Peter Turnley
Peter Turnley is a contributing editor/photographer for Harper’s Magazine and creates major, multi-page photo-essays every quarter for the magazine in the grand tradition of visual authorship in photo-essay form.

His work is often seen in the world’s most prestigious magazines: Newsweek, Stern, Paris-Match, GEO, Life, National Geographic, The Sunday Times, VSD, Le Figaro, Le Monde, TheNew Yorker and DoubleTake. His photographs have been on the cover of Newsweek — where he worked as a contract photographer between 1984 and 2001 — 43 times. He has covered nearly every major news event of international significance over the past 20 years. His pictures have been published the world over and have won many international awards, including the Overseas Press Club Award for ‘Best Photographic Reporting from Abroad’.

Turnley has published four books of his work: Beijing Spring, Moments of Revolution, In Times of War and Peace and Parisians.

Raghu Rai
Raghu Rai began his career in photography in 1965. He joined The Statesman as their chief photographer (1966– 1976), and later became a picture editor with Sunday, a weekly news magazine (1977– 1980).

Rai took over as picture editor–visualiser–photographer of India Today, India’s leading news magazine in its formative years. He worked on special issues and designs, contributing trailblazing picture essays on social, political and cultural themes of the decade (1982– 1991), which became the talking point of the magazine.

In 1971 Rai was nominated to join Magnum Photos, the world’s most prestigious photographers’ cooperative, by the legendary photographer Henri Cartier-Bresson. That same year he was awarded the Padmashree, one of India’s highest civilian awards ever given to a photographer. In 1992, he was named ‘Photographer of the Year’ in the US for ‘Human Management of Wildlife in India’, an article published in National Geographic. His photo essays have appeared in many of the world’s leading magazines and newspapers, including TIME, Life, GEO, The New York Times, Sunday Times, Newsweek, The Independent and The New Yorker.

Besides winning many national and international awards, Rai has exhibited his works in London, Paris, New York, Hamburg, Prague, Tokyo, Zurich and Sydney.

Over the last 18 years, Rai has specialised in extensive coverage of India and has produced more than 18 books — Raghu Rai’s Delhi (1985, 1992), The Sikhs (1984, 2002), Calcutta (1989), Khajuraho (1991), Taj Mahal (1986), Tibet in Exile (1991) and India (1985), among others — including books on Indira Gandhi (1971, 1985, 2004) and Mother Teresa (1971, 1996, 2004).

Rai lives in New Delhi with his family and continues to be an associate of Magnum Photos.

Kalvar was one of the founders of Viva photo agency. He joined Magnum Photos in 1975 and has been a full member since 1977, serving several times as vice-president or president.

Kalvar has worked extensively in Europe, the US and Asia. In 2007, he will have a major retrospective exhibition in Paris at the Maison Européenne de la Photographie, and have a book published by Flammarion in French and by Rizzoli in English.

Rio Helmi
Rio Helmi has been capturing images of Asia since 1978, constantly adding to a richly textured portolio that celebrates the region’s people and places, contemporary lifestyles and Mahayana Buddhism. His work is often seen in books, magazines and documentaries. He has exhibited in Bali, Jakarta, Palo Alto, San Francisco and Sydney.

From 1978 to 1983, Helmi worked with the Indonesian media. From 1983, he freelanced for many regional and international magazines (Asiaweek, GEO, Harper’s Bazaar, The New York Times, Vogue and others) and provided commercial material for clients such as the Aman Group, Bulgari, John Hardy, Hyatt International and The Ritz Carlton, to name but a few.

Helmi has two galleries in Bali which exhibit his private work, in Ubud and Seminyak.