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PHOTOGRAPHERS

Ian Berry
Ian Berry was born in Lancashire, England. He made his reputation in South Africa, where he worked for the Daily Mail and later for Drum magazine. He was the only photographer to document the massacre at Sharpeville in 1960, and his photographs were used in the trial to prove the victims' innocence.

Henri Cartier-Bresson invited Berry to join Magnum in 1962, when he was based in Paris. He moved to London in 1964 to become the first contract photographer for the Observer Magazine. Since then assignments have taken him around the world: he has documented Russia's invasion of Czechoslovakia; conflicts in Israel, Ireland, Vietnam and Congo; famine in Ethiopia; and apartheid in South Africa. The major body of work produced in South Africa is represented in two of his books: Black and Whites: L'Afrique du Sud (with a foreword by the then French president François Mitterrand), and Living Apart (1996).

Important editorial assignments have included work for National Geographic, Fortune, Stern, Geo, national Sunday magazines, Esquire, Paris-Match and Life. Berry has also reported on the political and social transformations in China and the former USSR. Recent projects have involved tracing the route of the Silk Road through Turkey, Iran and southern Central Asia to northern China for Conde Nast Traveler, photographing Berlin for a Stern supplement, the Three Gorges Dam project in China for the Telegraph Magazine, Greenland for a book on climate control and child slavery in Africa.

Delmi Alvarez
Delmi Alvarez was born in Vigo, Galicia, Northwest of Spain, in 1958. He worked as photojournalistfor AP, AFP and REUTERS agencies in London and Galicia. He began in 1989 the long term documentary project Galegos na Diaspora to show the exodus of the galicians around the world traveling around the all continents.
During many years he was dedicated to the photojournalism workshops and seminars in Galicia and abroad. In 1996 he worked in a project of Meninos (children of the streets) in Salvador de Bahia, Brasil and as covering the conflict in former Yugoslavia war publishing a book (Ed. Xerais, Vigo 1994); In 1990-91 spents working in a documentary project in Cuba and got two Photojournalism awards Fotopress in Barcelona; In the last years he worked as Photoeditor and photojournalist in Sestdiena magazine (Diena newspapers, Riga, Latvia) and projects with Magnum photographers. Actually he lives in the diaspora in Riga, Latvia from 2002.

Yogan Muller

Yogan Muller was born in Toulouse, South Western France, January the 1st, 1987. At the age of 14 he started out with surfing photography, covering several international contests as a freelance photographer. At the same time he was studying Maths in high school. Then he moved onto photo reportages and street photography mainly influenced by Henri Cartier-Bresson's specific approach and outstanding precision. At that moment, he decided to consolidate his scientific skills by choosing a BA Maths. The assignment he did in August 2006 for the AFP press agency gave him the opportunity to be published a dozen times in English, French and German papers. This includes Le Nouvel Observateur, a cover of l'Express, a front page of the Daily Telegraph, Stern. These were very valuable experiences but on the other hand he's initiated personal long term projects, thrilled by the contemplation of abstract concepts and the carrying out of thoughts. The workshop run by Magnum Photos he did in Brighton in October 2008 strengthened his will to dedicate himself to this kind of personal projects. His creative perspectives encompass three mediums : photography, moving image and music. Fascinated by the "gesamtkunstwerk" concept related to intermedia arts, he's been experimenting for a couple of years.
Before being entirely dedicated to photography, as a young boy he dreamt of being a weather engineer, fascinated by extreme events and concerned by climate change. This scientific background and the courses he took, sharpen his concerns about Global Warming.