James Reeve is an award-winning photographer and photojournalist, specialising in documentary projects and portraiture.
In recent years James has travelled to more than 45 countries shooting editorial and commercial assignments for clients including Puma, The Sunday Times Travel, Toyota, Arena, Candy & Candy, Conde Nast Traveller, 125, Esquire, Armani and The Observer.
‘Banned – Afghanistan’, one of his recent projects, focused on aspects of life in Afghanistan that were previously forbidden under the Taliban regime. The project was shot in Kabul and on the road around the country, from the extraordinary lakes of Bandi Amir to the former Silk Road Buddhas of Bamyan.
Other recent projects have taken him down the Amazon in Brazil on a Justice Boat, along the world’s longest ice road and inside the restricted exclusion zone around the site of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster in the Ukraine.
James has received awards from the National Portrait Gallery/Schweppes Portrait Prize, The Observer Hodge Award and also The Fifty Crows Foundation. He is a recent winner of the The Independent/Wanderlust & Nikon Professional Travel Photographer of the Year Awards and his work has been exhibited in the National Portrait Gallery in London.
Simon Reeve is an author and broadcaster. In recent years he has been travelling around the world for a series of television documentaries.
The 2008 BBC TV series Tropic of Capricorn took Simon around the line marking the southern border of the tropics. His accompanying book, also called Tropic of Capricorn, is published by BBC Books.
In the BBC series Equator, Simon headed east around the planet, passing through troubled areas of Africa, Asia and Latin America.
In Places That Don’t Exist, Simon travelled through a group of unrecognised nations – countries so obscure they don’t officially exist.
And in Meet the Stans, Simon visited the Central Asian states of Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan.
Simon’s book The New Jackals: Ramzi Yousef, Osama bin Laden and the future of terrorism, which warned of a new age of apocalyptic terrorism, 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.
