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Last APWS : November 17 - 23, 2011 in Siem Reap, CambodiaThe Angkor Photo Workshop is a unique opportunity as it empowers a significant number of young Asian photographers to perfect their art, and gives them a chance of first hand training with experienced photojournalists.Since its inception in 2005, we have offered the workshop to over 180 young photographers coming from Cambodia, China, Korea, Philippines, Indonesia, Thailand, Laos, Myanmar, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, India, Pakistan and NepalThey were students, photojournalists or artists; some of them got a tremendous boost to their capabilities in the workshop, and now command more work for a larger variety of media and organizations across Asia and the world.Angkor Photo Workshops is supported by : Follow the APWS on and blog !
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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 Workshops. Conducted by renowned international photographers who volunteer their time, the Angkor Photo Workshops provide participants with firsthand training, invaluable exposure and a chance to perfect their art.Coordinator : Roland Neveu / assisted by Jessica Lim 2011 Tutors :Antoine d'Agata (Magnum Photos) Paula Bronstein (Getty Images) Justin Mott Olivier Nilsson Patrick de Noirmont (News-Pictures.com) Carolyn ONeill> As always, the work of all workshop participants has been presented at the evening slideshow event on the 26th of Nov. as part of the 2011 Angkor Photo Festival.Antoine d'AgataAntoine dAgata left France in 1983 and remained overseas for the next ten years. Finding himself in New York in 1990, he pursued an interest in photography by taking courses at the International Center of Photography, where his teachers included Larry Clark and Nan Goldin. During his time in New York , in 1991-92, DAgata worked as an intern in the editorial department of Magnum, but despite his experiences and training in the US, after his return to France in 1993 he took a four- year break from photography. His first books of photographs, De Mala Muerte and Mala Noche, were published in 1998, and the following year Galerie Vu began distributing his work. In 2001 he published Hometown, and won the Niepce Prize for young photographers. He continued to publish regularly: Vortex and Insomnia appeared in 2003, accompanying his exhibition 1001 Nuits, which opened in Paris in September; Stigma was published in 2004, and Manifeste in 2005. In 2004 DAgata joined Magnum Photos and in the same year, shot his first short film, Le Ventre du Monde (The Worlds Belly); this experiment led to his long feature film Aka Ana, shot in 2006 in Tokyo.Patrick de NoirmontPatrick de Noirmont is a veteran photographer with more than 35 years experience with the wire services. He started with United Press International and was part of the teams that set up and launched both the AFP and Reuters International Picture Services. In addition to running various wire service bureaus in Paris, Johannesburg and Bangkok, he has covered numerous events including the Yom Kippur war in Israel, the Soviet withdrawal from Afghanistan, the first Gulf War, and the transition in South Africa from apartheid to the election of President Nelson Mandela. Assignments sent him to Somalia, Rwanda, Burundi and Zaire to cover conflicts, riots and famines. Asia saw him witness the military advances of the Taliban in Afghanistan, the handover of Hong Kong to China, the coup in Cambodia and the uprising in Indonesia leading to the fall of President Suharto. He covered the Tsunami in southern Thailand for Stern Magazine and last year the red shirt protests in Bangkok for News-pictures.com. He works part time for the Associated Press in Paris.Olivier Nilsson Olivier Nilsson was formerly Deputy-Picture Editor at the Associated Press bureau in Paris where he lived for 18 years, and former picture editor at Onasia in Bangkok for three years. A long-time supporter of the Angkor Photo Workshops, he has been teaching at the workshop since 2006. As a respected picture editor he plays an important part in the often over-sighted important process of editing. Paula BronsteinPaula Bronstein has worked as a photojournalist for nearly 30 years and has been a staff photographer for Getty Images since 2002. Paula earned a bachelor of Fine Arts, majoring in photojournalism, at the Rochester Institute of Technology in New York. For 16 years she worked as a staff photographer at various newspapers in the US, and in 1998, Paula chose to go freelance and relocated to Bangkok, Thailand. After four years she joined Getty Images news team as a senior staff photographer, covering the Asia region, and her work has been published and exhibited globally.In 2011 she was nominated as a Pulitzer finalist in the Breaking News category for her work as part of a team entry covering the Pakistan Floods. She was also named Photographer of the Year / Asia by the Foreign Correspondents Club (FCC) of Thailand. In 2010, she was runner-up Photographer Of The Year in both Pictures of the Year-International (POY-I) and the National Press Photographers Association (NPPA) and took a special award in the Days Japan contest. She was also a shortlisted finalist in the Leica Oskar Barnack Award. In 2008, she received the John Faber award from the Overseas Press Club of America. In addition, she has been rewarded the Photo of the Year and numerous other awards from Chinas International Press Photo Contest.Justin Mott - www.justinmott.comJustin Mott is an editorial and commercial photographer born in Rhode Island, USA. He has been living in Hanoi, Vietnam since 2006 working throughout Southeast Asia on personal projects and assignments. In 2008 his work on Agent Orange orphans was recognized in the PDN Annual and was awarded the Marty Forscher Fellowship for humanistic photography given out by the Parsons School of Design in NYC. Justin is a frequent contributor to The New York Times and his other clients include Newsweek, TIME, The Wall Street Journal, Conde Nast, GEO, Bloomberg News Service, United Nations, Red Cross, UNESCO, Medecins Sans Frontieres, and Discovery Channel along with various other NGOs and publications. His written work on the current state of photography was published in Harvards Nieman Reports.Carolyn ONeillCarolyn ONeill is originally from San Francisco, and currently splits her time between Bangkok, Thailand and Siem Reap, Cambodia, and has been managing her own photography business and working freelance assignments for the past 11 years. Carolyns work encompasses documentary, portrait and art-based projects mostly in the SE Asia region and United States. Shes chronicled the aftermath of natural disasters and covered other vital topics such as animal rights, child sexual abuse and violence against women. Carolyns documentary photographs have helped raise awareness of these important issues, providing her subjects and their supporting organizations with material to positively impact future campaigns. Mainly self-taught, her experience and style have developed from a broad range of artistic and photographic experiences which include extensive training by master printers in fine art darkroom techniques. Carolyn has exhibited in solo shows in Bangkok and Hong Kong. Her photographs have appeared in the South China Morning Post, the Bangkok Post as well as other print and web-based media.Roland Neveu - www.rolandneveu.infoThe coordinator of the workshop since 2006, French-born Roland Neveu is currently based in Bangkok. He made his first trip in Cambodia in 1973 and again in 1975 when he covered the Fall of Phnom Penh to the Khmer Rouge. Has photographed in Cambodia ever since, including the refugees crisis in 1979. He was a photographer for Gamma/ Paris until 1979, and then with Gamma-Liaison in New York. He covered stories in Asia, the Middle East, Central America and Africa until 1990s, and photographed the first Soviet POW in Afghanistan (1981), the siege of Beirut (1982), the peace talks in El Salvador (1984), the fall of the Marcos in the Philippines (1986), early pictures of AIDS in Uganda (1986). Initially working from New York, he later moved to Los Angeles after his pictures on the movie Platoon made magazine covers. He has also worked as a still photographer on movies such as Platoon, Casualties of War, Born on the 4th of July, Thelma & Louise, Heaven & Earth, etc. Roland moved back to Asia in 1992 and set up a publishing company in the late 90s (Asia Horizons Books).
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After a very competitive selection process, we are happy to announce the final list of 30 selected participants for the 7th Angkor Photo Workshops:
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Each year, as part of the Angkor Photo Festival, we also award a participant of the Angkor Photo Workshops with the BEST PHOTO STORY PRIZE, which is selected by a jury panel. > Carrie Lam, from Singapore, received the 2011 PHOTO PRIZE for the best photo story produced during the Angkor Photo Workshops for his series "Cure"Slideshow available online at http://youtu.be/UNzHidW9cdc2011 JURY PANEL - Will Baxter / Picture Editor / The Phnom Penh Post - Halim Berbar / Senior Photo Journalist / Sipa Press- Françoise Callier / Program Coordinator / Angkor Photo Festival - Timothy Kho / Marketing Manager / Canon - I-Qlick- Kevin Lee / Founder / Invisable Photographer Asia Marc Brincourt / Head of the Photo Department / Paris Match will be awarding one of the prizes to the winner. The 2011 Photo Prize is supported by :
© Carrie Lam - Cure
© Carrie Lam - Cure
© Carrie Lam - Cure
© Carrie Lam - Cure
© Sovan Philong - Asia Motion
© Sovan Philong - Asia Motion
© Sovan Philong - Asia Motion
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© Carrie Lam - Cure
© Carrie Lam - Cure
© Carrie Lam - Cure
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© Sovan Philong - Asia Motion
© Sovan Philong - Asia Motion
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The deadline for applications was : July 15th, 2011> The workshop is open only to photographers from Asia> Applicants have to be 28 years old or younger > Applicants must be working either as freelance or staff photographers, or studying photography-related courses The next round of applications for the 8th Angkor Photo Workshops will begin in May 2012.
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