Davin Ellicson (b. 1978) is working on a long-term project about the transformation of rural life in Eastern Europe as the European Union expands. He lived and farmed with a peasant family for a year in the Maramures region of northern Romania, the most traditional area of Europe, and is now pursuing stories throughout the Balkans. Davin received a BA in Modern European History from Carleton College in 2001 and earned an MA in Photojournalism and Documentary Photography from The London College of Communication in 2006. He has completed assignments for The International Herald Tribune, Courrier Japon, Bloomberg News and Intermediair Magazine and his work has appeared in the books ‘East’ and ‘This Day of Change’, The New York Times, Der Speigel, TAZ, Die Presse, Vision Magazine, Blueeyes Magazine and du Magazine. Davin is based in Bucharest, Romania and represented by the Anzenberger Agency and Wonderful Machine (US).
Matthew E. Clowney is working on a project of Family Portraits, considering the contemporary American family-at-large, and focusing especially — but not exclusively — on outstanding families who have some “non-traditional” quality about them. Of the series, he says: ‘I’m stretching this concept extremely thin, so this may not apply to every family who participates, but it could mean mixed-ethnicity families, same-sex parents, unmarried couples with children, unusually large families with many adopted children, families with more than two parents, groups of people who aren’t legally recognized as family but who consider themselves family. I know there’s no such thing as a real “normal” family. That’s the point. I’m interested in what makes a family, though, particularly in the greater social context of contemporary American society’.
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Now working out of Tokyo, Kenji Aoki studied at the Kuwasawa Design School, which he chose for its Bauhaus-teaching philosophy. His photography is inspired by everyday objects as he uses his camera as a ‘tool of expression rather than a tool of recreation’.
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Based in Croatia, where he studies cinematography, Luka Kedzo’s photo series is based upon the journey of DaidÅ Moriyama who took his first trip outside of Japan in 1971 when he visited New York. While there he shot 100 rolls of film using a half frame camera. In 2008, Kedzo also went to New York, his first big trip outside Croatia. With his half-frame camera, he shot nine rolls. Of the project, he says: ‘I now need 91 more so I can see what I can do with 100 rolls, 37 years after Daido’s original journey. But is 100 enough? Will I scratch the surface and find that 100 a day could be enough?’
Denis Dailleux was born in 1958 in Angers, France. He now lives in Cairo. With the delicacy he is notable for, his photography appears calm, incredibly demanding, traced through with permanent doubts and colored by the vital personal relationship he maintains with that and those he frames with his camera. His passion for people, for others, has naturally caused him to develop portraits as his favored method of representing those he wished, desire to get close to. And this he did, with Catherine Deneuve as well as anonymous subjects from the slums of Cairo, with the same discretion he expects from others, without complaint, hoping things will come right. So, patiently, he constructed a unique portrait of the capital of this Egypt with which he has such a loving, indeed passionate, relationship, to combine, between the black and whites of exemplary classicism and colors of a rare subtlety, an absolute alternative to all the cliches, cultural and touristic, which clutter our thoughts.
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Whitney King’s teenage preoccupation with photography led her to study at Rochester Institute of Technology. Upon graduation she headed to New York City to learn the ropes of the photo world. Whitney is currently transitioning from assistant to photographer. She spends her days churning out images, pushing the limits within the frame. She is now based in Philadelphia.
Olivia Malone was born in 1982 and raised on the east side of Los Angeles. She received her BFA in Photography and Imaging from NYU Tisch School of the Arts in 2004. She currently divides her time traveling between Los Angeles and where she lives now in New York. Her photography explores the transitions between youth and adulthood, emphasizing the period where freedom and independence define the essence of youth’s unabashed allure. It is in both the awkwardness of the transition and the sincerity of her subjects that she believes the true beauty lies. Olivia has exhibited in group shows in Edinburgh, New York, Los Angeles and Austin.
Dorothee Deiss studied photography at the Ostkreuzschule, School of Photography and Design, Berlin, with Robert Lyons, Ute Mahler and Sibylle Bergemann. These days she does freelance photography in North and Southern America, Mozambique, Malawi, Zimbabwe and various European countries.
Currently working out of Offenbach and Frankfurt, Germany, Astrid Korntheuer has spent time as the artist in residence in Pollen-Monflanquin, and was recently awarded a three month residency in Bourges, France. She had a solo exhibition of her works called EVO-ART-PRICE: STORIES, at Galerie im Turm, Offenbach, earlier this year.
