Meet the Artists
William Abranowicz
William Abranowicz has been a photographer for over thirty years. His photographs are included in public, private, and corporate collections throughout the world, including the National Portrait Gallery in London, the Bibliotheque Nationale in Paris, the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C., the International Center of Photography in New York, the Thessaloniki Museum of Photography and the Goulandris Museum in Greece, the Menil Collection Library in Houston, and the Getty Museum in Los Angeles. His exhibitions include Afterimage in Dallas, the Bonni Benrubi Gallery and the Witkin Gallery in New York, the Photographer’s Gallery in Los Angeles, and Camerawork in Berlin. Abranowicz has been a contributing photographer to Conde Nast Traveler for twenty years. His photographs have been featured in nearly every major publication throughout the world, including Elle Décor, Vogue, Vanity Fair, Stern, Town and Country, and German, French, Spanish, Italian, and Russian editions of Architectural Digest. Abranowicz is the author of The Greek File Images of a Mythic Land (Rizzoli in 2001). Visit artist’s website
Nick Brandt
Nick Brandt has published On This Earth (Chronicle Books, 2005) and A Shadow Falls (Abrams, 2009), the first two books in a planned trilogy that are a last testament to the disappearing animas and natural places of East Africa. He has had multiple solo exhibitions in the US, Europe, and Australia. Visit artist’s website
Lisa Candela
Lisa Candela's photography career began in the early 1990's in Los Angeles where she documented the lives of actors, dancers, and musicians. Intrigued by Latin culture, in 1993, she began traveling to Mexico, and in 2005 she arrived in Sayulita, Mexico to document a gypsy tribe. Candela had discovered a place that was so real and magical that she moved there for a year. Almost every day she shot this gypsy tribe, the surfers, and her journeys throughout Mexico. Resisting the digital movement, she insists on shooting her collections on film, and is best known for her vibrant, sensual images of Latin culture – Mexico, Costa Rica, Honduras, Peru – all of which she has exhibited throughout California, Mexico, and New York. Candela is currently opening a boutique store in the Catskills to exhibit her work along with other artistic gems. She is also working on her first book of photography, and preparing to exhibit her new collection in the fall of 2010. Visit artist’s website
Cyril Christo and Marie Wilkinson
Cyril Christo and Marie Wilkinson have been documenting endangered tribes, species, and eco-systems since joining as a husband and wife team in 1996. Their first black and white book Lost Africa: The Eyes of Origin (Assouline 2004) placed in the fine art book category at the International Photography Awards in 2008. It highlights the twin scourges of globalization and climate change affecting tribes from Ethiopia and Namibia. Their newest book Walking Thunder: In the Footsteps of the African Elephant (Merrell 2009) is one of the first manifestos in black and white ever dedicated to a single species in the wild. Walking Thunder is dedicated to Cyril's and Marie's son Lysander who adores elephants. It placed in the nature category for the nature book of the year at the International Photography Awards in 2010. A documentary dedicated to the elephant and based on Walking Thunder, narrated by Ally McGraw, is currently in production. Their next book is called In Predatory Light and will focus on three continents. Visit artists' website
Chris Dei
Chris Dei is an award winning photographer whose wildlife images depict the beauty of a world most of us can only dream about. Originally trained as a classic pianist in the U.S. and Europe, she brings a lifetime of experience and creativity to her work. A highly sought after photographer for her insightful portrait work as well, Dei has worked on major digital projects for The Philadelphia Orchestra, Carnegie Hall, The JFK Center for the Performing Arts, and many of the worlds most renowned performing concert artists. When she is not in her studio, she can be found in some of the most challenging and remote areas of the world. She is an active member of the North American Nature Photography Association, and a passionate advocate of environmental and wildlife conservation. She has recently been elected a member of Artists for Conservation – a highly selective and prestigious group of the most renowned wildlife and nature artists in the world. Her fine art wildlife work has been exhibited throughout the U.S. and Europe, and is featured in the permanent art collection of the Benington Center for the Arts as well as in private collections of celebrities such as Ali MacGraw and James Gandolfini. Dei has traveled and photographed in Europe, the Middle East, South America, and Africa; her recent work in Kenya and Tanzania is receiving international attention and wide critical acclaim. Visit artist’s website
Paige de Ponte
Paige de Ponte is an award winning filmmaker, writer, producer, photographer, and publisher, as well as one of the three founding partners of TheWorks gallery. At 29, a single mother of two, she packed herself and family off to Italy to pursue her dream of photography. She worked in Paris at Elle Studios alongside such greats as Jean Louis Sieff and Patrick Demarchelier who mentored and inspired her to shoot in black-and-white. In 1996, Paige moved to New York and was published in over 200 fashion editorials and campaigns. She founded GIAI (GLOBAL ART IN ACTION), in the hope of inspiring awareness and change on critical world issues and in 2000, her first project was released. "Journey Into Vanishing Worlds" is a fine art photography book consisting of 244 toned images shot in eight bio-diverse areas in danger of irreversible destruction. GAIA donated the proceeds from the book to Conservation International’s "Campaign To Save The Hotspots." A second book, "Song of the Vanishing Tribe" won a publishing award from the Publisher Marketing Association and was nominated for the prestigious Nautilus Award. Paige donated books and proceeds from this work to the areas and tribes photographed. Paige wrote, directed and produced two documentaries in Africa including the award-winning "Xai Xai, Voice of Our Ancestors." Visit artist’s website
Dan Eldon
Dan Eldon was born in London, England in 1970. At the age of seven, a family move to Nairobi, Kenya ignited a lifelong fascination with the land and the people of Africa. It was this love for Africa that would eventually lead to his death. On July 12th 1993, at just twenty-two years old, Eldon, the youngest Reuters photojournalist ever, along with three colleagues, was stoned and beaten to death by an angry mob reacting to a UN bombing in Mogadishu, Somalia. He left behind seventeen black-bound journals filled with drawings, writings and photographs – vivid collages that chronicle a child’s journey into manhood and a lifelong struggle with the forces of good and evil. While Eldon’s photos are works of journalism, his journals are works of art – a celebration of adventure and a testament of desire to live life to its fullest. Now, through his art, his journey continues. And if the journey truly is the destination, then Eldon has certainly arrived. Eldon’s safari continues to live on at the Candela/Decker Gallery where you can find his photography and journals on permanent display. Visit artist’s website
Huger Foote
Born in Memphis, Tennessee, Huger Foote’s photographs have been part of fourteen solo and over two dozen group exhibitions over the years, with his most recent exhibition at Memphis’s David Lusk Gallery. His work is also part of private collections, including those of Sir Elton John and Christy Turlington. Foote is the author of the book My Friend from Memphis (Booth-Clibborn Editions 2000) and he previously wrote for such notable publications as the Wall Street Journal, Vanity Fair, Vogue, and Interview. Visit artist’s website
Gerald Forster
Gerald Forster’s professional career as a fashion photographer started in Paris. Since 1998 he has lived and worked in New York where he started photographing celebrities for a range of publications that include Esquire, Vogue, Newsweek, Premier, and Planet. In addition to his commercial and editorial work, he has pursued several fine art projects and is represented with his video and photography art at Hous Projects Gallery, Jenkins Johnson Gallery, and the Stephen Cohan Gallery. In 2006, Forster was the recipient of the Euro Press Professional Photographer Award, as well as the IPA Award in fine art. Forster is currently working on a new video and photography project called “The American Dream.” Four of the video portraits are shown at the Deschler Gallery in Berlin this summer. The exhibit pinpoints the despair that is steadily infecting the souls of globalism’s supposed beneficiaries. Visit artist’s website
Gregory Goode
Joe Grant
Susanna Noel Jolly
Alison Jones
Chris Jordan
Chris Jordan is an internationally acclaimed artist and cultural activist whose work explores the frightening waste of our mass culture. His compelling, intricately detailed photographs reveal the staggering weight of statistics, inviting the viewer to see every detail as a metaphor for the role of the individual in our hypermodern society. Jordan’s work is exhibited widely in the U.S. and Europe, and has been featured in print, online, and in film and television all over the globe. He has exhibited and spoken about his work to more than fifty audiences in North and South America, Europe, Asia, and the Middle East. Visit artist’s website
Beverly Joubert
Beverly Joubert, along with her husband Dereck Joubert, is a preeminent wildlife filmmaker of our time. Their work with Africa’s wildlife has been shown on National Geographic for the past twenty-five years. Joubert, who was born near Johannesburg, South Africa and grew up in Africa, went to Botswana in 1981 and fell in love with the wildness of the great Okavango Delta, “a place where you can get lost and no-one would really care, or come looking for you.” It was here that Joubert began her film and photography career. In 1985 she and her husband formed the company Wildlife Films in Botswana and a subsidiary in South Africa, and from here on out their films were produced under this label. Together they have produced over a dozen films documenting the wildlife of Africa, each garnering numerous accolades and awards, including four Emmy awards, Peabody Awards, Chris Awards, the Grand Teton Award, and Panda awards From Wildscreen film festival in the U.K. Joubert has photographed a number of National Geographic Magazine articles and holds the distinction of being one of only three women who have produced National Geographic cover articles in the Society’s history. In May 2006, Joubert, along with her husband, was nominated as one of eleven National Geographic Explorers in Residence, an honor and highest title within the society. Visit artist’s website
Carlo Mari
Carlo Mari has been a professional underwater photographer for many years. He has worked for all the major Italian and international specialist magazines, and has published books on the subject of the Mediterranean. Presently, Carlo Mari is an advertising-fashion photographer and is world renowned for his reportages on African landscape and wildlife that are collected together in eight books and for his Africa and nude fine art prints. Visit artist’s website
Arthur Meyerson
Since 1974, Arthur Meyerson, a native Texan, has traveled throughout the world, creating award winning advertising, corporate, and editorial photographs, as well as an extensive body of fine art imagery. A three-time winner of Adweek's "Southwest Photographer of the Year" award, he is on Communication World's list of top ten corporate photographers and was named one of the thirty best advertising photographers by American Photo. His awards are numerous, including gold medals from the New York Art Directors Club, the Art Directors Club of Houston, the Dallas Society of Visual Communications and the prestigious Stephen Kelly Award for his work on the Nike advertising campaign. He was selected by Nikon to their illustrious Legends Behind the Lens list and was honored by the Houston Advertising Federation as the inaugural recipient of the Only In Houston award for individuals “whose creativity and passion for his art have brought recognition to the city of Houston.” In 2008, the Houston Decorative Center named him as the first recipient of photography in their annual Stars Of Design celebration. Besides his commercial work, Meyerson’s fascination with light, color, and the moment continues and has culminated into an impressive body of personal work as well. His photographs are in the public collections of several major institutions and have been exhibited internationally. He and his work have been profiled in many publications including Communication Arts, Rangefinder, Camera Arts, Graphics, Digital Photo Pro, Zoom (France), Portfolio, Idea (Japan), Novum (Germany), Photo World (China), and Fotodigital (Portugal). A photographer with a strong commitment to his profession, Meyerson teaches photography workshops, does individual mentoring, and participates in speaking engagements throughout the U.S. and abroad. He is a member of the Advisory Council for the Santa Fe Center for Photography, as well as serves on the Board of Advisors for the Santa Fe Photographic Workshops and the Houston Center for Photography. Visit artist’s website
Jonnie Miles
Jonnie Miles is a photographer and musician who hails from Scotland and has been living in New York City for the past thirty-five years. His photographs are published worldwide in advertising and editorial projects and are held in various private collections. In addition to ARC, Miles donates his fine-art photographs and collages to Youth In Focus (Seattle) and The Center for Photography at Woodstock, amongst others. He is presently contracted to Getty Images for commercial image sales. Since the 1970’s Miles has maintained a career as a creative musician in the field of rock, which includes the release of several albums by major record companies. Unfortunately, getting near the top of the Italian charts does not equal commercial success! Visit artist’s website
Beth O’Donnell
Beth O'Donnell studied photography at the Evanston Art Center in Evanston, Illinois, the International Center for Photography in New York City, the Center for Photography at Woodstock, and at the R&F Paint Workshop. Her photojournalistic work in Africa, for which she spent two months in 2000 working in the slums of Nairobi, Kenya, was published in The London Daily Telegraph and Marie Claire magazines. She has also been published in The Financial Times and has appeared twice as a guest on Oprah Winfrey's Oxygen Network, for "Angels in the Slums" and "AIDS and Orphans". In 2006, O'Donnell's book Angels in Africa was published by the Vendome Press. Seven years in the making, this book introduces seven visionary women hailing from seven different countries, each who have taken powerful action to rectify the devastating societal conditions in Africa. Angels in Africa has been named by the Guardian (UK) as one of the top ten photography books of the year. President Bill Clinton also featured Angels in Africa in his book Giving (2007). Her most recent works are mixed media explorations at the intersection between photography and painting. Using encaustic wax and pigmented oil stick to add texture and color to photographs mounted on birch panels, O'Donnell captures a diverse variety landscapes including SoHo's iconic water towers and images of Africa. Visit artist’s website
Mirella Ricciardi
Born in Kenya, then still a colony of British East Africa, to an Italian father and a French mother, Mirella Ricciardi grew up on the shores of Lake Naivasha, in a household which was both sophisticated and wild. She was married at twenty-five to the Italian adventurer Lorenzo Ricciardi, who swept her off her feet and hired her as the photographer on the film he was making in East Africa. Ricciardi’s first book, Vanishing Africa, was published in 1971. An international bestseller, it made her reputation; one reviewer wrote that it was “a masterpiece of photographic excellence.” She has since published four other photographic books - Vanishing Amazon, African Saga, African Rainbow, and most recently, African Visions. Having finally severed her umbilical tie to the African continent, she now lives for part of the year on an anonymous London street in the shadow of the Chelsea Football Club stadium in Fulham. Her nondescript terraced house has been turned into an African haven filled with light, African artifacts, and rambling plants. Visit artist’s website
Spencer Tunick
Spencer Tunick has been documenting the live nude figure in public, with photography and video, since 1992. He has organized over seventy-five temporary site-specific installations in the U.S. and abroad. Tunick’s installations encompass dozens, hundreds, or thousands of volunteers; and his photographs are records of these events. The individuals en masse, without their clothing, metamorphose into a new shape. The bodies extend into and upon the landscape like a substance. These grouped masses, which do not underscore sexuality, become abstractions that challenge or reconfigure one’s views of nudity and privacy. The work also refers to the complex issue of presenting art in permanent or temporary public spaces. Visit artist’s website
Peter Tunney
It is difficult to separate the life and the work of Peter Tunney because in many ways they are one and the same. His work, which frequently mixes and varies in media, functions as relics of the constant performance that is Tunney's life. Tunney produces works that probe our culture with authority, by mining images from newspapers, magazines, and art books and reinterpreting them through his own unique perspective. Through his work, Tunney offers wisdom from someone who has crossed over to the other side, and made it back alive to tell the tale. His recent works, where refreshingly optimistic phrases and quotes are colorfully painted over collaged headlines, serve as a subtle attack on our culture of fear and ennui. As our media sources relay stories of death, destruction, hysteria and greed, Peter whimsically overpowers them with his own headlines, such as "don't panic,” "believe,” "gratitude,” and "change the way you see everything.” In doing so he functions as his own media machine, redefining ways for us all to interact with and understand the world around us. Peter Tunney lives and works in New York. His work has been included in exhibitions and private collections around the world, and can be seen at his galleries, "The PT Experiment" on 666 Fifth Avenue in New York City & "The PT Experience" in Miami Florida. Visit artist’s website
Tim Willis
Joe Zammit-Lucia
Joe Zammit-Lucia is a conceptual artist, working with a photographic medium to explore issues relating to the human-animal relationship. He is one of the world’s leading animal portrait artists, developing unique ways to use animal portraiture to explore the essence of animality and our relationship to others. His work has been presented in major public forums such as the United Nations Headquarters in New York, the National Museum of Natural History in Paris, the United Nations Palais des Nations in Geneva, Switzerland, and in private galleries in Europe and the U.S. His images were exhibited in Venezia Immagine on the occasion of the Venice Biennale in 2007. Winner of the Honor of Distinction in the Nature Category of the prestigious International Masters Cup, awarded second place in the International Photography Awards, a fourth place Honorable Mention, and multiple nominations in the International Black and White Spider Awards, his work has appeared in international fine art photography and environmental magazines and is featured in the book The World’s Greatest Black and White Photography. Previously a practicing physician and an entrepreneur who founded a market leading international company, Zammit-Lucia now acts as a Special Advisor to the Director General, IUCN – International Union for Conservation of Nature and is a member of Board of Directors of the African Rainforest Conservancy. Visit artist’s website
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