Contributors
Ronnie is the founder and co-editor of Nineteen Months and shoots from the hip with a Nikon Canon.
Ronnie hails from London, England and falls asleep when he takes his socks off and is known to tweet.
Sholeh Loehle is co-editor of Nineteen Months and takes photos with a Canon Rebel. As a child, she was a master fort builder and mud pie baker. Now she reads books, cooks, and is an event planner. She lives and works in the Chicago area, and blogs at her site, Sliding Thoughts.
Alisa resides in Taipei, Taiwan where she works as a grade four teacher.
She’s snapping loads of photos while trying to learn Chinese from taxi drivers.
Golriz Lucina Gundry lives in Los Angeles, USA.
“i tweet. i tumblr. i flickr. i Vyou. i pinterest. i blog. i work for SoulPancake. i co-wrote this book.”
Amy says: “I love travel – and if it is by train or ferry I like it best. Family is what fills my heart. My camera is my constant companion. Costa Rica is my home, for now.” Amy blogs on Montague.
Bobby Aazami’s love for the visual medium was fostered at an early age in Iran after watching his first episode of “The Six Million Dollar Man” on television.
Enamored with his TV set, Bobby explored his love for the arts by trying his hand in every medium: from music production to stand up comedy, until he found contentment through the lens of a camera.
He is currently the principal & creative director of “Our Favorite Day” Photography in Los Angeles.
Mehdi & Sabrina are an American-Australian-Dutch-Persian couple. He shoots. She types.
He sells exquisitely perfectionist prints here, and blogs here. She’s pretty voluble about their new life in London here.
Leila is being reassembled. Leila is in Colorado, USA and her website is: http://lovefromleila.blogspot.com/
Kat has a passion for digesting complex situations, ascertaining patterns in social settings, and elevating conversations to themes of spiritual import and social justice. She is currently living in London and trying to stay warm.
Lauren does a lot of things. One of them is taking pictures. Another is baking scones. Yet another is spinning large spheres of fire at the ends of two chains. The only one of these she went to school for, however, was photography. She is currently the Visual Director at Lethal Poetry, an Art Editor for Muzzle Magazine, and most recently, a photographer for Loud Loop Press. Find more of her work at: http://www.flickr.com/chicagolau
Shahriar says “Photography is my passion, love sports, traveling is my favorite thing, can’t live without music, and i always enjoy a good movie.”
Shahriar hails from Vancouver, Canada.
Negeen has had a film or digital slr within arm’s reach for much of the past twenty years. She, her Italian-born husband and Israeli-born children live in Oklahoma where she runs a wedding and photography business called Negeen Sobhani Photography. Stories behind the photos and new projects can be found on her blog.
Sarah’s father was a musician, her mother a physician. She lives on the island of Guam with her husband, son, fantastic community, and her Nikon and takes pictures every chance she can get. She blogs at: www.tasitano.typepad.com
Ryan is a globe-trotter (which means he is homeless) and a photographer (which means he can’t draw). He likes his spaces wide and open, and likes his lenses the same way.
Ryan is located Every, Where.
Leili Towfigh is an educational technologist who also works as a photographer,painter, ceramic artist and writer.She has had opportunities to take photographs on five continents.
She lives in Boston and blogs at Beyond the Picture.
Ata hasn’t started a blog yet and only recently remembered what it’s like to livein a country where Facebook access isn’t a luxury.
He currently spends his time working between the USA and China. “Whether he is an artist or not, the photographer is a joyous sensualist, for the simple reason that the eye traffics in feelings, not in thoughts.”
Tamila got her first camera while serving in the Holy Land, where she discovered her passion for photography and art in general, and she feels it’s about time for a new one. She lives in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan.
More photos can be found here.
Mark Sobhani is the luckiest guy he knows. He has a beautiful wife, an awesome career as a photographer, and great friends.
He loves jumping in photos and feels he doesn’t travel nearly as much as he should. Mark is based in San Antonio, Texas. You can see his work here.
Leila S has spent the past year living on the island of St. Lucia, West Indies.
She has written about her service at her blog, A Light in the Sea.
Elyor Nematov began photography 7 years ago, whilst studying to be a graphic artist at the Artisant College in Bukhara, Uzbekistan.
His first camera was a ‘Zenit.’ Elyor has since won and participated in many photo-documentary exhibitions and projects in Central Asia and Russia.
Some of his work include his first personal photo exhibition ’The Children of Bukhara. We Are Flowers of One Garden’ in Tashkent,”as well as magazine commissions like: ’The Chief”and ‘Horses Racetrack.’ Elyor is now studying in the Department of Sociology in Krasnodar, Russia.
Chad was initiated into the world of digital SLRs in 2007 and he continues to be amazed by the photographic opportunities that are presented to him.
He loves sharp lenses, time-lapse videos, and exercising his powers of observation. His portfolio is here and his Flickr page is here.
Aimee Piper lives in Haifa, Israel and…this is her primary blog.
sometimes my head and my heart exist in total conflict. tomorrow i might let my heart win.”
Geoffrey comes from the great American national park of Alabama. Having been born into a family of writers, journalists and photographers, he hopes, just hopes, that some of it has rubbed off.
Jarnah is an aspiring social scientist, child rights activist and closet artist. Currently based in Melbourne, Australia, but always trying to explore new spaces and places, she has been taking photos as a means of capturing and sharing the beauty of her world.
Oak Ritchie is a native of South Carolina, and has lived all over the East Coast and the Caribbean. He presently lives in Carrboro, NC, where he is working with a variety of visual mediums and blogs here. He has a childhood fear of celery and salty liquids, and has a hard time looking clowns in the eye. He also has very sensitive teeth, and as a result, has to drink hot or cold liquids out of the side of his mouth. He considers it impolite to stare when he does this. Thank you.
Sarah is Egyptian and currently lives in London, U.K. She says ‘A photographer?! Never thought about it… Suddenly I found myself carrying my camera and shooting photos till I become graduated from photography department, my Secret is Nikon. One of quotes I like “photography is the only language that can be understood anywhere in the world” by Bruno Barbey.’ Her website is here
In addition to practicing law, serving mankind, and seeking
creativity, Tala likes to color her life with the chaos of trouble.
You can find her blogging at www.tatulip.blogspot.com
Lindsay McComb is a writer and editor living in Denver but dreaming of London and Seoul. She has a serious case of wanderlust and like most creative people she’s a bit disorganized. As such, she desperately tries to keep up with her Twitter, blog, tumblr and whatnot. She’s an amateur crafter, but a real pro when it comes to making gluten-free food palatable. Some would even say delicious.
Fiona has had a passion for the visual image as long as she can remember but has only taken photography seriously in the last couple of years. As an avid writer, she loves how photography enables her images to speak as loud as any voice, without words ever being spoken. An image is just one person’s point of view of the world, but the beautiful part is that so many other people connect and relate to that vision.
