CTO Posted December 18, 2008 Report Share Posted December 18, 2008 Contemporary Photography Contemporary Photography Thursday, December 18 at 8:00 pm Cover charge for non-members: 300 Baht Photography in Asia is entering a period of renaissance much like information technology that has gone through a revolution in recent decades. Digital technology today enables everyone to take better photos anytime, anywhere, and photography is rapidly emerging as a popular lifestyle medium for expression of creativity and networking. Contemporary and fine art photography in the region is following long-established traditions in the West and may be posing new challenges to these traditions while rapidly gaining a new status in the art world. Contemporary photography is not confined to a single discipline and there is a great variety of professional photographers today including photo-journalists, commercial photographers and fine art photographers all practising their own defined fields of photography experimenting with modern technology and technique, producing many unique works of art that continuously attracting new audience. Therefore, the medium is becoming more and more popular and the public interest for contemporary photography is growing tremendoudly. It is in this context that FCCT is organizing a panel discussion on this topic by inviting well-established professional photographers with different styles and specialties. Speakers will be: - Suthep Kritsanavarin, one of the most outstanding photojournalists to emerge out of Thailand in recent years. His photographic record of life in Xinjiang province in China was widely exhibited in Thailand to critical acclaim. Suthep tried to capture the unseen: from the life of remote people to endangered wildlife. Photographs are his communication with the people in modern world through his Asian eye. He is currently working on a project documenting life along the Mekong "before development takes away the river's charm". As a recognised photojournalist in Thailand and Southeast Asia, Suthep's work has been published in a wide range of Thai magazines and he is a regular photographic contributor to the Far Eastern Economic Review and for Emphasis Publishing in Hong Kong. - Roland Neveu, Since he took up photography in 1973 Roland Neveu has documented many of the world's top news stories for leading French and American publications. He has simply the best photographic coverage of the fall of Phnom Penh to the Khmer Rouge. For 2 decades he covered hot spots such as the first Soviet POW in Afghanistan to Beirut's siege and war in Lebanon. And El Salvador's bloody feud, the NPA struggle in the Philippines and the fall of Marcos. He went on producing and filming his own video documentaries and brought the first images of AIDS in Uganda, the Touareg rebellion (Mali), the Kurds refugees (Turk-Irak border). >From the late 1980s he has worked on top Hollywood film productions as a stills photographer with directors including Oliver Stone, Brian de Palma and Ridley Scott. Today he concentrates his skills on travel photography for his books on South East Asia that he publishes . - Olivier Nilsson, Senior Editor at OnAsia, a Bangkok-based photo agency that he joined in 2005 after working as Photo Editor with the Associated Press in Paris. Bringing his perspective from the â??other sideâ?? of the desk in photojournalism, Olivierâ??s term as an Editor covered almost two decades during which time he also spent time in the field covering sports events, political summits and countries as the sole AP photographer in Vietnam as the country eased back into international relations with the US in early 1994. For the last three years Olivier has taught at documentary photography workshops for Asian photographers, parallel to the Angkor photo festival in Cambodia. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sanyar Posted December 18, 2008 Report Share Posted December 18, 2008 Thanks for posting this would have missed it otherwise, will try to convince Mrs to come along. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Old Hippie Posted December 18, 2008 Report Share Posted December 18, 2008 Is she back from building nuclear power plants up country? CTO, FCCT has a lot of good events. One thing I love about FCCC (Phenom Pehn) is all the great photos on the walls... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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