Novice Monks

• Prize
• Photographer
  Jack Picone, Thailand
• Website
  http://www.jackpicone.com

Novice Monks bath their horses on the Thai-Burma Border. They are all orphaned and in exile from Burma

JACK PICONE: BIOGRAPHY


Over the last twenty years, Australian-born Jack Picone?s reportage images have featured regularly in international magazines, newspapers and NGO projects. His clients include Time, Life, Liberation, Der Spiegel, Stern, Mare, L?Express, Colors, Tempo, Granta, Marie Claire, The Independent (UK), The Observer, as well as organisations such as CARE, ActionAid, MSF and others.

In the 1990s Jack covered eight wars. He achieved some notable 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 is the recipient of significant international awards including World Press Photo Amsterdam, POY (Photographer of the Year awards in the USA) and the Fifty Crows Award for Documentary Photography. His work has been exhibited in major galleries worldwide.

Now based in Bangkok, Thailand, Jack works on global assignments and is the founder of WorkShopAsia, a series of regular photojournalism workshops tutored by world-renowned photographers focusing on the Asian region.