Scholarship Winners Announced!
Thanks to everyone who applied and Congrats to our SCHOLARSHIP WINNERS 2013! Carole Alfarah, Syria Jess Clementine Bollaert, United States Sebastian Enriquez, Peru Danai Iconomou, Greece Ian Thomas Jansen-Lonnquist, United States Eugenia Maximova, Bulgaria Andrei Nacu, Romania Alok Rai, India Nikolaj Svennevig, Denmark Winners were selected by guest judge Peter Van Agtmael/Magnum Photos. (http://petervanagtmael.net/)
Robert King
Robert King has chronicled conflicts for the last 20 years from war torn Bosnia, Afghanistan, Chechnya, Rwanda, Iraq, Syria, Kosovo, Azerbaijan, Mexico, Albania, and many other global hot spots. His work is images are published in leading news publications and his videos are broadcasted around the globe. His career as a photojournalist is chronicled in [...]
Thorne Anderson
This year’s workshop in Sarajevo will be something of a homecoming for Thorne Anderson. He lived and worked as a photojournalist in the Balkans for seven years in the second half of the 1990s, covering culture, politics, and conflict in Turkey, Bulgaria, and the newly independent countries of the former Yugoslavia for The New York [...]
Foundry 2012 Begins
The time has come. Please read this email. Registration, Instructor meet, Keynote speaker and Party begin at 5pm at Documentary Arts Asia on Sunday, July 29, 2012. Address: 12/7 Wualai Road Soi 3 Haiya, Chiang Mai You must come and register. This is mandatory unless you have gotten some previous clearance for a valid reason. [...]
James Whitlow Delano
James Whitlow Delano has lived in Asia for 18 years. His work has been awarded internationally: the Alfred Eisenstadt Award (from Columbia University and Life Magazine), Leica’s Oskar Barnack, Picture of the Year International, PDN and others. Delano’s series on Kabul’s drug detox and psychiatric hospital was awarded 1st place in the 2008 NPPA Best [...]
Congrats to Ahsan Qureshi and Spike Johnson
Foundry is proud to announce the winners of the first annual Facebook Shootout Contest. The winner with the most likes is Ahsan Qureshi with 1,378 votes. Ahsan wins free tuition to this year’s workshop. We have an honorable mentions as well- Spike Johnson’s stunning photo of Roma girls getting evicted takes this prize- another full [...]
Suthep Kritsanavarin
Suthep Kritsanavarin is one of Thailand’s leading photojournalists. He has covered environmental, social and humanitarian issues in Southeast Asia for nearly two decades.
Ashley Gilbertson
Ashley Gilbertson’s photographs from Iraq, where he worked almost exclusively from 2002 until 2008 on assignment for The New York Times, gained him recognition from the Overseas Press Club who, in 2004, honored him with prestigious Robert Capa Gold Medal for his work in Falluja. His first book, Whiskey Tango Foxtrot, was released in 2007. [...]
Documentary Arts Asia photo contest
Documentary Arts Asia wants to reward documentary photographers and filmmakers working with passion and conviction on quality projects in Asia. Current call for entries: 2012 Foundry Photojournalism Workshop seat photography contest Open to citizens of Thailand, Laos, Burma/Myanmar, India, Nepal, China, Cambodia, Vietnam, Philippines, Singapore, Indonesia & Malaysia who have been shooting professionally for less than three years and [...]
Scholarship Winners
It is with great pleasure that we announce the winners of the Foundry full tuition scholarships for our 2012 Chiang Mai workshop. The amount of entries was unprecedented, and the level of work we received was stunning- it was a very hard judging for our faculty & staff judges panel, but we feel like [...]
Agnes Dherbeys
Agnès Dherbeys is a Bangkok-based 35-year-old French photographer. She has mainly focused her work in Nepal, East Timor, Indonesia, Cambodia and Thailand, as well as in the Palestinian Territories/Israel.
David Storey
I have worked as a photojournalist, art director, designer and illustrator. I currently maintain a design and commercial photography studio in Provo, Utah.
Foundry 2012: Thailand
Foundry Photojournalism Workshop 2012 will be held in Chiang Mai, Thailand from July 29 to August 4.
Keynote speech
A little late, but here nonetheless, we present to you a brief soundclip of Michael Robinson Chavez and Adriana Zehbrauskas delivering the keynote opening speech to the gathered mass of recently registered students from Sunday night. Un poco atrasado pero aquí de todos modos les presentamos un breve clip de audio de los instructores Michael [...]
FPW 2011 Events calendar
Here’s a calendar for those interested in the week’s events at Foundry 2011. The handout seen at Motivarte is available here [download id="3"]. [stout_gc id=1]
Mauricio Lima
Mauricio Lima was born in Sao Paulo, Brazil and has worked for AFP for 11 years covering events in Brazil, Latin America, Iraq, Afghanistan, and the Middle East.
Fotógrafos de conflicto dictarán taller en Buenos Aires
IV Foundry Photoworkshop se realizará en julio BUENOS AIRES.-Desde el 17 hasta el 23 de julio, la escuela de fotografía Motivarte acogerá en Buenos Aires a destacados fotógrafos de conflicto en el Cuarto Taller de Fotoperiodismo (Foundry Photojournalism Workshop). El taller, que se dividirá en varios cursos, está integrado por reconocidos fotoperiodistas de guerra, como [...]
Preview screening of Beyond Assignment
Foundry Photojournalism Workshop is pleased to announce that it will be holding a Preview Screening of the film “Beyond Assignment” featuring the work of three female photojournalists, FPW instructor Adriana Zehbrauskas of Mexico, Gali Tibbon of Israel and Mariella Furrer of South Africa. The 35-minute documentary is directed and produced by Jim Virga of the [...]
Scarf Exchange
Dont forget to bring a scarf for the annual scarf exchange. We have a limit on khafiyehs and kramas this year, but no limit on Tuareg tagelmousts ! Open season on those! No scarf means higher vino and cerveza prices at the opening party. And you’ll get less digits. Points off if a Leica is [...]
Alison Morley
Alison Morley is a photo editor and educator. Alison has been the Chair of the Documentary Photography and Photojournalism Program at the International Center of Photography in New York since 2000.
Announcing Guy Calaf, Rodrigo Cruz and Alison Morley
Hey folks! We have a few new instructors joining us including some Foundry veterans as well as some brand new. Announcing Guy Calaf, Rodrigo Cruz and Alison Morley as instructors at Foundry Argentina 2011. Their class descriptions are coming soon!
Neal Jackson
Neal is a US lawyer and formerly Vice President and General Counsel of NPR. In addition to working as a photographer, he also serves as chairman of the board of the VII Photo Agency.
Bilingual classes – Clases bilingües
All classes at the workshop will be taught in English. However, due to the increasing number of inquiries about Spanish, we will be offering some courses in English and Spanish. The following courses will be taught by two instructors and will be offered bilingually. Walter Astrada and Adriana Zehbrauskas Michael Robinson Chavez and Alex Kornhuber [...]
