tim was a founding member of the
Vine Corps, a tutoring and mentoring organization for at-risk teens in Cheverly, Maryland
following his retirement. He is now a Guardian ad Litem volunteer working with and
advocating for abused children.
Tim received a Master’s degree in History from the University of Southern California in
1971 and training in black and white and color photography at Prince George’s
Community College and through several Nikon seminars over the past 15 years. He
focuses mainly on nature, landscape, and street photography and has studied the work
of Ansel Adams, William Allard, Dorothea Lange, Joel Sartore, Alfred Stieglitz, Edward
Weston, and other American masters. His photos have previously appeared in a Dark
In 2006 she published her 1st book, Afghanistan, Regards Croises with Marie Bourreau, in 2011 Carnets de Reportage du
XXIe siècle and in 2015 Profession: Reporter with Manon Querouil Bruneel. In 2012, she was chosen by HBO to be one of
the three photographers to be part of the Witness program for her work on the Arrow Boys in South Sudan.
Alfredo Macchi
To commission him or to request prints of his work: www.alfredomacchi.it
Alfredo Macchi, Italian journalist and photographer, was born on June the 25 th 1967 in
Sorengo, Lugano (Switzerland) and actually he lives in Rome. He covered some of the
most important events of the last 20 years as special correspondent and he has been
in many war areas: Kosovo, Afghanistan, Middle East, Egypt, Libya, Iraq, Lebanon,
Angola and South Sudan.
Monia Lippi
To commission her or to request prints of her work: www.monialippi.com
Monia Lippi was born in Italy near Bologna. In the From her formal education in Interior
Design in Milan, she arrived to photography and video through different experiences in
Italy, Paris and then in New York from 2005. She was has always been interested to the
versatility of the U.S. American landscapes and cityscapes and their cultural identities
and how different life-styles reflect themselves in architecture. Exploring different
environments she did personal projects and in 2015 she did new works also in Vietnam.
This October ’16, she will exhibit at the Berlin Foto Biennale, 4th Biennial of Fine Art &
Documentary Photography.
twenty trips to 21 Mediterranean countries over four years of time. Published in 2014 by Hannibal Publishers (Belgium), this
series juxtaposes parallel realities and paradoxes of the Mediterranean region, focusing on various contemporary issues
such as mass-tourism, urbanization, migration, conflict and crisis. Mediterranean. The Continuity of Man was launched at
the Museum of Photography (FoMu) in Antwerp in 2014.
Hannes is currently working on a new project about consumerism, recreation and artificial urban development in Dubai.
Hannes exhibited at Thessaloniki Biennial for Contemporary Art, Museum of Photography (Antwerp), Bozar Centre for Fine
Arts (Brussels), Flanders Center (Osaka, Japan), Breda Photo (Breda, NL), Visa pour l’Image (Perpignan), Kaunas Photo
(Lithuania), Foto Festiwal Lodz (Poland), PhotoMed (Sanary-sur-Mer, France), Head On (Sydney), Athens Photo Festival,
Centro Andaluz de la Fotografia (Almeria) amongst others.
He was a finalist for the Grand Prix Fotofestiwal Lodz (2016), EI Award at Encontros da Imagem in Braga, Portugal (2015),
Leica Oskar Barnack Awards (2014), Lens Culture Exposure Award (2013).
Since 2008 he has taught documentary photography at KASK/The School of Arts in Ghent (B).
Mikel Landa is a Ph.D. architect specialised in wooden heritage preservation. For more
than two decades he has carried out a balanced mix of research, teaching and heritage
preservation projects. Research carried out in wood repair and reinforcement techniques
have allowed him to carry out surgical interventions in a number of heritage sites.
His interest in photography began in the early eighties mainly focusing on architecture
and cultural landscapes, he uses it as a tool to communicate and has published a number
of books.
For fourteen years he led the recovery of Añana Salt Valley. The work in this exceptional
site is in the origin of this book. As a consequence of his intervention he was invited to
participate in the “Meeting on the 20th Anniversary of the Nara Document on Authenticity”
held in Nara, Japan, where he presented the conservation theory behind the recovery of
the site. The conservation works have been recognised with the Europa Nostra awards
2015.
His teaching in several Universities, in Spain and abroad has been constant since 1991,
including the ICCROM wood course (ICWCT) in Oslo. He is member of several
associations devoted to heritage preservation such as ICOMOS and its International
Wood Council.
Georgio Taraschi
To commission him or to request prints of his work: giorgiotaraschi.photoshelter.com
Italy, 1986. Visual Journalist based in Bangkok, Thailand.
Editorial Clients: International New York Times - The Guardian - Al Jazeera English -
Internazionale - Courrier International - Geo Voyage - Asian Geographic - South East Asia
Globe - South China Morning Post - GUP Magazine - Zazpika - MO* Mondiaal Nieuws - The
Nepali Times - Gioia Magazine
Corporate Clients: Ray-Ban - Luxottica - International Labour Organization (ILO) - The
Rockefeller Foundation - Plan International - Accademia Italiana Fashion & Design Institute
Awards & Exhibitions:
1ST PRIZE DOCUMENTARY - PRIDE PHOTO AWARD 2014
SILVER MEDAL DOCUMENTARY - PX3, PRIX DE LA PHOTOGRAPHIE PARIS 2014
SILVER MEDAL FASHION PHOTOJOURNALISM - PX3, PRIX DE LA PHOTOGRAPHIE 2014
HONORABLE MENTION - PX3, PRIX DE LA PHOTOGRAPHIE PARIS 2014
ISTANBUL PHOTO FESTIVAL, ISTANBUL 2014
PRIDE PHOTO AWARD, OLD CHURCH, AMSTERDAM 2014
ROOFTOP GALLERY BY HOSSEIN FARMANI, BANGKOK 2014
ANGEL ORENSANZ FOUNDATION FOR CONTEMPORARY ART, NEW YORK 2013
nominated for the Silver Camera Portrait Prize. Her work has been published in many magazines and newspapers including
Vrij Nederland, de Volkskrant, Het Parool, NRC Weekblad, GUP, Photographer’s Forum, Credits, ELLE, Marie Claire, LINDA,
and many different international magazines. In 2013, she published her photo book 'Mandy and Eva', designed by prize-
winning designer Sybren Kuiper (SYB).
Willeke Duijvekam is represented by Unit CMA < www.unit.nl >.
late sixties, and his work has been shown in galleries, such as the ICA, The Barbican, The Serpentine, and The
Photographers' Gallery, National Museum of Photography Film & Television, Bradford. In 1976, Sir Nicholas Serota (when he
was director there,) invited Summerfield to exhibit Beneath The Dreaming Spires at the Museum of Modern Art, Oxford, his
first one-man show.
Mountain blog and will be in a forthcoming Grit magazine special feature issue.
He is currently living in Mount Airy, a town nestled in the foothills of the Blue Ridge mountains of North Carolina, and is
learning about and photographing the people and the beautiful countryside of Appalachia.
portraiture of the people of Asia, with portraits of the people of Bhutan, Tibet, Nepal, India, Cambodia, Indonesia, Thailand
and Myanmar.For more information concerning my photography books please follow the link below:
http://www.amazon.com/-/e/B0054G0UKK
