Authors

Mirta d'Argenzio

Jan Banning

Jan Banning was born in Almelo, Holland, in 1954, of Dutch-East-Indies parents. At university he studied social and economic history, and has been a photographer since 1981, concentrating on reportage.

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Nina Berman

Nina Berman has been photographing the American political and social landscape for close to 15 years. Her work has been exhibited and widely published in magazines throughout the world including Time, National Geographic, Harpers, Mother Jones, New York Times Magazine, Paris Match, and German Geo. Educated at University of Chicago and Columbia University, she lives in New York City where she also teaches at the International Centre of Photography.

Werner Bischof

The great Swiss photographer Werner Bischof (1916 _ 1954), studied with Hans Finsler in his native Z_rich at the School for Arts and Crafts (1932 -1936), and went on to open his own photography and advertising studio, which he ran until his military service in 1939. As of 1942, he was a freelancer for Du magazine, and earned international recognition with the publication of his 1945 coverage of the war's devastation in Europe.

http://www.wernerbischof.com

Chien-Chi Chang

Born in Taiwan in 1961, Chien-Chi Chang studied at Soochow University (B.A. 1984) and at Indiana University (M.S. 1990). Although he now divides his time between Taipei and New York, he readily acknowledges the influences of his status as an immigrant on his work.

Alienation and connection are the subjects of much of Chien-Chi Chang's work, particularly The Chain (Trolley, 2002), a collection of portraits made in a mental institution in Taiwan, where 700 inmates are chained together in pairs while they tend to the feeding and slaughter of one million chickens - iit is the largest chicken farm in the country. An exhibition of these nearly life-sized photographs is touring internationally and has been exhibited at venues including La Biennale di Venezia and the Bienal de Sao Paulo.

Less visible bonds are the subjects of a jaundiced look at marital unions in two books, the first, I do I do I do, a collection of images depicting alienated grooms and lonely brides. Chang's most recent book, Double Happiness, is an examination of arranged marriages between Vietnamese country girls and older Taiwanese men.

Chien-Chi Chang has been a member of Magnum since 1995. His work has been published by Newsweek, Time, Life, New Yorker, New York Times Magazine, London Sunday Times, Der Spiegel and National Geographic.

http://www.magnumphotos.com

Jean Michel Cousteau

Jean-Michel Cousteau (born 1938) is a French explorer, environmentalist, educator and film producer.

Cousteau's Ocean Futures Society, a marine conservation and education organization, serves as a 'Voice for the Ocean' by fostering a conservation ethic, conducting research, and developing marine education programs. Jean-Michel serves as an impassioned spokesman and diplomat for the environment, reaching out to the public through a variety of media. He has produced over 70 films, and been awarded the Emmy, the Peabody Award, and the Cable Ace Award.

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Sharmila Desai

Sharmila Desai comes from a family of dancers, most notably her great aunt Menaka and her grandmother Hima Devi, who were legendary exponents of dance. Similar to her predecessors in pushing traditional forms of movement and art, Desai has intermingled martial art, yoga and Indian dance to explore ancient ideas in the realm of the contemporary. Notable recent performances include the Venice Biennale, Deitch Projects, ICA London and the opening for the Yves Klein Retrospective at the Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt.

Thomas Dworzak

Thomas Dworzak was born in1972 in Koetzting and grew up in the small town of Cham in Bavaria.

After and while finishing high school he started to travel and photograph in Eastern Europe and the Middle East. After living in Avila, Prague and Moscow, studying Spanish, Czech and Russian, he photographed the war in former Yugoslavia. He moved to Tbilisi, Georgia, in 1993 to begin work on a long-term project on the Caucasus and its people, covering the conflicts in Chechnya, Karabakh and Abkhazia. He continues with this project today.

Based in Paris from 1999 he covered the Kosovo crisis for US News and World Report and returned to Chechnya the same year. After the fall of Grozny in early 2000 he embarked a project on the impact of the war in Chechnya on the neighboring North Caucasus, covering in between the events in Israel, the war in Macedonia, and the refugee crisis in Pakistan.

Post 9/11 he has spent several months in Afghanistan for The New Yorker and returned to Chechnya in 2002. Since the fall of 2002 he has covered the crises in Iraq, Iran and Haiti, and the US elections.

From 1995 to 1999 he was distributed by Wostok Press. In 2002 he became a Magnum nominee, in 2004 a member. He is based in Paris and New York and contributes to The New Yorker, Newsweek, USNews, Paris Match, The New York Times Magazine and Time Magazine.

http://www.magnumoffbroadway.com

Alixandra Fazzina

Alixandra Fazzina is one of the leading young, British and female photographers working in photojournalism today. Recently selected as the talent to watch for 2008 by The Independent Magazine's Photo Editor Nick Hall. Her work has been published internationally including a feature on people smuggling from Somalia across the Gulf of Aden to Yemen in The Sunday Times Magazine in January 2008, as well as in international publications The Guardian/ Observer, The Telegraph, De Stern, Newsweek, NY Times, De Zeit, Corriere and El Mundo.
Alixandra first studied Fine Art at Bristol University, then became a commissioned war artist with the Ministry of Defence, embedded with multinational troops on the frontline in Bosnia making documentary studies. Subsequent press assignments in The Balkans and Eastern Europe eventually led her back into work with British forces in Sierra Leone. Since then, leading her to spend the last 6 years based in Africa and The Middle East. Traveling widely, her photography has focused upon forgotten conflicts and humanitarian issues often ignored by mainstream media.

Alixandra’s photography has been exhibited worldwide in locations as diverse as Sao Paulo and Baghdad. Her images from the series ‘10 - Conflict & Religion in Northern Uganda’ have just been shown at the United Nations in New York, and are currently touring worldwide as part of the “Caught in the Crossfire” exhibition, highlighting the global proliferation of small arms. As well as being in several private collections, she has also shown at Parisphoto and Photolondon, and has a forthcoming exhibition 'Child Soldier' touring to the International Criminal Court at The Hague as well as War Photo Ltd in Dubrovnik.

David Fryer

David Fryer studied textiles and design at the Royal College of Art and Goldsmiths College. He lives and works in London.

Carmine Galasso

Carmine Galasso is Senior Photographer at New Jersey’s The Record. He has traveled on assignment in many countries including Malaysia, Israel and Palestine, France, Northern Ireland, India, and many more. He is married to Nina Berman, author of ‘ Purple Hearts – Back from Iraq (Trolley, 2004) He says, “Crosses…” started as a project three years ago when I became aware of the claims of victims of sexual abuse by Catholic priests in Boston. The stories of abuse of children interested me on several levels – I was born a Catholic; went to Catholic schools through high school, though I was never aware of any kind of abuse by the priests or nuns to students, or friends who I went to school with, and, certainly, it never happened to me. I also enjoy photographing people who cope with life in all situations - people who beat the odds, so-to-speak. So, the personal interest grew to a large project of black and white portraits, iconic images faith, and very personal interviews with 29 victim/survivors of sexual abuse by Catholic priests and nuns. Men and women, who as children endured the horrific, and today still pay for it.. The portraits were shot in locations across America, from Baltimore to California, that in some way are important to each person’s story. Some are more abstract than others, but reflect the torment, the pain…sometimes just the look in their eyes”

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Isabelle Graeff

Isabelle Graeff studied at the Kunstakademie in Dusseldorf and then at Central Saint Martins. London. She has exhibited in several group shows in London as well as at Artforum, Berlin in 2007. Her show at Trolley Gallery is her first UK solo show. She lives and works in Berlin.

Jan Grarup

Jan Grarup was born in Denmark, 1968. He has over the course of his eighteen-year career photographed many of recent history’s defining human rights and conflict issues.

Grarup’s work reflects his belief in photojournalism’s role as an instrument of witness and memory to incite change, and the necessity of telling the stories of people who are rendered powerless to tell their own. His images of the Rwandan and Darfur genocides provide incontrovertible evidence of unthinkable human brutality, in the hope that such events will never happen, or be allowed to happen again.

Grarup has been honored with some of the photography industry’s and human rights organization’s most prestigious awards, including two nominations for the W. Eugene Smith memorial fund for humanistic photography, eight World Press Photography awards, a special citation from the Leica Oskar Barnack Award, two UNICEF children’s awards, together with many other awards from POYi and NPPA. He has three times exhibited at VISA POUR L’IMAGE, and has won the VISA D’OR for his coverage of Darfur’s refugee crisis. Grarup has also received awards from press organizations in his native Denmark, including five times picture of the year, and five photographer of the year titles.

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Stanley Greene

Stanley Greene was a painter for many years before turning to photography in 1970. Two years later he enrolled in the School of Visual Arts in New York, and in 1973 transferred to Image Works in Cambridge, Massachusetts. In 1975 Greene enrolled in the San Francisco Art Institute where he received both a BFA and an MFA in photography by 1980. At the same time he co-founded Camera Work Gallery with five other photographers in San Francisco. In 1980, Greene began working for publications including the San Francisco Examiner and Rolling Stone. In 1986, he moved to Paris.

In 1989 he covered the fall of the Berlin Wall. He soon found himself photographing the collapse of communism and the break-up of the Soviet Union. In October 1993 Greene covered the Moscow Putsch for Lib_ration (France), the only western journalist to do so from inside the Russian Parliament building. Two of his pictures won the World Press Photo Awards

In Sudan he photographed the war and famine for Globe Hebdo (France). He travelled to Bhopal, India, for Globe Hebdo again, to report on the aftermath of the Union Carbide gas poisoning. In 1994 Greene was invited by M_decins sans Fronti_res to document their emergency relief operation in Rwanda and Zaire.

From 1994 to 2003, Greene photographed the conflict in Chechnya. A body of his work from this time was published in by Actes Sud in 1995, Dans Les Montagnes O_ Vivent Les Aigles. Greene's photographs were used in The Man Who Tried to Save the World by Scott Anderson, the story of the mysterious disappearance of Fred Cuny. Stanley Greene has been a member of Agence VU (www.agencevu.com) in Paris since 1991.

Philip Jones Griffiths

Born Rhuddlan, Wales,1936, died 19th March, London, 2008.
Philip Jones Griffiths studied pharmacy in Liverpool and practiced in London, while photographing part-time for the Manchester Guardian. In 1961, he became a full-time freelancer for the London Observer. Griffiths covered the Algerian War in 1962, and then was based in Central Africa before moving to Asia. He photographed the Viet Nam War beginning in 1966, publishing Vietnam Inc in 1971. Time Magazine called Vietnam Inc "the best work of photo-reportage of war ever published," and The New Statesman added, "Of all the hundreds of books about [the War,] this is the truest, the most important, the most upsetting."

His coverage of many of the major upheavals of the second half of 20th century has taken Philip Jones Griffiths to more than 120 countries in all five continents. In 1980, Griffiths moved to New York to assume the presidency of the legendary Magnum Photo Agency, a post he held for a record five years.

Griffiths' photographs have appeared in every major magazine in the world.

http://www.magnumphotos.com

GROUP SHOW

Carl de Keyzer

Carl de Keyser was born in Belgium in 1958, and began his career as a freelance photographer in 1982 while supporting himself as a lecturer at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts of Belgium (1982-89). At the same time his interest in the work of other photographers led him to co-found and co-direct the XYZ-Photography Gallery. A Magnum nominee in 1990, he became a full member in 1994.
By his own admission, his concerns currently rest with societies that are symptomatic of a changing world, as demonstrated by his work in India, his books on the collapse of the USSR and how Russia is now coming to terms with the post-Soviet world and, more recently, power and politics in the contemporary world treated in a series of large-scale tableaux.

His commitment to in-depth reportage does not come without cost. He contracted TB during his first visit to Siberia for his book on the prison camps (Zona, Trolley, 2003), and returned heavily dosed with antibiotics. "Unfortunately you can refuse a girl, but to refuse a vodka is the worst of social evils. I had a hard time of it."

De Keyzer, whose work is regularly exhibited in European galleries, is the recipient of a large number of awards including the Book Award from the Arles Festival, the W. Eugene Smith Award (1990) and the Kodak Award (1992). He has lectured widely in the US and Europe.

http://www.carldekeyzer.com

Jannis Kounellis

Jannis Kounellis was born in Piraeus, Greece, in 1936. In 1956 he moved to Rome to study at the Accademia di Belle Arti, and became an Italian citizen.

By the 1960s his work exploring form and materials contributed to the birth of the Arte Povera movement, of which Kounellis remains a leading exponent. In recent years he has had exhibitions at the Museo Nacional Reina Sofia in Madrid, the ICA in London, the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam, and The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York. He lives and works in Rome, Italy and Dusseldorf, Germany.

Carrie Levy

Carrie Levy is from Syosset, New York. When she was fifteen her father went to prison for four years, and Levy began to photograph the banality of her world without him. Five years later her work, redolent of waiting and loss, was published as 51 months by Trolley.

After graduating from the the School of Visual Arts in New York Levy spent three years as a photo editor for Newsweek. She worked on numerous breaking news events such as 9/11, the Iraq War, the war in Afghanistan, the Israeli/`Palestinian conflict, the Tsunami of 2005 and Hurricane Katrina.

Her first solo show exhibited at the Visual Arts Gallery, New York, in the spring of 2001. Later that year the exhibition moved to White Columns in New York.

In August 2003 began at the Royal College of Art, London, receiving an MA in fine art photography. While there she completed the series 'Domestic Stages', funded by the Arts Council of Great Britain and commissioned by the Norwich Gallery. It was first displayed in London at the Royal College of Art, as well as in the European Parliament in Brussels. The works have also been exhibited at The North Carolina Museum of Art in Raleigh, and in a solo exhibition at Daniel Cooney Fine Art in New York City. These photographs were recently shown in Boston at the Howard Yezerski Gallery, and will be seen at The Hudson Valley Center of Contemporary Art's Peekskill Project this fall. Her 'Impaired' series will be shown in a solo exhibition at Daniel Cooney Fine Art in the fall of 2006.

Joan Liftin

Joan Liftin took the photographs in Drive-Ins over 20 years, some off-hand, some desultory, some with a startling, mesmeric evocation of what the drive-in was and meant to a generation of Americans.

She was, in fact, the Chief Photographer and Editor for UNICEF, and the Director of the Documentary Program at the International Center of Photography. Her work is in the collections of the Center for Creative Photography, Tucson, the Philadelphia Museum of Art, the Akron Art Museum and the Telfair Museum in Savannah. She was also the director of the library, and an editor, for Magnum Photos. She lives in New York.

Alex Majoli

Alex Majoli, born 1971 in Ravenna, Italy, joined the f45 studio in his native city, working alongside Daniele Casadio. He was just 15 years old.

In 1989 he became a full-time photojournalist and joined the Grazia Neri agency the year after, where he remained until 1995. In 1992 and 1993 he travelled to Yugoslavia to document the conflict there, and in the following years followed the strife into Kosovo and Albania.

In 1994 Majoli dedicated himself to a long-term project on the insane asylum on the Greek island of Leros. This notoriously brutal institution, a former political prison, housed the outcasts from the country?fs psychiatric hospitals. Majoli documented the closing down of the asylum and the introduction of the inmates to island society, the result of the pioneering work of Dr Franco Basaglia, from Trieste. Majoli?fs Leros was published in 1999, as well as other photo essays on the closing of psychiatric hospitals throughout the world.

In 1995 he worked in South America where he began his personal project Requiem in Samba. The project is now focused on Brazil, where he has travelled every year since 1996.

Alex Majoli began Hotel Marinum in 2001, covering the life of harbour cities worldwide, the year he became a full member of Magnum. In 2004, together with Thomas Dworzak, Paolo Pellegrin and Ilkka Uimonen, he conceived and produced the exhibition and installation Off Broadway, shown in Soho, New York.

Alex Majoli continues to document conflicts worldwide for several major magazines including Newsweek, The New York Times Magazine, Granta, and National Geographic.

http://www.magnumoffbroadway.com

Brice Marden

Brice Marden is a major figure in the American minimalist art movement, with retrospectives at the Guggenheim in New York, the Pompidou Centre in Paris and the Whitechapel Gallery in London. He lives and works in New York.

Robert Gordon McHarg III

McHarg is an artist and underground gallerist living and working in London.

Lucky Michaels

Lucky Michaels is a young photographer, living and working in New York.

He was one of the first people to start working at Sylvia's Place, whilst studying at Parson's School of Design. Along the way he documented, with his camera, the people and the characters that bring a one-room shelter to life.

He continues to work at Sylvia's Place.

Pierpaolo Mittica

Dr. Pierpaolo Mittica, an Italian photo-reporter, was born in Pordenone (Italy) on August 6, 1971. He lives in Italy in Spilimbergo, and is a dentist by profession. He completed his first project of social reportage in Sarajevo in 1997, and since then went on to produce his first published work on Kosovo in 1999. From 2002-4 he visited Belarus and the Ukraine several times to document the heritage left by Chernobyl.

Warren Neidich

Warren Neidich works and lives between Berlin and London. Recent exhibitions include Masquerade (2006), Los Angeles County Museum of Art, The Expanded Eye (2006), Kunsthaus, Zurich, (2007) NGBK, Berlin, The Moscow Biennial, (2007). He was chosen by French curator, Ami Barak for the exhibition “About Beauty “ at this year’s Artforum Berlin. In the past his work has been shown at such institutions as the Whitney Museum of Art, New York City, Palais de Tokyo, Paris, the Walker Art Museum, Minneapolis, Minnesota, and P.S.1, MOMA, Long Island City. His publications include American History Reinvented, (1989), Earthling, (2005) with an interview by Hans Ulrich Obrist and an essay by Barry Schwabsky and Blow-up: Photography, Cinema and the Brain (2003). He is recipient of The Arts Council of England Merit Award,2005 and The British Academy Award, 2005. He is currently visiting artist and research fellow at the Center for Cognition, Computation and Culture at Goldsmiths College, London,.

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Deirdre O'Callaghan

Deirdre O Callaghan was born in Co Cork, Ireland. Having finished her studies in Ireland she moved to London in the early 90s.

One of the original Dazed & Confused magazine team, she remained on the staff for five years before concentrating on her freelance career working mainly within the music industry, shooting bands and album artwork for all the major record labels.

She also works on more personal projects, including: work with the residents of Arlington House the largest men's hostel in Europe; Rhodes Farm a treatment centre for teenagers with eating disorders; and more recently the West Memphis Three, the story of three young men serving life sentences in Arkansas.

O Callaghan's first solo show was at Dublin's Gallery of Photography in 2001. She was part of the group show 'Stepping In, Stepping Out' at London's Victoria and Albert Museum in 2002 curated by Charlotte Cotton. Hide That Can was awarded book of the year by The International Centre of Photography in 2003 and Arles Recontres de la Photographie. Her work is part of the permanent collection at the V&A. Her pictures have also appeared in The Saturday Telegraph, The Saturday Independent, The Observer Magazine, The Face, Arena, Esquire, Mojo and Spin.

http://www.deirdreocallaghan.com

Franco Pagetti

Franco Pagetti is the most recent member of the respected VII agency, joining in November 2007. He has emerged as one of the principal chroniclers of the Iraq war, his photographs appearing in Stern, Le Figaro and most notably in TIME Magazine, are the definitive images of the most important news story of our time.

His images have captured the horrors of war, the brief flowering of hope after the downfall of Saddam Hussein, the rise of insurgent and terrorist groups, and more recently, the inexorable descent into a bloody sectarian civil war.

Most of his recent work has involved conflict situations: Afghanistan, Kosovo, East Timor, Kashmir, Palestine, Sierra Leone and South Sudan.

“The most inspirational thing about Franco is his determination... He has been committed to this story, as a witness to history. He has developed a distinctive visual style that is very much his own, and sets him apart from the other photojournalists who cover this conflict.” Alice Gabriner, Photo Editor, TIME Magazine.

Paolo Pellegrin

Paolo Pellegrin was born in Rome, Italy in 1964. He became a full member of Magnum Photos in 2005 and has been a Newsweek contract photographer since 2000.

His images of the AIDS epidemic in Uganda won him the World Press Photo first prize in 1995, and the Vis D'Or in Perpignan the following year. Since then he has continued to win world awards, including the prestigious Hasselblad Grant, first prize in People in the News by World Press Photo in 2000 for his work on Kosovo, the Leica Medal of Excellence in 2001 and the Overseas Press Club Award 2004.

His past books include Children (1997), which documented his work in Uganda, Romania, and Bosnia and Cambodia (1998), the fruit of his collaboration with Medicins sans Frontieres in Italy, Paolo Pellegrin lives in Rome and New York.

http://www.magnumoffbroadway.com

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Jarret Schecter

In 1990 Jarret Schecter purchased a Pentax camera. Since then he has traveled the world. Committed to socio-political issues, Schecter believes that photography can bring awareness to social injustices the world faces today. Schecter, born in 1963, lives in New York City.

Mike Smith

Mike Smith Studio in London has been in operation since 1990. The studio has realized a broad range of contemporary work from Damien Hirst's tanks to Rachel Whiteread's Monument project for Trafalgar Square.

The studio employs approximately 20 people many of whom are also practicing artists and in this way also aims to provide a means through which un-established artists can subsidise and facilitate their own practice.

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Chris Steele-Perkins

Chris Steele-Perkins, was born in 1947 and moved from Rangoon to London with his family in 1949. He graduated with honours in psychology at the University of Newcastle-upon-Tyne (1967-70) while working as a photographer and picture editor for the student newspaper.

He became a freelance photographer in London in 1971 and first undertook commissions abroad in 1973 in Bangladesh, followed by work for relief organizations and travel assignments. In 1975 he worked with EXIT, a group dealing with social problems in British cities. He then joined the Paris-based Viva agency in 1976.

In 1979 his first book, The Teds, was published. Steele-Perkins joined Magnum and soon began working extensively in the Third World, for which he was quickly recognised as being inspirational in bringing home uncomfortable truths. His latest large-scale project is in Afghanistan, and he is also working extensively in Japan.

His reportages have received high public acclaim and have won several awards, including the Tom Hopkinson Prize for British Photojournalism (1988), the Oscar Barnack Prize (1988) and the Robert Capa Gold Medal (1989).

http://www.magnumphotos.com

Tom Stoddart

Tom Stoddart began his photographic career with a provincial newspaper in his native North East of England. In 1978 he moved to London and, working freelance, started to regularly supply national newspapers and magazines.

During the eighties he worked extensively for the Sunday Times newspaper. During 1982 he was in Beirut when the Israeli forces bombed Yasser Arafat's besieged PLO base. Five years later he was back in Beirut shooting a world exclusive on the horrific conditions inside the Palestinian camp of Borj el Barajneh, where Dr. Pauline Cutting was trapped.



In July 1991 Stoddart travelled to Sarajevo to document the civil war that was engulfing Yugoslavia. The work from Sarajevo was published across the world. Returning a year later for The Sunday Times Magazine, Tom was seriously injured in heavy fighting around the Bosnian Parliament buildings.



After a year of recovery he returned to photojournalism with a feature on the aftermath of the Mississippi floods and, later that year, an award-winning photo-essay on the harsh regime for the training of Chinese Olympic Child Gymnasts.

In December 1993 Stoddart returned to Sarajevo to report on the hardship of life in the city during a freezing winter under siege. The trip confirmed his fascination with a city that he was to return to on a dozen different occasions until the Dayton Peace Accord in 1995.

In 1997 Tony Blair gave Stoddart exclusive access for three months to document his election campaign as Labour swept to victory after 18 years of Conservative government.

Mario Tauchi

Mario Tauchi is an artist living and working in Tokyo.

Amanda Tetrault

Amanda Tetrault is a photographer based out of Montreal, Canada, and Bangalore, India. After graduating from Dawson College in Montreal she worked at two of the most significant photography workshops in the world _ The Maine Photographic Workshops, Rockport, Maine and The Toscana Photographic Workshops, Tuscany, Italy. For two years she was assistant to the famed National Geographic photographer Steve McCurry. During this period she worked on the production of his books Portraits (Phaidon Press) and South South East (Phaidon Press).

Larry Towell

Larry Towell was born in Canada in 1953. He joined Magnum Photos in 1988 and became a full Member in 1993.

"If there's one theme that connects all my work, I think it's that of land-lessness; how land makes people into who they are and what happens to them when they lose it and thus lose their identities."

His short film “Indecisive Moments” has won an Achievement in Filmmaking for a Documentary
(Short) at The New York International
Independent Film and Video Festival (NYIIFVF)
known as “the voice of indie film.”

Ilkka Uimonen

Ilkka Uimonen was born in Finland in 1966 and is currently based in New York, his work is widely published in Europe and the United States. He became a nominee of Magnum in 2002.

http://www.ilkkauimonen.com

Vedovamazzei

Founded in 1990, Vedovamazzei is the working name of Italian artists Stella Scala and Simeone Crispino born in Naples in 1964 and 1962 (respectively).

Nick Waplington

Nobody knows where Nick Waplington comes from. And we don't mean which town, but which planet. More than this, it's difficult to say.

Lawrence Watson

Lawrence Watson is the quiet man of British photograpy.
He puts people at ease, works fast, aiming for energy and rawness over artifice and pretension. As this retrospective exhibition shows, it works every time.

Masayuki Yoshinaga

Masayuki Yoshinaga is one of the leading fashion and reportage photographers of his generation, whose images appear in such prestigious magazines as Studio Voice, Dazed & Confused, The Face and Barfout!

His work was recently shown in the Barbican Art Centre's Jam exhibition and at the Dazed & Confused Gallery in London. He lives in, and continues to investigate, the subcultures of Tokyo.

Yoshinaga explains: "As far as the Bosozoku are concerned, what I really want is for people to acknowledge who they really are. The Bosozuko are the youngest age group in Japan to create their own scene as the expression of a public spectacle. For me, even their motorbikes are an art form. They show what it means to be liberated".

Adam Broomberg and Oliver Chanarin

Adam Broomberg and Oliver Chanarin are a photographic team based in London. Together they have produced three photographic books; Trust (2000) which accompanied their solo-show at The Hasselblad Center, Ghetto (2003) a collection of their work as editors and principal photographers of Colors magazine and Mr Mkhize's Portrait (2004) which documented South Africa ten years after apartheid and accompanied their solo show at The Photographers' Gallery.

They are the recipients of numerous awards for their work, including the Vic Oden Achievement award from the Royal Photographic Society. They have also been awarded a number of photographic commissions, including projects for The National Portrait Gallery, The Soros Foundation and The Arts Council of England.

They are currently working on a commission for Photoworks, and their next book to be published in 2006 by Steidl. Broomberg and Chanarin regularly teach workshops in photography, including the MA photojournalism course at LCC. They continue to work for a number of magazines including The Guardian Weekend, The Observer Magazine and Life. Last year they produced their first film, commissioned by Channel 4.

Paul Fryer, Damien Hirst

Selected Artists (MII)

Texts by Umberto Galimberti, Curzio Maltese, Said Abdel Khaleq. Photography by Massimo Berruti, Giancarlo Ceraudo, Emiliano Mancuso, Riccardo Scibetta and Mario Spada.

Earth Pledge Foundation

Mark Sanders, Kyochi Tsuzuki, Fumiya Sawa

Alvaro Siza, Eduardo Souto de Moura

Klaus Zwangsleitner, Berlin Press

If, after I die, they should want to write my biography,
There's nothing simpler.
I've just two dates - of my birth, and of my death.
In between the one thing and the other all the days are
mine.

Fernando Pessoa