Jackie
Norman
Nanny Brown's Scrapbook
Tearing herself away from the industrial beauty
of Redcar, North Yorkshire and her Dickensian
schooling at Casterton, Cumbria, (the same Lowood
School where the Bronte sisters went and where
Charlotte Bronte placed her heroine Jane Eyre)
Jackie Norman worked in London at the BBC, Amnesty
International, taught in the East End off Brick
Lane, acquired a B.Ed at the University of London
and a BA (Hons) Photography and Multimedia at
the University of Westminster, but not necessarily
in that order. Her son works on computer architecture
for a national newspaper and her daughter is
an up and coming product designer. Jackie is
married (still), with one Jack Russell.
Iain Bailey
Emigré London
Iain Bailey cut his photography teeth underneath
an African sun where he was born. He arrived
in London in 1989. More at home with picturing
nature - and the tour de France (!) - he says
of Picnic's illustrated book Emigré London:
'To begin with, I did not tell my mates I was
photographing frocks. Now, however, I am so
pleased with the result, I am telling everyone!'
In addition to his photography career, the talented
entrepreneur and web guru is an internet consultant
with his own agency based in Kent.
David Brook
Girl on Top
David Brook is a commercial and editorial
photographer based in London. With a background
in film-making, David enjoys shooting portraits
and reportage, and travels extensively.
He has produced several personal projects which
have resulted in exhibitions of his of work.
In 1992, he helped to set up and raise funds
for a small charity, NomadX, to assist with
the crisis of 35,000 refugees seeking shelter
in Croatia and Slovenia during the Bosnian war.
An exhibition followed in Edinburgh with proceeds
going to Mostar.
David's most recent exhibition at the Salon
gallery in Notting Hill, London in 2006, presented
a landscape series that looked at the physical
effects that we as humans have on our surroundings.
It focused specifically on ski resorts and their
eerie emptiness during the summer months. His
forthcoming joint exhibition, AIR-PORT, begins
on April 16th 2008 at the Empire gallery in
Vyner street, Hackney. The work concentrates
on air travel, juxtaposed with Paddy Sutton's
large landscapes of an estuary that once served
as a major port in Suffolk. It explore man's
appropriation of the natural environment and
in turn, Nature's inevitable recovery of what
is only on loan to us.
David's work has appeared in many international
magazines from Time and GQ to Wallpaper* and
Harpers Bazaar. David regards art projects such
as 'Girl on Top' as an opportunity to explore
the creative passion that has been with him
since he first picked up a camera at the age
of 10. Uniting images with the written word
has always been an ambition and he looks forward
to the challenge of interpreting the poems of
Alexander Carysfort.
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