{"id":824,"date":"2011-09-14T21:37:47","date_gmt":"2011-09-14T21:37:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ilovemega.com\/blog\/?p=824"},"modified":"2014-07-29T15:19:02","modified_gmt":"2014-07-29T15:19:02","slug":"james-mollison","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ilovemega.com\/blog\/james-mollison\/","title":{"rendered":"JAMES MOLLISON <br \/>Picture Perfect"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Video about the acclaimed photographer James Mollison directed by Vice video.<\/h2>\n<p><strong>British photographer James Mollison in a nice video by Picture Perfect.<\/strong><br \/>\nPicture Perfect brought James to Kenya, where he was born, to photograph the faces of Dadaab, the world\u2019s oldest and largest refugee camp that sits in the desert in the northeast of the country.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_4505\" style=\"width: 451px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4505\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ilovemega.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/james-mollison.jpg\" alt=\"Photography of a gorilla face by the British photographer James Mollison\" title=\"james-mollison\" width=\"441\" height=\"600\" class=\"size-full wp-image-4505\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ilovemega.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/james-mollison.jpg 441w, https:\/\/www.ilovemega.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/james-mollison-220x300.jpg 220w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 441px) 100vw, 441px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-4505\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photography of a gorilla face by the British photographer James Mollison<\/p><\/div>\n<p>After being born in Kenya in 1973, the photographer moved to England where he spent his childhood.<br \/>\nHe studied Art and Design, film and photography in prestigious British universities.<br \/>\nAlongside many of todays talent, he spent some time creating art at Benetton&#8217;s Fabrica in Italy.<br \/>\nHis photographies have been published in some of the best publications around the world, from <strong>The New York Times<\/strong> to <strong>The New Yorker<\/strong> to <strong>Le Monde<\/strong>, among other.<br \/>\nHis artworks were also exhibited in top galleries like the Hasted Hunt Gallery in New York.<br \/>\nHis personal works include a book about the infamous gangster <strong>Pablo Escobar<\/strong>, which inspiring story is shown though hundreds of photographies he gathered.<br \/>\nBellow you can see one of the picture taken from his art project called <strong>Apes<\/strong>, which has been exhibited at the Natural History Museum in London.<br \/>\nA book called James and Other Apes was later published in 2004.<\/p>\n<p><em>More about the talented <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jamesmollison.com\/\">photographer<\/a> James.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Learn more about the artist, and watch the inspiring video of James Mollison directed and produced by Vice Video:<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Picture Perfect: James Mollison\" width=\"584\" height=\"329\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/YXcGcy9vrqc?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Video about the acclaimed photographer James Mollison directed by Vice video. 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