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 who will be under the age of 30 on the 4th August 2012.

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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 they did a smashing job of choosing emerging talent that would benefit from Foundry, from all over the world.

Arif Setiawan, Indonesia

Saw Banyar, Burma/Thailand

Barat Ali Batoor, Afghanistan

Ajit Bhadoriya, India

Enrique Leopoldo Benedicto Cruz, Philippines

Satirat Dam-ampai, Thailand

Nguyen Thanh Hai, Vietnam

Ekkarat Punyatara, Thailand

Roger Anis, Egypt

Fabian Weiss, Germany

Ilkin Huseynov, Azerbaijan

Simona Pampallona, Italy

(Note: For those who didn’t win, there will be at least one more chance for a scholarship through one of our sponsors, though less awards will be given. More info to follow- please don’t email asking for details on this other award, as we don’t have them yet. Thanks and see you in Thailand!

- Eric Beecroft
Director, Foundry Photojournalism Workshops

Daniel Berehulak is a New Delhi based photographer for Getty Images covering the South Asia region and beyond. A native of Sydney, Australia, Daniel studied History at the University of New South Wales. After a short (and miserable) career working in retail, he joined Getty Images in 2002 in Sydney shooting mostly sports. He then relocated to London as a staff news photographer in 2005. He has worked in over 40 countries, covering a wide range of assignments and breaking news stories, including the war in Iraq, Saddam Hussein’s trial, Chernobyl disaster, child labor in India, Benazir Bhutto’s return to Pakistan and the 2010 Pakistan floods.

Based in Delhi since 2009, his long term work in Pakistan has earned him recognition as a two-time World Press Photo Award winner, John Faber Award for the Overseas Press Club of America, Photo of the Year China International Press Photo and runner up for the Pulitzer Prize.

Daniel’s photos have appeared regularly in publications such as The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Los Angeles Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Guardian, The Independent, The Times, Stern, Time, Newsweek and many more.

James Estrin is a Senior Staff Photographer for the New York Times. A founder of Lens, the Times’s photography blog, he has been its a co-editor since it went online in May 2009.

Mr. Estrin has worked for the Times since 1987 and was part of a Pulitzer Prize winning team in 2001. In addition to photographing, editing and blogging, he is a writer for the Times and produces audio and video for nytimes.com. Internationally, he has covered the Israeli-Palestinian conflict several times, chronicled the journey of immigrants between Mexico and the United States, and photographed the devastation in Haiti following the earthquake. In 2004, Mr. Estrin was the first journalist to document an assisted suicide in Oregon through photographs, articles and an audio slide show.

Mr. Estrin is an adjunct professor at the City University of New York Graduate School of Journalism. He attended Hampshire College and the graduate program at the International Center of Photography. Before joining the Times, he was a staff photographer at The Jackson Clarion-Ledger in Jackson, Mississippi and also worked in Washington and New York City.

After covering the devastation caused by the Tsunami in Thailand, she returned over the year to follow the tale of the life of the survivors, and the reconstruction in Phang Nga, North of Phuket. With this body of work, she was finalist for the ‘Bourse du Talent 2005 and her essay has also been published in the book ‘Tsunami’, along with other photographers who covered the catastrophe.

In November 2005, she won the Foundation Lagardere grant for photography, which allowed her to work on her project in East Timor
. This essay, “East Timor, the crushed dreams of independency” was exhibited in Visa pour l’Image, France 2007 and in April 2008 in FotoFreo, WA, Australia.

She won Second Prize Spot News story in World Press Photo 2007 Contest with her story on the popular uprising against King Gyanendra in Nepal, which was exhibited in “Les Rencontres de Siem Rep”, Cambodia in 2007.

In 2008, Agnes was finalist for the CARE award and finalist for the Visa d’Or Magazine, with her project on AIDS temple in Thailand in Visa pour l’Image. Also, she was one of the 12 participants to the Joop Swart Masterclass 2008 of the World Press Photo (Balance).

Her 2010 coverage of the Red Shirts unrest in Thailand last April and May 2010, was exhibited at the Bangkok Art Cultural Center in RUPTURE exhibition, curated by Olivier Pin. With this body of work, published in the New York Times, she recently was awarded THE ROBERT CAPA GOLD MEDAL AWARD of the OPC, for “Best published photographic reporting from abroad requiring exceptional courage and enterprise”.

Dherbeys is currently photographing French band Limousine recording of their Third album, immerged in the universe of Molaam music in North East Thailand. The project is funded by l’Institut Français, Agnes B, Factory Festival, among others.

First camera – a Kodak Brownie. If you know what that is you’re probably not a photojournalist you’re more likely a photo historian. If you have used one, then you are probably too old to be taking my class.

First darkroom – my mother’s bathroom at 12. Luckily we had two. All those chemicals and it was hard to control the water temperature, but one can wash a lot of prints in a tub. Thank God the world went digital.

First assignment – covering Vietnam anti-war protestors in the San Francisco Bay Area. I survived, but the guy next to me couldn’t run as fast. He got his head bashed and the film ripped out of his camera by the police. If that gets you really excited about being a photojournalist then you should definitely attend this workshop.

I covered lifestyle, political issues and rock concerts for a local newspaper for several years before returning to school to studying architecture – boring. I really just went back to play basketball. I was an art major, a photography major and a couple of other majors along the way. Time to get serious. Transferred to BYU. Made my parents proud by finally graduating.

I freelanced for several ad agencies, was a designer for an industrial manufacturing firm, and then started my own agency.

Along the road my clients have included: The Osmond Brothers, Novell, WordPerfect, BYU, the State of Utah, 1-800 Contacts, Steven R. Covey & Associates, Who Moved My Cheese? and Robert Redford’s Sundance Resort.

I have taught design and photography at Brigham Young University and a couple of colleges.

My work has been featured in Print Magazine. I show regularly at a local museum and have won numerous awards for my commercial and fine art work.

I have worked as a photojournalist, art director, designer and illustrator. I currently maintain a design and commercial photography studio in Provo, Utah.

I have been on both sides of the table – as a photographer and as an art director hiring photographers. I will share my insights and guide the novice as he or she begins the journey.

If you aren’t sure of what area of photography you want to be in or question your level of proficiency – take my course. As part of the Foundry Workshop you will have the opportunity to meet and hear from some of the best photojournalists in the business.

]]> http://www.foundryphotoworkshop.org/2012/01/david-storey/feed/ 0 http://www.foundryphotoworkshop.org/2011/12/david-guttenfelder/ http://www.foundryphotoworkshop.org/2011/12/david-guttenfelder/#comments Tue, 20 Dec 2011 21:11:50 +0000 Webmaster http://www.foundryphotoworkshop.org/?p=842 David Guttenfelder has spent all of his 15 years as a photojournalist working, and living outside of his native United States. He began his career as a freelance photographer in East Africa after studying Swahili at the University of Dar es Salaam in Tanzania. As an Associated Press photographer he has been based in Kenya, Ivory Coast, India, and Japan.

Thailand is the destination for the 2012 Foundry Photojournalism Workshops.

Foundry 2012: Chiang Mai, Thailand, July 29 – August 4, 2012.

Regional students (South Asia — India, Pakistan, Nepal, Sri Lanka, Tibet and Southeast Asia — Thailand, Burma, Vietnam, Phillippines, Laos, Cambodia,Indonesia, Malaysia) tuition is: $475 US dollars. For all others it is $975 US dollars.

Click here to register.

Shown above (l-r), Suzie Katz, photographer and founder of workshop sponsor PhotoWings foundation; Chéri; Instructor Clair Rosen; Foundry founder Eric Beecroft, and Instructor Ron Haviv.

Yesterday I stumbled across one example that is definitely worth sharing.  It is a diagrammatic drawing by faculty member Walter Astrada showing the elements of telling a story with images, along with the process for getting there.  I captured it in the photo below:

It starts with a good-natured drawing of Adriana Zehbauskas, Walter’s oh-so-elegant co-instructor in this all-Spanish/Portugese-speaking class. On red stickers are the truly basic equipment that all photojournalists must have – watchful eyes, a notebook, a camera and a good heart.

But it shows other things are also needed – including persistence and a good pair of shoes!  But wait – there’s more!  The photojournalist must have curiosity, flexibility, empathy and a willingness to work hard.

Developing the story itself requires, first, an idea, but then the idea must be developed through research, contacts, and careful planning.  Once into the gathering of the facts and developing of the story, you have to answer journalism’s Universal Five questions – who, what, when, where and why?

Clever, huh?  I thought so.  Maybe Foundry can turn this into a sticker for all photojournalists to put into their notebooks as a constant reminder!  Whaddya say, Eric?