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October 13th, 2008

Jack Picone: Documenting the plights of ordinary people in extraordinary situations

Posted by liveBooks

When I think of liveBooks’ websites, I think cutting edge, smart, visionary.

I am a documentary photographer. Documentary photography enables me to approach people from cultures vastly different to my own and collaborate with them.

As I document people and tell their stories, communication is exchanged between the people I am documenting and myself. Finally, when those photographs are published on my liveBooks website, they become a catalyst for further communication between different cultures.

I like the idea that my photographs can be a conduit of communication between different cultures in different places. It is like the beginning of an intriguing conversation.

I see myself as a storyteller.

Without a website, my stories would be without a voice and would be invisible. liveBooks, enables the people in my photographs to be heard and to be visible.

Making my pictures is only half the story, liveBooks is the other half of the story.

Jack Picone, Documentary Photographer

Website: www.jackpicone.com

Over the last twenty years, Australian-born Jack Picone’s reportage images have featured regularly in international magazines, newspapers and NGO projects. In the 1990’s 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 has been the recipient of significant international awards. Now based in Bangkok, Thailand, Jack works on global assignments and is the founder of The Jack Picone Photography workshops, a series of regular photojournalism workshops tutored by world renowned photographers focusing on the Asian region.

Posted in Philanthropy

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