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| Jack Picone |
| Over the last two decades, Australian-born Jack Picone’s reportage images have featured regularly in international magazines, newspapers and NGO projects. His clients include Time, Life, Liberation, Der Spiegel, Stern, Mare, L’Express, Colors, Tempo, Granta, Marie Claire, The Independent (UK), The Observer, as well as organizations such as CARE, ActionAid, MSF and others. In the 1990s Jack covered eight wars. He achieved some extraordinary news coverage, and was particularly intent on capturing the plight of ordinary people caught up in the extraordinary violence in places like Yugoslavia, Somalia, Rwanda, Palestine, Liberia, Sudan and Soviet Central Asia. For the last decade Jack has been committed to documenting the pandemic of HIV/AIDS for the London-based Terence Higgins Aids Trust as part of the huge “Positive Lives” project. He is the recipient of significant international awards including World Press Photo Amsterdam, POY (Photographer of the Year awards in the USA) and the Fifty Crows Award for Documentary Photography. His work has been exhibited in major galleries worldwide. Now splitting his time between Australia and Bangkok, Thailand, Jack works on global assignments and is the co-founder of Reportage Festival and the founder of The Jack Picone and Stephen Dupont Documentary Photography Workshops, www.jackpicone.net a series of regular photojournalism workshops tutored by world renowned photographers focusing on the Asian and Pacfic region. |
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