Jack Picone

2003 FiftyCrows PhotoFund Winner - Asia/Pacific Region

About Jack

Jack Picone is an Australian-born photographer, member of the London agency Network Photographers, and a founder/director of Network Photographers Sydney. Over the last fifteen years his images have been featured in magazines and newspapers worldwide, including Time, Newsweek, Life, Der Speigel, Stern, L'Express, Granta, The Independent, and The Observer. Picone is an unarguably prolific photographer. He has extensively documented war zones and tribal cultures; he has photographically captured such vastly diverse sites as heroin addiction in the slums of Glasgow, Australian sheep shearers, the ancient rituals of the Nuba and Sudanese, and the disappearling culture of dhow boat sailors in East Africa. His photography has taken him to Yugoslovia, Somolia, Rwanda, Palestine, Angola, the former Soviet Union, and South Africa. In 1996, Picone received the American Photographer of the Year award for his essay on Sarajevo's children in trauma therapy. He has been awarded numerous other international distinctions, including first place at the World Press Awards, and has exhibited in galleries worldwide.

In a previous project, Picone photographed the day-to-day existence of young Australians living with HIV. Now residing in Chiang Mai, Thailand, he is offering a window into the lives of individuals, families, and communities affected by the HIV/AIDS epidemic, this time, as it manifests within the context of South East Asia.