JAMES REEVE is an award-winning photographer, specialising in design and travel commissions for editorial and commercial clients.
His latest personal project, Lightscapes, has been selected to form part of the 25th Hyeres International Festival of Fashion and Photography, which opens at the Villa Noailles in France on April 30th this year.
James has travelled to more than 45 countries shooting editorial and commercial assignments for clients including Wallpaper*, Puma, The Sunday Times Travel, Toyota, Candy & Candy, Conde Nast Traveller, 125, Esquire, Armani and The Observer.
His personally funded project ‘Banned – Afghanistan’, focused on aspects of life in Afghanistan that were previously forbidden under the Taliban regime. It received recognition in the National Portrait Gallery/Schweppes Portrait Prize, The Observer Hodge Award and also from The Fifty Crows Foundation.
He was a winner of 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 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.
