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.

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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

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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.

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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.