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Alex Majoli (Italy, 1971)

He began to take photographs aged just 11, and by the age of 18 had joined the F45 Studio in Ravenna, where he worked with Daniele Casadio. His career took off in 1989, working as a professional photo journalist for the Grazia Neri agency from 1991 to 1995. In 1996 he joined the Magnum Agency, and in 2001 became their youngest member. Two years later he was awarded the Infinity Photo Journalism Award by the International Center of Photography. Since then he has combined his work as a
photographer of world conflict for Newsweek, New York Times Magazine, Granta and National Geographic.

Alexander Gronsky (Tallin, Estonia, 1980)

In 1998 he started to work as a professional photographer. His work has been published in Geo, Elle, Wallpaper, Le Monde 2, The Sunday Times, Newsweek and Expert. Awards: winner of the Press Photo Contest in 2000, 2001, and 2003. He took part in the World Press Photo Joop Swart Masterclass in the Netherlands in 2003. He was a finalist for the Ian Parry Award in the United Kingdom in 2004. Selected exhibitions: InterFoto International Festival, Moscow, 2003; Rivers of Northern Asia, Central House of Artists in Moscow, Krasnoyarsk Central Museum and Gallery of Fine Art in Norilsk (2004); From Analog to Digital Photography, Yakut Gallery, Moscow (2006). He has been working for Photographer.ru since 2005.

Alfonso del Moral (Valladolid, Spain, 1977)

His work as a photographer as been seen in publications such as Newsweek, The Sunday Times, Le Monde 2, El País Semanal, Foto8 or La Vanguardia, among others. He was short listed for the Magnum Expression Award 2009 and won the International Picture of the Year 2008 with his series "Palestinian Refugees in Lebanon", in addition the third prize at Fotopres '09.

Anna Baeza (Barcelona, Spain, 1981)

Photojournalist, coordinator and editor of the documentary photography magazine Piel de foto. A graduate in History of Art and Linguistics, she has worked in cultural management and communications, specialising activities relating to photography and
development, in parallel with photo reporting on social themes.

Anna Zekria
She is the director of the Photographer.ru agency.

Boogie
Born and bred in Belgrade, Serbia, he currently lives and works in Brooklyn, New York. Despite most of his work being completed on a freelance basis, he also has reports published by the World Picture News Agency. His images tend to reflect the violence surrounding minorities such as gypsies, street delinquents or other groups such as Serbian skinheads. This movement is currently growing in Eastern Europe, and the photographer is planning to increase his work in this region.

Broomberg & Chanarin
Adam Broomberg and Oliver Chanarin are a pair of photographers who have produced five books: Trust (2000), to accompany their individual exhibition at The Hasselbad Center; Ghuetto (2003) a collection of their work as editors and photographers in the magazine Colors; Mr. Mkhize’s Portrait (2004), which documents the first ten post post-apartheid years in South Africa; Chicago (2006), an investigation into modern Israel, and FIG (2007). They have received awards such as the Vic Odden Prize, from the Royal Photographic Society.

Carlos Spottorno (Budapest, Hungary 1971)

He was brought up in Rome, Paris and Madrid. He began his career as an art director, and some years later became a professional photographer. He received the World Press Photo award in 2003, and was finalist for the Visa d’Or in 2008 and the
European Publishers’ Awards in 2009, among others. His work can be seen in National Geographic, El País Semanal, Le Monde and New York Times Part of his work is devoted to photo and video campaigns for clients such as Nike and Vodafone.

Craig Cohen
Executive Publisher of PowerHouse Books in New York, founded by Daniel Power in 1995.

Chris Boot
Chris Boot, is the editor photography books including two ICP awards, for the publications Lodz Ghetto Album (2004) and Things as They Are: Photojournalism in Context Since 1955 (2005). He was worked in photography for 25 years, including as
the director of Magnum Photos in London and New York and publishing director for Phaidon Press.

Christian Caujolle
Student and colleague of Michel Foucault, Roland Barthes and Pierre Bourdieu, he is an associate tutor at the École Nationale Superieure Louis Lumière. He was the chief of the office in charge of photography for Libération newspaper from 1981 to 1986,
founder of the agency VU (and director from 1986 to 2006) and has directed the VU Gallery since 1998. He has curated a number of exhibitions at international, and published a great many monographs by photographers such as Jacques Henri
Lartigue, William Klein or Raymond Depardon. He has worked on catalogues for photographers such as Michael Ackerman or Chema Madoz, among others, and he directs the Voir et Dire and Fondation CCF collections at the Actes Sud Publishing House in Paris. The Artistic Director for Rencontres d’Arles in 1997, he has been the guest curator for the Rotterdam Biennial, PHotoEspaña and the Lithuanian Pavilion at the Venice Biennial.

Donald Weber (Toronto, Canada, 1973)

He is represented by the Agency VII and works freelance for prestigious publications such as Der Speigel, The Guardian, Newsweek Magazine, The New York Times, The New York Times Magazine, Portfolio Magazine, Rolling Stone, Stern Magazine, Time Magazine and for the NGO Medécins sans Frontieres. He has received awards such as PDN Photo Annual 2007 or the World Press Photo 2006 under the category of daily life, among others.

Emily Adams (USA, 1978)

A graduate in History of Art from the Centro Cultural Casa Lamm in Mexico City, with her thesis on Photography Historiography in Mexico. From 2001 to 2003 she worked at the Department of Education at the Centro de la Imagen. Since 2004 she has
worked for PHotoEspaña as Coordinator of Educational and Professional Programmes. She was on the viewers’ panel for the Rencontres d’Arles the Savingnano Immagini Festival and Mission Jeunes Artistes in Toulouse.

Franco Pagetti
He has worked as a war photographer since 1994 and in recent years has found himself in the midst of the most conflictive of situations. He has been covering the Iraq War since 2003. Since then, he has settled in Baghdad, working for Time Magazine. His images capture the horrors of war, insurgent growth and the appearance of terrorist groups and, more recently, the inexorable road to a bloody and sectarian civil war. He is represented by the agency VII.

Gigi Gianuzzi
Creator of Trolley Books, the independent British publishing company specialising in photography and art books, founded in 2001. The Trolley Group currently includes a photo agency, Trolley Photos, and an exhibition venue in London’s East End.

Gilles Peress (France, 1946)

He lives and works in New York. In 1971 Peress decided to devote himself to photography and began to take interest in the ethic conflicts and tensions between cultures. In 1979, Gilles Peress travelled Iran for five weeks, in the midst of revolution: on his return, he brought with him a highly personal testimony, published in the work Telex Iran: In the Name of Revolution. In the 1980’s, he returned to Northern Ireland and returned to work on his Power in the Blood project, which became part of a project
which is still underway, Hate Thy Brother, a cycle of documentary stories denouncing intolerance and the reappearance of nationalism and tribalism around the world. Farewell to Bosnia and The Silence, two series on the war in Bosnia and genocide in
Rwanda, are the first two works published from this cycle.

Hannah Watson
Co-director of the Trolley Gallery.

Jamie Wellford

James Wellford was born in Richmond, Virginia, in 1961. He graduated from Brown University. He has been the senior international photo editor at Newsweek magazine in New York City since 2000. He is a founding member of Fovea Editions as well as a curator and co-founder with Jake Price of SeenUnseen, a program of projections by leading photojournalists that brings to light consequential issues around the world which lack coverage in the ever-decreasing market for news.

Among his multimedia projects produced for SeenUnseen are those on Afghanistan, the Israeli-Lebanon war of 2006, the 2004 Indonesian Tsunami, 2005’s Hurricane Katrina, underreported spots throughout America and the world, and the final days of the Bush administration.

The list of exhibitions James has curated includes “Tsunami,” a warehouse projection in New York City, “Interlude,” at the Alice Austen House Museum, Brent Stirton's “The Last Gorillas of the Congo” at Fovea Exhibitions, and Seamus Murphy's “Darkness Visible” at VII Gallery.

In 2009 he co-edited Issue #17 of the photographic magazine OjodePez.

Prior to his Newsweek post, he edited the historical archives of the New York Daily News and worked as an editor at Gamma, SIPA, and Black Star agencies.

James lives in New York City with his wife and four children.

Jessica Murray
She is co director of Al-liquindoi, a venue for teaching and exchange on documentary photography created in 2002 and based in Cadiz. Al-liquindoi aims to create connections, and break down frontiers using photography, understood to be an artistic and journalistic tool which can transmit ideas, events and feelings.
www.al-liquindoi.com

Liza Faktor (Moscow, Russia, 1975)

Studied journalism at the Moscow University of the Humanities. Since mid-1990s has been working as a photography producer and curator. In 2005 founded Agency.Photographer.ru. Curated several exhibitions including 'Kavkaz. Photographs from Chechnya 1868-2002', (2002, Dutch Resistance Museum, Amsterdam) and ‘Projections of Reality: Encounters with the [Un]Familiar’ (2010, Moscow). Received Howard Chapnick Grant (2002). Since 2001 she has been the director of Objective Reality Foundation.

Michael Ackerman (Tel Aviv, Israel, 1967)

He is represented by the prestigious agency VU. He is a photography who lives reality as something impossible and limits himself to capturing absence. His photographs show a beautiful confusion which forces us to keep on looking at them, with
moments of compulsory transition in their contemplation. His achieves this beauty using black and white with the use of grainy textures and above all blurry focus, giving the image duration and a second life. He received the Nadar Award for his book "End
Time City" in 1999, and the ICP Infinity Award (International Center of Photography) in 1998.

Naomi Harris (Toronto, Canada, 1973)

She lives in New York and has a degree in Fine Art from the University of Toronto. In New York, she studied at the ICP International Center of Photography, and moved to Miami in 1999 to start his personal project "Haddon Hall Hotel", for which he
received the International Prize for Young Photojournalism from Agfa and Das Bildforum in 2001.

Paul Fusco (USA, 1930)

We worked as a photographer with the US Army in Korea between 1951 and 1953, before studying photojournalism at the University of Ohio. He later moved to New York, where he began to work for Look, until 1971. After the close of the magazine, he joined Magnum Photos, and became an associate member in 1973. His photography has been published by magazines such as Time, Life, Newsweek and New York Times Magazine.

Rafael Badia (Santa Cruz de Tenerife, 1964)

Photographer, graphic editor and photography tutor. He worked in Madrid as a reporter and photographer for the Travel Section of El País and the travel guides of El País/Aguilar. In 1994 he moved to Barcelona, where he began to combine his work as
graphic editor for travel books and magazines with teaching. He is one of the most outstanding editors on the Spanish scene and a recognised teacher at the most important schools of photography in Barcelona.

Rafa Trobat (Cordoba, 1965)

He started out as a photography in 1988. He trained alongside Cristina García Rodero, for whom he worked as an assistant from 1990. At the same time he completed photographic work for different international media. In 1994 the Banesto Foundation awarded him their Artistic Creation Grant, and in 1996 he was chosen by World Press Photo for taking part in their master class in Rotterdam, The Netherlands. He received the Fotopres ’99 Grant from the La Caixa Foundation and was awarded by the Caja de Madrid Foundation in 1998. His work has been exhibited in different European countries and in Russia, the USA and all over Latin America.

Reza Deghati
He studied architecture in his homeland, at the University of Teheran, but soon decided to work in photography. His career began as a correspondent for the magazines Newsweek (1978-1981) and Time (1983-1988). He has photographed wars scenes in Iraq, Lebanon, Kosovo and Afghanistan. His experience in Afghanistan led him to work with the United Nations as an advisor for humanitarian schemes in the country between 1989 and 1990. In 2001 he created the NGO Aïna, for training future journalist and supporting the publication of magazines which promote cultural development and freedom of expression. He has taught at the Universities of Stamford and Georgetown and at the Art School in Paris. He is currently a photographer for National Geographic and the correspondent for BBC and Radio France International broadcasts in Persian. In 2005 he received the highest decoration in France, Chevalier of the Légion d'honneur. He has lived in France since 1981.

Robert Pledge (London, 1942)

He studied anthropology and African languages, and worked as a journalist specialising in Africa. Together with David Burnett he founded Contract Press Images in New York in 1976. This agency has published a large number of books and organised exhibitions all around the world. In 2004 he received the Overseas Press Club's "Olivier Rebbot Award" for the book Color News Soldier published together with Li Zhensheng. He currently lives in Paris and New York.

Shahidul Alam (Bangladesh, India, 1955)

He studied and taught Chemistry at the University of London, where he also obtained
a PhD. In 1980 he began to take photographs, and in 1983 he was awarded the Harvey Harris Trophy for the best photography of the year, by the London Arts Council. He was the first coloured person to chair the international jury for World Press Photo,
where he has sat on four occasions. He was also the first Asian to receive the Mother Jones award for documentary photography, among other awards. In 2009 he was arrested by the Indian Security Forces while working on a project on the River Brahmaputra in Bangladesh, but was released after a massive international campaign was started for his release.

Silvia Omedes
She is a History of Art graduate from the Central University of Barcelona, and also graduated in Liberal Arts from the New School for Social Research in New York. She was worked as exhibitions coordinator for the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum
in New Cork and the Centre de Cultura Contemporània. She founded Photographic Social Vision, a non-profit making organisation which manages and produces photo journalism and audiovisual reports, publishes books, runs photography exhibitions and coordinated debates on social issues.

Sven Ehmann (Berlin, Germany, 1973)

He is a photographer, journalist, curator for the Filesharing Showroom Gallery and editor of Die Gestalten Verlag, the Berlinbased organisation specialising in art-books.

Txema Salvans
He began studying Biology at the University of Barcelona, and went on to study photography at the Grisart School in Barcelona. The recipient of numerous awards, he received the prestigious Fotopres prize, in 1997 aged 26 years old, for two of his works: "History of Juan Durvan", on the daily life of a blind man, and "To the Bride and Groom", an intelligent report on a social event full of strange undertones. His photographs can be seen in supplements such as El País Semanal, Magazine in La Vanguardia, the daily newspaper Avui or Dominical in El Periódico de Cataluña.

Valeri Nistratov (Moscow, Russia, 1973)

In 1990 he began to work as a photographer for the newspaper Za Kommunizm in Moscovite region of Schelkovo. Fro 1991 to 1993 he captured the dramatic events of the fall of the USSR. In 1994 he reconsidered his professional career and opted for
working as a documentary photographer. He has received awards such as the World Press Photo Joop Swaart Masterclass, the Humanity Photo Award 2004 and the Agfa - 5th Young Photo journalists. He work has been exhibited in Russia, France, the
Netherlands, Switzerland, US, Mexico, Japan and China.

Ziyah Gafic
Since 1999 this Bosnian photography has travelled to over 40 countries in order to cover significant world events. His work has been exhibited in different galleries such as: Visa pour l'Image by Perpingan, the Rencontres de Arlès, Fovea Editions New
York, Oude Kerk Amsterdam, Tom Blau Gallery de Londres, Grazia Neri Gallery in Milan. He currently publishes his photography in media such as Amica, La Reppublica, Time, Tank, Telegraph Magazine, Newsweek, l’Espresso.

OjodePez Photo Meeting Barcelona is an international photographers’ event organised by La Fábrica and La Virreina Centre de la Imatge, which has been created based on the documentary photography magazine OjodePez, founded in 2004 by Frank Kalero.  OjodePez Magazine is growing and becoming a meeting point, with an annual event starting this year in Barcelona, the city where the magazine was created and which has a strong documentary tradition.

It is an innovative platform for the magazine, published by La Fábrica, which will bring new photographers closer to the current scene and act as a meeting point for a large number of experts in documentary photography. It will be a weekend of talks, conferences, projections, exhibitions and high quality debates, where delegates and visitors can share new experiences. 
Also, as an international event, each year OjodePez will have a section of its programme of activities devoted to a guest country which will bring its own perspective on documentary photography through the participation of experts and professionals in the area in the country in question. This edition is devoted to Russia.   Venues   The La Virreina Palace, Centre de la Imatge, located on La Rambla 99 in Barcelona, will host OjodePez Photo Meeting Barcelona on 15th, 16th and 17th July 2010.  La Virreina is a space devoted to the spread of contemporary arte, which becomes a platform for analysing of cultural policy from a critical perspective.  The Palace is an emblematic building in the old quarter of Barcelona which has different rooms and open air spaces such as the patio and the terrace, which will be the setting for the activities planned for the Meeting.

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