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Jack V. Picone (born 1958) is an Australian-born documentary photographer, photojournalist, author, festival/collective founder, tutor and academic. He specialises in social-documentary photography. Picone's coverage of war zones and social issues is internationally prominent, and over a career spanning more than three decades, his photojournalism has encompassed 10 conflicts across three continents, the global HIV/AIDS pandemic and the Nuba peoples of Sudan, Africa, among many other subjects. His work has been featured in a wide range of international publications including Time, Newsweek, The Sydney Morning Herald (SMH), The Age, Liberation, Der Spiegel, L'Express, Granta, Independent (UK) and The Observer. As of 2016, Picone's work is held at various venues including the Australian War Memorial, State Library of NSW and National Portrait Gallery of Australia, and his exhibited work has been displayed at numerous international venues, including the Australian Centre of Photography, University of Berkeley, United Nations headquarters and Visa Pour L'Image Perpignan. Picone has also authored/coauthored seven books. Among his list of honours, Picone is a three-time winner of the Picture of the Year International (POYi) award; a winner of the UNESCO Humanity Photo award, the Mother Jones/IFDP Grant for Social Documentary Photography award and the World Press Photo award; and a finalist of both the Walkley Awards and the Amnesty International Media Awards. Picone received both his Master of Visual Arts (MVA) and PhD from Griffith University, Queensland, Australia, and he was an "Artist-in-Residence" Visiting Professor of Lingnan University in Hong Kong from 2012 to 2014. As of the beginning of 2017, he is a Lecturer at Mahidol University in Thailand. (en) |
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Jack V. Picone (born 1958) is an Australian-born documentary photographer, photojournalist, author, festival/collective founder, tutor and academic. He specialises in social-documentary photography. Picone's coverage of war zones and social issues is internationally prominent, and over a career spanning more than three decades, his photojournalism has encompassed 10 conflicts across three continents, the global HIV/AIDS pandemic and the Nuba peoples of Sudan, Africa, among many other subjects. (en) |
