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Jan 2016 back issue

Sean Hawkey To commission Sean or to request prints of his work: www.hawkey.co.uk My name is Sean Hawkey and I'm a photographer and journalist. I’ve worked in 50+ countries, mainly on issues of social interest stories, development, humanitarian crises, solidarity. My work has been featured in the New York Times, BBC, The Guardian, Morning Star, Huffington Post, The Telegraph, Science Magazine, the Journal of the Royal Photographic Society and has been used by 200+ organisations including Fairtrade networks in 30 countries, ACT Alliance and its member organisations around the world, DanWatch, the Centre for Journalism Ethics, World Council of Churches, World Health Organisation, World Bank, UNESCO, UNISDR, International Dalit Solidarity Network, Greenpeace, Climate Action Network and the RMT trade union. My photographs have been exhibited as joint and solo exhibitions in Mexico, Ireland, France, Germany, Austria, UK and Spain. Before freelance photography I worked in international aid, I taught architecture and I ran communications for global NGOs. I'm based in the UK and I'm working freelance.

Matilda Temperley To commission Matilda or to request prints of her work: www.matildatemperley.com Matilda was born in 1981 on a cider farm in Somerset. She trained at the London School of Tropical Medicine and worked in East Africa in Malaria control for two years. She then turned to photography. She divides her time between her commercial work and her personal work. Her personal work is inspired by marginalised societies. In 2014 Matilda was a finalist in the SONY World Photo awards for her work in Ethiopia. She was also a finalist in the CIWEM Environmental Photographer Of The Year awards for her work on the Somerset floods. Matilda’s first book Under The Surface- Somerset Floods', was published in 2014 by Burrow Hill Books.

Doug Menuez To commission Doug or to request prints of his work: www.menuez.com Doug Menuez is an award-winning photographer whose varied career over 30 years has ranged from photojournalism to commissioned work and personal book projects. His methodology has evolved to employ a traditional documentary approach that allows for his subjective interpretation of the story. The driving concern of all his work is to explore and reflect the struggles and joys of the human condition. His career as a photojournalist began in 1981 at The Washington Post and then as a freelancer covering a wide range of stories for Time, Newsweek, LIFE, USA Today, Fortune and many other publications worldwide. His subjects have included the homeless crisis, the Ethiopian famine, Oakland drug wars, poverty, the Olympics, and the AIDS crisis. He gained exclusive, unprecedented access to record the rise of Silicon Valley from 1985-2000 and documented the private daily lives of its most brilliant innovators, including Steve Jobs, Bill Gates, John Warnock, Carol Bartz, Andy Grove, John Sculley, Bill Joy, and John Doerr during as they invented the technology that

Paddy Summerfield To commission Paddy or to request prints of his work: www.paddysummerfield.com Oxford-based photographer, Paddy Summerfield, trained at Guildford School of Art in the Photography and the Film departments. Pictures he took in 1967, when he was still a first year student, were later published in Album, and spreads in Creative Camera received encouraging recognition of his expressive and psychological approach. He has spent a life-time making personal photographic documents, and teaching and running work-shops, as well as undertaking commissions. He started exhibiting in

Chris Hadfield To request prints of Chris’s work: www.chrishadfield.ca The First Canadian to Walk in Space. A moustache can tell you a lot about a man. When properly administered, it can say, “this man has commanded spacecraft”, “this man escorted Soviet bombers out of Canadian airspace”, or “this man lived in a research vessel at the bottom of the ocean.” These can be tall orders to live up to – having a moustache is a big responsibility. Col. Chris Hadfield has spent a lifetime living up to that responsibility. On July 20, 1969, when he quietly began his mission towards becoming an astronaut, the gap between being a young boy on an Ontario corn farm and the first Canadian to walk in space was unbridgeable. Canada had no astronaut program, nor would it for the foreseeable future. Chris stuck to it. He spent his time at home learning mechanics on the tractors and old cars, flying with his father and brothers every chance he could. Enrolling in air cadets, he worked his way up through the RCAF, becoming an experimental test pilot and flying over 70 types of aircraft. He made certain that when the opportunity arose, he would be prepared for it. In 1995, Chris Hadfield rode his first rocket.

Sheila Rock To commission Sheila or to request prints of her work: www.sheilarock.com Sheila Rock was born in the USA and educated at Boston University and the London Film School. She has lived and worked in London since 1970. She became an influential force shaping the look of creative magazines like The FACE magazine. Her successful career covers a wide spectrum; photographing for the entertainment and music industry, the West End theatre, the Royal Opera House, the Barbican and also advertising and design agencies and periodicals. Her editorial portrait and fashion work have appeared in numerous magazines, including: Time Magazine, Elle, Glamour, Rolling Stone, Architectural Digest, and the Sunday Times. Her portrait work forms part of the public collection at the National Portrait Gallery, London. Ralph Lauren Polo have a number of her Horse Portraits.

Dimitri Mellos To commission Dimitri or to request prints of his work: www.dimitrimellos.com Dimitri Mellos was born in Athens, Greece. Since 2005 he’s been living in New York City. His work has been exhibited in Greece, Barcelona, London, Berlin, New York, Miami, Santa Fe, and elsewhere. He has received several awards for his work, including first place in the PX3 Awards, the International Photography Awards, and WPGA Pollux Awards, as well as 2nd place in CENTER’s 2011 Editor’s Choice awards and 1st runner-up in Blurb’s Photography Book Now 2011 contest. He also won the 1st prize in the Fine art e-book category in the 2012 Fotoweek DC contest, was a Finalist for the prestigious Fotovisura Grant and the Magnum Expression Award, has been a Finalist twice for the Renaissance Photography Prize, and was selected for American Photography 28 and 31. John Szarkowski said of Garry Winogrand that “his ambition was not to make good pictures, but through photography to know life”. This statement perfectly describes Dimitri’s photographic aspirations as well.

Charles Fields To commission Charles or to request prints of his work: www.charlesfields.net Charles Fields is a photographer with more than 40 years of experience and a member of the Photography Arts Collective, the Provincetown Art Association, and the American Society of Media Photographers Inc. He is the photographer and author of Cape Cod and the National Seashore, Carnival–Provincetown, Provincetown and the National Seashore, Nantucket, Martha’s Vineyard, and Vietnam Journeys. His work has been featured in numerous shows and galleries in New York and throughout New England. He lives in North Truro, Massachusetts.

Omid Salehi To commission Omid or to request prints of his work: www.omidsalehi.com I got interested in photography at the age of 17. The main focus of my work is to create visual records of the society around me. I do not do this by taking one-off pictures, but by taking series of images that have a narrative and tell the totality of a story. My role is that of a story teller who observes and through images tries to touch the heart of his audience, to make his audience see things that might otherwise escape their attention. My work is a narrative within which I try to capture the depth of the interactions of an ancient and dynamic society on the move. Born in 1972, Shiraz (IR) Education: Graphic Design, Shahid Rajaei University, Tehran (IR) Photography, LCC University, London (UK)

Stephen Dupont To commission Stephen or to request prints of his work: www.stephendupont.com Stephen Dupont is an Australian documentary photographer who has produced a remarkable body of visual work; hauntingly beautiful photographs of fragile cultures and marginalized peoples. He captures the human dignity of his subjects with great intimacy and often in some of the world’s most dangerous regions. His images have received international acclaim for their artistic integrity and valuable insight into the people, culture and communities that have existed for hundreds of years, yet are fast disappearing from our world. Dupont’s work has earned him photography’s most prestigious prizes, including a Robert Capa Gold Medal citation from the Overseas Press Club of America; a Bayeux War Correspondent’s Prize; and first places in the World Press Photo, Pictures of the Year International and Leica/CCP Documentary Award. In 2007 he was the recipient of the W. Eugene Smith Grant for Humanistic Photography for his ongoing project on Afghanistan. In 2010 he received the Gardner Fellowship at Harvard's Peabody Museum of Archaeology & Ethnology.

His work has also featured in The New Yorker, Aperture, Newsweek, GQ, French and German GEO, Le Figaro, Liberation, The Sunday Times Magazine, The New York Times Magazine, Stern, Time and Vanity Fair. Dupont has held major exhibitions in London, Paris, New York, Sydney, Canberra, Tokyo, and Shanghai, and at Perpignan’s Visa Pour L’Image, China’s Ping Yao and Holland’s Noorderlicht festivals. Dupont’s handmade photographic artist books and portfolios are in selected collections of the National Gallery of Australia, National Library of Australia, National Gallery of Victoria, Australian War Memorial, The Library Of Congress in Washington DC, The New York Public Library, British Library, Harvard Fogg Museum, Berlin and Munich National Art Libraries, Stanford University, Yale University, Boston Athenaeum, Minneapolis Institute of Arts, and Joy of Giving Something Inc.

Col. Hadfield continued striving. He flew again in 2001, installing Canadarm2. He served as Chief of Robotics, CapCom, and NASA’s operation in Russia, eventually going on to pilot a Russian Soyuz. The first Canadian commander of the International Space Station, a New York Times bestselling author, YouTube sensation and truly engaging speaker, Chris has worked hard to earn the right to wear his moustache.

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 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 13 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 four children in Devon, England.

Sean Hillen To commission Sean or to request prints of his work: www.seanhillen.com Born in 1961 in Newry, N.Ireland., Hillen lives and works in Dublin. He studied at Belfast College of Art, London College of Printing and the Slade School of Fine Art. A ‘traditional’ collagist whose work has both popular and intellectual appeal, Hillen, regarded as one of the most significant Irish artists of his generation, and one of the most widely-published, is also probably the most censored in Ireland and Britain in the period. He first gained notice in the U.K. for his early works based on his own photos from the Northern Irish 'Troubles' era. The photos themselves were hidden for nearly 20 years except being used as source material for photomontages. The resulting photomontages were widely published at the time and are now studied as examples of the medium and used in education on the subject of conflict. One of several in the Permanent Collection of the Imperial War Museum was recently published as frontispiece to their definitive

In 1990 he won first prize regionally and second prize nationally in the UK Design Council ‘Year of Invention’ competition, with a design for a new kind of printing machine. In the early1990s he moved to Dublin and began a new series titled ‘IRELANTIS’, which have come to be described as “the most vivid and emblematic expression of the dreams and anxieties of ‘Celtic Tiger’ Ireland”- and have themselves become part of the cultural landscape, for instance featuring on the covers of over 30 books, magazines and journals, and themselves the subject of much academic study. His collage series ‘Searching for Evidence..’ from 2007 and “WHAT’S WRONG? with The Consolations of Genius” in 2011 refer to issues of ‘cognitive dissonance’ in the wake of the 9/11 events, and were the subject of a panel discussion at a major Sociology conference in 2015. In 2011 the National Library of Ireland Photographic Archive acquired as a separate Permanent collection his complete archive of photos from the ‘Troubles’ era, and exhibited them drawing 17,000 visitors in 2012, and in 2013 they were published as ‘Melancholy Witness’ by The History Press in Ireland and republished in 2014 in the U.S. by Trafalgar Square Press. The book was one of only two Irish books featured in 'Publisher's Weekly' annual US review, and is now widely distributed, for instance on the 'Walmart' website. He was featured with a full biography in the definitive Royal Irish Academy’s “art & Architecture of Ireland” published in 2013; his work is ‘Figure 2.’ In the recent history “Photography & Ireland” and also the cover of “Art in Ireland Since 1910”, and in Autumn 2015 Irish Arts Review. He has also executed commissions and collaborations including video for Sony Music/Super Furry Animals; stage design, advertisements, title graphics and permanent sculptures for Citi Group and Dublin City Council. He won the international design competition, with landscape architect Desmond Fitzgerald, for the Omagh Bomb Memorial unveiled in August 2008. His work is in many private and public collections including the Irish State Collection, Permanent Collection of the Imperial War Museum (works on permanent exhibition), National Library of Ireland, National Museums Northern Ireland, Wolverhampton Museum, MoMA, Allied Irish Bank, the European Central Bank, The Irish Central Bank, Citigroup SA, Aspen Re. (through the Contemporary Art Society), the BBC and Microsoft Ltd. He has won several awards and prizes including a major bursary from the Irish Arts Council in 2015. Also in 2015 Erik Kessels designed the book ‘The Wonderful World of Seán Hillen” to be published 2016. In 2017 the Golden Thread Gallery in Belfast will host the first major Seán Hillen retrospective.

publication “Art from Contemporary Conflict”. They have also featured in publications by the National Museums of Northern Ireland, and on the new ACNI site: http://www.troublesarchive.com/index.php/artists/sean-hillen

changed our world. His many portrait assignments range from Hollywood notables such as Charlize Theron, Cate Blanchett, and Robert Redford, to Mother Tereza and Presidents Clinton and Bush Sr. Menuez’ work has won numerous awards over the years and been honored by many organizations, including the Kelly Awards, The AOP London, The Cannes Festival, The One Show, The Art Director's Club of NY, Photo District News, The Epson Creativity Award, American Photography, the International Photography Awards, NY Photo Festival, Graphis, and Communication Arts. Menuez has been exhibited in solo and group shows and has also been featured in nine of the bestselling Day in the Life books. His commissioned campaigns for global brands include Chevrolet, Emirates Airlines, GE, Siemens, GE Hewlett Packard, Coca Cola, Charles Schwab, Nikon, Chevron, Nokia, Samsung and Microsoft. Menuez’ books include the bestseller, 15 Seconds: The Great San Francisco Earthquake of 1989, co-produced with David Elliott Cohen, which generated more than five hundred thousand dollars in relief money for earthquake victims. Three of his personal documentary projects have been published as books to date: Defying Gravity: The Making of Newton, Beyond Words Publishing, 1993, Heaven, Earth, Tequila: Un Viaje al Corazón de México, Waterside Press, 2005. His book Transcendent Spirit: The Orphans of Uganda is from Beaufort Books, NY, 2008, with an introduction by Dame Elizabeth Taylor has raised over one hundred thousand dollars to date for Ugandan AIDS orphans. Stanford University Library acquired his extensive archive of over 1 million photographs and created the Douglas Menuez Photography Collection at Stanford University Library. His current book, Fearless Genuis: The Digital Revolution 1985-2000 was published in June 2014 by Simon & Schuster’s Atria Books received worldwide press coverage, and is in production as a documentary film, TV series exhibit and non-profit educational program. The exhibition of Fearless Genius opened in Moscow at the Photobiennale in March 2012 and has been continuously traveling worldwide with exhibits in China, Spain, France, the UK, and most recently at the Computer History Museum in Silicon Valley, which set a record for attendance. Menuez has lectured widely on his years as a witness to the great innovators at conferences and for corporations and is now incorporating the Fearless Genius stories into an education program through a new non-profit foundation. He serves on the Advisory Board of the Woodstock Center for Photography and divides his time between upstate New York and Manhattan.

London in the late sixties, and his work has been shown in galleries, such as the ICA, The Barbican, The Serpentine, and The Photographers' Gallery, National Museum of Photography Film & Television, Bradford. In 1976, Sir Nicholas Serota (when he was director there,) invited Summerfield to exhibit Beneath The Dreaming Spires at the Museum of Modern Art, Oxford, his first one-man show.

Mario Marino To commission Mario or to request prints of his work: www.mariomarino.com Mario Marino is a travel portrait photographer, Austrian born and based in Germany. Marino has been photographing various peoples in their native lands since 2000. His work is exhibited in museums and galleries around the world: Amsterdam, Basel, Berlin, Brusells, Cologne, Dubai, Gent, London, Munich, Nijmegen, Paris, Salzburg, Schwaz, Stockholm & Würzburg. Central to his pictures is a fascinating portraiture in which he maintains an empathetic connection to his subjects. Each image conveys a sense of simple joy of being and living in the world. “To me it’s essential to show the beauty and dignity of people. Empathy and walking is the key to my work. A normal day consists of about 8 - 10 hours walking around looking for people (15 to 20 kilometers a day). I try to read people’s lives, the circumstances they live. I’m fascinated by their cultural background and identity.”

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David Malin To commission David or to request prints of his work: www.davidmalin.com David Malin was born in the north of England a long time ago and has always been interested in light and color. However, he began his working life as a chemist in the 1950s, dealing with DDT and other pesticides in a large chemical company. As DDT went out of fashion, he found himself studying the properties of the strongly colored crystals of organic pigments and other materials in the same company, using a variety of optical and electron microscopes and X-ray diffraction equipment. In those days all the data from these devices was recorded photographically. In a surprising change of direction, in 1975 he left England for Australia and joined the then new Anglo-Australian Observatory (now the Australian Astronomical Observatory)

as its photographic scientist. There he introduced new ways of extracting data from the special photographic plates then used in astronomy, and in 1978 devised a process for making the first true-color, deep astronomical images of objects much too faint to be captured on color film. These pictures have been widely published and exhibited. These pictures can be seen in two series from: http://203.15.109.22/images/captions/aat008.html and http://203.15.109.22/images/captions/uks001.html David Malin has authored or co-authored 10 books, 150 scientific papers and a large number of general interest articles on photography and astronomy. He was awarded the 2000 Lennart Nilsson Award and has honorary doctorates from two Australian Unversities for his contributions to astronomy and photography. He lives in semi-retirement in Sydney Australia.

Andrew Chapman To commission him or to request prints of his work: andrewchapmanphotography.com Born 1954 in Melbourne, Australia, Andrew Chapman Studied photography at Prahran College of Advanced Education in the 1970’s . Andrew has always retained a love of photojournalism & documentary photography. He has a passion for documenting rural lifestyles, especially rural workers. Aside from assignment work, he also continues to create portraits and landscapes for his own personal pleasure. Andrew worked as a newspaper photographer 1978-86. As a freelance photographer (1985-2015), Andrew has worked on numerous assignments for major Australian magazines and newspapers. With more than a dozen “Time” covers to his credit, he has covered subjects as diverse as Heroin Dealers, Bushfires, Prime Ministers, Presidents and Celebrities.

Andrew instigated the formation of “MAP Group” a collection of photographers dedicated to the documentary image. Their first major project, “Beyond Reasonable Drought”, a study on the 12 year drought affecting Eastern Australia premiered at Old Parliament House, Canberra and has since been published as a successful book. Since the late 1990’s Andrew has been a regular exhibitor, with “Click; Rural Photographs”, “The Shearers” and “Campaign” amongst the many highlights. “Campaign” has been fully acquired by the National Library of Australia. Andrew’s first book, “The Shearers” was published in November 2006, followed by ”Campaign” (2007), “Woolsheds” (2011), “Around The Sheds” (2012), “Working Dogs” (2013), and “The Long Paddock” (2014) and “Political Vision” (2015). Andrew was fortunate to receive a donor liver after a genetic blood condition nearly ended his life in 2011 and is forever grateful to his donor, their family and the wonderful surgeons and staff at Melbourne’s Austin Hospital. His work resides in collections at The National Library in Canberra, The State Library of Victoria, The Monash Gallery of Art, The City of Montpellier in France, The Horsham Regional Gallery, The City of Knox, as well as many private collections.

Alex Harris To commission Alex or to request prints of his work: www.alex-harris.com Alex Harris has photographed for extended periods in Cuba, the Inuit villages of Alaska, the Hispanic villages of northern New Mexico, and across the American South. He has taught at Duke University for more than three decades and is a founder there of the Center for Documentary Studies (1989) and of DoubleTake Magazine (1995) He is a Professor of the Practice of Public Policy and Documentary Studies at Duke. Harris’s awards include a John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship in Photography, a Rockefeller Foundation Humanities Fellowship, and a Lyndhurst Prize. His book, River of Traps, with William deBuys (1990) was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in general non-fiction. Harris’s work is represented in major photographic collections, including The J. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles, the High Museum of Art in Atlanta, The Museum of Modern Art in New York, and The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. As a photographer and editor, Harris has published fifteen books, including in 2012 with co-author Edward O. Wilson: Why We Are Here: Mobile

and the Spirit of A Southern City (Norton).

Daniel Traub To commission Daniel or to request prints of his work: http://www.danieltraub.net/ Daniel Traub (b. 1971) is a New York-based photographer and filmmaker, originally from Philadelphia. Since 1999, He has been engaged with long-term photographic projects in China, including Simplified Characters, a series of street pictures that explore the vast changes at the beginning of the 21st century in Chinese cities, as well as the series Peripheries, which looks at the landscape at the outskirts of several major Chinese cities. His photographs have been exhibited internationally, including solo exhibitions at the Catherine Edelman Gallery in Chicago, Slought in Philadelphia and the Lianzhou photo festival in China. His work can be found in public and private collections, such as the Margulies Collection at the WAREhOUSE and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. His work has also appeared in publications including Aperture, European Photography and The New York Times Magazine. His has published two monographs with Kehrer Verlag: North Philadelphia (2014) and Little North Road (2016). As a filmmaker, Traub has directed documentaries including the feature length Barefoot Artist about Lily Yeh and her collaborative artworks in war-torn communities; and Xu Bing: Phoenix, which highlights the condition of Chinese migrant laborers. He has been the

director of photography for numerous documentaries and reports for networks and production companies including PBS, German Television ZDF and Arte. His film work can be viewed at itinerantpictures.com