Emerging photographers to talk at BJP's Vision

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Image © Laura Pannack.

Young and emerging photographers Chloe Dewe Mathews, Guy Martin and Laura Pannack will be discussing their careers at BJP's Vision event on 18 November

Author: Olivier Laurent

British Journal of Photography's Vision event is back on 18 November, with talks by Joachim Schmid and Daniel Meadows as keynote speakers. But, they will be joined by art and documentary photographers Chloe Dewe Mathews, Guy Martin and Laura Pannack, who will discuss with BJP's Olivier Laurent, how, after leaving university, they have become some of the UK's most sought-after photographers.

Dewe Mathews, who won this year's BJP International Photography Award and is represented by Panos Pictures, graduated in fine art at The Ruskin School of Art in Oxford. Before turning to photography, she worked in the film industry. Since then, she has photographed banger boys racing cars in small towns across Britain, gypsies on pilgrimage in the French town of Saintes-Maries-de-la-Mer, and a community of British orthodox jews holidaying in Aberystwyth.

But her most important body of work came after she decided to trek back from India to England, visiting China, Kyrgystan, Kazakhstan, Azerbaijan and Georgia along the way. She came back with three stories, including one about shot in the sanatorium town of Naftalan, where people "gather to bathe in chocolate-brown oil, purported to have therapeutic properties." The series won BJP's IPA.

Martin, a photojournalist and documentary photographer, graduated from the University of Wales, Newport in 2006. Since then, he has been pursuing a long-term project on the resurgence of the Cossack movement in Southern Russia and the Caucasus, but he has also shot in Georgia, Sudan, Uganda, Turkey, Northern Iraq, Russia, Spain, Italy and France.

Most recently, he photographed the Arab Spring movement in Egypt and Libya, and has joined the Panos Pictures agency.

Pannack, a first prize winner in the Portrait Singles category of the World Press Photo awards in 2010, graduated in 2008 at University of Brighton with a BA Hons in Editorial Photography. Since then, she has won and been shortlisted for a total of 23 other awards and has been extensively published and exhibited world-wide.

Her commissions are predominantly from editorial features and advertising campaigns. and some of her clients include The Telegraph Weekend, The Sunday Times, Wall St Journal, Grazia, The Guardian Weekend, Dazed & Confused Magazine, The Mental Health Foundation, Save the Children and Oxfam. In 2011, she was profiled as the photographer to watch in Creative Review.

At Vision, the three photographers will share their insights on how to build a successful career in photography.

For more information and to book your space at Vision, visit www.bjp-online.com/vision.

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Video of discussions?

Any chance video recordings of the three discussions could be made and uploaded to BJP site. Sure there'd be plenty of folk interested.

Posted by: jules on 03 Nov 2011 at 10:48

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