Clive Waring-Flood
Editor
Silvershotz
Clive was born in Australia but grew up
in the cathedral city of Salisbury,
England and went to Millfield School in
Somerset. Whilst at school he was
actively involved in theatre and passed
external exams three years in a row with
the London Academy of Music and
Dramatic Art. Instead of entering the
Royal Academy of Drama at 18 he
decided on a career in photography; and
has stayed in that industry for 33 years.
Apprenticed to various photographers in
Sydney, Australia he specialized in
portraiture and went on to take over
70,000 portraits of children, families,
executives and models in Australia,
England and the British forces in
Germany. During the 1990s he was a
technical consultant with Polaroid
Australia and trained staff how to use
camera systems in various departments
such as police forensic, hospital pathology
units, scientists researching DNA through
to Warner Bros Movie theme parks.
Since 2004 as the editor of Silvershotz
magazine he has been responsible for
sifting through hundreds of folios,
selecting emerging artists to feature in
the magazine and writing articles. During
this time he has presented over 50
lectures on fine art printing in the
darkroom and more recently has lectured
on the 7 steps for creating a successful
body of work. Clive continues as folio
reviewer and writer for the magazine in
addition to writing a book.
He divides his time between the office in
England and Australia, traveling and
lecturing around the world; and most
importantly developing fruit trees in his
sustainable eco garden with his wife,
Elizabeth, north of Brisbane in Australia.
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Laura Noble
Diemar/Noble Photography gallery
Laura is a Director of Diemar/Noble
Photography gallery in the heart of
London's West End. Diemar/Noble
Photography exhibits and stocks
contemporary, 19th Century and vintage
photography. She conducts portfolio
reviews at the gallery giving
professional advice to emerging talent
and established photographers' alike in
both their work and the publishing of it
in books and editorial features.
She is also an artist who lectures on
photography worldwide and is the author
of 'The Art of Collecting Photography'
published by AVA (2006). Her writing
credits include primary essays in 'Crazy
God' by Yvonne De Rosa (2007), 'Chrysalis'
(2007) & 'Circus' (2008) by Anderson &
Low and 'The End of London' (2009) by
David Straight.
Dedicated to collecting photography and
furthering its inclusion as an important
art form and her commitment to
encouraging emerging artists is at the
forefront of her interests in the market as
a commentator and collector.
She regularly contributes to photography
magazines and journals such as
Eyemazing, Snoeks, LIP, Photoicon, GUP,
Image, Next Level, Foam & Leisure
Center, including a book review column in
London Independent Photography.
www.diemarnoblephotography.com
Joyce Evans
Photographer and Historian
Joyce Evans is well known in Australian
photography. In 1976 Joyce opened
Church Street Photographic Centre
which was Australia's first commercial
gallery devoted to Photography.
The
gallery showcased the best of Australian
and International photographers. Joyce
exhibited works by Frank Hurley, Bill
Henson, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Max
Dupain and other renowned
photographers, not only did she exhibit
their works but many of them mentored
her own photography and provided
inspiration and guidance.
Passionately
dedicated to photography, she has had
many solo exhibitions of both her
landscapes and her portraits throughout
Australia and Europe.
Joyce has spent 10 years documenting
Australia for the National Library, which
holds nearly 400 of her images. Joyce has
been published extensively; her last book
was 'Only One Kilometre' which was
published in 2003 by Lothian Press.
It
detailed her many years of studying the
unique qualities of the Balcombe Estuary
Reserve, together with poems and articles
by distinguished writers.
She is a member
of Degree South, a cooperative of Photo
Journalists, which was launched by an
exhibition of 72 photographs, at the
Brisbane Powerhouse Museum in 2007.
She is also included in 'Who's Who of
Australian Women', 'World's Who's Who of
Women', and McCullock's 'Encyclopaedia
of Australian Art' 2006.
Joyce continues to exhibit work and
recently featured in the Daylesford Photo
Fest in June 2007, the Vivid festival 2008 in
Canberra, and in July 2007 the Dickerson
Gallery, Melbourne had a major
retrospective of her work.
She continues to be actively involved in the
Australian photography scene and is a
guest speaker on the art of collecting
photography.
Tamara Voninski
Oculi Picture Agency
Tamara is a photographer and photo
editor based in Sydney, Australia. Her
career was initiated in the United States
where she discovered photography with
her heart and soul. "Since the very first
day I picked up a camera, I have been
travelling on a journey of discovery
between my own psyche and the world
around me."
She is a founding member
of Oculi, the Australian based
photographic collective dedicated to
capturing the beauty, wonder and
struggle of daily life.
Oculi offers a poetic
visual narrative through its growing body
of work from 2000 to the present, and is
now seen as the leading contemporary
influence on Australian photographic
documentary and art practices,
capturing the history and essence of our
times in Australia and its region.
Her work is represented throughout the
Americas by Redux Photo Agency and
throughout Europe by L'Agence VU based
in Paris. Her photographs have been
exhibited widely in Australia and
internationally. In addition to her personal
work, she has worked as a Photo Editor
for the newspaper The Virginian Pilot in
the U.S. and Fairfax Media magazines in
Australia.
Her work has won several
international awards including the
inaugural Alexia Foundation Photography
for World Peace Award (1991), William
Randolph Hearst Photojournalism (1991),
International Pictures of the Year Awards
(2003, 2001, 1996, 1993), Best of
Photojournalism (2005) and an artist
residency at Cite Internationale des Arts in
Paris from the Art Gallery of New South
Wales (2005-06).
Tamara was recently a
finalist for a number of Australian awards
such as Sydney Life, Josephine Ulrick &
Win Schubert Foundation Photography
Award, Cotton Award for Photographic
Portraiture and the biennial Leica/ccp
Documentary Photography Award.
www.oculi.com.au
Stephen Perloff
The Photo Review
Stephen is the founder and editor of The
Photo Review, a critical journal of
international scope published since
1976.
He is also the editor of The
Photograph Collector, the leading source
of information on the photography art
market, and editor of Focus Magazine.
He has taught photography and the
history of photography at numerous
Philadelphia-area colleges and
universities and has been the recipient
of two grants from the Pennsylvania
Council on the Arts for arts criticism.
He
was the recipient of the Sol Mednick
Award for 2000 from the Mid-Atlantic
region of the Society for Photographic
Education. He has curated more than a
score of exhibitions, including
"Philadelphia Past and Present" at the
Philadelphia Art Alliance for the city's
tricentennial in 1982.
His photographs have appeared in
numerous exhibitions and reside in many
museum and private collections. His work
was recently included in the exhibitions
"The Silver Garden" at the Philadelphia
Museum of Art; "Continuum: Photography
in Philadelphia: Past, Present, and
Future" at the Free Library of Philadelphia
(March-July 2007); "Filling the Frame" at
Photo West Gallery, Philadelphia (April
2007), and "Hot Topic," a show about
global warming, at The Germantown
Academy (fall 2007).
He has been widely praised for his writing
about the photography art market,
including his detailed auction reports. His
articles have been reproduced in dozens
of other journals such as, American
Photo, The Art Newspaper, Town &
Country, Photo News, Silvershotz. His
expert comments on the state of the
photography market have been quoted in
The New York Times, The Toronto Globe &
Mail, and The Wall Street Journal.
www.photoreview.org