For our February Photo-Forum we’ll be showing photographs by Will Hartley and Finbarr O’Reilly.

Born in 1986, Will Hartley grew up in the South West of England. In 2005 he went to Newport University in Wales to study documentary photography. Since graduating he won the ‘shots young photographer of the year 2008′, ‘Ag Magazine Brilliant book awards 2010′ and ‘Vice Kopperbarg Klash 2010′ with his long term project ‘in between dreams’ which followed a group of squatters living in London. The work was exhibited in Candid Arts Trust in London with ‘off the real’ as part of a collective, and a print was selected for the Getty images gallery with the Ian Parry 2010.

He then moved to Bristol and began a long term story of a couple in and out of homelessness, called ‘Lawrence Hill’. Yasmina Reggad from photo festivals curated a projected slideshow called ‘Travelog’  with the project and took it to ‘Paraty em Foco’ in Brazil. The work has since been projected in London, Beirut and Zaragoza photo festival in Spain.

In 2011 he was awarded Honourable Mention in the Magenta Foundation, long-listed for the Terry O’Neil award and exhibited with the Third Floor Gallery in Arles. He now lives In Cardiff, working as a freelance photographer and on long term personal projects.

Finbarr O’Reilly is a Reuters photographer based in Dakar, Senegal. He began his journalism career as a writer and has covered Africa for 10 years. He turned to photography in 2005 and was awarded the World Press Photo of the Year in 2006 for his image of a mother and child at an emergency feeding center in Niger.

He has since won awards for his multimedia work and photography, including first place awards from POYi and the NPPA. His solo exhibition, “Congo On The Wire” has shown in France and Canada. His series on white poverty in South Africa was included in the exhibition “After A” in Italy in 2010. Finbarr is among those profiled in the 2011 documentary “Under Fire: Journalists in Combat, which was shortlisted for the 2012 Academy Awards.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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.