Timothy Allen Essay

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Josh Lozinak Master Photographer Project 1 For my master photographer I chose to research Timothy Allen. Timothy Allen is from TonBridge, located in the South East of England. He was born in 1971. Timothy Allen graduated in 1991 from Leeds University with a Bachelor’s degree in Zoology. After college, Allen spent time traveling Indonesia. The time spent in Indonesia helped to ignite his passion for photography. During the 1990’s Allen began a part-time diploma program in photography. For his first major project Timothy joined an aid convoy to Bosnia in order to cover the issues there. After six months he dropped out of college. Allen moved to London and begun working for the Sunday Telegraph. He then provided commissions from all the British broadsheet publications. He also held a 6 year position at The Independent working predominantly on features and portraits. Timothy Allen joined Axiom Photographic Agency in 2002 where he covered a dynamic and broad spectrum of global stories with subjects ranging from the civil war in the remote Spice Islands of far eastern Indonesia, to the intriguing subculture of The World Taxidermy Championships in Springfield , Illinois. In recent years, the focus of his work has turned to our planet’s remaining indigenous societies and he currently devotes his time to documenting the diversity of humanity’s cultural heritage. In recent years, he shadowed the BBC’s production of Human Planet. During an interview for the Independent Allen explained the experience. The process of shadowing a film crew with a photographer is uncommon in today’s practices. Allen explains, “humans operate on knowable and manageable timetables, making a parallel photographic series possible.” Throughout Timothy’s career he has won numerous awards and acknowledgements. It is clear that, Timothy as been inspired by BBC documentaries, the natural world and

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