The magazine of the photo-essay
May 2020 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 18
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.
Christopher Jones
To commission him or to request prints of his work: christopher-jones.net
Christopher Jones is a freelance editorial photographer, based in Bristol, UK and is
known for his creative feature and news coverage for quality newspapers and
magazines, which include the Daily and Sunday Telegraph (for whom he was a
contract photographer for some years), The Times and the Sunday Times, The
Guardian, The Observer, The Independent. He has also had work published in Time
Magazine, Sunday Times Magazine, The Telegraph Magazine, The Lady, Saga
Magazine, BBC Countryfile, New York Times, Washington Post, Boston Globe, Der
Spiegel, Stern, Sydney Herald and many other publications around the world.
As a photojournalist, Christopher also covers more specialised subjects including
environmental portraiture, reportage, interiors, architecture, food, travel and
investigative journalism. Most of Christopher’s images are available to buy from
Alamy and Shutterstock/Rex.
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 dachshunds, Jessie, Rosie and Ted.
Barry Lewis
To commission him or to request prints of his work: www.barrylewisphotography.com
Barry Lewis is an award-winning photographer and filmmaker whose work has
appeared in many international publications including The Sunday Times and Life
magazine.
Judith Black
To commission her or to request prints of her work: www.judithblack.me
Known for her large format photographs using Polaroid Type 55 black and white film
documenting the domestic interior and exterior, Judith Black has been a practicing
photographer since 1979, when she entered the MIT photography program leading
to a Master of Science in Visual Studies in 1981. During that time she realized that
her most potent subject matter was close to home, recording her family of four
children and partner. She has been a photographer with an eye for the strange and
marvelous in the everyday, she has focused her lens with precision, humor, and
deadpan reckoning. Her photographs of domestic life in its many dimensions have
been exhibited throughout the US and abroad. A recipient of a Guggenheim
Fellowship in 1986, Black was part of a new wave of photographers arising in the
1980s whose work revealed how the domestic interior, the lives of children, and the
daily habits of the family are filled with meaning and arresting visual interest.
Peter Bialobrzeski
To commission him or to request prints of his work: www.bialobrzeski.net
Peter Bialobrzeski studied Politics and Sociology before he became a photographer
for a local paper in his native Wolfsburg/Germany. He travelled extensivly in Asia
before he went back to study photography at the Folkwangschule in Essen and the
LCP in London. In the last seventeen years he has published seventeen books. His
work has been exhibited in Europe, USA, Asia, Afrika and Australia. He won several
awards including the prestigious World Press Photo Award 2003 and 2010. Since
2002 Peter is a regular Professor for photography at the University of the Arts in
Bremen/Germany. Furthermore he runs workshops around the world. He is
represented by Laurence Miller Gallery in New York, LA Galerie in
Frankfurt/Germany and also shows with Robert Morat Gallery in Berlin, as well as at
m97 Gallery in Shanghai. In 2012 he was honored with the Erich Salomon Award by
the German Society of Photographers (DGPh).
Kip Harris
To commission him or to request prints of his work: www.kharrisphoto.com
Harris grew up in a small farming community in the Intermountain West of the US.
He holds degrees in English literature from Dartmouth College, in humanities from
the University of Chicago, and architecture from the University of Utah. He was a
principal of FFKR Architects in Salt Lake City for nearly 30 years.
A serious photographer since the late 80s, he has exhibited in the United States,
Canada, Australia, and Europe with four solo and over eighty group shows. He has
been published in Shots Magazine, The Photo Review, Art Reveal,
Smithsonian.com, Street Photography Magazine, Barren Magazine, and a number of
on-line photographic sites.
He now lives on the South Shore of Nova Scotia, Canada in an 1823 cottage
Grounded in both the craft and the theory of photographic representation, Black taught in the Art Department at
Wellesley College from 1987 to 2010. She was the head of the photography area and was instrumental in creating and co-
directing the Media Arts and Science program in concert with the Computer Science department.
Judith Black’s work has been shown at museums internationally and is included in permanent collections such as the
Museum of Modern Art, the Huston Museum of Modern Art, the Fogg Museum at Harvard University, the Polaroid
International Collection and the Davis Museum and Cultural Center at Wellesley College.
overlooking the St. Margaret’s Bay. He and his wife created Company X Puppets (a highly portable puppet, dance, theater
group established to present intimate mixed media works).
Debiprasad Mukherjee
To commission him or to request prints of his work: wordpress email
Debiprasad is an Indian freelance documentary photographer based out of Kolkata,
India. He strongly believes in the power of photography in changing people’s
perspective towards social changes & issues. His photographic vision is not only to
depict social, political and financial issues & conflicts but also to portray surreal
beauty and the enduring power of the human spirit. His photographs have been
published in many international magazines/websites e.g. Vogue Italia, National
Geographic, F-Stop (USA), Rammajamma Images (Australia), Society of
International Travel & Tourism Photographers (UK) etc. and exhibited globally like
International Exhibition of Art & Photography at "Galerie Romain Rolland", Indo-
French Cultural Center, New Delhi (2015), Slovenia International Photographic
Exhibition (2016), Asian University for Women Bangladesh (2016), Photo Life – Art
Hub Annual Exhibition Kolkata, India (2015), Instagram First Ever Photography
Exhibition in India (2016) etc.
He has received numerous honors like Photographic Society of America Gold Medal, Photo Association of Serbia Gold
Medal, Czech Federation of Art Photography Silver Medal, Fédération Internationale del'Art Photographique Bronze Medal
World Photo Hungary, Diploma from Image Sans Frontiere France, Zivko Janevski Bronze Medal to name a few. He is also
a winner of Nikon India PowerYourClicks Photography Contest 2016, Fotoforum Award Germany, runner up in
InterAction (alliance organization in Washington, D.C. of NGOs) 14th Annual Photo Contest for “Women Empowerment”
2016 and a finalist of HIPA Award 2016.
Katie Waggett
To commission her or to request prints of her work: www.katiewaggett.co.uk
Katie Waggett is a London based documentary photographer. She graduated with
First Class Honours in Graphic Arts and Design, and holds an MA in Photojournalism
and Documentary Photography from London College of Communication. Her work
has been exhibited both in the UK and internationally, and her prizes include D&AD
(British Design and Art Direction) Best New Blood, and the Andrew Winterburn
Documentary Photography Award.
