Biographies
MASSIMO MASTRORILLO www.massimomastrorillo.com
LEANDRO SANCHEZ http://repertoriumfilms.prosite.com/1072/gallery
JUSTIN JIN www.justinjin.com
MARCO BECHER www.marco-becher.de
OLGA KRAVETS www.olgakravets.com
JENNY MATTHEWS www.jennymphoto.com
AMIT SHA’AL www.amitshaal.com
IAN FORSYTH www.ianforsythphotographer.com
DARO SULAKAURI www.darosulakauri.com
Born in 1976 in Eastern Germany Marco witnessed ‘the fall of the system’.
Marco is interested in documenting the social contrasts in our world. This fascination has led him
to travel to over 54 countries in the last 15 years.
His professional career started after a 20 month solo mountain bike journey from Europe to
Africa to Asia, documenting urban, rural and nomadic lifestyles in an attempt to capture the
everyday lives of a plethora of cultures.
He has recently returned from Haiti, documenting the failing work of the UN, various NGOs and
local governments after receiving 10 billion in aid for the disastrous earthquake in Haiti.
His is currently working with the DPA, Picture Alliance, Getty Images a.s.o.
Amit Sha'al (b. 1974) is an Israeli photographer based in Tel Aviv and working as staff
photographer on Calcalist.He also works as an independent photographer on long and short term
documentary projects through which Sha'al communicates a personal and intimate version of what
is seen.His photographs have been featured in major magazines and newspapers in Israel and
abroad.
His photographs have received awards in various competitions, including the "World Press Photo"
exhibition in 2011 and Series of the Year in "Local Testimony", Israel's press photo exhibition.
Sha'al has had solo exhibitions in Israel and Ireland and has participated in numerous group
exhibitions.
Ian Forsyth is a 41 year old freelance photographer currently living in Saltburn in Cleveland,
England. He has recently completed 22 years of service with the British Military.
For the last 6 years of his military service he became a photographer for the Army and was
responsible for providing images of the British Army and for offering those images out to the
wider press on both a regional and national level as well as supplying the internal military media
with images.
Having completed his career in the military, Forsyth's main interest lies in documentary
photography.
Leandro Sanchez, partner in Repertorium Films in NYC, is a fine art photographer as well as an
international Director of commercials and narrative film; he has directed numerous advertising
campaigns and commercials worldwide, including spots for clients such as: Samsung, Telefonica,
Movistar, Procter & Gamble, Pantech, Qwest Telecom, Partnership for a Drug Free America, and
many more.
Leandro's visual-storytelling has earned him collaborations with such global agencies as FCB,
Young & Rubicam, Leo Burnett, TBWA, DDB, SMC-Group, Cheil, Chattem/USA, etc. In addition,
Leandro's commercial work has been featured twice in Boards magazine, and has been an
official selection of Cannes Cyber Lions. He is represented by numerous companies around the
globe as a Director.
Daro Sulakauri (b.1985, Tbilisi) After obtaining a degree from the Department of Cinematography
at the Tbilisi State University, she moved to New York to study photojournalism at the International
School of Photography (ICP).
Before graduating in 2006, she was awarded the John and Mary Phillips Scholarship as well as
recognized by the ICP Director's Fund.
Upon finishing, she returned to the Pankisi Gorge in her native Caucasus nation of Georgia and
continued Photojournalism.
She won second place of the Magnum Foundation's Young Photographer in the Caucasus award
in 2009. The SCI (Civil Society Institute) award for the Best photo for Journalism. She was
also featured in the American Photography 25 book, Social Documentary's best of 2008, and
Justin Jin (born 1974, Hong Kong) is a renowned photographer commissioned by many of the
world's leading magazines and organisations to photograph Europe, China and Russian-speaking
countries.
Since picking up a notepad and a camera 15 years ago, Justin has become a thoughtful storyteller,
using reportage image and text to explore international issues. While his scope is wide, his
photographs are intimate, real and powerful.
Before embarking on an independent career, Justin worked for Reuters as a correspondent in
Beijing and chief representative of a bureau in southern China.
He is the recipient of a Magnum Foundation award, the Canon Prize and a World Press Photo
Masterclass scholarship, among other prizes. A body of his work is exhibited and collected by the
Rijksmuseum Amsterdam.
Justin graduated from Cambridge University in Philosophy and Political Sciences. He speaks native English, Mandarin and
Cantonese, good Russian and Dutch, and some French.
He lives with his wife and three children in Brussels and travels regularly abroad for work.
Massimo Mastrorillo was born in Turin, Italy, and lives in Rome. He graduated in photography at
the European Institute of Design in Rome.
He has been working essentially on long term documentary projects in Mozambique (“Mozambique
a nation balanced between poverty and dream”), Turkey and Iraq (“Kurds: People in exile”),
Indonesia (“Indonesia: Just Another Day”), Italy (“White Murder” and “Temporary?Landscapes”)
and Eastern Europe (“Bosnia and Herzegovina: if chaos awakens the madness”).
From 2005 to 2007 he worked on “The Width of the Line”, a personal project about 9 cities in the
world.
He is a multi-awarded photographer. Among the awards: the World Press Photo, the Pictures of the
Year International, the Best of Photojournalism, the PDN’s Photo Annual, the International Photographer of the Year at the
5th Annual Lucie Awards, the Sony World Photography Awards, Finalist at the Aftermath Grant 2011.
Olga Kravets was born in Moscow in 1984. She started working as a journalist in 2002, working
in print, online and radio. In 2006 she joined the BBC Moscow bureau as a radio producer, and
in 2007 she left to go freelance as a photojournalist.
In 2008 Kravets moved to Sukhumi in Abkhazia, on the Black Sea, where she spent a year
covering the conflict between Russia and the former Soviet republic of Georgia. The trip resulted
in a photo project called Primorsk: a Sunken Soviet City. This was about a tiny group of Russians
who had to stay in a highly dangerous border area in Abkhazia after the Soviet Union collapsed,
surviving on subsistence farming.
She then moved to Bosnia where she produced an body of work on the legacy of Ratko Mladic,
the former Bosnian Serb army general who was on the run for 16 years, exploring the places where
he had stayed, lived, operated, and hid, before completing an MA in Documentary Photography at
London College of Communication.
Recently Kravets has been working on a number of on long-term projects; she is currently working on a project called Grozny:
Nine Cities exploring various ascpects of two wars in Chechnya together with two other photographers, Maria Morina and
Oksana Yushko.
Her work has appeared in a number of international publications: El Pais Magazine (Spain), Financial Times Deutschland,
Helsingin Sanomat (Finland), NRC Handelsblad (Netherlands), Rear View Mirror (Italy), The Globe and Mail (Canada), The
New York Times, and The Observer (UK), among others.
Jenny Matthews has worked as a photographer since 1982.
Her work has been commissioned and published in a wide range of international magazines including Marie Claire, Guardian
Weekend magazine, The Sunday Times, The Independent Magazine, Night and Day magazine and the Independent on
Sunday Review.
She has done substantial work for development organisations (including Save the Children, Action Aid, Oxfam, Christian Aid,
Sight Savers) particularly in Latin America, Middle East, Africa and South East Asia.
Matthew’s book Women and War was published in 2003 by Mets and Shilt in Holland, Pluto Press in UK and University of
Michigan in USA. It was short-listed for the John Kobal book award and was highly commended. The exhibition ‘Women and
War’ was shown in London, Newcastle, Aberystwyth and Nottingham in 2003/4, and in The Imperial War Museum,
Manchester, and St Mungo’s Museum, Glasgow in 2005.
received honorable mentions in the PX3 and B&W Awards. She was recently recognized as PDN's 30 emerging
Photographers to watch.
Daro is now represented by Reportage by Getty Images in emerging talent.
http://cargocollective.com/leandrosanchez
MASSIMO MASTRORILLO www.massimomastrorillo.com
LEANDRO SANCHEZ http://repertoriumfilms.prosite.com/1072/gallery
JUSTIN JIN www.justinjin.com
MARCO BECHER www.marco-becher.de
OLGA KRAVETS www.olgakravets.com
JENNY MATTHEWS www.jennymphoto.com
AMIT SHA’AL www.amitshaal.com
IAN FORSYTH www.ianforsythphotographer.com
DARO SULAKAURI www.darosulakauri.com
Born in 1976 in Eastern Germany Marco witnessed ‘the fall of the system’.
Marco is interested in documenting the social contrasts in our world. This fascination has led him
to travel to over 54 countries in the last 15 years.
His professional career started after a 20 month solo mountain bike journey from Europe to
Africa to Asia, documenting urban, rural and nomadic lifestyles in an attempt to capture the
everyday lives of a plethora of cultures.
He has recently returned from Haiti, documenting the failing work of the UN, various NGOs and
local governments after receiving 10 billion in aid for the disastrous earthquake in Haiti.
His is currently working with the DPA, Picture Alliance, Getty Images a.s.o.
Amit Sha'al (b. 1974) is an Israeli photographer based in Tel Aviv and working as staff
photographer on Calcalist.He also works as an independent photographer on long and short term
documentary projects through which Sha'al communicates a personal and intimate version of what
is seen.His photographs have been featured in major magazines and newspapers in Israel and
abroad.
His photographs have received awards in various competitions, including the "World Press Photo"
exhibition in 2011 and Series of the Year in "Local Testimony", Israel's press photo exhibition.
Sha'al has had solo exhibitions in Israel and Ireland and has participated in numerous group
exhibitions.
Ian Forsyth is a 41 year old freelance photographer currently living in Saltburn in Cleveland,
England. He has recently completed 22 years of service with the British Military.
For the last 6 years of his military service he became a photographer for the Army and was
responsible for providing images of the British Army and for offering those images out to the
wider press on both a regional and national level as well as supplying the internal military media
with images.
Having completed his career in the military, Forsyth's main interest lies in documentary
photography.
Leandro Sanchez, partner in Repertorium Films in NYC, is a fine art photographer as well as an
international Director of commercials and narrative film; he has directed numerous advertising
campaigns and commercials worldwide, including spots for clients such as: Samsung, Telefonica,
Movistar, Procter & Gamble, Pantech, Qwest Telecom, Partnership for a Drug Free America, and
many more.
Leandro's visual-storytelling has earned him collaborations with such global agencies as FCB,
Young & Rubicam, Leo Burnett, TBWA, DDB, SMC-Group, Cheil, Chattem/USA, etc. In addition,
Leandro's commercial work has been featured twice in Boards magazine, and has been an
official selection of Cannes Cyber Lions. He is represented by numerous companies around the
globe as a Director.
Daro Sulakauri (b.1985, Tbilisi) After obtaining a degree from the Department of Cinematography
at the Tbilisi State University, she moved to New York to study photojournalism at the International
School of Photography (ICP).
Before graduating in 2006, she was awarded the John and Mary Phillips Scholarship as well as
recognized by the ICP Director's Fund.
Upon finishing, she returned to the Pankisi Gorge in her native Caucasus nation of Georgia and
continued Photojournalism.
She won second place of the Magnum Foundation's Young Photographer in the Caucasus award
in 2009. The SCI (Civil Society Institute) award for the Best photo for Journalism. She was
also featured in the American Photography 25 book, Social Documentary's best of 2008, and
Justin Jin (born 1974, Hong Kong) is a renowned photographer commissioned by many of the
world's leading magazines and organisations to photograph Europe, China and Russian-speaking
countries.
Since picking up a notepad and a camera 15 years ago, Justin has become a thoughtful storyteller,
using reportage image and text to explore international issues. While his scope is wide, his
photographs are intimate, real and powerful.
Before embarking on an independent career, Justin worked for Reuters as a correspondent in
Beijing and chief representative of a bureau in southern China.
He is the recipient of a Magnum Foundation award, the Canon Prize and a World Press Photo
Masterclass scholarship, among other prizes. A body of his work is exhibited and collected by the
Rijksmuseum Amsterdam.
Justin graduated from Cambridge University in Philosophy and Political Sciences. He speaks native English, Mandarin and
Cantonese, good Russian and Dutch, and some French.
He lives with his wife and three children in Brussels and travels regularly abroad for work.
Massimo Mastrorillo was born in Turin, Italy, and lives in Rome. He graduated in photography at
the European Institute of Design in Rome.
He has been working essentially on long term documentary projects in Mozambique (“Mozambique
a nation balanced between poverty and dream”), Turkey and Iraq (“Kurds: People in exile”),
Indonesia (“Indonesia: Just Another Day”), Italy (“White Murder” and “Temporary?Landscapes”)
and Eastern Europe (“Bosnia and Herzegovina: if chaos awakens the madness”).
From 2005 to 2007 he worked on “The Width of the Line”, a personal project about 9 cities in the
world.
He is a multi-awarded photographer. Among the awards: the World Press Photo, the Pictures of the
Year International, the Best of Photojournalism, the PDN’s Photo Annual, the International Photographer of the Year at the
5th Annual Lucie Awards, the Sony World Photography Awards, Finalist at the Aftermath Grant 2011.
Olga Kravets was born in Moscow in 1984. She started working as a journalist in 2002, working
in print, online and radio. In 2006 she joined the BBC Moscow bureau as a radio producer, and
in 2007 she left to go freelance as a photojournalist.
In 2008 Kravets moved to Sukhumi in Abkhazia, on the Black Sea, where she spent a year
covering the conflict between Russia and the former Soviet republic of Georgia. The trip resulted
in a photo project called Primorsk: a Sunken Soviet City. This was about a tiny group of Russians
who had to stay in a highly dangerous border area in Abkhazia after the Soviet Union collapsed,
surviving on subsistence farming.
She then moved to Bosnia where she produced an body of work on the legacy of Ratko Mladic,
the former Bosnian Serb army general who was on the run for 16 years, exploring the places where
he had stayed, lived, operated, and hid, before completing an MA in Documentary Photography at
London College of Communication.
Recently Kravets has been working on a number of on long-term projects; she is currently working on a project called Grozny:
Nine Cities exploring various ascpects of two wars in Chechnya together with two other photographers, Maria Morina and
Oksana Yushko.
Her work has appeared in a number of international publications: El Pais Magazine (Spain), Financial Times Deutschland,
Helsingin Sanomat (Finland), NRC Handelsblad (Netherlands), Rear View Mirror (Italy), The Globe and Mail (Canada), The
New York Times, and The Observer (UK), among others.
Jenny Matthews has worked as a photographer since 1982.
Her work has been commissioned and published in a wide range of international magazines including Marie Claire, Guardian
Weekend magazine, The Sunday Times, The Independent Magazine, Night and Day magazine and the Independent on
Sunday Review.
She has done substantial work for development organisations (including Save the Children, Action Aid, Oxfam, Christian Aid,
Sight Savers) particularly in Latin America, Middle East, Africa and South East Asia.
Matthew’s book Women and War was published in 2003 by Mets and Shilt in Holland, Pluto Press in UK and University of
Michigan in USA. It was short-listed for the John Kobal book award and was highly commended. The exhibition ‘Women and
War’ was shown in London, Newcastle, Aberystwyth and Nottingham in 2003/4, and in The Imperial War Museum,
Manchester, and St Mungo’s Museum, Glasgow in 2005.
received honorable mentions in the PX3 and B&W Awards. She was recently recognized as PDN's 30 emerging
Photographers to watch.
Daro is now represented by Reportage by Getty Images in emerging talent.
http://cargocollective.com/leandrosanchez