Artists
Information on the creators and production studiosTim Hetherington (UK-USA)
Tim Hetherington is a photographer and filmmaker who has reported on conflicts and social issues for over ten years. His interest lies in creating diverse forms of visual communication that arise from long-term immersion in his projects. Among other forms, his work has ranged from digital projections at the Institute of Contemporary Art in London, to fly-poster exhibitions in Lagos, to downloads for handheld devices. He is the recipient of numerous awards most recently the Grand Jury Prize at the 2010 Sundance Film Festival for his documentary Restrepo.
Tim is based in New York and is a contributing photographer for Vanity Fair magazine. More information on Tim can be found at:
Brenda Ann Kenneally (USA)
Brenda Ann Kenneally is a mother and an independent journalist who lives in Brooklyn, New York. Her projects are intimate, long-term portraits of social issues and the ways they intersect at the personal and political. The result of a decade of reporting, Kenneallys book and web publication Money, Power, Respect: Pictures of My Neighborhood has received numerous awards: The W. Eugene Smith Award for Humanistic Photography, a Soros Criminal Justice Fellowship, The Mother Jones Documentary Photography Award, and The International Prize for Photojournalism in Gijon Spain. In 2006 the projects multimedia component won the Best of Photojournalism Award for Overall Best Use of the Web by the National Press Photographers Association.
Kenneally is working to push the boundaries of the social document, using the web as a tool to expand and contextualize her immersion style of reporting. In this spirit, Kenneally and independent producer Laura Lo Forti founded The Raw File, a digital theater dedicated to providing a space for provocative, open-ended media.
In 2004, Kenneally began reporting on the lives of five teen girls who would come of age in Troy, New York, an industrial city in post-industrial America. The ongoing project, Upstate Girls; What Became of Collar City, aims deep into cycles of poverty from womens emotional and psychological points of view. To date, the project has been supported by a Nikon Sabbatical Grant, the Alicia Patterson Foundation, the Canon Female Photojournalist Award, and a Getty Grant for Editorial Photography. Upstate Girls was awarded a Pictures of the Year International Community Awareness Award in 2006. Kenneally is currently working towards her PhD in electronic media at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, New York.
Paolo Pellegrin / Magnum In Motion (Italy-USA)
Paolo Pellegrin was born in 1964 in Rome. He became a Magnum Photos nominee in 2001 and a full member in 2005. He is a contract photographer for Newsweek magazine. He has won many awards, including eight World Press Photo awards, numerous Photographer of the Year awards, a Leica Medal of Excellence, an Olivier Rebbot Award, the Hansel-Meith Preis, and the Robert Capa Gold Medal Award. In 2006 he was assigned the W. Eugene Smith Grant in Humanistic Photography. Paolo is one of the founding members of the touring exhibition and installation Off Broadway, along with Thomas Dworzak, Alex Majoli and Ilkka Uimonen. He has published four books.
Paolo Pellegrin lives and works in New York and Rome.
Alex Majoli / Magnum In Motion (Italy-USA)
At the age of 15, Alex Majoli joined the f45 Studio in Ravenna, working alongside Daniele Casadio. While studying at the Art Institute in Ravenna, he joined Grazia Neri Agency and traveled to Yugoslavia to document its ongoing, complex conflicts. He returned many times over the next few years, covering all major events in Kosovo and Albania. Alex graduated from art school in 1991. Three years later, he made an intimate portrayal of the closing of an asylum for the insane on the island of Leros, Greece--a project that became the subject of his first book, Leros.
In 1995 Alex went to South America for several months, photographing a variety of subjects for his ongoing personal project, Requiem in Samba. In 1998, he started Hotel Marinum, a project about life in harbor cities around the world, the final goal of which was to perform a theatrical multimedia show.
After becoming a full member of Magnum Photos in 2001, Alex covered the fall of the Taliban regime in Afghanistan, and two years later the invasion of Iraq. He continues to document various conflicts worldwide for Newsweek, the New York Times Magazine, Granta and National Geographic.
In 2004, in collaboration with Thomas Dworzak, Paolo Pellegrin and Ilkka Uimonen, Alex created an extremely successful exhibition and installation called Off Broadway in New York, which travelled to France and Germany. He then became involved in a project for the French Ministry of Culture entitled BPS, or Bio-Position System, about the social transformation of the city of Marseilles. A recently completed project, Libera Me, is a reflection on the human condition.
Alex Majoli lives and works in New York and Milan.
Alec Soth / Magnum In Motion (USA)
Alecs work is rooted in the distinctly American tradition of on-the-road photography developed by Walker Evans, Robert Frank and Stephen Shore. This genre, which encompasses many other art formsfrom Huckleberry Finn to Easy Rider--expresses what seems to be a uniquely American desire to travel and chronicle the adventures that ensue.
Alec became a nominee of Magnum Photos in 2004 and a full member in 2008. He has received fellowships from the McKnight, Bush, and Jerome Foundations, and was the recipient of the 2003 Santa Fe Prize for Photography. His photographs are represented in major public and private collections, including the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, and the Walker Art Center. His work has been featured in numerous solo and group exhibitions, including the 2004 Whitney Biennial and a career survey at the Jeu de Paume in 2008.
Alecs first monograph, Sleeping by the Mississippi, was published by Steidl in 2004 to critical acclaim. Since then he has published NIAGARA (Steidl, 2006), Fashion Magazine (Magnum, 2007), and Dog Days, Bogotá (Steidl, 2007). He is represented by the Gagosian Gallery in New York and the Weinstein Gallery in Minneapolis.
Alec Soth is based in Minneapolis, MN.
Christopher Anderson / Magnum In Motion (USA)
Born in British Columbia in 1970, Christopher Anderson spent much of his early years in Texas. His life in photography began in the photo lab of the Dallas Morning News. In 1993, Christopher was hired as a staff photographer for a small Colorado newspaper. In 1995 he began doing freelance assignments on a wide range of subjects. In 1996, he became a contract photographer for U.S. News and World Report, where he began documenting social issues such as the effects of Russia's economic crisis, the situation of Afghan refugees in Pakistan and, more recently, the election of Evo Morales in Bolivia.
In 1999, he made a reportage on Haitian immigrants trying to sail to the United States. This project significantly changed the focus of his work to what he came to think of as experiential journalism. In 2000 the Haitian photos garnered Christopher the Robert Capa Gold Medal Award. Later that year, he photographed the stone throwers of Gaza, and was named Kodak's "Young Photographer of the Year." In 2003 his first monograph, Nonfiction, was published by deMO. In 2009 his book Capitolio was released, featuring his work on Venezuela and Hugo Chavez. In 2001 he received the prestigious Visa dOr prize at the Visa Pour lImage festival. Chris joined the VII Agency in 2002, and became a Magnum nominee in 2005.
Christopher Anderson is based in New York.
Magnum In Motion
Founded in New York, in 2004, Magnum In Motion is the multimedia digital studio of Magnum Photos. In Motion assembles visual narratives for online and offline platforms, including screenings in museums, festivals, and workshops. The studio collaborates with many world-famous photojournalists. At the Projections of Reality show, In Motions wide range of interests will be reflected by the work of four of its photographers.
inmotion.magnumphotos.com
Todd Heisler / New York Times (USA)
Todd Heisler is the only person who has met every character in One in 8 Million. A staff photographer at the New York Times since 2006, Todd travels widely on a variety of assignments. He previously worked at the Rocky Mountain News in Denver, and Copley Chicago Newspapers and Pioneer Press Newspapers in suburban Chicago. He was part of the team that received the 2003 Pulitzer Prize for Breaking News Photography for coverage of wildfires in Colorado. As well, Todd won the 2006 Pulitzer Prize in Feature Photography for his images depicting the families of Marines killed in Iraq.
The project is a joint effort of photographer Todd Heisler and a team of producers and editors from the multimedia department of the New York Times:
Andrew DeVigal: Manager of multimedia department of NYTimes.com and series editor
Meaghan Looram: Photo editor
Juliet Gorman and Jodi Rudoren: News editors
Alexis Mainland and Sara Kramer: Producers
Tom Jackson: Interactive developer and chief multimedia producer
Erika Larsen (USA)
Erika Larsen was born in 1976. Her most notable bodies of work, Young Blood and The Hunt, look intimately at hunting culture in North America, its connection with nature, and its role in the cycle of life and death.
Erika has been recognized by World Press Photo, the American Society of Magazine Editors, the Society of Photographers, and the New Jersey State Council of the Arts. She is a 2009-2010 Fulbright Fellow for her coverage of the daily lives of Sami reindeer herders. Her work has been published and exhibited internationally.
Erika Larsen currently lives and works in the Scandinavian Arctic.
Samuel Bollendorff (France)
Born in 1974, Samuel Bollendorff mastered the technical side of photography at the Ecole Nationale Supérieure Louis Lumière and then pursued his artistic education at the Fine Arts School of Paris. His works focus mainly on such social subjects as police, life in prisons, hospitals and schools. He elaborates on these subjects by questioning the place of the individual in the public sector, with emphasis on the freedom accorded to the individual.
In response to the Ministry of Culture and Communication and Visa pour L'Image, Samuel documented, at great length, the forgotten people of the Chinese economic expansion, and decided to build his work around three fundamental ideas: physical and cultural uprooting, confinement, and enslavement. In China, displaced farmers, hounded from lands cultivated for generations, are forced to abandon their traditions, their land, and their history. They have also been forced to send their children to work in dangerous and almost inhuman conditions the mines for boys, factories for girls where they will lose all hope and sometimes lose their lives.
To evoke this painful period, Samuel has created meticulous, well-controlled images, paying particular attention to attitude, movement, and light, as in a sequence where context and psychological tension is explicit. He has become an innovative talent in documentary filmmaking.
His interactive films are screened at the Honkytonk Films online project, founded by Samuel himself.
Ilkka Uimonen (Finland)
Ilkka Uimonen was born in Finland and grew up in a small town just south of the Arctic Circle. He studied at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in The Hague, Netherlands. As a photojournalist he has photographed extensively throughout the world and has been recognized with top honors for his work on Afghanistan, Iraq, Israel/Palestine, China, and the United States. His first book, Cycles, was published by Trolley Books in 2004. Ilkka has been featured in a number of critically acclaimed exhibitions including Iraq Before the Fall, and Off Broadway. Currently he is working on a new book project and finishing a film on North Korea.
Karen Mirzoyan (Armenia)
Karen Mirzoyan was born on November 16, 1981, in Tbilisi, Georgia. He moved to Armenia in 1992. Graduated from the Yerevan State Linguistic University after Valerie Bryusov (German and English languages). Participated in the photojournalism class organized by World Press Photo (WPPh) and Caucasus Media Institute (CMI) from 2004 to 2005 and finished it with Diploma of Excellence.
After that Karen won internship in Panos Pictures Agency, and practiced in photo editing in The Independent on Sundays newspaper , 2005, London, UK. In 2006 Karen was nominated and passed Training for Trainers course organized by WPPh in Amsterdam. Now he is teaching photojournalism in the Caucasus Media Institute. Karen Mirzoyan chosen one of the best 10 students from all of the courses organized by World Press Photo(in 10 years). In 2006 and 2007 he had nominations for Joop Swart Masterclass.
Yuri Kozyrev (Russia)
As a photojournalist for the past 20 years, Yuri Kozyrev has covered every major conflict in the former Soviet Union, including two Chechen wars. Immediately after September 11, 2001, he was on the scene in Afghanistan, where he documented the fall of the Taliban. Yuri has spent much of the past five years based in Baghdad, as a contract photographer for Time magazine. He has traveled all over Iraq, photographing the different sides of the conflict.
Yuri has received numerous honors for his photography, including the World Press Photo Award (four times) for pictures from Chechnya, Iraq and Beslan. He was the recipient of the Overseas Press Club Olivier Rebbot Award in 2004 for his Iraq coverage. In 2006, he was the recipient of the ICP Infinity Award for Photojournalism and he won the 2008 Frontline Club Award for his extensive coverage of the Iraq war. Yuris Ossetia series received an award of Excellence in the 2009 Picture of the Year Award in the News Picture Story category. He won the first prize in the portraits category (singles) in the 2009 World Press Photo Contest. His award-winning image is from a larger feature about victims of the Iraq war. Yuri's photographs were included in Times photo essay: 21 Days to Baghdad (2003).
Bjarke Myrthu (Denmark)
Bjarke Myrthu is a journalist and multimedia producer, and founder and CEO at the multimedia project Storyplanet.com. He is one of the ideologists and co-founders of Magnum In Motion, the multimedia digital studio of the legendary Magnum Photos. He was the executive editor at Magnum Photos from 2004 to 2008, and the director of communications at the largest Danish non-profit organization, CARE from 2003 to 2004. In 2002 he founded NewClearMedia, a company with a focus on developing digital storytelling projects for non-governmental organizations, media organizations and businesses. Bjarke has received numerous awards for multimedia and interactive storytelling projects.
Early in his career, Bjarke conceived of multimedia being more than factual, static text. We need to push the limits of storytelling by using visuals, audio, and interactivity. He believes that we need to take the media seriously by creating stories that matter, stories that educate, and stories that reach both the heart and the brain of our audience. To reach this, we need to innovate and invent new content formats, new tools, and new business models.
Bjarke is an active promoter of new media and digital storytelling concepts, and lectures around the world on these subjects (including lectures for TED).
Bombay Flying Club
Bombay Flying Club (BFC) is an independent audio visual production house in Denmark. It currently consists of three members who are all photojournalists: Henrik Kastenskov, Paul Madsen, and Brent Foster. BFC works on commission for international clients, photographers, agencies, companies, and organizations, producing stories and complete multimedia packages. The members of BFC mainly engage in long-term and personal projects, but they are now opening up as a production company for other independent photographers who want help producing professional multimedia. Using radio, broadcasting, still photography, web design and video, BFC transforms these mediums into powerful and original multimedia stories.
Henrik Kastenskov started out as a photographer in the fashion and advertising business until his craving for documenting real life stories and situations brought him to the Danish School of Journalism. Since 2006 he worked as a staff news photographer for several Danish newspapers before turning freelance. Henrik has been hooked on storytelling for a long time. In 2008 he spent a full year gathering material for an online documentary about Danish soldiers who serve in Afghanistan. The story earned him several awards for Danish Picture of the Year and from the National Press Photographers Association in the US. In 2008 he joined forces with long-time friend and former colleague Paul Madsen in the Bombay Flying Club.
Rafal Milach (Poland)
Rafal Milach was born in Gliwice, Poland in 1978. He is a graduate of the Academy of Fine Arts in Katowice, Poland (2002) and the Institute for Creative Photography in Opava, Czech Republic (2003). After school, Rafal moved to Warsaw where he worked as a freelance photographer for Newsweek Poland, Polytika and Przekroj magazines. Aside from his editorial assignments, Rafal has been making personal projects: The Grey (2000-2002), Disappearing Circus (2005-2007), Ukraine by the Black Sea (2008), and Young Russia (2004-2009). He has also been selected for the World Press Photo Joop Swart Masterclass.
Rafals photos have been published in Time, Newsweek, GQ, Courrier International, Lespresso, Die Zeit, and Courrier Japon. He has exhibited his work at the Photoespana, LOOK3, Backlight, and the Museum of Contemporary Art Shanghai. His work has been awarded in such contests as the World Press Photo and Pictures of the Year International. Rafal is co-founder of Sputnik Photos, a collective of photographers from the Central European region. Since 2006, Rafal has been represented worldwide by the Anzenberger Agency.
Boris Missirkov and Georgi Bogdanov (Bulgaria)
Boris Missirkov and Georgi Bogdanov are cinematographers and photographers, and founders of the AGITPROP Production Company and the Bulgarian Photographic Association. Since 2000 they have worked as filmmakers and independent producers on various projects. Together they served as directors of photography on the multi-awarded Georgi and the Butterflies, The Mosquito Problem and other stories, and Corridor #8. They have filmed a number of full-length creative documentaries, videos, shorts, and visual campaigns. Freelance photographers for major local and international magazines, Boris and Georgi have exhibited their work in solo shows as well as major photography and contemporary art exhibitions in Europe and the USA.
Boris Missirkov and Georgi Bogdanov live and work in Sofia, Bulgaria.
Daniel Meadows (UK)
Daniel Meadows was born in 1952. A photographer and university lecturer, he is one of the icons of the Digital Storytelling movement and is recognized as a prime mover of the new documentary photography of 1970s Britain. His many films have focused on the lives of settled gypsies, the work of hospitals, factories, and social services, and suburban life.
After graduating from university in 1973, Daniel traveled throughout England on a double-decker bus/photo studio, taking photographs of people in towns and cities across the country, and passing out the pictures among the models the next day for free. His account of that journey, Living Like This: Around Britain in the Seventies (Arrow Books), was published in 1975. Twenty-five years later, this large-scale project was revitalized when Meadows found and reshot many of the people in the same environment.
Daniels photos have been exhibited and included in the collections of many galleries and museums in London, including the Tate Modern and the Royal Photographic Society. Since 1994, Daniel has taught Media and Cultural Studies at Cardiff University's School of Journalism. Currently he teaches classes in photo appreciation and participatory media to both undergraduates and postgraduates. He also supervises dissertations.
Following a research trip to the US, he took the idea of Digital Storytelling to the BBC where, from 2001 to 2006, he was creative director of Capture Wales, a project that has been described as "the most ambitious of all the BBC's user-generated content offerings." In the 1990s, Daniel lead photojournalism workshops for the Reuters Foundation, The British Council, and other organizations in the emerging democracies of Europe--as well as in India and Bangladesh. Since 2000 he has travelled widely (mostly in Australia and the US), lecturing about his pioneering work in participatory media.
BBCs Capture Wales took a British Academy of Film and Television Arts Cymru Award in 2002, and a Cardiff University Innovation Network Prize in 2006. In 2008 Daniel received an Honorary Fellowship of the Royal Photographic Society.
Projections of Reality also features works of aspiring artists from Russia, Belarus and Ukraine:
Dmitry Markov (Russia)
Oksana Yushko (Russia)
Andrey Liankevich (Belarus)
Yulia Serdyukova (Ukraine)
Maria Ionova-Gribina (Russia)
