Panel Discussion @ FCCT - Contemporary Photography in Asia- A New Renaissance?

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Panel Discussion
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Contemporary Photography in Asia-
A New Renaissance?
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Thursday, December 18 at 8:00 pm
Cover charge for non-members: 300 Baht

Foreign Correspondents' Club of Thailand
Penthouse, Maneeya Center Building
518/5 Ploenchit Road (connected to the BTS Skytrain Chitlom station)
Patumwan, Bangkok 10330
Tel.: 02-652-0580-1
Fax: 02-652-0582
E-mail: info@fccthai.com
Web Site: http://www.fccthai.com
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Photography in Asia is entering a period of renaissance much like
information technology that has gone through a CENSORED WORD 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.
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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 'other
side' of the desk in photojournalism, Olivier's term as an Editor
covered almost two decades during which time he also spent time in the
field covering sports events, CENSORED WORD 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.