The magazine of the photo-essay
Sept 2016 back issue
Carolina Sandretto
To commission her or to request prints of her work: www.carolinasandretto.com
Carolina Sandretto is an Italian photographer based in New York City. With a
background in both non-profit organizations management and documentary
photography, Sandretto uses the photographic medium to foster social change.
Working primarily with disadvantaged groups in Mexico and Cuba, her work seeks to
increase awareness and inspire activism. Sandretto graduated from the Catholic
University of Milan in Political Sciences in 2006. In 2011, she obtained an MA in
Management of the No Profit at Bocconi University, and in 2013 she completed the
program in Photojournalism and Documentary Photography at ICP- International
Center for Photography in New York City. She was selected for the XVIII Eddie Adams
Workshop in 2015. Her past exhibitions include: “The View from here” Group show
ICP- International Center of Photography June- July 2013 New York City NY, USA.
ICP representative at Photoville exhibition July- August 2013 New York City NY, USA.
“Fiesta Mexicana” Solo show at Galleria Fotografica – Tulum, Mexico December 2013-
March 2014 “Anthropological landscapes” Group show at Gallery Antonio Ricci -
Carrara, Italy September 13th 2014 – November 2014 “Anthropological landscapes”
Paula Bronstein
To commission her or to request prints of her work: www.paulaphoto.com
Paula Bronstein is a freelance photographer represented by Reportage / Getty Images.
She is based in Bangkok, Thailand. Her work reflects the eye of a dedicated
humanitarian and conflict photojournalist. With over thirty years of experience in the
news business, Paula worked as staff for a variety of US newspapers starting at The
New Haven Register in New Haven, Ct. to The Hartford Courant followed by The
Chicago Tribune before moving overseas. She then went onto working for Getty
Images as a staff photographer from 2002-2013 covering news stories in the Asian
region. Paula’s images have been published in almost every globally recognized
publication. She continues to photograph presidents and kings, natural disasters,
political turmoil and conflict, and always the most impoverished and vulnerable people
on this earth, from Mongolia to Afghanistan and Africa
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.
Harvey Stein
To commission him or to request prints of his work: www.harveysteinphoto.com
Harvey Stein is a professional photographer, teacher, lecturer, author and curator
based in New York City. He currently teaches at the International Center of
Photography. Stein is a frequent lecturer on photography both in the United States and
abroad. He is the Director of Photography at Umbrella Arts Gallery, located in the East
Village of Manhattan. He has also been a member of the faculty of the School of Visual
Arts, New School University, Drew University, Rochester Institute of Technology and
the University of Bridgeport. A recipient of a Creative Arts Public Service (CAPS)
fellowship and numerous artist in residency grants, Stein’s seventh and latest book,
Briefly Seen New York Street Life, was published in the fall of 2015. Other books of
Stein’s photographs are Parallels: A Look at Twins, E.P. Dutton (1978); Artists
Observed, Harry Abrams, Inc. (1986); Coney Island, W.W. Norton, Inc. (1998);
Movimento: Glimpses of Italian Street Life, Gangemi Editore, Rome (2006); Coney
Island 40 Years Schiffer Publishing, (2011) and Harlem Street Portraits Schiffer
Publishing (2013). Stein’s photographs and portfolios have been published in such
periodicals as The New Yorker, Time, Life, Esquire, American Heritage, Smithsonian,
Yusuke Suzuki
To commission him or to request prints of his work: www.archive.uskphoto.com/
Yusuke Suzuki is an award-winning New York based freelance photographer, originally
born and raised in Chiba, Japan.
He studied the guitar when he was in Japan, but once he went to the Philippines on his
summer break with his friends and witnessed the tragic situation of the lifestyle there,
he started to reassess his own life.
In 2006, curiosity set off to Afghanistan to see what was going on that side of the world.
During his first stay, he met photographers and journalists that ended up changing his
life. As he witnessed their photographs, he was so staggered that he bought his first
camera as soon as he returned from his trip. Later on, he would return to Afghanistan
twice more to take more photographs.
He realized that photography has the power to make change, so he decided to study
Journalism more seriously, and to move to the United States. He made the change of
switching what he holds in his hands from a guitar to a camera.
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Stephen Fry. British actor, writer and film & documentary maker
Andrea Taurisano
To commission him or to request prints of his work: www.ilcimento.com
Andrea Taurisano is an Italian photographer and geologist based in Norway. During the
last 15 years he has traveled and photographed extensively in both polar regions and
Greenland with focus quickly shifting from the natural to the human landscape. More
recently he has been on numerous photography trips trips to Japan, Russia including
Siberia, as well as Iran and Afghanistan, where he carried out documentary projects
while working as a landslide specialist in the Hindu Kush. When not carrying out
reportage work, his personal photography is often contrasty, blurry, grainy, gritty,
entirely analogic, making large use of toy cameras and pinhole cameras to convey
states of mind and moods, more than facts. His work is displayed through his blog
www.ilcimento.com, in a series of self-published books which can be accessed from
the blog, and occasionally in galleries.
Lloyd Wolf
To commission him or to request prints of his work: www.lloydwolf.com
Lloyd Wolf is an award-winning photographer and educator whose work has been in
over 100 exhibitions and is collected in numerous museums and private collections.
Mr. Wolf has done assignments for The Washington Post Magazine, National
Geographic Explorer, People, AFl-CIO, and Vogue. He received a National
Endowment for the Arts grant in 1980 to document Arlington, VA. Current projects
include "Washington's Other Monuments,” on street shrines to violence victims,
“Jerusalem Stories” on the lives of ordinary Jewish and Palestinian citizens of the holy
city, and “Ot Azoy” covering klezmer musicians. His books include “Jewish Mothers:
Strength Wisdom Compassion,” “Jewish Fathers: A Legacy of Love,” “Facing the Wall.
Americans at the Vietnam Memorial,” and “Living Diversity: The Columbia Pike
Documentary Project.” He has taught at Shepherd College, George Mason University,
and to homeless and immigrant youth.
Lopamudra Talukdar
To commission her or to request prints of her work: www.lopamudratalukdar.com
Lopamudra has been fascinated by the world of photography ever since she was a child
but never thought of taking it up seriously until she was gifted a Canon 5D Mark II in
2010. It changed the world around her. She started looking at the world through a
different set of eyes and with accolades and exhibition opportunities coming her way
from far and wide, it also changed how the world looked at her. Lopamudra is still trying
out different genres of photography but by her own admission a mix of street and travel
photography fascinates her the most, especially because of the challenges and
uniqueness it provides. It also helps that she is a mini globe trotter of sorts, travelling
from Serengeti to Slovenia and bringing back some enchanting images in the process.
She is particularly captivated by the diversity of Indian culture and how different it can
be from Kashmir to Kanyakumari! Her photographs have been accepted and exhibited
by International Salons. She has been awarded the honour of AFIAP by the Federation
Internationale de l'Art Photographique. Her works have also been published in numerous
Travel magazines.
Dale O’Dell
To commission him or to request prints of his work: www.dalephoto.com
Dale lives in Prescott, Arizona and is a professional photographer and digital artist.
He studied photography and philosophy at Sam Houston State University in Huntsville,
Texas and was granted a Photography Degree in 1982. Since 1979 he has exhibited
in over one-hundred group and solo shows, his works have been published
internationally and he’s written for most of the leading photographic magazines and
journals. He is a consummate experimenter and innovator and works with diverse
subjects in a variety of styles. Dale was an early-adopter of digital imaging and
created the very first wholly computer-generated image used in advertising in 1983.
He has published fifteen art books and is currently hard at work on number sixteen.
Dale has been creating inventive photographs and digital art for over thirty-five years.
Langdon Clay
To commission him or to request prints of his work: www.langdonclay.com
Langdon Clay was born in the middle of a hurricane in New York City in 1949. He grew
up in New Jersey and Vermont and went to school in New Hampshire and Boston. He
got his first camera on St. Patrick's day 1968. His first roll of film was of Grand Marshall
Robert Kennedy leading the parade in New York. Three months later the presidential
candidate was assassinated.
Clay moved to New York in 1971 and spent the next 16 years photographing there and
around the country and in Europe for shelter magazines and books like JEFFERSON'S
MONTICELLO by Howard Adams and MY CHATEAU KITCHEN by Anne Willen. In
1987 he moved to Mississippi and has worked from there with his wife photographer
Maude Schuyler Clay. They have three children; Anna, Schuyler, and Sophie.
Brian Hodges
To commission him or to request prints of his work: www.brianhodgesphoto.com
A seasoned collaborator and worldwide traveller, Brian Hodges is a travel and editorial
photographer known for capturing authentic moments and images with a powerful
connection to place. Brian believes that great photography is not just about captivating
images, but creating images with lasting emotional impact.
In love with travel and the lure of the road, he has followed the winds of adventure
around the globe and across 60 countries. He speaks English, French, and Spanish
fluently.
Before picking up a camera, Brian focused his creative energy on designing satellite
telecommunications systems. He spent a decade living and working as a software
engineer in Paris where, among other projects, he played a key role engineering the
XM/Sirius radio prototype system.
His award-winning work is featured in such distinguished publications as Conde Nast
Traveler, Photo District News, National Geographic Traveler, GEO Magazine, and
Charlie Hatch-Barnwell
To commission him or to request prints of his work: www.hatchbarnwell.com
Charlie Hatch-Barnwell is a photojournalist. He was one of the Winners of the
prestigious 2014 Moscow Photo Awards (Portrait Category) and has been shortlisted
twice for the Travel Photographer of the Year Award. He has also received an
honourable mention by the Royal Photographic Society’s annual photo competition.
More work can be found on Instagram: @hatchbarnwell
Co-authors of the book:
Chloe Baker is an anesthetist working in critical care and emergency medicine.
She has previously published research conducted in Tanzania, Sierra Leone and Togo,
and recently received the Ebola Medal for Service in West Africa.
Mike Martin is a former British Army officer who has worked in Afghanistan, Somalia
and Myanmar. His previous books include An Intimate War, and he holds a PhD in war
studies from King’s College London.
Wolfgang Muller
To commission him or to request prints of his work: www.wmueller-photography.de
Wolfgang Müller found his access to photography whilst travelling. Studying
photography at the Dortmund University of Applied Sciences in the class of Arno
Fischer, he turned to the countries of the former Soviet Union as the focus of his work.
For his graduate project, he spent totally ten month, up to the year 2002,
photographing Karat. Sky over St. Petersburg. Published as a photo book, his series
of photographs about kids between homelessness, drug use and prostitution was
shown in museums and galleries in Germany, France, Georgia, Great Britain, Italy,
Korea, Portugal, Russia, Syria and the US. Supported by several promotion prizes he
was able to finish further photography projects. Actually Wolfgang Müller is living in
Berlin and the focus of his work had turned to China. His long time project about
Chinese migrant workers has been published as a photo book, Mingong. The Pursuit
of Happiness.
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
Syd Shelton
To commission him or to request prints of his work: www.sydshelton.net
Syd Shelton (born Pontefract, Yorkshire 1947) is a British photographer and graphic
designer. He has worked in Europe, Australia and the United States. He co-edited and
was art director of a series of photographic books: 24 Hours in Los Angeles (1984),
the award winning Day in the Life of London (1984) and Ireland: A Week in the Life of
a Nation (1986). His work was recently included in the exhibition Words, Sound and
Power: Reggae Changed My Life at The British Music Experience: Britain’s Museum
of Popular Music, O2 Arena, London (2012) and The Photographer’s Gallery exhibition
The World in London. His work is in the collections of the V&A Museum, The
Photographers Gallery, Erick Frank Fine Art and the Tate Gallery.
The New York Times, Reader’s Digest, Glamour, Forbes, Psychology Today, Playboy, Harpers, Connoisseur, Art News,
American Artist, New York, People, Der Spiegel, Die Zeit, The Hopkins Review (cover), Sun Magazine (cover) and all the
major photo magazines, including Camera Arts, Black & White Magazine (cover), Shutterbug, Popular Photography,
American Photo, Camera, Afterimage, PDN, Zoom, Rangefinder, Photo Metro, fotoMagazine (Germany), photo technique
and View Camera.
Stein’s photographs have been widely exhibited in the United States and Europe—81 one-person and over 160 group
shows to date. He has curated 43 exhibits since 2007. His photographs are in more than 57 permanent collections,
including the George Eastman House, Bibliotheque Nationale, the Art Institute of Chicago, the Museum of Fine Arts,
Houston, the Brooklyn Museum of Art, the New Orleans Museum of Art, the International Center of Photography, the
Denver Museum of Art, the Carnegie Museum of Art (Pittsburgh), the Portland (Oregon) Museum of Art, the Museum of the
City of New York, Museet for Fotokunst (Odense, Denmark), Musee De La Photographie (Charleroi, Belguim), the Portland
(Maine) Museum of Art, the Corcoran Gallery of Art, the American Museum of Natural History, the Santa Barbara Museum
of Art, the Addison Gallery of American Art, The New York Historical Society and Museum, and among others, the corporate
collections of Reader’s Digest, Johnson & Johnson, Hewlett Packard, LaSalle Bank (Chicago), Barclay Bank and Credit
Suisse.
His work is represented by the Bruce Silverstein Gallery, Throckmorton Fine Art and June Bateman Fine Art, New York City.
Stein’s work can be seen on his web site, www.harveysteinphoto.com.
He graduated from the New England School of Photography in 2011. He is trying to find the world and himself through the
lens… and of course still loves music.
His goal is to portrait the stories that should be told and should not be ignored by capture the moments and put subject’s
emotion into a single frame that can stop the time.
His works have been published on CNN, The Washington Post, Reuters, Al Jazeera, Boston Globe, ZEKE Magazine, MIPJ ,
NHK(Japan), Internazionale(Italy), Haaretz(Israel), Toronto Sun(Canada), Estadao(Brazil), Rianovosti(Russia), Hindustan
Times(India), Journalism(Japan), The Page(Japan), Metro Boston, Tu Boston, Salem Radio Network News, and El Planeta.
Group show at Whitebox Gallery – NYC New York May - June 2014 Soho Photo Gallery New York, Exhibition of the winners
of the National Photography Competition Juror Elisabeth Avedon “ Vivir Con…” Personal Show at Galleria Bianconi –
Milano September- November 2015.
many others. He regularly contributes his photographic talent to charitable organizations worldwide, leveraging the power of
imagery to increase awareness for their causes.
Hodges calls Australia and California home, but never gathers dust at either – when not taking pictures, you’ll likely find him
surfing, snowboarding, and practicing yoga.
For more information see www.threshedthought.com or follow him on Twitter: @ThreshedThought
Colin O’Brien
www.colinobrien.co.uk
1940 - 2016
Colin O'Brien's photographs of working class life in London in the 50s and 60s and
onwards are reminiscent of the early photojournalist approach published by magazines
such as 'Picture Post'. For O'Brien the street becomes his stage and the passing
scene is compared to scenes in a play where people talk, dance, mime and perform
to an unseen audience.
For a previous exhibition, Art Critic, Joanna Pitman wrote in the Times newspaper that
“the photographs possessed eloquence, grace, drama and visual wit”, saying that “the
photographer had a remarkable eye for the world around him”, comparing his work
with Roger Mayne, Bill Brandt, Cartier-Bresson and Thurston Hopkins. Pitman went on
to say that “O'Brien's work is structured with a classical sense of composition and a
powerful implied narrative, neatly resolved”.
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
Garry Loughlin
To commission him or to request prints of his work: www.garryloughlin.com
Garry Loughlin (b.1980) is an Irish photographer based in Belgium.
He studied photography at Dun Laoighaire IADT and graduated with a BA in 2007.
After graduating Garry's professional practice focused mainly in architectural and
interior photography. In 2012 he began to focus on the development of his own
documentary and editorial practice. Since then Garry has exhibited in group shows
throughout Europe and in 2013 had his first solo exhibition with A Farewell to Arms.
Between Spaces, released at the end of 2014, is Garry's first publication. In 2015 he
was the commissioned photographer for CityBooks Antwerp. He currently works on
assignments between Belgium and Ireland. He also has work in the Irish State
collection.
Fabien Dupoux
To commission him or to request prints of his work: www.fabiendupoux.com
Fabien Dupoux is an emerging artist who in 2013 decided to resign from his work as a
teacher in order to devote himself to photography. Grandson of peasants and the son of
an Industrial Mechanic, his work reflects the admiration that he has for these difficult
environments. In his subjects, he seeks to capture, "our overwork and our bondage
within a world of work in opposition with nature". Fascinated by the journey and
endowed with a rare curiosity he remains in perpetual movement with the sole objective:
photographing man as an animal in his natural environment.
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