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September 2013 issue
Dean Freeman To commission Dean or to request prints of his work: www.deanfreeman.com Dean Freeman is an international icon maker whose idiosyncratic mixture of striking, sophisticated portraiture and acerbic observation of the human nature has earned him the status of one of the preeminent contemporary photographers. He began capturing images at the tender age of 5 when his father, Robert Freeman, gave him his first camera. It was this moment that ignited Dean's passion for photography! Dean has an inate talent for capturing the candidness of each of his subjects, always bringing a positive outlook to the people and situations that he shoots. Dean Freeman compels us to look at his images, stimulates the senses and
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Pavel Bendov To commission Pavel or to request prints of his work: www.pavelbendov.com Pavel Bendov is a New York based photographer.  He grew up in Belarus and moved to the United States in 2010.  He specialises in architecture, landscape, still life and product photography.  Founder of New York Explorer instagram blog (@newyorkexplorer).
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Yurko Dyachyshyn To commission Yurko or to request prints of his work: www.dyachyshyn.com Born in 1980, Lviv, Ukraine. Took up photography in 2002. 2004-2007 – photographer for the “Expres” newspaper (Lviv).   Since 2007 – freelancer photographer. 2009 – start works with Agence France-Presse (AFP). Works as e photographer for Ukrainian and international press, also advertising and PR photography. Privately, he works on long-term documentary and art photographic projects. Lives and works in Lviv, Ukraine
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Filippo Zambon To commission Filippo or to request prints of his work: www.filippozambon.com Filippo Zambon was born in Florence in 1981. He studied Art History at the University of Florence. From 2006 lives and works in Helsinki. In 2007 was admitted to the Finnish Academy of Fine Arts where he received a Bachelor of Fine Arts (2011) and a Master of Fine Arts (2013). During the last years his works have been exhibited in galleries and museums around Europe. In 2008 his project "Lorenzo's mission" was exhibited in the Art Museum Vaprikki in Tampere during the triennial of photography "Backlight 2008". In 2009 his work "Whatever you love, you are" was selected for the Helsinki Biennale of Photography in Helsinki. For the project he created an itinerant photo studio that was settled in one of the squares of the city. In 2010 was selected between the best 10 young photographers in Finland during the "EMMA prize", the work was exhibited in the Emma Modern Art Museum of Espoo (FI) and his work was selected from the visitors of the museum as the best in show. In 2011 he founded together with other 6 artists the photographic group "Kollektive",
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David James Born in Birmingham, England, David James moved to a village in Hertfordshire, north of London, aged 4. An MGM film crew were shooting outside the village school and David (age 9) knew at that moment that he wanted to be a photographer in the film industry.  At age 16 he joined the Stills Department at MGM Studios (UK) working in the lab as an assistant to many different photographers. The head portrait photographer, Dave Boulton, became his mentor and arranged for David to go out to Israel/Cyprus as a printer on Preminger directed Exodus. This lead to other  jobs and once again it was his mentor, Dave Boulton ,who gave him his break into shooting stills by getting him his first set job, on a Ken Annakin comedy. More films followed quickly including Bunny Lake Is Missing, reuniting David with director Otto Preminger….of whom he was initially terrified; the unit publicist sent the first set of David's stills to Preminger and the director  promptly tore them up. A friend of Preminger's on the set persuaded David to resubmit the same photos in
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Balarka Brahma  To commission Balarka or to request prints of his work: www.balarkabrahma.wix.com Balarka is a freelance documentary photographer from Kolkata, India. He has been doing photography since 2010. Initially he started with every genre of photography, but from 2012 he permanently shifted to documentary photography and photojournalism. Since then he has concentrated on social and thematic stories. He has always had a strong fascination with visual story-telling and its power in shaping our collective consciousness. His works have been published in different national and international magazines including Lonely Planet, National Geographic, Vogue, Invisible Photographers Asia, Photographic Museum of Humanity, IIT Hyderabad, Epson FotoFlock, United Nation Asia Pacific, 121Clicks, Fotoritim etc.
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Maciej Grzybowski  To commission Maciej or to request prints of his work: www.maciejgrzybowski.com Born in 1980. Cinematographer, photographer. Graduated from Wojciech Gerson profiled High School of Fine Art in Warsaw and the Leon Schiller National Film School in Lodz, Cinematography and Television Production Department.
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Dan Balilty To commission Dan or to request prints of his work: www.danbalilty.com Born in Jerusalem 1979. Dan began his professional photographic career in 1999 working as a photographer for the photo agency Zoom 77 in Jerusalem. Two year later he became a photographer for the leading Israeli daily newspaper Yediot Aharonot. In 2005, Dan began working as a freelance photographer for various agencies such as Reuters, Associated Press and Agence France-Presse. Later that year He moved to London and began working for The Independent. In 2007 Dan moved back to Israel and began working for the Associated Press, where he still works today. His work has been featured in various well-known publications around the world such as Time, Newsweek and The New York Times.
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provokes thought. He draws us into the world of his subjects, revealing it in all its weird and wonderful glory, celebrating human life in all its diversity, its frailty and grit, its starkness and splendour. Having shot an array of well known faces for various books, it was his own book, Funkytown, published to great acclaim in 2007 that cemented his place as one of the 21st century's iconic photographers. His work has been exhibited internationally and acquired by private collectors around the world. His advertising portfolio is equally impressive and includes worldwide campaigns for clients like Coca Cola, American Express, Specsavers and TV commercials for Lenor, Nivea and Bodyform. Whether he hangs out with George Michael or Katy Perry, chronicles the tango scene in Buenos Aires, or the youth culture of Brazil and India, Dean always captures a sense of intimacy and candidness that compels us to look at his images and films, stimulates the senses and provokes thought.
Dean Freeman & MIchael Buble
Michael Kamber To commission Michael or to request prints of his work: www.kamberphoto.com Michael Kamber is the author of Photojournalists on War: The Untold Stories from Iraq. He was the Times' principal photographer in Baghdad in 2007, the bloodiest year of the war. He has covered a dozen conflicts for the Times over the past decade, including Somalia, Afghanistan, Congo, and Liberia. Kamber is an adjunct professor at Columbia University, and also teaches at the Corcoran College of Art and Design, and the International Center of Photography. He is the founder of the Bronx Documentary Center (www.bronxdoc.org) and is the recipient of a World Press Photo and many other awards.
Max Aguilera-Hellweg To commission Max or to request prints of his work: www.maxaguilerahellweg.com One day, playing hooky from school, digging through my parents closet for candy money I found my father’s photo albums from the war.  He’d been an aerial photographer in the Pacific, he’d told us that, but he’d never showed us the pictures – bombs exploding, planes all smashed up, and a variety of naked women and evil looking Japanese painted on the shiny aluminum body of the planes my dad flew in.  I was mesmerized and hungry to see more.  There was nothing like this on the TV and they sure didn’t show us any pictures like this in the books they were teaching from in the third grade.  Not much of a reader, I started going to the library and found books with photographs about the civil war, World War I, and 1920s and 30s – pictures of the Hindenburg crash, prohibition, the Lindberg kidnapping, the dust bowl, and pictures of gangsters.  I began to take all the family snapshots and when I was in the sixth grade with my newspaper route money, I bought a
during 2011 and 2012 the group had several shows around Europe and won the prize "Best in show" at the Photokina exhibition in Koln, Germany. In 2012 the group was also invited to create an exhibition in the Photography Museum in Helsinki. In 2012 his work "Secret Rooms" was selected for the exhibition "New Nordic photography 2012" by the Hasselblad Foundation in Gothenburg. The foundation purchased the work that was then exhibited again in 2013 in the exhibition "Still life/work life" in the Gothenburg Art Museum together with artist such as William Egglestone and Irving Penn. In 2013 was selected and participated also in the exhibition "Portrait Now!" in the National History Museum in Copenhagen. At the moment he is working as a freelance photographer, member and curator for the film and media art festival "Lens Politica" and editor of the group "Libellula Project", a collective of professionals from different fields focused on works about social issues and human rights.
a much larger format, leading the director to put his arm around David and tell him, "these stills will be noticed….it is all about showmanship."  Since that moment David has chosen a limited collection of his personal stills  "Selects" on every project and always presents them in large format prints to the filmmakers. David went on to cover movies such as Women In Love, Fiddler on the Roof, his first war movie was as aerial stills photographer on Battle of Britain. The genres of Musicals and War are his favourites and also have resulted in some of his most well-known work including Dogs of War, Saving Private Ryan, Schindler's List, and the TV mini-series Band of Brothers and The Pacific. Saving Private Ryan was an opportunity for David to honour the work of his "hero", Robert Capa and to virtually become a war photographer..without risking his life. The latter 4 films form part of his 10 collaborations with Steven Spielberg that began with Schindler's List and continues later this year with Spielberg's next project Lincoln. Musicals include Jesus Christ Superstar, Chicago, Shall We Dance, Hairspray and Nine, Dreamgirls in which he had his one and only credited acting role as a photographer in Rock of Ages teaming him up again with Tom Cruise. Most of the films that David worked on in the UK were American productions, and when the British industry contracted and diminished in the 1980s, he decided to relocate with his wife and 2 daughters, to Southern California.  Before leaving the UK David had an assignment for Special Photography on Ridley Scotts Legend, his first opportunity to work with Tom Cruise. Since moving Stateside, David has worked with Tom on 6 films including  MI-Ghost Protocol. Moving to USA also coincided with huge changes in still photography and he enthusiastically embraced the challenges of digital photography while continuing to study the ever evolving and exciting world of movie stills. David has covered many TV mini-series and TV movies, also for the past 2 years has had the privilege of shooting the Academy Awards behind the scenes, with exclusive access to the green room. There are more than a dozen books that feature David's stills photography starting with Jesus Christ Superstar, including Memoirs of a Geisha, Last Samurai, Superman Returns and the most recent- also the one of which he is most proud - the book that he both wrote and photographed for Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull.David's work has featured in several international exhibitions and he has won many awards and accolades, including the 2006 ICG/Publicists Guild Award for Excellence in Still Photography and the SOC Lifetime Achievement Award. His stills have been published in magazines and newspapers around the globe and are included in the archives of the Academy's Margaret Herrick Library, and the Professional Photographers of America.  A source of great pride is that both his daughters have followed him and pursued careers in the film industry. (Deya is a senior publicist at Warner Bros, Chia works for the SVP of Physical Production at Paramount) both have worked with and on projects involving their father as the stills photographer. David's other enduring passion, apart from his family and photography, is fly-fishing; perhaps 2012 will bring the trifecta of a fishing trip with his family and his beloved Leica camera.
Damian Bird To commission Damian 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 ten years, Alice.  As well as Editing Life Force magazine, he is currently engaged in photographing a series of photo- essays on English culture and is also preparing to return imminently to Afghanistan in 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 three children in Devon, England.
developing kit from the back page from one of my comic books and began to develop film in the bathroom.  When I was a junior in high school, I took photography and got an ‘A’ on my first assignment and decided that’s what I was gonna do.  Our teacher, Mr. Odier, didn’t let us use our cameras or go into the darkroom for the first ten weeks, it was frustrating.  He talked about color and composition and we had to go to a museum– on our own– once every week, and tell him what we saw.  I’d never been to a museum before, it was 1970, and photography was going through a boom, there was a lot to see and discover.  Ten weeks passed, we got to use our cameras, and Mr. Odier started teaching us photography proper.  But somewhere deep inside I understood, Mr. Odier wasn’t so much interested in teaching us photography, what he really wanted to do, was to teach us, expose us, to life.
He is currently working on a long term social documentary project on Indian education where he is showcasing various problems being faced by different segments of people in Indian societies regarding education. The first and second part has been completed. The third part is underway now.  Different Kolkata based non profit organizations are involved with this project, like Jagaran, We Help Others, Parents Own Clinic, and Institute of Social Work etc.
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