Jessica Dimmock, a New York City native, has been awarded numerous international awards for photography, including the F Award for concerned photography, The Inge Morath Award from Magnum, and the Marty Forsher Fellowship for Documentary Photography, and she was a finalist for the Infinity Award for Young Photographers from the International Center of Photography.
Her work has been exhibited at Forma, the International Center of Photography in Milan, Foam Fotografiemuseum in Amsterdam, Foley Gallery in New York and Kunsthaus in Dresden.
Jessica’s first book, The Ninth Floor, was released in 2007 and this work received acclaim from publications including The New Yorker, Foto8, Photoicon, and Photo District News.
Jessica joined VII Network in February 2008. Her clients include Aperture, The New York Times Magazine, Fortune, Time, New York Magazine, Fader, Rolling Stone, Blender, and Newsweek.
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Antonin Kratochvil photo by Clay Enos
Antonin Kratochvil is a founder of the VII photo agency.
As photojournalists go, Antonin Kratochvil has sunk his teeth into his fair share of upheaval and human catastrophes whilst going about his documentation of the time in which he lives.
As people go, Kratochvil’s own refugee life has been much in the way the same as what he has rendered on film. Kratochvil’s unique style of photography is the product of personal experience, intimate conditioning and not privileged voyeurism.
Over the years his fluid and unconventional work has been sought by numerous publications stretching across widely differing interests.
From shooting Mongolia’s street children for the magazine published by the Museum of Natural History to a portrait session with David Bowie for Detour, from covering the war in Iraq for Fortune Magazine to shooting Deborah Harry for a national advertising campaign for the American Civil Liberties Union, Kratochvil’s ability to see through and into his subjects and show immutable truth has made his pictures not facsimiles but uncensored visions.
And yet, what set his kind apart from the many is his consistency and struggle to carry on.
For Kratochvil this fact comes in the form of his numerous awards, grants and honorable mentions dating back to 1975. The latest of these are his two, first place prizes at the 2002 World Press Photo Awards in the categories of general news and nature and the environment.
The next is the 2004 grant from Aperture publishing for Kratochvil’s study on the fractious relationship between American civil liberties and the newly formed Homeland Security since the World Trade Center bombings.
In addition, Kratochvil’s fifth book Vanishing was presented in April
2005 and marks another significant milestone for the craft to which he belongs.
Vanishing represents a collection of natural and human phenomena that on the verge of extinction. What makes this book so innovative is the twenty years it has taken to produce, making it not only historical from the onset, but a labor of love and a commitment to one man’s conscience.
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Photo by Clay Enos
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Award-winning photojournalist Ron Haviv has produced some of the most important images of conflict and other humanitarian crises that have made headlines from around the world since the end of the Cold War.
A co-founder of VII, whose work is published by top magazines worldwide, including: Fortune, The NY Times Magazine, Time, Vanity Fair, Paris Match and Stern. He has published two critically acclaimed collections of his photography — Blood and Honey: A Balkan War Journal, and Afghanistan: On the Road to Kabul – and has contributed his wide-ranging body of work to several other books.
With a special focus on exposing human rights violations, he has covered conflict and humanitarian crises in Latin America, Africa, the Middle East, Russia and the Balkans. Most recently, he has documented wars in Darfur and the DR Congo.
His often-searing photographs have earned Haviv some of the highest accolades in photography, including awards from World Press Photo, Pictures of the Year, Overseas Press Club, and the Leica Medal of Excellence. He regularly lectures at universities and seminars, and numerous museums and galleries have featured his work, including the United Nations, The Louvre and The Council on Foreign Relations.
Haviv has been the central character in three films. National Geographic Explorer’s Freelance in a World of Risk explores the hazards inherent in combat photography. The Serbian-made documentary Vivisect explores Serbian reaction to the Blood and Honey exhibit. Eyes of the World, which has featured in film festival worldwide, examines Haviv as a witness to war. In addition, Haviv has spoken about his work on The Charlie Rose Show, NPR, Good Morning America, ABC World News Tonight, CNN, MSNBC and The Best Damn Sports Show Ever.
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Gary Knight Born 1964, England, Gary Knight began working as a photographer in the late 1980s in South East Asia and Indochina embarking on a portrayal of the internecine warfare in a region coming to terms with the end of the Cold War. In January 1993 he moved to the former Yugoslavia where he became involved in documenting war crimes and crimes against humanity during the civil war.In recent years Knight has covered the invasion of Iraq, the occupation of Afghanistan, the civil war in Kashmir and the Asian Tsunami but central to his work is a commitment to address the issues that determine the survival of the world’s poor.
His work has been widely published by magazines all over the world, exhibited worldwide and is in the collections of several museums and private collectors. Knight has initiated a broad programme of education with Universities and NGO’s worldwide and is the author of ‘Evidence’ a Monograph on War Crimes in Kosovo.
Co founder of VII Photo Agency and the Chairman of the Board for 4 years Knight is also Editor and Art Director of the current affairs quarterly ‘Dispatches’, founder of the Angkor Photo Festival, board member of the Crimes of War Foundation, trustee of the Indochina Media Memorial Foundation, Chairman of the World Press Photo Award Jury 2008 and a contract photographer for Newsweek Magazine.
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