Photo-Forum #45

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For our first show of 2012 we’re pleased to announce presentations from Elizabeth Dalziel and Carlos Jasso.

Elizabeth Dalziel started her career as a photographer for Siglo 21 newspaper in Guadalajara in 1995. In 1997, she joined the Associated Press covering Latin America from Mexico City. She moved to Israel in 2000 to be a photographer for the AP’s Jerusalem bureau, where she covered the second Intifada. From 2002-2005, she was the South Asia photo editor and chief photographer for the AP in New Delhi, she also took part in photographing the ongoing conflicts in Afghanistan, Pakistan and Iraq. In 2005 she was relocated to China, as an AP Beijing bureau staff photographer where she covered mainland China, as well as stories throughout the far East including North Korea. In 2007 She was awarded the John S. Knight Fellowship at Stanford University, and after a year’s sabbatical she returned to her base in China in 2008 and remained in Beijing until 2010.

Elizabeth is currently based in London, where she works as a freelance photographer specializing in news, feature and daily life photography.

Awards throughout her career include a Human Rights Photography award from the Rutherford Institute for her coverage of the Acteal Massacre in Chiapas and a John Faber award from the Overseas Press Club of America for her coverage of the Second Intifada. The AP has also recognized her work with a President’s award for her coverage of the war in Iraq and a Managing Editor’s award for her coverage of the 2004 Tsunami off the coast of Sri Lanka. She received an Award of Excellence in Pictures of the Year International in 2007 for an Issue Reporting picture story and a Best of Photo Journalism award in 2010.

Carlos Jasso has worked for the last 3 years in Mexico. During his first two years in Mexico he worked as the main stringer with The Associated Press in Guadalajara and Monterrey where he covered the present drug war illustrating the social and political impact on society. In 2006, the Mexican president, Felipe Calderon, declared a war on drugs and to combat organised crime resulting in more than 45,000 dead and 10,000 disappeared people. Carlos as a photojournalist attempted to cover this war on drugs from an objective and ethical point of view.

At the beginning of 2011 he moved to Mexico City where he has been working as the main stringer for Reuters, sporadically covering the drug war and developing a variety of stories on the Mexican culture: female wrestlers, clowns, sex workers on the Day of the Dead , yoga in prisons etc. Prior to Mexico, Carlos worked for 5 years as a freelance photographer in London for the Independent newspaper, Bloomberg and National.

Carlos will present a collection of his work mainly on the drug war but will also show a few stories about Mexican culture

Jacobs are putting on two DSLR video training sessions with video pioneer Dan Chung. There’s an intro course on Monday 9th January which will concentrate on equipment. On Tuesday 10th January the intermediate level workshop will focus on planning and production.

Contact Filip or Donal on 020 7436 6996, prosales@jacobs-photo.co.uk for more info.

Fire regulations limit us to 100 people in Jacobs’ Pro Lounge. We rarely hit this limit but if you can come a few minutes early there’s less chance of being bounced if the evening proves more popular than usual.

As always we’ll raffle prints from the photographers showing their work to help fund Photo-Forum. The raffle pays for food in the pub after the show (so please come along to share a plate and a glass!) with donations to good causes when there’s any left over.

The Photo-Forum raffle is the cheapest ever way to own a print from one of today’s leading photographers, please support it and you could win some great work for just a few pounds.

Photo-Forum #44

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For our Christmas show in December Photo-Forum we’re pleased to announce presentations from Michelle Sank and Mary Turner.

Michelle Sank was born in South Africa and now lives and works in the UK. Her work is concerned with the notion of encountering, collecting, and re-telling, so creating sociological landscapes, interplays of human form and location that are significant in their visual, sociological, cultural and psychological nuances.

Michelle Sank will be talking about the start of her career in South Africa and how this has developed both through personal projects and through the wider arena of commissions.

Sank’s photographs have been exhibited and published worldwide and she is the winner of several photographic awards. Her work is held in both private and permanent collections. A monograph “Becoming” was published in 2006 followed by “The Water’s Edge” in 2007 and “The Submerged” in 2011.

Mary Turner has been working as a photographer for six years. After studying in London she moved to the Midlands to train on a local newspaper and at a regional agency before returning to London. She currently freelances, primarily for The Times, and works on documentary projects in her spare time. She will be showing her work on the recently evicted Dale Farm Travelling community, a project that was begun in January 2009.

Fire regulations limit us to 100 people in Jacobs’ Pro Lounge. We rarely hit this limit but if you can come a few minutes early there’s less chance of being bounced if the evening proves more popular than usual.

As always we’ll raffle prints from the photographers showing their work to help fund Photo-Forum. The raffle pays for food in the pub after the show (so please come along to share a plate and a glass!) with donations to good causes when there’s any left over.

The Photo-Forum raffle is the cheapest ever way to own a print from one of today’s leading photographers, please support it and you could win some great work for just a few pounds.

If you’d like to show your work at Photo-Forum or would like to suggest a photographer for a show please email us at photoforumuk@gmail.com.

Photo-Forum #43

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For our November Photo-Forum we’re pleased to announce two presentations focusing on print and e-book publishing from Mark Esper and Alex McNaughton.

London-based photojournalist Mark Esper will take us from photographs to eBooks. Mark recently launched his first photo book “CONFLICTED: London’s Faces of Protest” for the iBookstore on the iPad. Mark will give us the stories behind the photos, describe how the book was made, its development for iBooks and the lessons he learnt in the process.

Mark is a member of the British Association of Journalists, and works as a freelance photo-journalist and contributor to the New York based photo agency Polaris Images both in the UK and overseas. Mark has been nominated twice for the ANI Coup de Coeur award at the VISA Pour L’ Image photojournalism festival 2010 & 2011. His work has been exhibited at the Palais de Congrès in Perpignan, France. He has been published in Der Spiegel, Süddeutsche Zeitung, The Guardian, Hola, Heres and Cappelen Damm Salg amongst other newspapers.

Alex MacNaughton has been working as a news and features photographer since 1992 when he began photographing the British road protest movement. Since then he has gone on to cover a wide range of subjects in the UK and abroad.

His work has appeared in numerous publications at home and overseas. He has recently had his fourth book, London Tattoos, published. All his books are published by Prestel Publishing. Alex will be showing work from his latest book and talking about the process of getting books published.

Fire regulations limit us to 100 people in Jacobs’ Pro Lounge. We rarely hit this limit but if you can come a few minutes early there’s less chance of being bounced if the evening proves more popular than usual.

As always we’ll raffle prints from the photographers showing their work to help fund Photo-Forum. The raffle pays for food in the pub after the show (so please come along to share a plate and a glass!) with donations to good causes when there’s any left over.

The Photo-Forum raffle is the cheapest ever way to own a print from one of today’s leading photographers, please support it and you could win some great work for just a few pounds.

October Photo-Forum Cancelled

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Jacobs are doing some building work next month and we won’t have access to the Pro Lounge for an October show. Apologies to you all.

We should be back as usual in November and we’re hoping to have shows by people who have self published books of their work. More details nearer the time.

Photo-Forum #42

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For our September Photo-Forum we’re pleased to announce presentations from Lottie Davies and Jane Hilton.

Lottie Davies was born in Guildford, UK, in 1971. She had a conventional childhood in Surrey with her parents and two brothers, and was educated in Alton and Godalming.  After a degree in philosophy at St Andrews University in Scotland, she moved back to England to learn the photographic trade as an assistant in London, where she has since been based. Davies has been working as a professional photographer since 2000.

Davies’ unique style has been employed in a variety of contexts, including newspapers, glossy magazines, books and advertising.  She has won recognition in numerous awards, including the Association of Photographers’ Awards, the International Color Awards, and the Schweppes Photographic Portrait Awards.  Her work garnered international acclaim with the image Quints, which won First Prize at the Taylor Wessing Photographic Portrait Awards 2008 at the National Portrait Gallery in London.

As a photojournalist, she focuses on lesser-known communities and on ethno-political issues, putting forward a sharply critical view of contemporary Western complacency, with a desire to illuminate the lives of those often overlooked.

Her travel and editorial work is wide-ranging, from highly-produced set-pieces to more journalistic imagery, and this breadth of experience in varying approaches informs the fine art work for which Davies is rapidly becoming known.

Her fine art work is concerned with stories and personal histories, the tales and myths we use to structure our lives: memories, life-stories, beliefs.  She takes inspiration from classical and modern painting, cinema and theatre as well as the imaginary worlds of literature. She employs a deliberate reworking of our visual vocabulary, playing on our notions of nostalgia, visual conventions and subconscious ‘looking habits’, with the intention of evoking a sense of narrative and movement.  Sandy Nairne, director of the National Portrait Gallery in London, has described Davies’ work as “brilliantly imaginative”.

Jane Hilton, photographer and filmmaker lives in London. She started out as a classical musician, graduating in 1984 with a BA (Hons) in Music and Visual Art from Lancaster University. Her love of photography brought her to London, working as an assistant for numerous fashion and advertising photographers before going it alone in 1988. Early work included both fashion and editorial alongside her documentary projects which are the mainstay and passion of her work today.

“My work is about the extraordinary realities of ordinary people’s everyday lives, revealing their individual characteristics and ways of being that one so often overlooks”.

It was on her first trip to Arizona in 1988, that she discovered an obsession for America and American culture. The contradictions in American society and the American dream is a recurring theme. Her work in Las Vegas is an epitome of this, where the line between fantasy and reality is constantly blurred. The transient nature of Vegas mixed with the incessant gambling philosophy provides a unique breeding ground for characters who live out these contradictions. Her series “Forever Starts Now” on the McDonalds’ style wedding culture illustrates this.

From proclamations of everlasting happiness in Vegas, Jane hit the empty desert roads of Nevada ending up 350 miles away near Reno, where a roadside brothel called ‘Madam Kitty’s Cathouse’ caught her eye. This chance encounter became a two year project and resulted in a ten-part documentary series for the BBC, “The Brothel / Love For Sale”, as well as a series of exhibitions on desert landscapes, pimps and prostitutes.

Inspired by a commission in 2006 to photograph a 17 year old cowboy, Jeremiah Karsten, who travelled 4,000 miles on horseback from his native Alaska to Mexico, Jane set off on her own four year pilgrimage, criss-crossing the cowboy states of Nevada, Arizona, Utah, Texas, New Mexico and Wyoming to capture America’s 21st century cowboys which has culminated in her recently published book – Dead Eagle Trail.

Jane’s work is regularly published in The Sunday Times Magazine and The Telegraph Magazine.

Fire regulations limit us to 100 people in Jacobs’ Pro Lounge. We rarely hit this limit but if you can come a few minutes early there’s less chance of being bounced if the evening proves more popular than usual.