Photo Photography

Tag: documentary

  • Mario Gerth

    Mario Gerth

    Mario Gerth is a Dutch journalist and a photographer. He has travelled to more than 75 countries on five continents. Throughout his travels he has witnessed the beauty of many cultures, as well as civil war, violence and poverty. His photographs have been exhibited international and published in numerous magazines.

    “Beautiful and dynamic portraits by Dutch photographer Mario Gerth. Beautiful is an understatement in this case, Mario’s subjects span from different regions across Africa, from countries such as Namibia, Niger, Kenya, Mali and Ethiopia”, (African Digital Art Newtork 2013).

  • Carol Beckwith and Angela Fisher

    Carol Beckwith and Angela Fisher

    Carol Beckwith is an American author and photographer known for her photojournalism, partnered with Australian photographer Angela Fisher, documenting indigenous African tribes. Together they have published fourteen books and films. Their photography has also featured in Time, Life, Marie Claire, Elle and National Geographic magazines. The Beckwith-Fisher images have been captured through many journeys and deep relationships which they have formed with various tribal groups.
    Sadly the traditional African cultures are disappearing quickly, therefore this duo are working hard to get their third volume of African ceremonies ready for publication in 2013. They still have thirteen African cultures to cover and the book is entitled, “African Twilight.”

    “Beckwith and Fisher have done more than anyone to awaken the world’s appreciation of everything African, from adornment to the rapidly vanishing ceremonies”.
    — Peter Keller, PhD, President of the Bowers Museum, Santa Ana, California

    Books Available in our Library:
    Beckwith, C. Fisher, A. 1945. African Ceremonies. New York: Abrams
    Beckwith, C. Fisher, A. 1990. African Ark: People of the Horn. London: Collins and Harvell

  • Joey Lawrence

    Joey Lawrence

    Joey Lawrence is a Canadian commercial photographer, director and published author based in Brooklyn, New York.

    A sensitive observer of endangered cultures and traditions, Joey travels the globe creating dramatic portraits while giving the viewer a powerful insight into his subjects’ lives. His photo series range from Brooklyn, New York to Siberut, Indonesia; proof of an artist equally comfortable with the familiar and the exotic.

    His work is cinematic and contemporary – a fine art portrait approach to subjects once only seen in photojournalistic styles.




  • James Mollison

    James Mollison

    James Mollison was born in Kenya in 1973 and grew up in England. After studying Art and Design at Oxford Brookes University, and later film and photography at Newport School of Art and Design, he moved to Italy to work at Benetton’s creative lab, Fabrica. Since August 2011 Mollison has been working as a creative editor on Colors Magazine with Patrick Waterhouse. In 2009 he won the Royal Photographic Society’s Vic Odden Award, for notable achievement in the art of photography by a British photographer aged 35 or under. His work has been widely published throughout the world including by Colors, The New York Times Magazine, the Guardian magazine, The Paris Review, GQ, New York Magazine and Le Monde. His latest book Where Children Sleep was published in November 2010- stories of diverse children around the world, told through portraits and pictures of their bedroom. His third book, Disciples was published in 2008 – panoramic format portraits of music fans photographed before and after concerts. In 2007 he published The Memory of Pablo Escobar- the extraordinary story of ‘the richest and most violent gangster in history’ told by hundreds of photographs gathered by Mollison. It was the follow-up to his work on the great apes – widely seen as an exhibition including at the Natural History Museum, London, and in the book James and Other Apes (Chris Boot, 2004). Mollison lives in Venice with his wife and son.

  • Henri Cartier-Bresson

    Henri Cartier-Bresson

    Henri Cartier-Bresson (August 22, 1908– August 3, 2004) was a French photographer considered to be the father of modern photojournalism. He was an early adopter of 35 mm format, and the master of candid photography. He helped develop the “street photography” or “life reportage” style that has influenced generations of photographers who followed. Throughout the 20th century, this roaming, lucid eye has captured the fascination of Africa in the 1920’s, crossed the tragic fortunes of Spanish republicans, accompanied the liberation of Paris, caught a weary Gandhi just hours before his assassination, and witnessed the victory of the communists in China.

  • Charlene Channon

    Charlene Channon

    Charlene Channon, based in Port Elizabeth, obtained her National Diploma in Photography from Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University and is currently completing her degree. Her specialist areas include advertising, landscapes, portraiture and street documentary.