The magazine of the photo-essay
May/June 2023 issue
“A free, really high quality photo-essay magazine. Fabulous!”
Stephen Fry. British actor, writer and film maker
Damian Bird
To commission him or to request prints of his work: damianbirdphotography.com
Damian Bird (born London, 1972) is a photographer, photojournalist and lecturer
with many years of experience, working in war zones and trouble spots around the
globe.
He was educated at Canford School and in Photography at the Surrey College of Art
and Design and at the London College of Communication where he studied for a post
graduate degree in Photojournalism.
In 2011 he founded Life Force magazine with his business partner and wife of 20
years, Alice. As well as Editing Life Force magazine, he is currently engaged in
photographing a series of photo-essays on English culture and has recently returned
to Afghanistan. His first book Seabird was released in November 2017 his latest book is
due to be release at the end of 2019.
He continues to have his work published in national and international newspapers and magazines including The Times,
the Telegraph, the Express, the Observer, GQ, Esquire, Daily Mail, Dazed & Confused, The Face, Country Life, Coast and
Geographical magazine. He lives in Devon, England with his wife, four children and
his five dachshunds: Jessie, Rosie, Ted, Dot and Daffodil.
Ethan Bird
To commission him or to request prints of his work: alice@lifeforcemagazine.com
Born in Dorset, England in 2004, Ethan Bird is currently studying for a BA degree
in Photography.
Jeremy Hammond
To contact him, and to see the complete library, visit: insearchofsmalltownamerica.com
Jeremy Hammond is an English writer and photographer based in the UK, but with
an absolute fascination with, and fanaticism for, the history and progression, of the
United States of America. He has travelled widely, through Europe, India, China,
Southeast Asia and Australia, but most extensively in North America.
Jerry N Uelsmann
American photographer Jerry N. Uelsmann (1934–2022) was a seminalfigure in photo history. Uelsmann catalyzed
the transfer from modernist to post-modern photography with his at the time controversial photo montages and
double exposures.
Decades before the birth of digital image editing programs like Photoshop, Uelsmann created photo montages by
combining several negatives in the darkroom. He started to create his surreal, spiritual, and thought-provoking
images in the late 1950s and continued to produce them, completely analog,
throughout his life.
Nicholas Blair
To commission him or to request prints of his work: www.nicholasblairphotography.com
Nicholas Blair dropped out of high school in 1974 and left his native New York City to
hitchhikethrough Latin America. Landing in San Francisco a year later, he helped found
The Modern Lovers arts commune and Ancient Currents Gallery, both dedicated to
cultural exploration. In 1981, he received his MFA in photography from the San
Francisco Art Institute under the tutelage of renowned photographer and teacher
Henry “Hank” Wessel.
Blair has worked internationally as a photographer and cinematographer for
organizations including CARE and the United Nations. His filmmaking projects include the
documentaries America’s Culture of Crash, and Our Holocaust Vacation. He has received
fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, New York Foundation for the Arts,
and Jerome Foundation. His photographs are in the collections of the Metropolitan
Museum of Art, International Center of Photography, Brooklyn Museum, and Bibliothèque Nationale in Paris.
In the late seventies and early eighties, he worked as lighting crew, and later designer, for many top-named British bands,
these assignments taking him through Europe, also to Japan, and back again to the USA. He has worked as a cruise-ship
photographer, in office and store design, database design, visual arts book publishing, and as a London-based freelance
photographer, specialising in interiors and architecture.
