Directors
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Nina Emett (née Chohda) was born in
London. She graduated in modern languages from Newcastle University and
subsequently taught English to foreign students. She founded and
delivered an academic study skills programme for undergraduate students
from Japan entering British universities.
Nina studied advanced fine art photography at Central St Martin’s,
London. She took a post-graduate diploma in photojournalism at the
London College of Communications in 1997. She has since freelanced for
various publications and NGOs as well as working on her own long-term
photography projects with exhibitions in London, Brighton and Brittany.
Nina has extensive experience of charity management and development.
She headed the refugee education charity Salusbury WORLD from 1999–2003
and worked as a charity consultant from 2003-2005. She photographed and
co-wrote the refugee education book Home From Home and has run
educational workshops in schools on photography and global refugee
issues. She has curated children’s photography exhibitions most notably
at The Tricycle Theatre, London. With an interest in global and
humanitarian issues, Nina graduated from Birkbeck University, London,
with an MSc in International Development in 2005.
Nina has also worked strategically in the areas of refugee policy and
racist hate crime within the public sector (2005–2010). She devised and
implemented community cohesion measures in collaboration with Sussex
Police and other partners to reduce race-related incidents and crimes
and to build trust and confidence with BME communities. She set up and
chaired two city-wide refugee focused arts festivals in Brighton, The
ONE Event (2005), and Press For Change (2006), drawing audiences of up
to 2,000 in both years. She coordinated a variety of cross-sector arts
activities across the city including photography exhibitions.
In 2006, she took a sabbatical to work with genocide victims in Rwanda
where she photographed therapeutic arts activities for survivors and
edited victim testimonials for the organisation SURF.
Nina is currently Chair of the award-winning performing arts charity,
BandBazi. She is also co-founder and co-director of FotoDocument which
was set up in 2009.
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Howard Davies Howard Davies has
been a professional photographer since 1987 after completing a
post-graduate course in photojournalism at the University of London.
Born in Sydney in 1961 he has spent the majority of his life in the UK.
In 1981 Howard worked for NOW, a Belfast based multi-media arts group
which worked on projects with communities across the sectarian divide;
in 1983 he worked for two years as member of a printing and publishing
co-operative in Yorkshire.
Since 1987 Howard has documented major humanitarian crises including
Rwanda, Bosnia, Kosovo and the Middle East, as well as the aftermath of
the Asian Tsunami. Howard has travelled extensively in Asia and Africa
and been commissioned by leading international aid organisations
including Oxfam, the International Red Cross, UNICEF and UNHCR to
document their humanitarian work.
Howard’s photographs have been published internationally and he has
been previously shortlisted for the Amnesty Photojournalist Award for
his photo essay on refugees. Howard’s photographs have been exhibited
in London, Dublin, Newcastle and Amsterdam and his touring exhibition
on refugees in the UK was sponsored and exhibited by the Guardian.
Howard has also co-curated exhibitions of his photographs at the Museum
of London, the National Theatre, the Side Gallery and the Guardian
Newsroom.
In 2001 Howard founded Exile Images, an online photo agency and library
which represented fourteen internationally based photojournalists. In
2007 Exile was incorporated into Report Digital, the highly respected
independent press agency, to which he remains a contributing member.
Howard has photographed thirty children’s books for leading UK
educational publishers, documenting children’s lives in countries as
diverse as South Africa, Jamaica, Saudi Arabia, China and Bangladesh.
Howard also has extensive experience of running workshops in schools
and colleges both on asylum and refugee issues, as well as publishing
children books. Howard is co-founder and co-director of FotoDocument.
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