PHOTOZERO
www.photozero.org
Email:photozerobangkok@gmail.com
Raindogs Bar, Bangkok
By photographers for photographers, the second annual meeting of PhotoZero will take place next week in Bangkok. World class photographers will showcase their work, and engage the audience on the important social role played by documentary photography. And everyone is welcome.
We hope you can make the time and join the discussions and be part of this experience.
Entrance fee: 200 baht (includes food)
Drinks and food from 1700. Slideshow at 1900 sharp(ish).
March 15: On Conflict Jason P. Howe (ConflictPics) "Colombia, Between the Lines" Nick Nostitz (Focus) "Red vs. Yellow - Thailand's crises of identity" Paula Bronstein (Getty Images) Afghanistan, " A Fragile Peace" James Nachtwey (VII)
The PhotoZero Team:
Patrick Brown
Yvan Cohen
Jesper Haynes
Gerhard Jörén
Torgeir Norling
Pierre Peyrot
Nym, Korakot Punlopruksa
Jum, Supattra Vimonsuknopparat
Event Schedule:
March 13: Slideshow start from 7PM each day
Moderator: Thomas Nordanstad www.nordanstad.com
Michael Coyne (Blackstar) "Acts of Witness"
"I want to show people’s lives in an honest and caring way. I want to understand and reveal the circumstances that govern those lives. I want to document what I see as honestly as I can; I believe that role of the documentary photographer is to witness and to communicate."
Michael Coyne will talk about and show the images from his PhD by Publication, A Life in Documentary Practice. His PhD focuses on practical ethical questions and their relation to the rules and principles of documentary photography.
© Michael Coyne www.michaelcoyne.com.au
David Dare Parker (Onasia, DegreeSouth) "Indonesian Transitions"
During the past decade he has covered the Archipelago’s extremes of poverty and wealth, corruption, tensions, the ethnic and cultural diversity of its people and historic events, such as the fall of the Suharto regime after 32 years in power and the re-birth of a nation with East Timor bravely voting for its independence in 1999. He also covered the conflict in Aceh between GAM separatists and Indonesian Military and the devastating Tsunami that struck the region on December 26th 2004, tragically claiming so many lives.
© David Dare Parker www.daviddareparker.com
Thierry Falise (Onasia) "Burmese shadows"
A journey through a country's troubled personality. There is probably not another country on Earth than Burma who is experiencing a worst kind of split personality syndrome. For almost 50 years, a ruthless military dictatorship has systematically repressed with violence any popular uprising, Burmese soldiers have been conducting cruel but forgotten ethnic cleansing campaigns in remote mountain and jungle territories often ruled by warlords and drug traffickers. Facing the oppression and unemployment in their own country, more than two millions Burmese citizens have gone in exile, mostly in Thailand where they live in refugee camps or work, often in slavery conditions, for unscrupulous companies. Even natural catastrophes, such as the cyclone Nargis, can turn out into major political issues.
Still, despite those tragic realities, most of the Burmese people live a rather normal life, although with difficulties and with a deep feeling of fear instilled in their mind by decades of dictatorship. They are working, traveling, learning, eating, resting and above all revering Buddha, spirits or other deities. Those somehow contradictory faces of a same country are developing side by side. It's vital to explore all of them to start to understand Burma and its people.
Thierry Falise, a Belgian free-lance photojournalist based in Bangkok, has been covering Burma on and off the beaten track for more than twenty years. This 12-minute slideshow is his personal diary.
For almost half a century Burma, has been ruled by one of the most brutal and closed military dictatorships in the world. Despite widespread opposition, both inside and outside the country, its iron-clad grip on the country remains firm.
Since 1992, Nic Dunlop has been documenting the plight of the people of Burma and their struggle to survive. Nic's book BETRAYAL will be the first in-depth photographic investigation of one of the world's most brutal regimes. This body of work shows what a dictatorship actually looks like. From the frontlines of the ongoing civil war to its deceptively tranquil cities firmly under military rule; from the home of imprisoned democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi to the lives of ordinary people and their struggle to survive. It is both an historic record, with rare images spanning 15 years, and the most up-to-date exposé of a secretive and ruthless regime.
March 15: On Conflict
Jason P. Howe (ConflictPics)
"Colombia, Between the Lines"
Nervous policemen patrolling an oil rich border town, a wounded Government soldier lying next to his dead colleagues, a rebel couple kissing, displaced families building new homes and a self confessed killer reading her daughter a bedtime story; these are some of the characters that inhabit the shadowy and dangerous world in which photojournalist Jason P. Howe immersed himself over a period of 5 years to document the Colombia behind the headlines.
"Red vs. Yellow - Thailand's crises of identity"
© Nick Nostitz
James Nachtwey (VII)