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  • James Nachtwey

    James Nachtwey

    James Nachtwey grew up in Massachusetts and graduated from Dartmouth College, where he studied Art History and Political Science (1966-70). Images from the Vietnam War and the American Civil Rights movement had a powerful effect on him and were instrumental in his decision to become a photographer. He has worked aboard ships in the Merchant Marine, and while teaching himself photography, he was an apprentice news film editor and a truck driver.

    In 1976 he started work as a newspaper photographer in New Mexico, and in 1980, he moved to New York to begin a career as a freelance magazine photographer. His first foreign assignment was to cover civil strife in Northern Ireland in 1981 during the IRA hunger strike. Since then, Nachtwey has devoted himself to documenting wars, conflicts and critical social issues. He has worked on extensive photographic essays in El Salvador, Nicaragua, Guatemala, Lebanon, the West Bank and Gaza, Israel, Indonesia, Thailand, India, Sri Lanka, Afghanistan, the Philippines, South Korea, Somalia, Sudan, Rwanda, South Africa, Russia, Bosnia, Chechnya, Kosovo, Romania, Brazil and the United States.

  • Marc Shoul

    Marc Shoul

    South African photographer Marc Shoul has worked for various local and international magazines and advertising agencies. Through his personal work he explores themes of social relevance and change within South Africa, Africa and overseas. Marc studied professional photography at Nelson Mandela University.

    Marc Shoul, was born in 1975 in Port Elizabeth. Interested in exploring social issues, four years ago he began photographing the city of Brakpan, which is a 45-minute drive from Johannesburg. Street scenes and more intimate portraits compose a personal portrayal of a place that is “anchored in time, the same, but its own” — as the photographer characterized it in a recent interview — stumbling between a heavy past and an uncertain present. Though he has intensively worked on documenting Johannesburg’s energies and transformations and on informal settlements surrounding Cape Town, this interview focuses principally on “Brakpan”, his latest body of work, which recently received the first prize at the 2011 Winephoto award, as well as a special mention for his series, “Flatlands”.

  • David Prior

    David Prior

    David Prior is located in Cape Town and is one of South Africa’s most creative and awarded photographers. He studied photography at Nelson Mandela University in Port Elizabeth, South Africa. He is active as and advertising photographer.

  • Karl Beath

    Karl Beath

    Karl Beath started out as a landscape photographer before moving on to architectural photography. Karl found it, as a natural progression, the built environment within nature’s landscape, since both avenues follow similar concepts, only this time the architect is the creator. In his photographs he aims to capture their vision by using available light and careful composition, as with all his photography he strives to create an image so that the whole is a balanced sum of its parts. Composing and balancing the natural and built world with its numerous interacting planes, colours and light – enables him to convey the dramatic nature of the raw experience with one that is also pleasing to the eye.

  • Jan Ras

    Jan Ras

    Jan Ras’s passion for photography led him to study the genre at Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University in Port Elizabeth, South Africa. After completing his studies, he travelled extensively for a few years while working as photographer in the tourism industry. Jan moved to Cape Town in 2000 and worked as freelance photographer before joining Media24’s Creative Living magazines in 2004. He is currently employed on a contract basis by New Media Publishing’s photographic studios and is also available for freelance work. Jan specialises in food, décor, beauty and fashion.

    Watch out for his feature on Red Location Museum in the May 2013 issue of VISI Magazine.

  • Roger Ballen

    Roger Ballen

    Roger Ballen is a well-known photographer who resides in Johannesburg, South Africa. Ballen has produced a wide range of works and his photographs have been showcased in some of the most prestigious institutions around the globe. In addition, his images have been included in collections of institutions such as the Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France; Victoria and Albert Museum, London, England and the Museum of Modern Art in New York, USA. During his career as photographer Ballen has won many prestigious awards, such as the Best Solo Exhibition at the Sani Festival in Greece in 2000, Best Photographic Book of the year at PhotoEspana in Spain 2001, Photographer of the Year at Rencontres d’ Arles in 2002, and the Art Directors Club Award Photography in 2006.