Panos pictures

Paul Lowe

Studied Modern history and Politics at Cambridge University, 83-86. Studied Documentary Photography under David Hurn at Gwent college of Higher Education 1986-88. Worked as freelance Photographer based in London, 1988 to 1999.

Now lives and works in Sarajevo, Bosnia Joined Network Photographers in January 1989 Regular freelance for The Sunday Telegraph newspaper from 1989 to early 1990.

Contract photographer for The European Newspaper 1990 to 1992, covering mainly News stories in Europe. Contributor through Magnum until 2001 to a wide range of domestic and international magazines, including Time, Newsweek, Life, Stern, Der Speigel, El Mundo, The Telegraph, The Observer, The Independent etc. Joined Magnum Photos as nominee in June 1993, became associate in 1995, left in 2001. Joined Grazia Neri in Milan, September 2002, also represented by Panos Pictures in the UK Major stories include: British involvement in Northern Ireland; End of the Cold War, The Fall of the Berlin Wall, Revolution in Romania, German Reunification; Release of Nelson Mandela; Everyday life in Beirut; Civil war in Yugoslavia; The aftermath of the Soviet Nuclear test programme; Famine and civil war in Somalia; Diamond mining in Angola; The siege of Sarajevo; War in Grozny; Massacre in Rwanda; Famine in Sudan 1998; Orangutans in Borneo; Orbis blindness program in Cuba.

Winner of Nikon News photographer and Photo essay of the Year, 1989, winner of Nikon Features Photographer 1990; winner of The Journalist prize for Photography 1989. Second place Magazine photographer of the year in POY 1993; First place Global news picture for Grozny POY 1996; Winner of World Press Photo for General News and Nature and the Environment in 1992; Second place in spot news in 1995 for Grozny and 96 for Rwanda. UK Magazine Photographer of the Year 1998. Awarded the Vic Odden prize for an outstanding achievement by a British photographer under 35 by the Royal Photographic Society.

2^nd place people in the news in World Press 2000 for pictures of the missing in Bosnia.

Currently course leader of the MA in photojournalism and documentary photography at the London College of Communication, University of the Arts, London.

During 2003-4 worked as a senior lecturer in photography at Bolton Institute

Extensive experience of teaching and running workshops and seminars, for photojournalists, especially in the Balkans. One of the "masters" on the WPP master class 2002.

Currently developing an on line educational programme for photographers in the developing world in conjunction with the World Press Photo Foundation in Amsterdam.