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I am following something that is absurd. I have to do it. There is a certain grade of darkness, memories, confusion, pushing it to the limit, to reveal something that no one can see. But it exists. Somewhere. With a loss of factual information, something hidden wants to be discovered to resonate in the world. That is what I am trying to do with photography. The work requires doubts, calmness, change, vulnerability, ecstasy and a high amount of naivety to go somewhere that can not be planned. I do not feel well with logic transcriptions. The narrative must be open. To be rewritten by the viewers own reality.
I am a third generation photographer living in Northwest Montana. I was born in Saudi Arabia as the son of an engineer and a teacher. We travelled extensively as a youth and as a result I have always been curious about the “other.” I remember being fascinated by my fathers cameras and never been allowed to touch them-probably a well founded rule. I give this credit for the start of my passion. As a child I struggled with learning differences and the method of education offered was lacking. This all changed though once I entered high school. At the age 14, it was finally my turn when the my high school photography teacher took me under her wing. I quickly became known as the kid with a camera always around his neck. I became very involved in our schools publications which led me to earning a BFA in photography. In college, I worked for several different newspapers and found my voice as a photographer. Looking back I have an impression of always being the best. I rode my ego through all of this time not anticipating what was to come. I graduated at the crossroads of 9/11, the boom of digital photography and the drying of budgets. After a very fair rejection from the Dallas Morning News I fell into a major slum in life and with my work. I left everything behind and headed for the mountains. Four hundred dollars to my name, a backpack and a Holga camera, I started over. I photographed big adventures and my ever growing community of support. This life led me to a career as a wilderness therapy guide mostly in the desert Southwest and eventually as a Licensed Clinical Social Worker. When I first looked back at this time in my life I felt regret. Regret for not being more resilient or dedicated to my art during those years. As if I lost precious time of potential and opportunity. Now as I turn toward my passion as more than a hobby again. I am able to see my path more clearly. Over the last two decades I have learning about and witnessed humanity in the intimacy of a therapeutic relationship. Now this understanding has allowed me to engage my subject matter with so much more vision and understanding. I now want to deeply understand and see what is truly in front of my lens. I now want to make art not because of what it mean to others but what it means to me.
Jonathan Young is a photographer in Los Angeles specializing in corporate, editorial, and food photography. With a passion for storytelling, clean compositions, and attention to detail, he creates images that command attention. Comfortable on sets large and small, he often works alongside video productions with demanding production schedules. Grounded in 20 years of experience, he’s seen it all and can quickly and confidently work to meet and exceed client expectations.
Jenn Ackerman and Tim Gruber are a husband and wife team based in Minneapolis, MN. You will almost always find them working side by side, which has been the case since grad school. They enjoy the collaborative nature of being a tight-knit team and pushing each other to create images that sing. Their goal on every assignment is simple – evoke emotion and authenticity in every image they make. They take an authentic approach to their work and specialize in providing images of real people to advertising, corporate and editorial clients. They pride themselves in being storytellers and work to create a narrative in every photo they take. Their work has been honored by the Communication Arts Photography Annual and Advertising Annual 2009, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2017, 2019, American Photography 28, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36 PDN Photo Annual, Review Santa Fe Center Project Competition, Photolucida’s Critical Mass, Inge Morath Award, Magnum Expression Award, POYi, and many others. Their most recent documentary film won an Emmy and they were named a McKnight Fellow and to PDN’s 30 Photographers to Watch. For their aerial work, they are FAA 107 certified pilots and fully insured.
Joseph Sywenkyj is an American photographer of Ukrainian descent. Among his many awards, Joseph was the recipient of the prestigious W. Eugene Smith Grant in Humanistic Photography in 2014. From 2014-2016 Joseph was a Fulbright Scholar in Ukraine documenting severely wounded Ukrainian soldiers and activists. Joseph’s photographs have appeared in many of the world’s most respected publications. His work has been exhibited in numerous galleries and museums including Musée de l’Elysée in Lausanne, Switzerland; Les Rencontres d’Arles in Arles, France; George Eastman House in Rochester, New York and the United Nations Visitor’s Lobby in New York City among many other venues.
Alex grew up in a dive bar in Minnetonka, MN, owned by his father and a partner. In the beginning, his mom worked there as a bouncer and Alex had many jobs there including janitor, dishwasher, busboy and a short-lived stint waiting tables. The bar was sold and demolished when he was 18, but in its short, glorious existence, it was both a magical and challenging place that gave Alex an appreciation for the wide spectrum of life. His experience in photography began as an assistant in Minneapolis, MN before starting a 16-year journey as a photojournalist, digging into the world around him while working for news organizations in Iowa, Florida and North Carolina. He now creates portraiture and lifestyle photography for a variety of editorial and commercial clients while paying special attention to people and their spirit. He currently lives in Durham, North Carolina with his wife Kallyn (a former photojournalist turned doula and documentary family photographer), their dog Caya, nine chickens and a bunch of outdoor neighborhood cats that he tries to make friends with. He was an attendee of the Eddie Adams Workshop and his work has been recognized by American Photography, PDN Faces, POYi and other organizations.
I take authentic, moment-based images for brands and publications. My work has varied in scope and subject matter, but certain things remain consistent: an emphasis on curiosity, human connection, and immersive experiences. I love exploring new places, meeting new people, and learning about cultures and communities outside of my own. Ask me to travel and I will say yes.
Tai Power Seeff grew up in Los Angeles, CA, and at age 17 moved to New York City where she studied Photography, Anthropology, and Cinematography at New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts. Photojournalist Angel Franco of the New York Times was one of her first mentors at NYU, and after graduating from university she became the first assistant to fashion photographer Todd Marshard. She has since had the privilege of working with such photo luminaries as Steve McCurry and Dana Gluckstein. With family hailing primarily from Mexico, Italy, and South Africa, she has traveled the world from an early age, and has lived in Rome, Italy; Rio de Janeiro, Brazil; Cape Town, South Africa; and Chiang Mai, Thailand. This international experience, coupled with the creative influence of her father, photographer/filmmaker Norman Seeff, has inspired her own career as a travel and portrait photographer.
Emmanuel was born in 1977 in Saumur (loire valley). Torn between his two passion, music and photography, he decided for the second as a career. In 1997, he served during his military time in Paris at the etablissement cinematographique et photographique des armees. This job led him to work closely with the French government. For four years, he then continued to follow the prime minister at the time, Lionel Jospin in all his national and international trips as its official photographer, confronting himself to a wide range of situations and subjects. once Jospin’s mandate ended, Emmanuel left the administration and joined imapress agency in 2001 covering societal and political stories. Rich from these experiences, he decided to go freelance in 2004 and has been multiplying collaborations with various wire agencies (Reuters, Gamma, Strates) publications and corporations worldwide since then. Along with long term personal projects about Tchernobyl and immigration issues in France, he covers various stories about politics, sports, lifestyle, and fashion always in a very personal style and numerous corporate and editorial portraits.
After a decade-long career as an experimental nuclear physicist, Minesh Bacrania has established himself as an editorial and documentary portrait photographer with a strong connection to New Mexico and the Southwest. His portraits and photo essays exploring the unique people, culture, and artistic traditions of the region have been featured in numerous national magazines and publications. Available for assignment anywhere, he lives with his son in the mountains outside of Santa Fe, New Mexico. Clients include: Editorial The New York Times The Wall Street Journal The Guardian Preservation Magazine Audubon Society Magazine Southwest: The Magazine New Mexico Magazine American Craft Magazine Food Network Magazine Boston Magazine Commercial / Advertising Newport News Nuclear / BWXT Google Goldman Sachs Huffington Post Creative Labs Environmental Defense Fund Johns Manville Corporation National Trust for Historic Preservation Los Alamos National Laboratory Sandia National Laboratories Santa Fe Institute Descartes Labs New Mexico Department of Cultural Affairs
Irwin Wong is a professional photographer based in Tokyo. He specializes in editorial portrait and documentary photography. Known for his punchy portraiture and insightful documentary photography, Irwin’s client list is truly international with names such as Amazon, Nike, The Washington Post, Carl Zeiss, Forbes, Shiseido, Mitsubishi Motors and more. His first photobook about Japanese craftsmanship is due out in Spring of 2020, published by Gestalten.
Oksana Parafeniuk is an independent photographer based in Kyiv, Ukraine, where she is exploring the manifestations of human resilience and dignity among people facing hardships. Her main interest is to explore creative approaches in documentary photography. In addition to her personal projects, Oksana has worked with and published her work in The Washington Post, The New York Times, NBC News, BuzzFeed News, The Wall Street Journal, Al Jazeera English, Rest of World, U.S. News & World Report, Newsweek, Expresso newspaper / Portugal, MSF Doctors Without Borders, UN Women, BBC Ukraine, Incisive Media, UNHCR, Internews Ukraine, L’Oeil de la Photographie, Bird in Flight Magazine, Ukrainian Truth, Prism Photo Magazine, and others. Participated in several Ukrainian exhibitions, among which a major group exhibition called “What is Your Name”, organized by UNICEF on the theme of internally displaced people, shown at Mystetskyi Arsenal in Kyiv, Ukraine (December 2016).
ABOUT Whether it is a runner focusing before an Olympic race, a refugee becoming the first of her community to receive a university degree or a climber looking up at the mountain he will measure himself against, emotions are the common thread, human and universal. Telling people stories with earnestness and honesty is what I strive to do every time I pick up a camera. I am grateful that photography has given me so many opportunities to live unique experiences. There are too many to list exhaustively, but highlights include sailing an expedition yacht around Cape Horn, being invited to an Ethiopian coffee ceremony in Dadaab Refugee Camp, photographing Usain Bolt at the Olympics, skiing to the North Pole, naming three (small) mountains in Greenland, adventure racing through Tierra del Fuego, climbing on K2 and getting winched from a rescue helicopter at night [1]. I can’t wait to see what happens next! My work is currently divided more or less evenly between adventure and humanitarian/development projects. I currently live in Canmore, Alberta, but frequently travel back to my former home base of Chamonix, France.
WHO I AM? Photo by Anastasia Taylor-Lind Hi, I’m Julia, a Ukrainian photojournalist and filmmaker based in Kyiv, Ukraine. As a storyteller, I mostly focus on human issues – the start and the end of everything is hidden inside a person. My photos, covering Maidan Revolution, the annexation of Crimea and Donbass war were published in BBC Online, The Guardian, The Telegraph, The Huffington Post, The National Geographic, Bild Am Abend, Gazeta Prawna, Le Nouvel Observateur, Ceska Televize, Zeit etc. These pictures also were exhibited and became the part of different photobooks in UK, USA, France, Serbia, Germany and Ukraine. I’m open for assignments worldwide, full packed with the trainings and equipment to cover stories in conflict zones. Able to work under tight deadlines, proficient in working in shifts and in 24X7 work environment, individually and independent in multicultural regions. Speak English and basic German, native Ukrainian and Russian languages. And the last but not the least, I’m always open for collaboration with directors, camerawomen and cameramen, sound designers, musicians, performers, street artists.
Having photographed throughout Africa, and sometimes further afield, for the last decade – through his work Tobin has attempted to not only cover the breadth of the continent, but also the diversity within it. This has included stories on Somalia’s fight against Al Shabab and the country’s emergence from more than 20 years of civil war, to transgender issues, and the intersection of modern religion with traditional healing practices in slums.
Born in 1980, I came to photography in my early twenties, after a journalism school. Very quickly, I couldn’t go out without my camera. Portrait came naturally and today, it’s my main way of meeting the world. I love to establish a real bond and deliver strong images. Former editor in chief of a national magazine in France for 15 years, I am well aware of the needs of editorial clients. With other activities today such as retoucher and print producer, I also know a lot about high-end photo standards. I am also always willing to listen to the brief carefully and to deliver the images on time. I would love to work with you !
Justin Tsucalas is an award-winning photographer and owner of Plaid Photo, a Baltimore, MD based studio. As a Baltimore native, he has spent over a decade photographing the people and scenes of his native city. From documenting the quirky life of a city dogwalker to capturing the culinary masterpieces of Baltimore’s celebrated chefs, he enjoys shooting a wide-range of subjects. Justin established himself as a lifestyle photographer by winning the 2016 PDN World In Focus grand prize for my "Drift Wood" photo essay and by being featured in Emerging Photographer Vol. 7, No. 1 for my "Post Collegiate" series. Regardless of the subjects, his aim is to capture the feel and authenticity of a moment that allows viewers to see the scene for what it actually is whether it’s beautifully intriguing or completely out of the box.
Photographer and Director of Photography based in São Paulo, Brazil. Twice a nominee for the Joop Swart Masterclass and winner of the Canon Prize 2007, in Holland, Luiz studied photography at the UofN, in Hawaii, portraiture at the ICP, in New York, and cinematography at the GCI, in Los Angeles, and Maine Media Workshops. He has photographed in more than 50 countries for several publications around the world.
Every photograph begins with an idea. The job of a photographer is to not only capture the vision, but manipulate it into art, bigger than life and beyond any initial expectations. Photographer, Clay Cook, has learned the importance of going the extra mile, after a long, arduous run in the music business. As a result, his wisdom, field experience and work ethic has pushed him further into an inspiring career in Advertising and Editorial photography. Over a short period of time, Clay has shaped creative projects with brands such as: A&E, History, Lifetime, Comcast, Uproxx, Livestrong, NFL, Papa John’s Pizza and Vince Camuto. In addition, he has brought to life, worldwide assignments for publications such as National Geographic, Time, Forbes, Popular Mechanics, The Guardian and W Magazine.
Tim Gerard Barker is an award-winning photographer and filmmaker based in Vietnam since 2012. Tim was based in Hanoi until early 2016 when he relocated to Ho Chi Minh City. He has extensive experience working throughout Asia and he is available for assignments worldwide. Tim has experience working on a wide range of photography and videography projects including: travel, documentary, portraiture, hospitality, corporate and industrial. Tim’s desire to explore the world and to understand different cultures drives his work. His images capture real people and real places with a colourful, graphic style. Tim’s travel imagery is represented by the Lonely Planet Images collection at Getty Images, for commercial work he is represented by NOI Pictures and Studio @ Getty Images and he is also on the roster at Wonderful Machine. Tim’s work has garnered numerous awards over the years, with citations in the International Photography Awards, Australia’s Top Photographers and Travel Photographer of the Year.
Brendan Hoffman (b. 1980, Albany, NY, USA) is a documentary photographer based in Kyiv, Ukraine, where his work reflects his interest in themes of identity, history, politics, and the environment. His recent focus has been on Ukraine, beginning with the 2013-14 Maidan protests in Kyiv, from which his pictures were published and exhibited widely, and continuing with extensive coverage of the war in eastern Ukraine. His work has been supported by regular assignments for The New York Times as well as a 2018-19 Fulbright Scholar fellowship and grants from the Philip Jones Griffiths Foundation, TheDocumentaryProjectFund grant, and the National Press Photographers Association. In 2017 he was named a Reporting Fellow by the South Asian Journalists Association to photograph a project about the challenges faced by India and Pakistan in sharing water resources in the Indus River basin while confronting climate change and population growth. This became his first feature story for National Geographic Magazine, published in July 2020. Brendan has also documented his native United States with his ongoing project “The Beating of the Heart,” an exploration of contemporary Middle America in the context of free trade, the decline of blue-collar jobs, and economic and political polarization through the lens of a small town in Iowa. The project has been supported by a 2019 Magnum Foundation Fund grant, a 2017 artist residency at the Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts in Omaha, Nebraska, and a 2017 Yunghi grant. From 2007 to 2013, he was based in Washington, DC, and frequently covered Capitol Hill and the White House. Brendan has worked on assignment in more than twenty countries for clients including National Geographic Magazine, The New York Times, TIME, Getty Images, The Washington Post, Newsweek, NPR, Al Jazeera, and USA Today, among others, and is a co-founder of the photography collective Prime.