Jonnie Miles Kilmarnock’ta doğdu ve Glasgow Sanat Okulu’na katıldıktan sonra anavatanı İskoçya’dan ayrıldı, Profesyonel müzisyen olarak çalışacağı ve fotoğrafçılığa olan ilgisini geliştirmeye çalışacağı Londra ve İskoçya’da yaşamaya başladı.Onbeş yıl sonra profesyonel fotoğrafçı olarak ikinci bir kariyere demir atmak üzere New York’a taşındı. Miles, müzik aşkı ve fotoğraf tutkusunu birleştirerek Blues müzisyeni olan  B.B. King’in, Gitar Dünyası Dergisi kapağı için portrelerini çekerek 1990’da New York pazarına girdi. O tarihten sonra fotoğrafları dünya çapında pek çok yayında ve büyük reklam kampanyalarında yer aldı. Portre ve kolajları Alman Konemann Verlagsgesellschaft gibi güzel sanatlar kitaplarında basıldı. Miles’in, Afrika Yağmur Ormanları Koruma ve Woodstock Fotoğrafçılık Merkezi gibi yardımsever kuruluşlara düzenli bağışları onun özel koleksiyonlara ulaşmasına sebep oldu.En dikkate değer olanı, Afrikalı kolajlarından birini Süper model Naomi Campbell’in satın alışıydı.

Jonnie Miles Manhattan’ın batı yakasında yaşıyor. Onunla fotoğrafçılık hakkında temas kurmakveya “Dekan ve  Yolcular”adlı bantını ayırtmak için 212-740-1184’ü arayın veya www.jonniemiles.com’u ziyaret edin.

Born in the town of Kilmarnock,  Jonnie Miles left his native Scotland after  attending  The Glasgow School of Art and lived in London and Ireland, where he worked as a professional musician and cultivated an interest in photography. Fifteen years later, his move to New York City anchored a second career as a professional photographer. Blending his love of music with his passion for photography, Miles entered the NYC market shooting a portrait session of the seminal blues musician, B.B.King, for the cover of Guitar World Magazine in 1990. Since then, his images have appeared in numerous publications and major advertising campaigns worldwide. His portraits and collages have been published in fine-art books, for example by Konemann Verlagsgesellschaft, Germany. Miles’ regular donations of his work to charitable organizations such as The African Rainforest Conservancy and The Center of Photography at Woodstock, have further expanded his reach into private collections, the most notable being the purchase of one of his African collages by supermodel  Naomi Campbell.

Jonnie Miles lives on the Westside of Manhattan, NYC. To contact him about photography or to book his band "Dean and the Travellers" call: 212-740-1184 or go to: www.jonniemiles.com Jonnie Miles photographs are also represented by gettyimages.com

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JONNIE MILES
OKAVANGO SERIES NARRATIVE

“ On a bright November morning in ‘98, I lifted the window shade of the South African Airways jet and looked down to see the desert coastline of Namibia slipping past under a pink dawn sky. Some months earlier, an African friend who was passing through New York, dared me to leave the comforts of my city apartment and visit her in a semi-converted barn, minus electricity, on the edge of the Kalahari Desert. Three months later, having overstayed my visa and missed Christmas in New York with my girlfriend at the time, I was still in the bush with my camera. The magic had taken hold…”

These photographs were all taken in the Okavango Delta, Botswana, Southern Africa.  

Çeviri (translated by) : Berna AKCAN



























 

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