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 features in Vanity
Fair, The Sunday
Times, The
New Yorker,
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, O'Neills,
English Heritage, Adidas, The Post Office, and Mulberry.
He
is the author of five photographic books to date and his first, 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 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 the Ibiza Rocks Festival.
Currently The Family, a
ten-year-on update from The Firm, which looks again
at Britain’s organized crime world in a new decade and was
premiered as an exhibition at the Visa Pour L'Image festival in
Perpignan, France in September 2011, is touring globally as an
exhibition with the accompanying photographic book published by Foto8
in December 2011.
Most
recently, a book about today’s ‘Season’, A
British Entertainment,
that looks at the British class system at both public and private
events and was released in May 2012. This was commissioned and
published by shirt company Thomas Pink and was photographed
throughout a year from March 2011 to March 2012
In
2008 he was commissioned by Sky News to document the issues
surrounding British youth for an extensive essay for Sky News Online
and an exhibition at City Hall in London. He is presently continuing
this work for Sea
Change,
a major project started in 2013 documenting youth across Europe,
involving an international roster of photographers for which he is
photo-director. In February 2013, he was invited onto the jury of the
World Press.
An
ongoing project Muse (photographed
over the last twelve 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 2013.
In
addition to the continuing British
Youth series,
he has recently finished working on an innovative book project about
the city of his birth London, Tired
of London, Tired of Life. A
collaboration between three artists of different creative
disciplines, his photographs collude with artist Paul Davis’
drawings and designer Henrietta Molinaro’s vision. The project is
due for publication by Emphas.is/Editions Intervalles in Summer 2013.
He
is a member of the VII Photo Agency.
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