JAMES REEVE is an award-winning photographer, he lives in Marseille, France.
He works on long-term personal projects and undertakes commissions for commercial and editorial clients; he is a regular contributor to Wallpaper* Magazine.
His career to date has been very much a naturally evolving process of experimentation in different genres of photography, from reportage and portraiture to contemporary documentary projects.
Banned, a photographic essay he shot in Afghanistan in the aftermath of the Taliban, received widespread acclaim and he was the recipient of several international awards.
Recently he has been concentrating on artistic landscape projects, his most recent of which - Lightscapes - was selected for the 25th Hyeres International Festival of Fashion and Photography, in 2010.
James has received awards from the National Portrait Gallery/Schweppes Portrait Prize, The Observer Hodge Award and also The Fifty Crows Foundation. His work has been exhibited in the National Portrait Gallery in London.
SIMON REEVE is a TV presenter and New York Times bestselling author. He has been around the world three times for the BBC series Equator, Tropic of Capricorn, and Tropic of Cancer, and has travelled extensively in more than 90 countries, including troubled states in Africa, the Caucasus, Latin America, Eastern Europe, the Middle East, Far East and Central Asia.
Simon’s latest TV series (2010) is Tropic of Cancer, for which he travelled through 18 countries on the northern edge of Earth’s tropical region.
Simon has been awarded a One World Broadcasting Trust award for an “outstanding contribution to greater world understanding”. His books include Tropic of Capricorn (published by BBC Books), and The New Jackals: Ramzi Yousef, Osama bin Laden and the future of terrorism, which warned of a new age of apocalyptic terrorism, and was the first in the world on bin Laden and al Qaeda. Originally published in 1998 it has been a New York Times bestseller.
Simon has contributed to other studies into organised crime, terrorism, biological warfare and corruption. His book One Day in September: the story of the 1972 Munich Olympics massacre, was published in 2000. The film of the same name, narrated by the actor Michael Douglas, won an Oscar for best feature documentary.
