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John Horniblow

Casablanca - Pearl of the Orient: The Mauresque and Art Deco
About John Horniblow

John Horniblow ; Documentary Travel Photographer , Visual Storyteller , Filmmaker, and Writer recently living in China ( Beijing and Shanghai) and formerly in Morocco, Switzerland and Australia. He studied at the College of Fine Arts ( formerly City Art Institute ) UNSW with a double major in Film and Painting. John's photography has been published with the Moroccan National Tourism Office, Time publications, Geo Mundo, National Geographic, Penguin books and many other periodicals and his work has exhibited internationally in London, Beijing, Sydney and Los Angeles. He commenced his media career as Media and Documentation officer on Expedition to Circumnavigate South America including voyaging in Antarctica. He has worked on assignment for National Geographic assisting leading wildlife photographer Franz Lanting , and for CNN and produced documentary stories on a range of subjects. He is also the Founder, Editor in Chief and Publisher of Photojournale : Photo documentary stories from around the world. In 2010 he published Photojournale’s first book anthology “Photojournale – Connections Across a Human Planet “, a virtual, web 2.0 global publishing collaboration with Photojournale’s global community of photographers.

John also trained as a cinematographer at film school and has shot, directed and produced award winning short, television documentary and industrial films working with broadcasters such as BBC, SBS, and ABC. His documentary and drama work has also been screened at numerous International film festivals and on network television.

He is also a recognized and award winning digital/convergence/interactive Producer and was Director of Production for Asia Pacific's largest digital development agency, Spike. He was part of the executive team that IPO'd the company and then setup Spikeradio , the world's first streaming radio network before heading up Activision's online marketing and development.

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