The magazine of the photo-essay
July/August 2023 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 20
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.
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 five dachshunds: Jessie, Rosie, Ted, Dot and Daffodil.
Ethan Bird
To commission him or to request prints of his work: alice@lifeforcemagazine.com
Born in Dorset, England in 2004, Ethan Bird is currently studying for a Batchelor of Arts
degree in Photography at the University of Plymouth.
Staff photographer for Life Force magazine
Ragnar Axelsson
To contact him, visit: rax.is
Ragnar Axelsson. Born in Iceland 1958, (aka) RAX has worked for Morgunbladid,
Iceland's biggest newspaper from 1976 and as a freelance shooting shooting
projects in various parts of the world for numerous magazines and agencies. He has
had his work published in: LIFE, National Geographic, Le Figaro, Stern, La
Vanguardia, TIME, to name a few. The Golden Circle. Photographs by Páll
Stefánsson, Ragnar Axelsson and Mats Wibe-Lund. Reykjavík: Iceland Review,
1989. Reykjavik. A book in color. (Icelandic) (English) Faces and figures:
Contemporary Scandinavian photography. New York: American Scandinavian
Foundation, 2001. Through the vastness near Snæfell by Ólafsson, Guðmundur Páll
has photographs by Axelsson and also Friðþjófur Helgason and Jóhann Ísberg.
Faces of the North, a book on vanishing lifestyles in
the North Atlantic; Greenland, Iceland and the
Faroe Islands, 2004.
Deb Achak
To contact her, visit: www.debachakphotography.com
Deb Achak is an American photographer based in Seattle, Wash.
Achak’s photographs have been featured in many exhibitions including at WinstonWächter Fine Art Seattle and
New York, The Rhode Island Center for Photographic Arts,The National Museum of Anthropology in Tabasco, Mexico,
The Lishui Museum of Art in Lishui,China, and The Sofia Photography Festival in Sofia, Bulgaria. She was awarded a
Critical Mass Top 200 finalist in 2021, and a recipient ofthe Julia Margaret Cameron Award in 2023. All
the Colors I Am Inside is her debut monograph.
Charles Fréger
To contact him, visit: www.charlesfreger.com
Charles Fréger is recognised as one of Europe’s leading photographers. Based in Rouen, France, his work has been devoted
almost exclusively to portraiture. He has published more than thirty books, his most recent being AAM AASTHA (on Indian
devotion) published March 2023 by Thames & Hudson.
Lynn Whitney is Associate Professor, emerita, at School of Art, Bowling Green State University, in Bowling Green, Ohio.
Her photography explores the world, with landscapes being a prominent motif and addressing contemporary issues while
aligning with the female. She has been exhibited widely, and her works are represented in the collections of the Toledo
Museum of Art, Columbia College’s Midwest Photographer’s Project, Ohio Humanities
Council, and Yale University.
Lynn Whitney
To contact her, visit: lynnwhitneyphotographs.com
