The professional workshop series cater to emerging photographers and fresh graduates who will receive mentorship and guidance from established international professionals.
In a small class setting of not more than 15 people, the professional workshop aims for personal time and development for each individual participant. The workshop is not technique driven, but focus on developing personal vision, body of works, and to scale new heights in personal works through this quality time spent with the instructor.
Frank Breuer (Germany): Contemporary Documentary Photography
Cologne-based photographer Frank Breuer is a virtuoso of profuse emptiness. His photographs of the bleak but strangely beautiful warehouses and of the logo-bearing, corporate, pylon-like signs that often stand nearby seem largely emptied of discursive, annotative meaning. Because both the warehouses and the emptied sign-structures that are his subject offer no internal articulation, they are essentially scale-less, possessing temporality rather than interiority, and having more to do with duration, extension and proliferation than with architecture or idea. This leads them towards a role as extrapolated Minimalist objects: constant, indivisible and, being spectacle-free (in the Debarring sense), paradoxically neutral, though imbued with the grace of presenters.
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Manit Sriwanichpoom (Thailand): Conceptual Photography
Although his strongest work includes gritty black and white beauty and realism, Thai photo-artist Manit Sriwanichpoom is best known internationally for his iconic ‘Pink Man’ series – his high gloss comment on contemporary Asian aspirations. His selected shows include the Venice Biennale, Photo Espana, Bienal de Sao Paulo, International Photography Biennale (Mexico), Pingyao International Photography Festival (China), Gwangju Biennale (Korea), and at the Hayward Gallery (UK) and the Photographer’s Gallery (UK).
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Massimo Vitali (Italy): Large Format Photography
Massimo Vitali was born in Como, Italy, in 1944, and after high school, moved to London where he took a course in photography at the London College of Printing. In the early sixties, Vitali started a career in photojournalism, and has collaborated with many magazines and agencies in Italy and in Europe. At the beginning of the eighties, he switched career paths and became a cinematographer for television and cinema, before turning his attention back to photography.
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Justin Guariglia (USA): Street Portraiture
Justin Guariglia is an award-winning location photographer based in New York. Guariglia was named one of the “top 30 young photographers under 30″ by Photo District News, and was also nominated for the Young Photographer of the Year award by the International Center of Photography in New York. A contributor to more than 50 publications worldwide including Fortune and The New York Times, Guariglia is also a contributing editor for National Geographic Traveller.
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