The magazine of the photo-essay
Feb 2018 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: 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 14
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. 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.
Nigel Parry
To commission him or to request prints of his work: www.NigelParryPhoto.com
Nigel Parry began his photographic career in London and moved to New York City in
1994. Since then, he has been commissioned by the most distinguished
publications, advertising agencies, entertainment, corporate and music companies
worldwide. He has been privileged to photograph not only celebrities but also the
most famed cultural and political figures of our time.
Some of his many accolades include: The European Magazine Award, The Award of
Excellence from the U.S. Society of Newspaper Design, The American Society of
Magazine Editors Portrait Award, Hasselblad Master Photographer, and several
Communication Arts, Graphis, Photo District News, Art Director’s Club, International
Photography and American Photography Awards among others.
Tiina Itkonen
To commission her or to request prints of her work: www.tiinaitkonen.com
Tiina Itkonen, a photographer from Helsinki, Finland, has been documenting
Greenland and its inhabitants through her camera since 1995.
Tiina Itkonen graduated from the University of Art and Design in Helsinki (renamed
Aalto University) in 2002. Itkonen´s work has been exhibited at international venues
including the 54th Biennale de Venezia, 17th Biennale of Sydney, Anchorage
Museum in Alaska and Danish National Museum of Photography. Her works are
featured in collections including the Moderna Museet in Sweden, DZ-Bank Collection
in Germany, Statoil Collection in Norway as well as numerous private collections
throughout Europe, USA and Asia.
Ken Hermann
To commission him or to request prints of his work: www.kenhermann.dk
Ken Hermann’s images are pathways, connecting us to micro worlds and
challenging us to rethink ideas of photographic representation. Ken doesn’t worry
about trends, staying true to his point of view as an image-maker. It’s exciting to see
a young photographer with such a strong singular vision and approach.
Passionate about individuals and their unique histories, he explores the fragile
balance between people and their environment, between tradition and modernity.
Ken’s photography seamlessly weaves cultural and political content, blending
documentary and cinematic portraiture. His application of lighting, combining artificial
with natural, takes the images into a surreal space, creating dreamlike visions of
everyday people.”
Beth Lilly
To commission her or to request prints of her work: www.bethlilly.com
An exhibiting artist for over twenty-five years, Beth Lilly’s recent exhibitions include
New Mexico Museum of Art, The High Museum of Art, the Zuckerman Museum,
Whitespace Gallery, the Atlanta Contemporary Art Center, the Center for Fine Art
Photography, and the Museum of Contemporary Art of Georgia. A Hambidge Fellow,
she also received grants from Fulton County Arts Council, the Society for
Photographic Education and Atlanta Celebrates Photography. Her work resides in
the permanent collections of the High Museum, the New Mexico Museum of Art, The
Ogden Museum of Southern Art, MOCA GA, the Metropolitan Atlanta Arts Fund as
well as many private collections. Her critically acclaimed performance/interactive
project “The Oracle @ WiFi” was published by Kehrer Verlag in 2012. Currently,
Beth Lilly is the Executive Director for Atlanta Photography Group, a non-profit art
Chris Dade
To commission him or to request prints of his work: www.chrisjdade.com
Chris studied photography at degree level in The University for the Creative Arts,
Farnham, with a focus on children and human rights. As he became more
passionate about this work, he naturally evolved into doing direct work within NGOs
in advocacy and empowerment. He continues to work as both a photographer and a
rights worker.
His photography focuses on human rights, using the camera as a tool for
empowerment to promote positive change and to challenge stereotypes. Currently,
he is developing a platform for "Peace Photographers" to balance out the media
focus on stories of war and social deprivation by instead depicting stories of
resolution, forgiveness and possibility. He states: "These media images become
narratives of our lives, both for the photographer and the viewer. By also focusing on
Salvo Galano
To commission him or to request prints of his work: www.salvogalano.com
Salvo Galano is a portrait photographer working in advertising, editorial and personal
projects. He began to study photography at the age of fourteen, and from then on it
became his passion and profession. After graduating in advertising he received his
Master’s degree in photography in Milan, after which he moved to London to work.
From 1995 to 2001 Galano lived in New York and worked as a reporter and
correspondent for various Italian and international magazines. During that time his
passion for portraits inspired him to travel to collect stories and emotions of
individuals he met in the United States, Latin America and the tribes of the Amazon
Rainforest, Chiapas and South-East Asia. Based on his rainforest tribe project in
1998 the Guggenheim Memorial Foundation of New York awarded him with a
Fellowship in Photography. This enabled him to shoot, produce and publish his book
Sidewalk Stories. Salvo Galano's work has been featured in solo and group
Arnab Adak
To commission him or to request prints of his work: www.arnabadak.com
A photographer living in Kolkata, India whose primary focus is on photojournalism
and documentary projects. He loves to capture people and their emotions, places
and its whereabouts, and makes social documentary. Raising awareness on social
issues through photography is his objective. He has always wanted to show the
world though his lenses what he sees through his eyes and feel through his heart.
He has studied mathematics and computer applications and is currently associated
with a management consulting firm professionally. He has multiple publications in
the field of operations design, improvement & optimization for the steel
manufacturing sector.
His work has been exhibited internationally at various art galleries, museums and festivals including The National Portrait
Gallery in London, The National Galleries of Scotland, The Royal Collection at Windsor Castle, a show at The National
Museum of Film& Photography, Le Festival Pour L’image Perpignan, and the Premier exhibit at the NY Photo Festival. He
has also had the pristine honor of being the first portrait photographer to be invited to exhibit his work at the prestigious
Cannes Film Festival.
His first book Sharp was published in December 2000. His second book Precious was published in the fall of 2004 and his
third book BLUNT was published in the fall of 2006. All books have received worldwide critical acclaim. Parry’s iconic style
can also be seen in his directorial video work.
Nigel Parry currently resides in New York City and is represented by Creative Photographers Inc. (CPi).
He lives in Devon with his wife, four children and his dachshund, Jessie.
Some of Itkonen´s images are captured in her two books. Inughuit, a selection of photographs of the lives of Inughuit, was
published in 2004 and Avannaa, about Greenland´s landscapes, was published in 2014, by Kehrer Verlag.
Her works appeared in such publications as Lens Blog at New York Times, National Geographic Traveler, Conde Nast
Traveler, Harpers Magazine and Le Monde.
Instagram: www.instagram.com/tiinaitkonen
Book orders: www.holvi.com/shop/avannaa
the positive, this gives us a new narrative of hope and possibility for a more evolved humanity." He works globally for NGOs
and as a freelance photographer.
J Henry Fair
To commission him or to request prints of his work: www.jhenryfair.com
J Henry Fair is an American photographer and environmental activist, based in New
York. His work has been featured in most major publications, including The New
York Times, National Geographic, CNN, Rolling Stone and Vanity Fair. The Industrial
Scars project began on “Cancer Alley”, the heavily industrialized stretch of the
Mississippi River between Baton Rouge and New Orleans, with a hired plane and
pilot. This was before the advent of Google Earth, so Henry was often ‘flying blind’.
Most of the sites illustrated in this book can only be seen from the air, either because
of the remoteness of their location, or because they are hidden from the public.
Depending on the political climate of the moment, Henry’s activities have aroused
interest and/or curiosity from authorities. Repeatedly circling an oil refinery in a small
plane will inevitably be deemed suspicious behaviour and Henry has been
awakened by the FBI in his hotel room where he has had to explain his activities. He
has even resorted for, a while, to using an alias, paying cash at various flight schools and hotels, in order to avoid tracking.
His project Flower Men is a perfect example of this - portraits of flower sellers from Malik Ghat flower market in Calcutta,
India.
Francesca Woodman
Francesca Woodman was one of the most innovative photographers of the second half of the 20th century. During her
short, but exceptionally productive career, she produced a large number of striking, surreal and often humorous
photographs in which she aimed to convey what she referred to as ‘the body’s inner force’.
Woodman worked at the intersection of performance art, choreography and architecture. Her black and white
photographs express a heightened awareness of her surroundings, interacting or merging with the often deteriorating
space around the artist. The direct, uncompromising images depict the existential complexity of an identity in a
permanent state of transition. The exhibition will include images from My House Series, Providence, Rhode Island, 1976 and
Eel Series, Roma, May 1977 – August 1978.
Her work continues to be the subject of much critical acclaim and attention, years after she died by suicide at the age
of 22, in 1981.
exhibitions in Italy, USA, Netherlands, Serbia, Spain and France. He has also realized two underwater exhibitions; In 2014
“PASSAGGIO A SUDEST” an undewater journey through south-east Asia in Ponza and in 2016 “STARS” to celebrate
integration on the island of Lampedusa, the iconic site of Europe's migrant flow.
Wolfgang Bellwinkel
To commission him or to request prints of his work: www.wolfgang-bellwinkel.com
Wolfgang Bellwinkel lives in Berlin and Bangkok.
After completing his studies at Folkwang School of Art in the mid 90’ he started to
work for magazines and commercial clients. Besides he’s been engaged in projects
in Germany and former Yugoslavia. Now, for about 15 years his main focus is Asia.
2005 he finished his first documentary film „weg“ that had its premier at the Bangkok
Film Festival. As a lecturer he worked at universities in Germany, Singapore and
Thailand, assigned by the Goethe Institut he exhibits and teaches workshops all
over Asia. In 2011 the exhibition „Foreign Familiar“ curated by Bellwinkel was
opened at the Bangkok Art and Cultural Center and later shown at various
destinations in S.E. Asia. The book No Land called Home was published early 2013.
Bellwinkel’s work has been shown in many solo and group exhibitions amongst
others at the Pinakothek der Moderne/Munich, Museum voor Fotografie/Antwerpen,
Daelim Art Museum/Seoul, BACC/Bangkok.
Jess McGlothlin
To commission her or to request prints of her work: www.JessMcGlothlinMedia.com
While working as a freelance photographer and writer in the outdoor industry, Jess
McGlothlin has learned how to throw spears at coconuts in French Polynesia, dodge
saltwater crocodiles in Cuba, navigate uninvited sharks in Samoa, and fire mortars
with the U.S. Army. Based in southwestern Montana, she can usually be found trying
to juggle a fly rod, a notebook, and a camera.
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