Stuart Freedman, a Londoner born in 1967, has been a photographer since 1991 with stories “from Albania to Afghanistan and from former Yugoslavia to Haiti” published in leading magazines around the world, including Life, Geo, Time, National Geographic, Der Spiegel, Newsweek and Paris Match. He is represented in London by Panos Pictures.
In 1998 he was selected for the World Press Masterclass and the following year for the Agfa Young Photojournalist of the Year, and has gained awards from Amnesty International (twice), Pictures of the Year, The World Sports Photo Award, The Royal Photographic Society and UNICEF, and his work has been shown widely.
Looking at his new web site, it is easy to see why, with fine photojournalism is stories both in black and white, for example The Mutilated, with images from Sierra Leone, and some stunning colour work in all the essays on the site, although perhaps sometimes I find the colour a little over-saturated.
I’ve had the pleasure of seeing Stuart talk about his work, and there are some excellent pieces of writing on the site, as well as on his blog, Umbra Sumus (We are but shadows.) One recent piece, “I am not a witch ” Well, actually I am had some sensible things to say about the Halloween scam as well as his portraits of some British pagans.
I did have a few minor problems with his new site, which certainly looks very stylish. As well as my often-mentioned aversion to sites that need you to scroll sideways (I’m still waiting for a mouse with a scroll wheel that works that way) there were some links that only wanted to work if I opened them in a new tab.
