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Jocelyn Bain Hogg began his career as a unit photographer on movie sets after studying Documentary Photography at Newport Art College.  He shot publicity for the BBC, photographed fashion and now works on documentary projects and commercial and editorial assignments.   His editorial work has featured in The Sunday Times, The Observer, Vogue, Elle, Harpers Bazaar, Marie Claire, Stern, GQ, Esquire, Max, Le Monde, Cahiers du Cinema, L’Espresso and La Repubblica and he has photographed commercially for many clients including Ibiza Rocks, The Kaiser Chiefs, Nokia, Sony, Ikea,, Vodafone, English Heritage, Adidas, The Post Office, and Mulberry.

His first photographic book, The Firm, presented an astonishingly intimate view of London’s organised crime world, and won international acclaim, garnering the prestigious Lead Award for portraiture (2003 Germany). The Firm has been exhibited internationally since 2001, most recently at the Pobeda Gallery in Moscow where a TV documentary about him was aired in 2008 on Russian television for the Stories in Details Arts series.
His second book, Idols + Believers, an intensive journey into the nature of fame and today’s celebrity culture, was published in 2006 with a touring exhibition shown in London, Paris, New York and Miami. 
A third book, Pleasure Island, looking at the pursuit of pleasure, rock and roll and dance culture in Ibiza, was published in 2008 with an exhibition at The Printspace in London in 2008 and remains on the walls in the Ibiza Rocks Hotel, the home of Ibiza Rocks.

In 2008 he was commissioned by Sky News to document the issues surrounding British youth for an extensive web essay for Sky News Online and an exhibition at City Hall in London. He is presently continuing this work.

His latest project Muse (photographed over the last ten years) is a series of close-up photographs of friends, family and partners, which depicts an honest, intimate and personal insight into femininity.  The work explores beauty and female emotion in an unvarnished and un-retouched manner, challenging the 21st Century ethos of cosmetic enhancement and air-brushed magazine perfection. Muse has so far been exhibited at the Third Floor Gallery in Cardiff, Wales and at Fotopub in Novo Mesto, Slovenia. It will be shown in London and New York in 2011.

In addition to the continuing British Youth series, he is currently working on a joint project about London, Tired of London, Tired of Life., with artist Paul Davis and designer Henrietta Molinaro and is photographing an update of The Firm ten years later.


He is a member of VII Network, part of the VII Photo Agency, and is also a visiting lecturer on the MA Photojournalism course at the London College of Communication.

 

 

 

 

Exhibitions 

 

Muse was exhibited at The Third Floor Gallery in Cardiff, Wales in April 2010 and at Fotopub in Novo Mesto, Slovenia in August 2010

The Printspace in London exhibited Pleasure Island and The Firm in March 2008

Pobeda Gallery in Moscow exhibited The Firm in September 2007

Idols + Believers was exhibited in New York City at Gramercy 32 Fine Arts gallery in association with Kodak in November 2006.

Gramercy 32 Fine Arts gallery also exhibited Idols + Believers at Miami Basel 2006 in association with Kodak and Napapijri.



Books

 

2008 Pleasure Island published by Trellick books, www.trellickbooks.com

2006 Idols + Believers/Idolatrisme (French edition) published by Editions Intervalles,  France,   Launches in London- Paris- New York- Miami FL .

2001 The Firm published by Westzone. A second edition was published in paperback by Trolley in 2003.

2001 Places to Go, People to See published by Mother
         Inclusion of ten photographs in this contemporary photography collection

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