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Photographer Charles Ommanney was born in London, England, in 1965. Towards the end of his high school studies, he began to travel and photograph in Europe, Africa and South East Asia with a keen interest in photojournalism.
Between 1992 and 1996 he went on to cover the wars in the former Yugoslavia, the break up of Eastern Europe and the conflicts in Rwanda, Sudan and the Congo for Newsweek.
Since 1997 Charles Ommanney has been a East Coast-based photographer specializing in reportage, portrait and fine art photography. Editorial clients include Vanity Fair, Rolling Stone, Amica, The Sunday Times Magazine and Paris Match. He has been a full-time contract photographer for Newsweek magazine since 1998 and was their Chief White House photographer, based in Washington DC between 2001 and 2008.
In 2005 Ommanney was named on American Photo Magazine’s list of “The 100 Most Important People in Photography.” He has received many awards for his work including two World Press awards, numerous Photographer of the Year awards, The WHNPA Photo of the Year and The Alfred Eisenstaedt Life magazine award to name a few.
He is currently based in Miami.
Dominic Schuster born 20th September 1965 in London. He was educated in London and then at Milton Abbey School in the Southwest of England.
His artistic tendency was evident by the age of 11, but it wasn’t until some time after traveling the world and a short spell of working as a stockbroker, that in 1988, he began training as a restorer of antiques for Lucinda Compton in London. This involved working on Urushi lacquer, gilded and painted fine antiques.
After an intensive apprenticeship period, he set up his own restoration business in 1995. In 1999, he merged his business with Lucinda Compton to create his existing company, Compton & Schuster. Their partnership has created one of the leading companies in the world in this dedicated and specialized medium. He is BAFRA accredited in this field and his background of working with many different decorative surfaces, led him to start experimenting with many wonderful finishes for the interior design market, creating antique mirror glass and now, showing imagery through mirror.
Ommanney and Schuster’s first collaboration has created the ‘American Buddha’ series. Mixing fine art photography and the process of antique mirror has produced an astonishing and harmonious set of unique works being seen here for the first time. The work is painstaking and takes many weeks to achieve the final result with each piece being truly unique.
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