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See more Thomas Dworzak was born in Kötzting, Germany, in 1972. After photographing the war in former Yugoslavia, he moved to Tbilisi, 1993-8, while documenting the conflicts in Chechnya, Karabakh and Abkhazia and working on his book about the Caucasus region (Kavkaz, 2010). He photographed in conflict zones around the world for international magazines, including in Afghanistan and Iraq following 9/11, for the New Yorker, and became a Time magazine contract photographer in 2007. He is author of Taliban (2003) and M*A*S*H I*R*A*Q (2007) and is currently working on Valiassr, an essay about Tehran's main avenue. A member of Magnum Photos since 2004, Dworzak now lives in Tbilisi. See more Gueorgui Pinkhassov was born in Moscow in 1952. After studying cinematography at the VGIK (the Moscow Institute of Cinematography), he went on to work at the Mosfilm studio as a set photographer. In 1979, he produced an independent reportage on the set of the film Stalker, at the invitation of its director, Andrei Tarkovsky. He moved permanently to Paris in 1985. His first book Sightwalk was published in 1999, demonstrating his approach to photography: his images often approach abstraction, exploring details through reflections or particular kinds of light. He has been a full member of Magnum Photos since 1994. See more Alec Soth was born in 1969 in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Recipient of fellowships from the Bush, McKnight and Jerome Foundations, his photographs are represented in major collections including San Francisco MOMA and the Museum of Fine Arts Houston. His exhibitions include the 2004 Whitney and São Paulo Biennials, and he is the author of five books of photographs to date: Sleeping by the Mississippi (2004), NIAGARA (2006), Fashion Magazine (2007), Dog Days, Bogotá (2007) and The Last Days of W (2008). Soth is represented by Gagosian Gallery in New York, Weinstein Gallery in Minneapolis, and became a full member of Magnum Photos in 2008. See more Jonas Bendiksen was born in Tønsberg, Norway, in 1977. He began his career, aged 19, as an intern at Magnum's London office, before leaving for Russia to work as a photojournalist. His book of photographs from the fringe of the former Soviet Union, Satellites, was published in 2006. His awards include the Infinity Young Photographer Award, (New York, 2003), and a Pictures of the Year First Prize (Missouri, 2003). His documentary of life in a Nairobi slum, Kibera, published in the Paris Review, won a National Magazine Award in 2007 and became part of his book Places We Live (2008). He became a full member of Magnum Photos in 2008. See more Martine Franck was born in Belgium, and studied art history at the University of Madrid and the École du Louvre in Paris. Her portraits of artists and writers earned her membership of the Vu agency and, in 1972, she contributed to the founding of the Viva agency. Her major series include her work since 1985 about the Little Brothers of the Poor, her documentation of Tory Island - off the coast of Ireland - and of the Buddhist child lamas known as the Tulkus, both since 1993, and her work on the Théatre du Soleil since it began in 1964. Franck has been a member of Magnum Photos since 1983. See more Alex Majoli was born in 1971 in Ravenna, Italy, studying at the Art Institute in Ravenna while beginning to work as a photojournalist. His major projects include his documentation of an insane asylum on the island of Leros, Greece (that became his first book, Leros, 2002), his ongoing series about urban Brazil and its favelas, Requiem in Samba, and his work about harbour cities around the world, Hotel Marinum. Majoli covered the fall of the Taliban and the invasion of Iraq, and works for publications worldwide including the New York Times Magazine, National Geographic and Newsweek (who he currently works for as a staff photographer). Majoli became a member of Magnum Photos in 2001. See more Martin Parr was born in 1952 in Epsom. An influential satirist of life in contemporary Britain, he is the author and editor of over fifty books, both of his own work and of photographs he has collected, including The Last Resort (1986) - his first book of colour photographs, of New Brighton beach, near Liverpool - Common Sense (1999), Boring Postcards (1999), The Photobook: A History Vol. 1 (2004) and Luxury (2009). His work has been exhibited at museums worldwide, including at MoMA, New York, Haus der Kunst, Munich, Jeu de Paume, Paris, and Reina Sofia, Madrid. Parr became a member of Magnum Photos in 1994. See more Paolo Pellegrin was born in 1964 in Rome. He studied architecture, initially, then photography at the Istituto Superiore di Fotografia in Rome (1985-7), before making a transition to photojournalism. Now a contract photographer for Newsweek magazine, Pellegrin is winner of many awards, including eight World Press Photo awards, a Leica Medal of Excellence, an Olivier Rebbot Award, a Robert Capa Gold Medal and, in 2006, the W. Eugene Smith Grant in Humanistic Photography. Pellegrin's books include Kosovo 1999-2000 (2004), Double Blind: Lebanon Conflict 2006 (2007) and As I Was Dying (2008). He lives in New York and Rome and became a full member of Magnum Photos in 2005. See more Mark Power was born in Harpenden, England, in 1959. His photographs have been seen in numerous exhibitions around the world, including in solo shows at The Photographers' Gallery, London, The Open Eye Gallery, Liverpool, the Brighton Museum and Art Gallery, The National Media Museum, Bradford, Conjunto Cultural da Caixa, Brasilia, and Centro Cultural Recoleta, Buenos Aires. He has published four books to date: The Shipping Forecast (1996), Superstructure (2000), The Treasury Project (2002) and 26 Different Endings (2007). Power is Professor of Photography at the University of Brighton and has been a full member of Magnum Photos since 2007. See more |