Confirmed speakers - Friday, 18th November
Joachim Schmid
- 2.30 - 4.30 pm
Joachim Schmid began his career in the early 1980s as a freelance critic and the publisher of Fotokritik. In 1987, he started to focus on his own art production, based primarily on found photography and public image sources.
Living near one of the largest flea markets in Berlin, he had already amassed a rich and varied collection of vernacular photography which formed the raw material for many of the works included in his publication, Photoworks 1982-2007. Using other people's (often mundane) photographs, Joachim Schmid creates artwork that is alluring, intriguing, and captivating. He revels in photographs that other people lose or throw away and tries to understand contemporary cultures by studying its visual garbage.
Another project Bilder von der Straß (Pictures from the Street) was started in 1982 and is still ongoing. It currently consists of over 900 panels of found photographs mounted on board. If a photograph has been ripped to pieces, he re-assembles what he can and mounts it as a scientist would.
Joachim Schmid has exhibited work internationally, in solo and group shows, from São Paulo and San Francisco to Moscow, Paris and London, and his home town of Berlin.
© Joachim Schmid
Daniel Meadows 
- 11.30 am - 1.30 pm
Daniel Meadows is a documentarist who engages with others to gather, create and present - with as few fictional additions as possible - stories made out of photographs and/or oral testimony.
For most of his career he has been an independent photographer and taught in higher education but during 2001-2006 he was creative director of Capture Wales, the BBC Digital Storytelling project, which he devised and led and for which he was awarded a BAFTA Cymru and received the Cardiff University Innovation Network Prize. During his career, he has worked as a documentarist, researcher and presenter for radio, TV and as a freelance photographer in the film business.
His early photography projects included The Shop on Greame Street in Moss Side (1972) as well as collaborations with Martin Parr: Butlin's by the Sea in Yorkshire (1972) and June Street in Salford (1973).
Daniel Meadows has exhibited in numerous solo exhibitions and group shows dating back to 1972. His latest exhibition Early Photographic Works will run from Sept 2011 to Feb 2012 at the National Media Museum in Bradford.
Internationally Daniel Meadows has taught photojournalism workshops for the Reuters Foundation, The British Council and others in the emerging democracies of Europe; and in India and Bangladesh. Since 2000 he has travelled widely lecturing on the new work he has been doing in participatory media. In 2008 was awarded an Honorary Fellowship of the Royal Photographic Society.
© Daniel Meadows
Giles Duley, a British editorial photographer who became a 
triple amputee after stepping on a landmine in Afghanistan, will be speaking about his career at Vision - 12.00 - 1.00 pm
Duley, in discussion with BJP's news and online editor Olivier Laurent, will talk about how and why he became a photographer, and how he plans to return to work following his incident
Giles Duley is a 39-year-old photographer who started his career in the fashion and music industries. But, in recent years, he has focussed on humanitarian issues, working with organisations such as Médecins sans Frontiers and the UNHCR "to highlight lesser known stories deserving of public attention and action," he says.
His work has been published in Vogue, GQ, Esquire, Rolling Stone and The Sunday Times, among many others. But, in February this year, while on assignment in Afghanistan, following soldiers from the First Squadron, 75th Cavalry Regiment, Duley stepped on an improvised explosive device. The explosion claimed Duley's left arm and two legs.
Eight months later, the photographer is back at work. In recent weeks, he has opened a retrospective of his work at KK Outlet in London, and he is getting ready to go back to Afghanistan to photograph civilians also injured and affected by IEDs.
Bruno Ceschel - Self Publish Be Happy - 10.30 - 11.30 am
Bruno Ceschel is a lecturer in Photography at Camberwell College of Arts, London, a writer and curator. He is also the founder of Self Publish, Be Happy (selfpublishbehappy.com), an organization which aims to promote, study and sell self-published photobooks. It has recently published its first book titled SPBN Self Publish, Be Naughty.
Chole Dewe Mathews, Guy Martin & Laura Pannack panel discussion 1.30 - 2.30 pm
Art and documentary photographers Chloe Dewe Mathe
ws, Guy Martin and Laura Pannack, will be discussing 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's 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 shot in the sanatorium town of Naftalan, where people "gather to bathe in chocolate-brown oil, purpoted 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 shortlissted 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.
© Chloe Dewe Mathews
As previous Vision speakers, we've been proud to have:
Jonas Bendiksen
The award-winning Norwegian photographer Jonas Bendiksen often focuses on isolated communities and enclaves in his work. His first book, Satellites, was the culmination of seven years' work in the former Soviet Union. His second book, The Places We Live, covered the growth of urban slums across the world. Jonas Bendiksen has received numerous awards, including the 2003 Infinity Award from the International Center of Photography, New York, and second place in the Daily Life Stories for World Press Photo, as well as first prize in the Pictures of the Year International Awards. His documentary of life in a Nairobi slum, Kibera, published in the Paris Review, won a National Magazine Award in 2007.
Tom Hunter
In 1998, Tom Hunter won the John Kobal Photographic Portrait Award. In 2006 he was the first artist to have a photography show at the National Gallery, London. Tom Hunter currently lives and works in London. His work is often particular, but not exclusive, to the community of travellers he knows as neighbours and friends in East London. He has exhibited work both nationally and internationally, in solo and group shows and is also a Senior Research Fellow of the London College of Communication, University of the Arts London. He has just been awarded an Honorary Fellowship by the Royal Photographic Society in their Annual Awards for 2010.
George Georgiou
George Georgiou won the 2010 BJP/Nikon Projects Assistance Award. He has spent the last decade travelling the Balkans, eastern Europe and Turkey. Hi latest project, in the Shadow of the Bear, explores life after the Rose Revolution of 2003 in Georgia, and the 2004 Ukrainian Orange Revolution. “The work looks, in subtle and quiet moments, at the signs in the domestic and public spheres, which when taken together, build up a representation of how ordinary people in Georgia and Ukraine negotiate the everyday space that they find themselves in,” he says.
Martin Parr
Magnum member and the UK's most renowned photographer and chronicler of our age, Martin Parr will be discussing his most recent project, Luxury - his epitaph to the age of conspicuous consumption, with candid images of the fabulously wealthy on the international party circuit. He will also be available for book signings.
http://www.martinparr.com
Eugene Richards
One of the best living documentary photographers, Eugene Richards will be presenting his latest work, War is Personal, which focuses on Americans whose lives have been irrevocably impacted by the ongoing war in Iraq. The project highlights the consequences a war can have on people once they come home from the frontlines.
Steve Bloom
Best known for his wildlife photography, Steve Bloom will be discussing what inspired him to write and photograph his new book Trading Places: The Merchants of Nairobi (Thames and Hudson). This photographic portrait of the merchants of Nairobi offers an encounter with a community rarely glimpsed by outsiders. The results are often delightfully quirky – presenting an authentic form of popular street graphics. After his talk, Steve will be available to answer questions and sign his book.
Ben Roberts
Ben Roberts won BJP/Nikon’s Project Assistance Awards earlier this year with a lyrical set of images documenting Spain’s declining construction industry. Ben Roberts was first assistant to documentary photographer Zed Nelson for two years and won commercial representation at the Lisa Pritchard Agency earlier this year through the LPA Futures competition.
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