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Andrew Lichtenstein is a New York native who lives in Brooklyn. After working the beat in the city concentrating on issue led stories he began his long term project on the US penal system often travelling to the American South to document prisoners on death row. Now represented by Aurora he continues this project with the support of a Soros Foundation grant.
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Brian Walski has been a newspaper photographer since 1980. Starting his career at the Albuquerque Journal, Patriot-Ledger in Quincy, MA, and the Boston Herald. After 12 years on staff at the Herald he joined the Los Angeles Times, also as staff photographer, in September of 1998. During his career he has covered many major local, national and international stories including the Gulf War, the famine in Africa the troubles in Northern Ireland, the conflict in Kashmir and the crisis in the Balkans. Walski grew up in Chicago and studied journalism at Northern Illinois University. He is 43 years old and currently lives in Los Angeles.
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Douglas Cape has been a photographer for 15 years, after a French degree and experience in the theatre. Since the inception of QuicktimeVR in 1995, he has been making panoramas and animations for clients such as Adidas and Patek Phillipe. With partners James Waite and Gary Knight, Z360 was then formed to specialise in interactive photography. Intent on widening the scope of this new medium, Z360 has recently completed a broadband interactive drama, What We Will, using panoramas, soundscapes and text.
http://www.z360.com
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Gary Knight is a freelance, working from London for Newsweek magazine. In addition to contract work for Newsweek he works on new media projects with Z360.com and important documentary stories that offer an in depth view of world events and social issues.
http://www.Knight.sh
http://www.z360.com
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Glenn Hunt is based in the Adelaide Hills, South Australia. He spends most of his time on the road documenting Australian culture. His work has been featured in numerous newspapers and magazines in Australia as well as in international travel and lifestyle publications. In addition to his documentary work Glenn undertakes corporate commissions for a variety of regional clients.
http://www.GlennHunt.com.au
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Ilkka Uimonen, born in Finland in 1966, grew up in the small town of Rovaniemi just south of the Arctic Circle. After graduating from high school he began traveling extensively throughout the United States, Europe, and Asia, working odd jobs as he went. When he was 25 he discovered photography and enrolled in the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in The Hague, Netherlands. In 1993 he began freelancing for local and national newspapers in the Netherlands. After attending an Eddie Adams photography workshop in New York he began shooting for the Sygma Photo agency. He was awarded second prize in the General news story category of 2000 World Press Photo competition for his work in East Timor. In 2001 he joined Gamma Press USA.
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J.B. Russell is based in Paris and has been living in Europe for the past 15 years. He covers international news events and produces a variety of feature stories for US and European publications. He has worked extensively in Europe, the Balkans, Latin America and Asia among other regions. Recently, he has been pursuing a long term project concerning clandestine immigration along the frontiers of Europe as well as several film projects. J.B.'s work is distributed by Corbis Sygma in Paris and New York.
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Jeanine Pohlhaus has worked in a variety of roles including curator at Ridgway Gallery in Colorado, editor at Swanstock Fine Photography in Tucson, and photographer at the Art Center College of Design in Pasadena. As a publications and promotions manager for the Aperture foundation in New York, she was responsible for special photography book sales amongst other duties. As a freelance photographer Jeanine has travelled to Florence, Rio de Janeiro to assist staging exhibitions and to work with other photographers in workshops seminars. Jeanine has also received a dance scholarship to the Philadelphia College of the Performing Arts and studied film, photography and communications at Temple University in Philadelphia. She currently lives in New York where she freelances as a photo editor with Sipa Press.
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Jean-Marc Giboux is based in Chicago and covers news and feature stories in USA and Asia. His long term project on Polio is supported by a grant from the Rotary Foundation and the World Health Organisation. Giboux is freelance and represented by Gamma.
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Jonathan Torgovnik began his photographic career as a photographer in the Israeli army. During that period he was assigned to photograph a wide range of military activities and operations in the West Bank, Gaza, and Lebanon. In 1992 after
travelling in the far east, he arrived to New York and entered the photography program at the School of Visual Arts, Graduated with a BFA degree and Received a special Presidential award for outstanding achievement in Photography at graduation.
He is now based in New York working on documentary projects and shooting for American and European magazines. His photographs have also been exhibited in solo as well as group Exhibitions in New York and Israel. Jonathan has received several photographic awards including : The Rhodes Family Award for Outstanding Achievement in Photography, The International Photographic Council - Ira Seebacher Award, and the Kodak Professional Photographers Award. He is currently continuing work on his project about the cinema industry and culture of India.
Jonathan represents his own work and can be contacted on +1(212) 414 4894 or < jtorgo@bellatlantic.net >
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Jon Levy lives in London having spent 10 years in New York working freelance for agencies and on staff for AFP. Normally his time is split between editing foto8 and shooting new features. The story on fox hunting featured here, was completed in 2000 and is shortlisted for the 2001 Nikon Press Award in the UK. Levy is represented by Sipa Press USA and Reflex News.
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Kate Schermerhorn was born in New York in 1966 and raised in Malibu, California. She began photographing at age six. Since then her work has been exhibited at The Victoria and Albert Museum's Canon Photography Gallery, Tom Blau Gallery, London, Galerie Thierry Marlat, Paris, Fifty One Fine Art, Antwerp and The Royal Photographic Society, Bath. Her work has appeared in numerous publications including The Sunday Times Magazine, The Independent, The British Journal of Photography, San Francisco Chronicle and Granta. Kate studied photography with Joel Sternfeld at Sarah Lawrence College. She
graduated in 1989 and has since lived and worked in New York, Los Angeles, Hong Kong, Florence, Italy and from 1995 has resided in London. America's Idea of a Good Time is Kate's first book. Kate's four year old son Sacha has been by her side during much of the making of it and he now carries a camera of his own. Kate is represented by Fifty One Fine Art, Tom Blau Gallery. See also: www.kspix.com
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| Les Stone is freelance based in New York and represented by Zuma Press. The work he did on immigration was featured in Fortune Magazine as an eight-page layout and his many other stories from Kurdistan to Vietnam have won him numerouse World Press and POY awards.
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Mark Rykoff has been collecting postcards since he was eight years old. He presently sits at the International Picture Desk at Time Magazine in New York. Images from his collection of over 10,000 cards on all manner of subjects can be licensed through Corbis.
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Mikhail Evstafiev was born in Moscow in 1963. He studied International journalism at the Moscow State University graduating with a Master’s degree in 1985.
After working as a reporter for TASS news agency, he volunteered to serve in Afghanistan and spent the next two years in the 40th Army as a military correspondent. When the war ended in 1989 he returned for a brief period to TASS as an editor on the World Desk. In 1990, with a strong desire to document the turmoil in the former republics of the collapsing Soviet Union, he left the news agency to become a freelance photographer. As chief photographer for AFP he covered the August 1991 and October 1993 coups in Moscow, ethnic conflicts and wars in Yugoslavia, Chechnya, Georgia, Tajikistan, Trans-Dniestria, Azerbaijan, Nagorno Karabakh, South Ossetia. In 1996 Reuters offered him a job, first in the Moscow bureau and afterwards in London where he was posted for three years, editing photographs on the International News Pictures Desk.
He has received numerous photo awards and was twice on the panel of judges of the World Press Photo contest.
Mikhail is a member of the Union of Photo Artists of Russia and author of the novel ‘Two steps from heaven’ about the Soviet war in Afghanistan.
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| Simon Pentleton is a London based photographer who works on art and conceptual projects, he is based in hackney and collaborates with Josephine Soughan often.
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Tim Hetherington is a freelancer with Network Photographers in London. His work is project based and has recently been focused on Africa. He is also involved with the promotion and production of digital based documentary photography and is currently working on a collaborative venture - Mental Picture - which will be forthcoming in 2001.
http://www.networkphotographers.com/thetherington
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Vincent Laforet was born in Switzerland to French parents, Vincent grew up in France until the age of 5 at which point he and his mother moved to New York City. At the age of 15, Vincent asked his father, Bertrand a Gamma photographer, to teach him the basics of photography. The fascination and passion for photography has only continued to grow since then. Vincent studied print journalism at Northwestern University's Medill School of Journalism just north of Chicago and interned as a reporter for Newsday in New York. Photography internships brought him to Reuters in Washington DC, The Los Angeles Times, The Miami Herald and Agence France-Presse in Chicago. Vincent was then hired to work as a staff photographer for Allsport in Los Angeles which put him on the road for more than 200 days a year covering a variety of sporting events. After a little less than two years, Vincent was hired by The New York Times as a staff photographer where he currently shoots a variety of assignments.
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Vincent Prado .
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