Barney Cokeliss is a multi-award-winning writer/director whose work has been selected by festivals including Sundance, TIFF and Venice.

He is currently directing ‘World on Fire’ for Mammoth Screen and the BBC. Barney’s short ‘Night Dancing’ premiered on the opening night of TIFF and has just completed a festival run in which it has won over a dozen international awards. He has just finished writing the pilot of ‘Heap House’ – adapting the dark, fantasy novel by Edward Carey – for Brandish Entertainment, and is developing a returning series as writer/director for Double Dutch Productions (Banijay), based on a story by China Miéville.

Barney is also an award-winning commercials director, shooting all over the world for clients including the NHS, Lexus, and Macmillan Cancer Support. ‘Like the Night’, Barney’s film for the legendary camera brand Leica, was shot on three continents, won a slew of major international advertising awards in 2021, premiered at the Victoria & Albert Museum and was released in UK cinemas.

Barney’s previous shorts include the 3D stereoscopic ‘The Foundling’, produced by Ridley Scott Associates, which won the Lumière Award alongside films by Scorsese, Wenders and Spielberg. One reviewer described it as “like David Lynch crossed with David Fincher”. ‘The Foundling’ was selected for Palm Springs and opened the Krakow Film Festival.

Barney also wrote and directed ‘Queen’s Park Story’, commissioned by the BBC, which premiered at Venice, and was described by The Observer as “the best British drama on television this year”.

Barney’s work reflects his talent for visual storytelling and emotional authenticity. “I’m drawn to projects where I get both to create cinematic impact and deliver something powerfully human”, he says. He marries a deep technical knowledge with an emotive touch with actors.

Barney lives in London. He took a double first in English Literature at Oxford, was a Visiting Fellow at Princeton and trained at the BBC as a Television Production Trainee. He’s a dual UK/US national and a DGA member.

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Presented by Tamarkin Camera and Leica Gallery Los Angeles

Join us - and Mr. Garlin - for a celebration of photography
here in Chicago, at The Rangefinder Gallery at Tamarkin Camera.
Thursday, November 11th from 7pm - 11pm

“As an actor, filmmaker and comedian, I often find myself interacting with people in truly unique ways. The very nature of my job means I am able to see people how no one else sees them. Whether it be my co-stars in down-time on the set, talk show hosts while I sit in their interview chairs and comedians who I gig with. At some point, I started trying to capture this unique perspective with my camera. Now, the only thing I do seriously besides comedy is take pictures. I hope you dig.”

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Check out F*ck Cancer, a charity Jeff proudly supports, serving on its Board of Directors. 80% of print sales proceeds from "Big Bowl of Wonderful" here in Chicago will be donated by Mr. Garlin and Tamarkin Camera. Because F*ck Cancer.

A street photographer's accidental journey of self-discovery while shooting travel photos in enchanting Oaxaca, Mexico

Jose D. Flores, Jr. (Joe) took up photography in late 2015 as complementary therapy for a traumatic surgical procedure that almost took his life. He plunged head-in to the challenging genre of street shooting to overcome his introversion.

"....On this photographic journey, I have met my other self along the path and found peace and comfort as the two halves seamlessly merged into being.

This work looks beyond the illusory straight horizon and empowers my heart and mind to cross the line into infinity, into the void. I hope that you too, my companion planetary pilgrim, find your bearings from these images as well.

However, be not afraid of the unknown."

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Jérôme Brunet was born in southern France and raised in Ontario, Canada. His passion for music began at the age of four, when he started studying as a classical cellist for ten years before moving on to the guitar. He continues to play guitar to this day. Jérôme displayed an early talent in the visual arts, studying the discipline in high school before completing a formal education in photography at the prestigious E.F.E.T. School of Photography in Paris, France.

Jérôme’s award-winning photography has been published internationally in such publications as Vanity Fair, Rolling Stone, Time, Billboard, Popular Photography, American Photo, Guitar World, Smithsonian and The New York Times. His client list includes Leica, Nikon, Fender, Gibson, John Varvatos, AEG, Warner Bros. Records and he has collaborated with the non-profit organizations Unicef, Rock for MS, T.J. Martell Foundation, John Varvatos Stuart House Benefit and the Recording Academy's MusiCares.

Jérôme is based in Los Angeles and is represented by the San Francisco Art Exchange, Analogue Gallery, Rock Paper Photo, Robert Kidd Gallery and Rockarchive.

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Part of the LEICA AKADEMIE / TAMARKIN CAMERA Fall Workshop Series of Events

For more than 30 years, Richard Bram has been restlessly walking the streets of his home towns and the world, quietly producing classic images. Richard is a quintessential Street Photographer, always carrying a camera. His personal work began in classic black and white style, but over time shifted to a more critical approach. In 2010 Bram made a shift to color, which he describes as “infinitely harder to do well.” A close look often shows a "significant gesture," a moment of irony, pathos or humor. For him, the best photographs ask questions, not just answer them.

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Tamarkin Camera and the Rangefinder Gallery are thrilled to present “Connecting with Place & People: Traveling the World with a Leica” by Keith R. Sbiral this July & August, as part of our Summer Series of events, which are all open to the public and mostly free – please join us! (This was an event that took place in 2019)

Arina Dähnick lives and works in Berlin. She grew up in a creative family and was taught early on about fine art and photography. Her first professional photo exhibition was at school at the age of 17. In 1986, she made the decision not to live off of her art, but it was just a break. In 2014, she presented her portfolio on the LEICA blog, and since that time she has presented eight exhibitions and has been published in several newspapers, magazines, and on many online sites.

I am truly fascinated with modern urban life. What is the actual meaning of “modern times”? We are challenged by so much information presented at the same time, without structure, and are confronted with the artificial idea of being human. The Project “Perfect Life” follows these questions.

I seek out – equipped with only one or two Leica rangefinder cameras – what I have been doing ever since I started my photographic career in the 1980s. I present my images without any kind of manipulation; the final image that you see here is precisely what my eyes encountered of the subject in reality which is exactly what I captured – “in my reality.”

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Tom Kutchera (1932-2016) bought his Leica M3 film camera while driving an ambulance in the U.S. Army in Germany during the mid-1950’s. He taught himself photography during his two years abroad and returned to his hometown of Milwaukee to begin working in the family business, Empire Fish Company, a wholesale seafood distributor and retail store in Milwaukee, WI. He incorporated his love of photography into his work by taking portraits of its employees from the 1960’s until he retired in 1995, when Neesvig’s Food Service purchased the business.

Kutchera’s portraits can be compared to those by August Sander, the German portrait and documentary photographer who captured the tradesmen, artists and farmers of Germany in the first half of the 20th Century. Preserved in family albums, this unique collection of intimate portraits honor the individuals who supplied numerous Friday Night Fish Fries – a Midwestern staple. Through a humanitarian lens, Kutchera’s portraits celebrate those who don’t often get commemorated: the production workers behind the scenes.

Tom’s sons, Andrew and Joe, have turned the exhibit, photos, and a manuscript that Tom left behind into a book – Faces of a Fish Empire – that tell the story behind their father’s portraits as well as the larger history and decline of Lake Michigan’s many family-owned fish companies and fishermen.

Michael Abramson (1948-2011) was an acclaimed Chicago photographer who produced a large body of artistic and commercial work. He established his reputation during the mid- to late-seventies with his intimate portraits of nightlife on Chicago's South Side. Abramson's South Side portfolio is often compared to the great French photographer Brassai, who captured scenes of Parisian nightclubs during the late 1920s-1930s.

During the late seventies, Abramson also photographed patrons at various ballrooms throughout Chicago and at the Festival Theater, a strip club in Chicago where photographers were occasionally invited to take pictures of the performers both backstage and during the show. Michael's portfolio is focused on the other photographers taking the shots. All of these B/W images similarly reflect a time and place where people went during the mid- to late-seventies in Chicago.

Arthur Meyerson is recognized as one of America’s finest color photographers. Since 1974, he has produced award-winning work for magazines, advertising agencies and major corporations. Articles and exhibitions of Meyerson’s photographs have been featured in books, magazines, museums and galleries. A photographer with a strong commitment to his profession, Arthur conducts workshops and leads photo tours throughout the U.S and abroad. Besides his commercial work, Arthur’s fascination with light, color and the moment continues and in 2012 culminated into his widely acclaimed book, The Color of Light. In 2017 Arthur’s highly anticipated second book, The Journey, a photography autobiography was published.

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