The magazine of the photo-essay
October 2020 back issue
“A free, really high quality photo-essay magazine. Fabulous!”
Stephen Fry. British actor, writer and film maker
Damian Bird
To commission him or to request prints of his work: damianbirdphotography.com
Damian Bird (born London, 1972) is a photographer, photojournalist and lecturer
with many years of experience, working in war zones and trouble spots around the
globe.
He was educated at Canford School and 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 18
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. His first book Seabird was released in November 2017 his latest book is
due to be release at the end of 2019.
Don McCullin
To commission him or to request prints of his work: www.donmccullin.com
Sir Don McCullin was born in 1935 and grew up in a deprived area of north London.
He got his first break when a newspaper published his photograph of friends who
were in a local gang. From the 1960s he forged a career as probably the UK’s
foremost war photographer, primarily working for the Sunday Times Magazine.
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, Daily Mail, Dazed & Confused, The Face, Country Life, Coast and
Geographical magazine. He lives in Devon, England with his wife, four children and
his dachshunds, Jessie, Rosie and Ted.
Erberto Zani
To commission him or to request prints of his work: www.erbertozani.com
Erberto Zani is a freelance photographer, journalist and photo books designer, based
between Parma, in Italy, and Basel, in Switzerland.
He worked as photographer in advertisement sector (1998-2004) and as journalist
for the newspaper Gazzetta di Parma (2004-2007).
Freelance since 2008, most of his works are focused on documentary-humanitarian
themes.
He cooperates with companies, magazines and humanitarian organizations, for
photographs and editorial projects. Available
for assignments internationally.
James Hill
To commission him or to request prints of his work: www.mjrhill.com
After studies at Oriel College, Oxford and the London College of Printing, James Hill began his career as a photographer in
the Soviet Union in 1991. Four years later, he went on contract with The NewYork Times and,for the next decade, was
dispatched to cover the world’s conflict zones, principally across the Middle East and Afghanistan. Based in Moscow since
2003, he has focused in recent years on books and project work, as well as continuing to travel the world for the
newspaper. His work has won many of photography’s most important prizes, including World Press Photo, the Pulitzer
Prize, and the Visa d’Or at Perpignan’s Visa Pour l’Image. His last book, Somewhere between War and Peace, was published
by Kehrer Verlag in 2014.
Maxim Dondyuk
To commission him or to request prints of his work: www.maximdondyuk.com
Maxim Dondyuk (1983) is a research-based artist working with photography, text,
video and sound.
His first projects were made out of a long-term immersion into the social and
historical reality of his country. Among the issues Maxim raised were the problem of
tuberculosis in Ukraine; the military upbringing of children in the secret camp in the
Crimea Mountains; the Ukrainian revolution. The project “Culture of Confrontation”
became a turning point in Maxim’s artistic work. He moved away from classical
documentary narrative form and rather plunged into emotions, reflection, and
more universal terms. The subsequent projects become the author’s experimentation
with themes, meanings and forms.
Sirsendu Gayen
To commission him or to request prints of his work: sgayensrci@gmail.com
Sirsendu Gayen, an Assistant Professor in Chemistry at Vivekananda College
Kolkata, is a passionate amateur photographer since 2006. Photography is his way
of feeling, touching and sharing the freedom that he sees through the lens. He
enjoys shooting different subjects with specific interest in travel, architecture, Nature,
fine art and people to capture the spirit of Mother India.
This passion led him to achieve many national and international awards and more
than 400 of his photographs have been exhibited in various national and
international exhibitions.
Paul Trevor
To commission him or to request prints of his work: www.paultrevor.com
Since picking up the camera at the age of 25, Paul Trevor's photographs have been
widely published in books, magazines, films and tv. A storyteller at heart, photography
offered tools which he embraced with enthusiasm.
Abandoning his job as an accountant, he applied to picture-making the rapid hand-
eye coordination he acquired as a teenage table tennis ace. His work was motivated
by a keen social impulse, and first exhibited internationally in 1978.
Eager to collaborate with others, in 1973 he co-founded the Exit Photography Group whose joint projects over a decade
produced two documentary books and various exhibitions.
In 1975 he helped set up the Half Moon Photography Workshop, an arts centre in London's East End where photography
could be produced, exhibited, published and debated. He co-edited its influential Camerawork magazine 1976-80.
These collaborative projects compensated for his lack of formal photographic education. Today his work is in public and
private collections around the world.
Sandipan Mukherjee
To commission her or to request prints of her work: email
Professionally I am a Mechanical Engineer but by passion, an Amateur
Photographer. Arts and creativity have always been a priority for me and my dream is
to become a professional photographer.
I prefer to work on social issues, Street, photojournalism and documentation. I would
like to focus on the effect on sociology and human life of various environmental,
political & social issues. I always try to capture the psychology of human life under
different social and environmental factors.
In 2017 he worked on a project “Inter Vitam et Mortem”, which tells the horror of war through destroyed and forgotten
places, previously been bloody battlefields, through traces of hundreds of bullet holes in houses. The scars on buildings
and fields are the scars in human souls, who have ever witnessed the war.
Starting from 2016 Maxim works on a long-term photographic research project “Untitled Project”, where he starts
combining his photographs with archival materials found in the Chernobyl restricted areas. Working as a photographer and
some kind of an archeologist, Maxim puts together the images of Past and Present. Landscapes of the territories
devastated by nuclear energy, intertwined with the found films and photographs, which show people, who inhabited these
territories, in their everyday life.
In 2019 appeared an abstract series “Apeiron”. In this work, Maxim plays with his own and viewers’ imagination. He
proposes to go beyond direct contemplation and to challenge one’s perceptions and assumptions, while looking on images
on the films which, after staying for more than 30 years in the Chernobyl restricted zone, lost their former meaning.
Maxim has been widely awarded and nominated for numerous international recognitions including International
Photographer of the Year in Lucie Awards, finalist of the Prix Pictet Photography Prize, a Magnum Photos competition ‘30
under 30’ for emerging documentary photographers, finalist of the W. Eugene Smith Grant in Humanistic Photography. His
works have been exhibited internationally, at the Musée d’Art Moderne in Paris, Somerset House in London, MAXXI National
Museum of XXI Century Arts in Rome, International Red Cross and Red Crescent Museum in Geneva, the Biennale of
Photography in Bogota in Colombia, among others. He also was awarded an artist residency Cité Internationale des Arts in
Paris. Maxim’s works are held in private and museum collections, including the National Museum of Photography in
Colombia, the Benaki Museum in Greece, the National Museum of The History of Ukraine in WWII.
