Jillian Edelstein
Principal Photographer
London, United Kingdom
London based photographer Jillian Edelstein was born and grew up in Cape Town, South Africa. She began working as a press photographer in Johannesburg on the Rand Daily Mail and the Star. In 1985 she emigrated to London to study at the London College of Printing. Her portraits have appeared in many publications including The New Yorker, The New York Times Magazine, Vanity Fair, Vogue and Interview. She has worked on campaigns for Comic Relief, The Dogs Trust, The National Theatre, The National Portrait Gallery, Abbot Mead Vickers BBDO, EMI, UNICEF, and The Royal Shakespeare Company.
She has received several awards including the Kodak UK Young Photographer of the Year in 1986, Photographers Gallery Portrait Photographer of the Year Award 1990, the Visa d’Or at the International Festival of Photojournalism in Perpignan in 1997, the European Final Art Polaroid Award in 1999, the John Kobal Book Award 2003.
Between 1996 and 2002 she returned to South Africa often to document the work of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission. Her award-winning book Truth and Lies, shot in large format was published by Granta in 2002. Her photographs have been exhibited internationally at venues including the National Portrait Gallery, The Photographers Gallery, The Royal Academy New Art Space, the Tom Blau Gallery in London, the Recontres Internationales de la Photographie in Arles, France and the Bensusan Museum, Johannesburg. She has just completed her second book Call of the Ancestors about the Sangoma, the traditional healers who live, heal and train in the mountains on the Lesotho/South African border.
You can keep up with Jillian at http://www.jillianedelstein.co.uk/.
Adam Stevens
Photography Coordinator
London, United Kingdom
Adam is a picture editor for an international photo library based in London, working with photographers worldwide.
Previously he has worked as a picture researcher and ran the research team at photolibrary.com. To put pay to the idea of a career path, earlier jobs included growing trees and producing corporate videos. As a little one, driving tractors was the dream, as of yet unrealised!
As the Photography Coordinator for The Pixel Project, Adam helps the rest of the team develop the project’s visual style and has a hand in coordinating the creatives who produce and choose the images for The Pixel Project. He also helps with coordinating the logistics of the photo shoots worldwide.
Matthew Ong
Photographer
Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
Matthew Ong’s passion for capturing moments and an interest in people has led him down the path of freelance photography. Working in both colour and black & white, his portfolio includes weddings, portraits, and events.
Preferring a less intrusive style of photojournalism, his photography is bold, modern, and distinctive. Determined to continually broaden his photographic horizons, he views his work as a never-ending work-in-progress.
