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MAX FERGUSON
LONDON, UK

info@max-ferguson.co.uk
@maxferguson


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GRANTA MAGAZINE
PHOTO EDITOR

OVAL PRESS
FOUNDER
SPLASH & GRAB
FOUNDING EDITOR
LCC
LECTURER

FT WEEKEND MAG
FREELANCE PHOTO EDITOR
PORT MAGAZINE
DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY



WHISTLING FOR OWLS ︎
is a story in two parts: image and text; France and London; memoir and fiction; truth and lies. The oblique photographs and sometimes-poetic texts bring together a loose narrative of love, loss and longing inspired mostly by literature.











Buy Whistling for Owls via Oval Press


DEADFALL WIP ︎
coming 2023




PHOTO EDITING ︎



Granta 159: What Do You See?
Cover: Suzie Howell

Granta 158: In the Family
Cover: Lewis Khan

Granta 157: Travel
Cover: Teju Cole

Granta 156: Interiros
Cover: Kaitlin Maxwell

Splash & Grab 5
Cover: Isabel Okoro

Splash & Grab 4
Cover: Gábor Arion Kudász

Splash & Grab 3
Cover: Julia Autz
Splash & Grab 2
Cover: Laurence Rasti

Splash & Grab 1
Cover: Juan Madrid


Port 30
Cover: Ryan James Caruthers

Port 30
Cover: Jessica Madavo

Port 30
Cover: Ian Kenneth Bird

Port 30
Cover: Adama Jalloh

Port 29
Cover: Silvana Trevale

Port 29
Cover: Cecily Eno

Port 29
Cover: Liz Johnson Artur

Port 29
Cover: Andy Massaccesi

Port 29
Cover: Jeff Boudreau

Port 29
Cover: Ana Larruy

Port 29
Cover: Gavin Turk



Port 28
Cover: Luke Page
Port 28
Cover: Donavon Smallwood

Port 28
Cover: Marlen Keller

Port 28
Cover: Guen Fiore

Port 28
Cover: Rahim Fortune


Port 27
Cover: Liz Johnson Artur


Port 26
Cover: Justin French

Port 26
Cover: Geordie Wood

Port 26
Cover: Mous Lamrabat


Port 25
Cover: Clement Pascal

Port 24
Cover: Ryan Pfluger

Port 24
Cover: Jack Davison


FT Weekend Magazine
Cover: Chantal Anderson

FT Weekend Magazine
Cover: Anaïck Lejart





ABOUT ME ︎

info@max-ferguson.co.uk
@maxferguson

ovalpress.co.uk
 splashandgrab.co.uk





© Cian Oba-Smith
Max is a photographer, writer and curator. He is the Founder of Oval Press, the Founding Editor of Splash & Grab Magazine, the Photo Editor of Granta Magazine. He was previously the Director of Photography of Port Magazine and a freelance Photo Editor at the Financial Times Weekend Magazine. He is a lecturer on the BA & MA Photojournalism and Documentary Photography courses at the London College of Communication and a regular visiting lecturer on various photography programmes across the UK. Max recently completed his MA in Photography at UWE in Bristol. His debut book Whistling for Owls is availble via Oval Press.
Publications
Port Magazine
Granta Magazine
Splash & Grab
Financial Times Magazine
Financial Times Life & Arts
Photoworks
How To Spend It
TenTen
British Journal of Photography
Huck
Exhibitions
New Wave Me, Upcoming
My London, 2019
Peckham 24, 2019
Construction, 2019
My London 2018
Splash & Grab 2017
Splash & Grab 2016
London Art Fair 2016
London Art Fair 2015
Splash & Grab 2015
Teaching
London College of Communication
Photofusion
The Photographers’ Gallery
Magnum Photos
Calvert-22
Getty Images
University of Plymouth
Falmouth University
University of West England
Birmingham City University
Huddersfield University
Bournemouth Ars University
London South Bank University
Bath Spa University
Norwich University of the Arts
Ravensbourne University