Jocelyn Bain Hogg, VII Network

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BIO
Jocelyn Bain Hogg is an eminent British photographer who, while working for the style magazine, Scene, was assigned to document the media frenzy surrounding the death and funeral of Diana, Princess of Wales.

He began his career as a unit photographer on movie sets after studying Documentary Photography at Newport Art College. He shot publicity for the BBC, photographed fashion and now works on documentary projects and commercial and editorial assignments. His work has featured in the Sunday Times, Observer, Vogue, Elle, Harpers & Queen, Marie Claire, Stern, GQ, Esquire, Max, Le Monde, Cahiers du Cinema and La Repubblica. His second book, Idols + Believers, a study of the nature of fame in the 21st Century, was published in 2006 with exhibitions in London, Paris, New York and Miami. A third book, Pleasure Island, looking at the pursuit of pleasure, rock and roll and dance culture in Ibiza, was published by Trellick Books in May 2008. A TV documentary about him was aired in May 2008 on Russian television for the ‘Stories in Details’ documentary series. He is a member of VII Network and is also a visiting lecturer on the MA Photojournalism course at the London College of Communication.

Jocelyn Bain Hogg is an eminent British photographer who, while working for the style magazine, Scene, was assigned to document the media frenzy surrounding the death and funeral of Diana, Princess of Wales.

“The germ of an idea struck me. Why was the populace so obsessed with this fairytale, a woman mythologized to the point where many believed they knew her? What is fame and why do we adore some people?”

The photographs by Bain Hogg in Idols + Believers, capture a refreshing and intelligent documentary view of celebrity and the nature of fame in the 21st Century.