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Sept 2015 back issue
Patrick Ward
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During the last five decades Patrick Ward, born in London in 1937, has continuously
photographed the English at play, bringing a wry and affectionate eye to his images of
their eccentric and often bizarre rituals.His interest in photography began while
completing compulsory military service in the 1950s. The only escape from army camp
then was an evening course and Patrick chose photography. By some miracle his then
girlfriend sent him the seminal book, The Family of Man, a photographic monument to
the joys and tribulations of life, as edited by the great Edward Steichin. The dye was
cast. A full time photography course was followed by a much more rewarding learning
curve assisting John Chillingworth, of Picture Post fame. His was a generous influence,
helping Patrick to make the leap from student to working photographer. Patrick then
went freelance and was lucky to catch the new wave of newspaper colour magazines
springing up in the early 1960s. He worked with the Observer and Sunday Times
magazines and later for the Telegraph Magazine during the 1960s and 1970s, travelling
widely on assignments.
In 1980 a Bicentennial Fellowship allowed him to explore America for a year and this led
on to assignments from American journals, Including National Geographic Traveler and
Chris Steele-Perkins
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British, b. Burma 1947 Chris Steele-Perkins moved to England with his father at the age
of two. He went to school at Christ's Hospital. At the University of Newcastle-upon-Tyne,
he studied psychology and worked for the student newspaper, graduating with honors in
1970 when he started working as a freelance photographer, moving to London in 1971.
Apart from a trip to Bangladesh in 1973 he worked mainly in Britain in areas concerned
with urban poverty and also sub-cultures. In 1975 he worked with EXIT, a collective
dealing with social problems in British cities. This work culminated in the book Survival
Programmes in 1982. He joined the Paris-based Viva agency in 1976. In 1979, he
published his first solo book, The Teds. He also edited, and purchased the images for,
The Arts Council of GB’s book, About 70 Photographs.
Steele-Perkins joined Magnum in 1979 and soon began working extensively in the
developing world, in particular Africa, central America and Lebanon, as well as
continuing to document Britain. He published, The Pleasure Principle, a work exploring
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 12 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.
George Bennett
To commission George or to request prints of his work: www.georgebennettphoto.com
George Bennett’s photographs have appeared in Sports Illustrated, Esquire, Vanity Fair,
Time, New York Magazine, & The New York Times Magazine, among others. His six
published books include Mannequins (Knopf), Fighters and Real Men (Doubleday), and
Inside Track: A Photo Documentary of NASCAR (Artisan).
In addition to his books and editorial work, Bennett has for years specialized in
environmental portraits. He has photographed Presidents Bush, Clinton, and Carter as
well as many other world leaders.
His portraits of corporate CEOs and board chairmen have been featured in the annual
reports of many Fortune 500 companies. Advertising clients have included Coca Cola,
Sony, Philip Morris, General Electric, Dupont, TBS, Time Warner, ESPN and many
others.
Martin Alan Smith
To commission Martin or request prints of his work: smithmartinalan@gmail.com
I am a Photographer and Videographer. I am interested in themes of political and social
control and how these are manifested.
My work has been published by: FT, The Guardian, Bloomberg, Business Week, RT/
Ruptly and Reuters.
I studied at the London College of Communication on the MA Photojournalism and
Documentary Photography.
I am currently working on a personal project concerning surveillance in society.
Lukas Birk & Sean Foley
To commission them or to request prints of their work: www.afghanboxcamera.com
Lukas Birk is an Austrian artist who exhibits regularly and organises visual media workshops. He has set up artist-in-
residence programs in China and Indonesia and has organised networks of local artists to co-operate with those in his
native Austria. His most recent photo book deals with modernistaion in China. Currently, he is working on a project to
archive private photographic records from Myanmar. (www.myanmarphotoarchive.org)
Sean Foley is an ethnographer from Ireland specialising in visual anthropology. He works as a researcher on art projects
and has made ethnographic films on mortuary workers in India, and tourism in Pakistan and Afghanistan. He is currently
working on a photo book about Indian minute camera photography.
Previous to the Afghan Box Camera research Sean and Lukas worked together between 2005-2007 researching tourism
in Afghanistan and the surrounding region. This resulted in the book "Kafkanistan" with an accompanying multi-media
exhibition.
Ambroise Tezenas
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Born in Paris, France in 1972, Ambroise graduated from the Applied Arts School of Vevey,
Switzerland in 1994. First based in London and then Paris, he worked as a photo-
journalist for both french and international magazines, spending much of his time
traveling in South East Asia, Central and South America.
From 2001, Ambroise has essentially devoted his time to landscape photography and
started a 5 year project witnessing the changes happening in Beijing before hosting the
Olympics.
In 2006 Ambroise Tézenas gained international recognition through his first book, Beijing,
Theatre of the People, which won the European Publisher’s Award for Photography.
Published in seven languages, this project was exhibited at many venues in Europe and
Asia, including the Kunsthal Museum in Rotterdam and the Arles Photography Festival in
France.
Senen Germade
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Senén Germade currently lives and works between London and Galicia, Spain. He
received his BA (Hons) in Photography in 2012 from University of Plymouth following a
Master of Pharmacy in Spain. When not working as a pharmacist, he has taken his
camera on his travels to Nepal and Japan. In 2015, he is graduating with distinction
from the MA Photojournalism and Documentary Photography course at London College
of Communication, University of the Arts London.
Michael Borek
To commission Michael or request prints of his work: www.michaelborek.com
Michael Borek, a photographer now based in Washington, DC, is originally from Prague,
Czech Republic. Only after graduating from the School of Economics in the 1980s, he
realized that he did not want to work as an economist under the communist regime.
Instead, he took a job as a night watchman, while attending intensive English courses
during the day. After passing the required exams, he started working as a freelance
interpreter, which gave him more flexibility to pursue his interests. One of them,
photography, stayed with him all of his life, and later turned into his second career.
In 2006, Borek became a member of the Multiple Exposures Gallery in the Torpedo
Factory in Alexandria, Virginia, and he started showing his photographs. In 2008, he
had a solo exhibition at the Czech Embassy in Washington, DC, and, in 2009, he was a
featured artist in the Rayko Gallery in San Francisco. His photographs from an
abandoned lace factory in Scranton, Pennsylvania, were selected for juried shows by
curators from the Corcoran, Whitney, Hirshhorn, Getty, and Phillips museums. One of
them won second prize in the fine art category of the international competition of
FotoWeek DC in Washington, DC. In 2011, one of Borek’s solo exhibitions featuring his
works from this portfolio was ranked as one of the ten best photography exhibitions in
Mauro D’Agati
To commission Mauro or request prints of his work: maurodagati@hotmail.com
Mauro D’Agati, born in 1968 in Palermo, began working as a professional photographer in 1995, initially documenting
Sicilian jazz festivals, art and theater events, before working for Italian and international magazines. Steidl has published
D’Agati’s Palermo Unsung (2009), Alamar (2010), Napule Shot (2010) and Sit Lux et Lux Fuit (2012).
Damien Schumann
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A fascination in the human condition has driven Schumann’s career since first picking
up a camera in 2001. As a photographer and installation artist he specializes in making
strategic exhibitions for advocacy and social mobilization purposes. After hitchhiking
across Africa to create his first exhibition in 2003, Schumann received a scholarship to
study photography at the Ruth Prowse School of Art which he completed with distinction.
His work won much praise with Archbishop Desmond Tutu and Joseph Amon (Director
of Human Rights Watch) opening his exhibitions, and Bill Gates requesting to visit
participants in his series Dialogues. Working with RESULTS he achieved his most
successful campaign, having US$37.5m being placed into public health care in Indonesia.
After working extensively on the USA/Mexico border Schumann presented a series of
lectures at Princeton, Duke and Johns Hopkins Universities looking at the visual
anthropological values of his work relating to TB/HIV and stigma.In 2011 Mail & Guardian
recognized Schumann as one of the most influential youths in South Africa. He has also
Elena Hermosa
To commission Elena or to request prints of her work: www.elenahermosa.com
Elena Hermosa is an Spanish photojournalist and videographer. Based in Ireland since
2008 she began her career in 2006 working and living in Middle East. Focusing in various
social justice issues, Hermosa has collaborated with several NGO’s and publications as a
photographer and videographer.
Hermosa completed her undergraduate studies in Social Work and Masters degree in
international Cooperation and humanitarian intervention. She completed Media studies
degree in Ireland and graduated from the documentary photography and Photojournalism
program at the International Center of photography in New York where she has been
award with ICP George and Hoyce Moss Scholarship 2015.
Her images and short documentaries have appeared in publications like New York Times,
Huffington Post, The Irish Times, Rwanda post, Films for Action among others.
Hermosa has been award by Thomson Reuters Foundation scholarship 2013 and got
finalist in Manuel Rivera-Ortiz film festival 2015 and ICCL Human Rights Film Awards
2015.
Berris Conolly
To commission Berris or to request prints of his work: www.berrisconolly.com
After many years in advertising photography, Berris Conolly began to work on documentary landscape in the early 1980s.
He exhibited in several London galleries, and in 1985 began a personal project to photograph the borough of Hackney
where he lived. This resulted in a body of work which has recently gained a wide audience through the publication of
Hackney Photographs 1985-1987 (Dewi Lewis Publishing). He moved from London to Sheffield at the end of 1988 to work
on a commission for Untitled Gallery (now Site) to document the city, working with other photographers on the three-year
Regeneration Project, which culminated in exhibitions across the city in 1991 to coincide with the World Student Games.
In addition to his own photography he runs a small publishing company, and is an experienced exhibition printer.
Jacob Balzani Loov
To commission Jacob or to request prints of his work: www.lordcob.com
Jacob Balzani Lööv (b. 1977) is an Italian photographer and writer based between Milan
and Zurich. He is primarily interested in underreported social and environmental issues,
and he feels the need to communicate these stories through any suitable media. He
views his journalistic work as a form of activism; one in which people are informed in an
equal and truthful way.
In 2012, he graduated from the London College of Communication’s Photojournalism
and Documentary Photography department. Curious about the processes and the links
between different systems, in 2003 he graduated with a degree in Environmental
Sciences. His love for the mountains then pushed him to work with the Swiss Federal
Institute of Technology in Jungfraujoch (3580 m asl.), which is the highest research
station in the Swiss Alps. In 2007, the data he collected on the transport of air pollutants
Britain in the 80s. In 1992 he published Afghanistan, the result of four trips over four years. After marrying his second wife,
Miyako Yamada, he embarked on a long term photographic exploration of Japan publishing his first book of that work, Fuji,
in 2000. A highly personal diary of 2001, Echoes, was published in 2003, and the second of his Japanese books, Tokyo
Love Hello, was published in February 2007. In contrast a black and white study of English rural life, Northern Exposures,
was published in summer 2007. He published a 40 year perspective on England, England, my England, at the end of
2009. A study of British centenarians Fading Light was published in 2012. His latest book, A Place in the Country which is
an examination of an English country estate, Holkham, was published in November 2014.
He has recently opened a studio in Los Angeles, travels a lot looking for story ideas, shoots portraits and makes art in his
loft downtown.
been an artist in residence in Brazil, awarded a National Arts Grant (for Borderline), and was nominated for Ikusasa’s Artist
of the Year 2012. In 2013 he completed a Masters in Documentary Arts at the University of Cape Town, with his thesis
focusing on the crisis of masculinity in South Africa.
the Smithsonian Magazine.Throughout this period Patrick continued his personal project of photographing the English at
play, mostly in black and white. Patrick’s primary concern has always been to simply and honestly document individual
people, whatever their social background.
In 2014 Patrick published a collection of his personal work titled Being English.
Antonio Zazueta Olmos
To commission Antonio or to request prints of his work: www.antonioolmos.com
Antonio Zazueta Olmos is a Photojournalist who has worked covering issues concerning
Human Rights, The Environment and Conflict. He has worked extensively in the
Americas, The Middle East and Africa for Newspapers and Magazines around the world
as well as leading NGOs
Antonio was born in Mexicali, Mexico in 1963. He studied Photojournalism at California
State University, Fresno until 1988. Antonio began his career at the Miami Herald in
1988 where he was a staff photographer for 3 years. He moved to Mexico City in 1991 to
become a freelance photographer from where he covered news stories in Central
America and the Caribbean for the Black Star Photo Agency. Antonio has been based in
London since 1994 and is represented by the Eyevine Photo Agency. Antonio was the
recipient of a First Place Award in the World Press for the People in The News Category
for his work in the Palestinian Occupied Territories in 2001.
Antonio has worked in conflict zones in Northern Ireland, Haiti, Israel/Palestine, Iraq,
Afghanistan, Somalia and Angola. In 2013 The Landscape of Murder was published by
Dewi Lewis , a project which documented every murder site in the city of London in 2011 and 2012.
across the planet allowed him to attain a PhD. Deeply attracted to global events, after observing during his numerous
journeys just how fast and dramatically the world was changing, he decided to stop his scientific work and fully commit
himself to photography.
Jacob Balzani Lööv works for several NGOs worldwide, often in places that are difficult to access. Expert in Eastern
Europe and Caucasus he is a regular contributor to Al-Jazeera and Eurasianet. His work has been published on many
printed and online international magazines including Newsweek, The Guardian, The Wall Street Journal, Vice, etc. He is
currently available for commissions.
In 2009 he won the Nikon Story Teller Award for his photographs of Cuba commissioned by the New York Times Magazine
and was shortlisted for the Prix de Académie des Beaux-Arts and the Pictet Prize in 2012. Represented by Galerie Mélanie
Rio (France), his work is part of the Bibliothèque Nationale de France collection.
Photographer and author, his latest book, I Was here (Dewi Lewis Publishing 2014), captures though landscape
photography people’s increasing interest in visiting places linked to death and destruction.
His work features regularly in major international publications, including the New York Times Magazine and The New Yorker.
Washington, DC, by photography critic Louis Jacobson. In 2012, the Maryland State Arts Council awarded Borek an
Individual Artist Award and Grant. In 2013, the US Embassy in the Czech Republic presented a solo retrospective exhibition
of Borek’s photography at the American Center in Prague, and, in May 2014, this exhibition was shown in Pilsen, Czech
Republic. In June 2014, Borek had a solo exhibition at the Czech Embassy in Washington, DC, as a part of celebration of
90th anniversary of death of Franz Kafka. In July 2015, Borek presented his project “What Would Sudek Do?” in a solo
show in New York City in the BBLA Gallery in the Bohemian National Hall.
Mark Kauzlarich
To commission Mark or request prints of his work: www.markkauzlarich.com
Mark Kauzlarich is an American documentary photojournalist and Master's candidate at
the University of Missouri, pursuing a Masters of Arts in Photojournalism. In the summer
of 2015, Mark was the Thomas Morgan Intern in Visual Journalism at The New York
Times. He graduated from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in May of 2012 with a
double major in Middle East Studies and Political Science and speaks two dialects of
Arabic.
Mark's work during the unrest in Ferguson, Missouri was honored by College
Photographer of the Year in 2014 as one of the year's top domestic picture stories. He
has attended the 2013 Eddie Adams Workshop, the 2014 Prime Workshop at the Oso
Bay Biennial, and the 2015 New York Portfolio Review.
Mark’s clients include The New York Times, Reuters, and various other outlets. His work
has been published and featured by TIME, Lens, The Associated Press, The Los
Angeles Times, The Washington Post, and others.
He is available for hire for assignments in the United States or abroad.
Isabell Zipfel
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Isabell Zipfel grew up in Rome and now lives in Berlin.
Her clients include among others:
The Guardian, Al Jazeera, Days Japan, Aftenposten Innsikt, UNAIDS, Deutsche Welle, Arte TV, Zenith, taz-die
tageszeitung, Gazeta Wyborcza, Alternatives Internationales, Der Standard, Handelsblatt, Global Journal, POZ Magazine.
Awards include:
WPGA Portrait Award :: Runner Up :: Portrait
International Photography Award (IPA) :: Finalist :: Environmental issues
WPGA Editorial Award :: Honorable Mention
Pollux Awards :: Winner :: Evironmental Issues
Visual Culture Awards :: Award of Excellence :: Singles
Brian Finke
To commission Brian or request prints of his work: www.brianfinke.com
Brian Finke graduated from the School of Visual Arts in New York City in 1998 with a BFA
in photography. Since that time, he has had incredible success as an artist, with work
placed in nine museum collections here and abroad. The author of 2-4-6-8: American
Cheerleaders and Football Players, Umbrage Editions 2003, Flight Attendants,
powerHouse Books 2008, Construction, DECODE Books 2012 and U.S. Marshals,
powerHouse Books 2014. His first monograph was named one of the best photography
books of 2004 by American Photo magazine. Also in 2004, Finke was one of twelve
artists nominated for the International Center for Photography’s annual Infinity Award,
and he won a prestigious New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship.
