The 8th Angkor Photo Festival

This wonderful Angkor Photo Festival will be held from December 18, 2012 in Siem Reap, Cambodia. I know from first hand experience that it's a festival that's well worth participating in, and attending because of the quality of the photography exhibited during its evenings and galleries. The quality of the curating, and the gracious hospitality of Francoise Callier and Jean-Yves Navel is instrumental in making a success of the event, along with the assistance of Camille Plante and Jessica Lim. Since its inception in 2005, more than 180 young photographers from all over Asia have been selected to participate in the annual free Angkor Photo...

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Maika Elan: The Pink Choice

"I want to show simply how they care and love each other in daily activities."-Maika Elan According to the web edition of Thanh Nien, an influential newspaper in Vietnam, Maika has changed Vietnams entire conception of what it means to be gay and in love with her seminal work The Pink Choice. Sensitive and compelling...that's The Pink Choice in two words. I'm not going to rewrite what has already been written on Maika and her various projects, but I have to mention a couple of things: first off I had written a post on her work two years ago, much before I met her at subsequent photo events, and I ended that post with this: "In my view,...

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Foundry Photojournalism Workshop: My Multimedia Class: The Quick And Easy

I thought I'd post the description of the class I'll be teaching at the forthcoming Foundry Photojournalism Workshop in Chiang Mai. And in so doing, I'm also encouraging those interested in photojournalism and photography to join this event, in which all the instructors are amongst the best photojournalists available. This will be the 5th time I am to teach at the Foundry, and I'm thrilled to have been included since its inception in Mexico City in 2008. I will teach a multimedia class that allows its participants to concentrate on their stories, rather than on the application. The purpose and aim of the class is to show photojournalists...

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Angkor Photo Festival 2012: Submission Calls

Angkor Photo Festival is calling for submissions with a deadline of May 31, 2012!!! The festival's 2012 program will present works photographed throughout the world through exhibitions and slideshows in Siem Reap, with no imposed theme. The submissions guidelines and form contain all the information needed on how to submit work for this years festival. The festival will be held from December 1- 8, 2012 in Siem Reap, Cambodia. The deadline to submit the application is May 31, 2012, and all photographers will receive an answer by the end of July 2012. Since its inception in 2005, more than 180 young photographers from all over...

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Foundry Photojournalism Workshop: Scholarships Announced

The Foundry Photojournalism Workshop has announced the winners of the Foundry full tuition scholarships for its 2012 Chiang Mai workshop.Eric Beecroft, Director of the workshop, stated that the amount of entries was unprecedented, and the quality of work received was stunning.The awardees are:Arif Setiawan, IndonesiaSaw Banyar, Burma/ThailandBarat Ali Batoor, AfghanistanAjit Bhadoriya, IndiaEnrique Leopoldo Benedicto Cruz, PhilippinesSatirat Dam-ampai, ThailandNguyen Thanh Hai, Vietnam **Ekkarat Punyatara, ThailandRoger Anis, EgyptFabian Weiss, GermanyIlkin Huseynov, AzerbaijanSimona Pampallona, Italy**Nguyen Thanh Hai is also known as Maika...

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Foundry Photojournalism Workshop 2012: Thailand!

Eric Beecroft, the co-founder of the Foundry Photojournalism Workshops, has just announced that it was ready to accept early registrations ($100 deposit, non refundable, and deducted from the total tuition amount) until January 15, 2012. Early registration guarantees a spot and precedence in the choice of instructor.The 2012 Foundry Photojournalism Workshop will be held in North Thailand from July 29- August 4, 2012. For regional students (South Asia-- India, Pakistan, Nepal, Sri Lanka, Tibet and South East Asia-Thailand, Burma, Vietnam, Phillippines, Laos, Cambodia,Indonesia, Malaysia) the tuition is $475. For all others it is $975 US dollars....

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On The Way To The 7th Angkor Photo Festival

I'll be traveling tomorrow to London for a brief stopover before flying off to Siem Reap via Abu Dhabi and Bangkok. I chose to fly Etihad, the Abu Dhabi airline, from London to Bangkok after hearing it offered an impressive flying experience in terms of comfort and service.The festival itself is to take place in Siem Reap from November 19 to November 26, 2011. This well established event is the first photography festival held in Southeast Asia and for 2011, will exhibit the work of 110 photographers, out of whom 60 are from Asia.The 2011 list of exhibiting photographers includes Andrew Biraj, Pep Bonet, Paula Bronstein, Marco Di Lauro, Tewfic...

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Delhi Photo Festival: Nazar Foundation

The Nazar Foundation, in partnership with the India Habitat Centre, is organizing the Delhi Photo Festival on 15 to 28 October 2011. The Delhi Photo Festival is a non-commercial venture, and entry will be free to ensure popular and wide-reaching participation. Through Nazar Foundation, the festival is the brainchild of Prashant Panjiar and Dinesh Khanna, both well known photographers, and for mentoring young photographers and propagating photography. Nazar Foundation was launched with the aim of institutionalizing what these two photographers are already been doing so on an informal basis.The core attraction of the festival will be exhibitions...

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DISPATCHES & Foundry Workshop

A couple of news bits from Dispatches:The Dispatches 2009 Foundry Scholarship in Memory of Alexandra Boulat has awarded Sabhanaz Rashid Diya (Dhaka, Bangladesh) a full scholarship to attend The Foundry Photojournalism Workshop as well as $100 toward travel expenses. So congratulations to Sabhanaz, and I look forward to meet her in Manali.Filmed on 22 May 2009 at VII Gallery, Brooklyn, here's a discussion on war & photography, photojournalism and its future involving Gary Knight, Tim Hetherington, MaryAnne Golon, and Ashley Gilberts...

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The NY Times: Sebastio Salgado

 Sebastio Salgado -All Rights Reserved The New York Times seems to have caught a photojournalism bug these days. Its photographic offerings are getting better by the day. The recent launching of its LENS blog as well as the ever improving One in a Million multimedia series, have made it a must-go-to destination for photo journalistic fix. It just published an interesting article entitled Back to Nature, in Pictures and Action on the famed photographer Sebastio Salgado written by Jori Finkel, as well as a gallery Nature, Nurtured of his photographs. Mr Salgado is working on his epic environmental 8-year project named Genesis, and for...

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PDN Photo Annual 2009 Winners

PDN presented the winning images of the 2009 PDN Photo Annual, which were submitted by an international group of photographers. Apart from the obvious talent so amply displayed by all the photographers, I was gratified to see that most of the winners in the Web Sites category have used large images...and some like David Maitland and Dani Brubaker have used enormous images on their websites' landing pages.I've been advocating that larger is better for a long time. My previous posts can be found here, and on Photocrati as we...

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