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Sept 2014 back issue
Tom Stoddart
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Tom Stoddart began his photographic career with a provincial newspaper in his native
North East of England. In 1978 he moved to London and, working freelance, started to
regularly supply national newspapers and magazines.
During the eighties he worked extensively for the Sunday Times newspaper. During 1982 he
was in Beirut when the Israeli forces bombed Yasser Arafat’s besieged PLO base. Later,
Tom was aboard the Greenpeace boat ‘Rainbow Warrior’ where he shot a widely published
story about the environmentalists efforts to stop the Canadian cull of baby Seals in the Gulf
of St Lawrence. In 1987, he was back in Beirut shooting a world exclusive on the horrific
conditions inside the Palestinian camp of Borj el Barajneh, where Dr. Pauline Cutting was
trapped.
He also witnessed international events such as the fall of the Berlin Wall, the Romanian
Revolution and the massing of alliance troops in the Middle East for the Desert Storm
conflict with Iraq.
Tatiana Vinogradova
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Education
2013 - 2014 FotoDepartament Institute, the course of documentary
photography by Michael Domozhilov
2013 Workshop with Pieter ten Hoopen (VU)
2001 - 2006 St. Petersburg State University, faculty of Journalism
Awards
2013 Contour by Getty Images Portrait Prize / 1st Finalist
2013 PX3 / Honorable Mentions
Exhibitions
2013 Group Exhibition "Young Photography” / St. Petersburg, Russia
Publications
Gup Magazine / The New Times / Colta.ru / Urbanautica / SMBHmag
Catharina Clausen
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Catharina Clausen is a professional photographer with a background in natural sciences and
communication focussing on nature, conservation and cultural projects and events, especially
through photography, film and imaging.
She has studied Landscape Ecology, Coastal Zone-, Habitat and Wildlife Management, as
well Biological Photography and Imaging. Now being on the move for more than eight years
Catharina has lived in five European countries and travelled thousands of kilometers to
explore new places, most of them with her camping bus. She has recently spent extensive
time in the Northern Limestone Alps, Upper Bavaria and Tyrol to document the flora and
fauna of Alpine river habitats.
Her work has been featured in several national magazines and local publications, such as
German TV & Kameramann, filmecho, Green Magazine and WWF.
She also organizes film and photography events, exhibitions and gives lectures or
photography workshops and is currently resident close to Stuttgart.
Her pictures are a mixture of applied techniques, an artistic view and personal emotions with
a discreet approach: To capture and share a special moment which tells the story in itself
Behrouz Mehri
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Behrouz Mehri was born in Tehran in 1971. He has a B.A. in Photography, from the Faculty
of Fine Arts, Tehran University.
He worked as a photojournalist with Iranian newspapers since 1995 and then joined the
Agence France Presse in 1998 and covered conflicts and social issues in Iran, Afghanistan,
Iraq and Pakistan.
He has been featured in photography exhibitions in the U.S., Poland, Spain, Greece,
France, Cyprus and Tehran.
Mehri has won a 2010 Award of Excellence in the Pictures Of the Year International, the
2012 Hong Kong Human Rights Award, The 2011 China International Press Photo Contest
Gold Medal and the 2010 Sheed Award as best Iranian documentary photographer of the
year.
Andrew Birkin
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Andrew Birkin is an English writer and film director, as well as a keen photographer. After
working for Stanley Kubrick on 2001: A Space Odyssey and his aborted Napoleon, Birkin
conceived and wrote The Lost Boys for the BBC, an award-winning trilogy of films about
Peter Pan's creator J M Barrie, as well as a definitive biography.
In 1981 Birkin won the BAFTA short film award for writing and directing Sredni Vashtar, as
well as an Oscar nomination, and in 1993 he won the Silver Bear for Best Director at the
Berlin Festival for his film based on Ian McEwan's The Cement Garden, which starred his
niece Charlotte Gainsbourg.
Birkin has written numerous screenplays, including The Name of the Rose and Perfume:
the Story of a Murderer; his latest script, based on D B C Pierre's Vernon God Little, is
being directed by Werner Herzog in 2014.
John Horniblow
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John Horniblow is a filmmaker, writer and photographer currently living in Casablanca ,
Morocco. John's photography has been published with Time publications, Geo Mundo,
National Geographic, Penguin books and many other periodicals. He commenced his
photographic career as media and documentation officer on Expedition to Circumnavigate
South America including voyaging in Antarctica. He has worked on assignment for National
Geographic with leading wildlife photographer Franz Lanting and produced documentary
stories on a range of subjects. He is the Founder, Editor in Chief and publisher of
Photojournale. In 2010 he published Photojournale’s first book anthology “Photojournale –
Connections Across a Human Planet “, a virtual, web 2.0 global publishing collaboration
with Photojournale’s global community of photographers.
John also trained as a cinematographer and has shot, directed and produced award
winning short, television documentary and industrial films working with broadcasters such
as BBC, SBS, and ABC. His documentary and drama work has also been screened at
International film festivals and on network television.
In July 1991, Tom travelled to Sarajevo to document the civil war that was engulfing Yugoslavia. The work from Sarajevo was
published across the world. Returning a year later for The Sunday Times Magazine, Tom was seriously injured in heavy
fighting around the Bosnian Parliament buildings.
After a year of recovery, Tom threw himself back into photojournalism, producing a powerful feature on the aftermath of the
Mississippi floods and, later that year, an award-wining photo-essay on the harsh regime for the training of Chinese Olympic
Child Gymnasts.
In December 1993 Stoddart returned to Sarajevo to report on the hardship of life in the city during a freezing winter under
siege. This trip confirmed Tom’s fascination with a city that he was to return to on a dozen different occasions up until the
Dayton Peace Accord in 1995.
In 1997 Tony Blair gave Stoddart exclusive access for 3 months to document his election campaign as Labour swept to victory
after 18 years of Conservative government.
Stoddart's in-depth work on the terrible HIV/AIDS pandemic blighting sub-Saharan Africa has been exhibited and published
extensively and won the POY World Understanding Award in 2003. In the same year his documentation of British Royal
Marines in combat during the invasion of Iraq was awarded the Larry Burrows Award for Exceptional Photography by the
Eddie Adams Workshop. His retrospective outdoor exhibition, iWITNESS, was visited by 250,000 people and the
accompanying book was honoured as the best photography book published in 2004 by the POY judging panel.
During 2008 he was commissioned by COPA-COGECA in Brussels to document agriculture throughout all 27 countries of the
European Union. The exhibition of images from the assignment is currently touring Europe's capital cities.
Over the years Tom has worked closely with charities and NGO's such as Medecins Sans Frontieres, Oxfam, Christian Aid,
Care International and Sightsavers.
In 2012 his 'Perspectives' retrospective outdoor exhibition was displayed at London's South Bank during the Olympic Games
and attracted 225,000 visitors.
Now established as one of the world’s most respected photojournalists,Stoddart is represented by, and works closely with
Getty Images, to produce campaigning photographic projects on the serious world issues of our time.
Damian Bird
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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 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 three children in Devon, England.
A selection of Birkin’s photographs of his sister Jane and Serge Gainsbourg were published last year by Taschen in Jane &
Serge: A Family Album.
Birkin is currently working with his son Ned on a screenplay based on Frank Schätzing's The Swarm. He is married to painter
Karen Birkin and lives in North Wales with their two young children.
Martin Alan Smith
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I'm a Scottish photojournalist based in London currently reading towards an MA in
Documentary Photography and Photojournalism at the London College of Communication.
I have worked in the past as a freelance photographer and have had my work published in
Vogue UK, NME, The Scotsman, Scotland on Sunday & The Huffington Post amongst
others.
Alison Baskerville
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Alison Baskerville has worked as a professional photographer since 2010. After completing
a degree at the University of Westminster in Photojournalism she has worked as a
freelance documentary photographer, specialising in the impact of conflict on the lives of
both sides in conflicts around the world, including Afghanistan, Mali, Israel/Gaza and the
Philippines.
Her work has been published by the Times, The Guardian, Daily Telegraph, The Sunday
Mirror and BBC online Features. She has also completed commissions for Plan
International, Care International and the Royal British Legion. Her work has been exhibited
in the Oxo Gallery in London.
Prior to entering professional photography, Alison served with the Royal Air Force in various
war zones including Iraq and Afghanistan. This experience, along with 3 years serving as a reservist photographer with the
British Army, gives her a unique insight into the impact of modern conflict on both those in uniform as well as civilians.
Alison regularly speaks on her chosen subjects, appearing on BBC and Sky television as well as participating in seminars
such as panel debates at the Imperial War Museum and guest speaking at the Southbank centres Women of the World
Festival.
Danny Ghitis
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Danny Ghitis is a Brooklyn-based photographer freelancing for a variety of editorial and
commercial clients.
In 2010 he spent several months living in Oswiecim, Poland.
Sugato Mukherjee
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Sugato Mukherjee grew up in the transitional period of the nineties when the
multidimensional layers of India became more apparent than ever.
Based in Calcutta, he often takes off to lyrically document those visual textures, both on
and off the beaten tracks.
Sugato’s writings and photographs have appeared in a host of national and international
publications including The Globe and Mail, Al Jazeera, Roads & Kingdoms and Outlook
Traveller. A recipient of a number of photographic awards, including the Grand Prize in
India Is Global Photography Challenge by Ministry of External Affairs in 2012, his images
from Ladakh have found their places in book covers of international award winning titles,
galleries and in private collections.
His coffee table book on Ladakh ‘An Antique Land: A Visual Memoir of Ladakh’, has recently been published from New Delhi
and has been widely acclaimed critically. Presently Sugato is working on his long term project on Kashmir, going back to the
valley’s deep interiors, documenting the flow of life resurrecting itself from decades of internal strife, searching for a lasting
tranquility.
Billy HC Kwok
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Billy H.C.Kwok (b. 1989, Hong Kong, China) studied Journalism and graduated in City
University of Hong Kong with a BA degree in Media and Communication, 2013. He speaks
native Cantonese, fluent Mandarin and English.
Billy started his career as a journalist in Sing Tao Daily in Hong Kong, and began working
as a freelance photographer. Equipped with a camera, he possesses an immense curiosity
for finding unfamiliarity in the familiar, in order to explore the less represented sides of
different places and people.
His work has been published by Hong Kong and Mainland China newspapers.
His main projects cover the African relationships and refugees in Hong Kong, transgender
and male prostitutes in Southern China. He has documented a variety of stories in Hong
Kong, Beijing, Burma and Cambodia. Apart from still images, Billy works both individually and
collaboratively, for multimedia storytelling.
Jacques Smit
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As a visual/sound artist I believe in the eradication of lines. That education liberates.
Humility. That light can be found in the darkest of corners. The best stories in the margins
of books. In the present. Within close proximity. I hope that, via my work, I am capable of
enabling others.
Lorenzo Masi
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Documentary photographer born in Italy in 1980.
He started to take pictures for the first time at the beginning of 2008 after he had obtained a
degree in Philosophy at the University of Florence.
During the last month of 2008, documenting the student protests that were taking place in
Italy against the new educational reform, he started to collaborate with the Milan based
agency Fotogramma.
Becoming a freelance in 2009, he began to focus his attention on contemporary social
issues. Interested in the people who live far from their country of origin and in all the
dynamics connected to the necessity of integration with the new country, to the desire of
preserving home countries' culture and traditions, to the will of maintaining old relationships
juxtaposed to the creation of new ones, he started a long-term project about immigration "Struggle for a normal life", the first
ongoing chapter of this project, documented the life of Somali refugees in Italy and Europe.
His work has been published in The Cut/New York Magazine, Vanity Fair (Italy), His Life (China), La Repubblica, Corriere della
Sera, La Stampa, Il Fatto Quotidiano, Gioia, L'oeil de la Photographie , Gente di Fotografia among others.
He was awarded with two honorable mentions in IPA Awards 2012 (Non-professional) and with a honorable mention in IPA
Awards 2013 (Professional), with a honorable mention in Photo Annual Awards 2013 and in Kontinent Awards 2014. He was
a finalist of Kolga Tblisi Photo Awards 2014 and one of the five winners of Cortona on the Move 2014 OFF Circuit prize with
his work about daily life in China "At first glance". He's project "Struggle for a normal life" was one of the Photography Grant
Top 24 Finalist of The Manuel Rivera-Ortiz Foundation for Documentary Photography & Film 2013.
He has exhibited in group and single shows in Italy and Europe.
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Janaina Matarazzo
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I was born in São Paulo, Brazil on 5th January 1977. My passion for photography started
while studying Design college at FAAP university, at the time still using film. But I soon
gave up, after few months working as a fashion assistant photographer.
Since I have worked in different business, the last one was at São Paulo city hall with
social projects. In 2008 I decided to move to Botswana and start a new life involving work
with wildlife conservation projects and again with photography. It all came together
transforming my life into a real dream. And over time the more I understand about wildlife
conservation challenges and reality the more I want to capture and share with people the
beauty of nature and its diversity that still exists on this planet. Sadly wildlife is suffering
and If we don’t care and protect, in the near future, wild animals will be all part of a big zoo
and not of a natural and untouched wild environment anymore. It is important to say that
for me, as a conservationist and nature and wildlife photographer, one of the most
important rules while photographing in the bush is to respect the animals, their habitats and
their limits. Whatever comes to me naturally and unexpectedly I’m grateful to be able to
photograph. I believe this is perhaps the real and truly nature and wildlife photography, the natural synchronicity between you
and the wild animals. I hope my work will inspire people to look at nature and wildlife with love and care.
Enjoy the photographs and please get in touch if you are interested in purchasing my fine art prints and also to know a little
bit of what is happening in the bush!
