Rahman Roslan
Whether it is a big or a small way, I want to do something that can contribute to humanity. This is why I am interested in documentary photography. I want to witness history. At the same time when people share their lives with you, it makes you a better person.
Rahman is based in Kuala Lumpur and his major interests are social and humanity photography. His work possesses sensitive and cognitive styles.
He is one of a few young and emerging Asian photographers who has been chosen to attend the prestigious workshops at the Angkor Photography Festival. His work has been published extensively in Reuters, Agence,Time, New York Times, International Herald Tribune, Strait Times, Singapore and many more. In his personal capacity, he is currently investigating the relationships between Islam and its impact on cultures around Southease Asia.
Issa Touma
Issa Touma is a prominent figure in the Syrian art scene. Self-taught, he began his career as a photographer in the early 1990’s.
Finding himself isolated from the international art world and photography scene, he established Black and White, a gallery dedicated to photography in Aleppo in 1992.
After its closure in 1996, he founded Le Pont Organisation and Gallery, an independent art organisation to promote freedom of expression and stimulate the local art scene through international events.
Sergey Ponomarev
Born in Moscow, Sergey Ponomarev graduated from Moscow State University and Academy of Labor and Social Relations. Ponomarev is one of today’s finest young Russian photojournalists.
Best known for his photojournalism works depicting Russian daily life and culture as well as news images from war and conflicts in Middle East including Syria, Gaza, Lebanon, Egypt and Libya.
From 2003 till 2012 Ponomarev was staff photographer at The Associated Press – the essential global news network. Now he is freelance.
Ponomarev has won many international and domestic photography awards. Most recently, he won the first place prize in the General News Category at world Press Photo contest for European Refugee Crisis; he was the winner of the Pulitzer Price for breaking News Photography in 2016; he received the Single News 1st prize at the Istanbul Photo Awards and is now part of the jury for the Istanbul Photo Awards 2017.
Guillermo Arias
Guillermo Arias started as a freelance photojournalist on 1993, in Tepic, Mexico. Currently based in Tijuana, he is a regular collaborator of the Agence Press (AFP). He worked for the Associated Press as a contractor photographer from 2001 to 2011 and was a staff photographer at Xinhua News Agency Latin America Bureau between 2011 and 2016.
Guillermo has been honored with several recognitions including an Honorable Mention at the World Press Photo 2010, Contemporary Issues; Istanbul Photo Award 2019 first place in Story News; The Best of photojournalism 2010, Honorable mention on both Domestic News Picture Story and Domestic News; Photographers Giving Back award,1st place on News picture of the Year 2009.
Roland Neveu
Roland Neve is a French photographer. His career started in the early seventies when he captured anti-Vietnam War protests.
The young Neveu was one of the few western photojournalists who witnessed the fall of the Khmer Rouge in 1975 in Phnom Penh and became famous for the exceptional photos he shot. For almost two decades he travelled to war zones all over the world to document on the spot for big papers like Time and Newsweek.
Neveu took the first images of Soviet prisoners of Afghanistan’s Mujahideen as well as the occupation of Beirut in 1982. His photos captured the blood feuds in El Salvador, the NPA guerrilla war in the Philippines and in 1986 even showed some of the first pitctures of AIDS victims in Uganda.
His international reputation as a photojournalist helped him to establish as well in the film industry. He has worked with eminent directors from Hollywood like Oliver Stone, Brian de Palma and Ridley Scott.
Yalda Moaiery
Yalda Moaiery was Born in 1982 in Tehran. she was only 19 when she covered the Afghanistan war in 2001. Two years later, She went to Iraq to do a photo report of the war. Her work focusing on portraying honestly real, tragic events such as Tsunami in Indonesian (2004) , Pakistan earthquake (2005), Lebanon war (2006), Georgia (2008) and Somalia famine (2011), Her photos have been published by international magazines and newspapers such as Time, Newsweek, Le Monde, El Paris, San Francisco Chronicle, Le Figaro and more. solo exhibition in Paris, Tehran, and Bangladesh were held to display her photos, She was also part of different group exhibitions in London and Paris. Currently based in TeHran she was awarded the Iranian Photojournalist price in 2017. She is now Chief member of Iranians Photojournalist association.
COSKUN ARAL
Coskun Aral Embarked upon his career as a professional press photographer in 1974,working for the newspapers Gunaydin and Gun in 1976
In the following years, he worked as the Turkish correspondent of SIPA Press in Paris and was several times featured in news magazines such as Time and Newsweek, while also serving as a free-lance photographer for the Turkish News Agency and the newspapers Milliyet and Hurriyet.
Since then Coskun has been working extensively in war zones, covering nearly all the wars and conflicts of world since 1980, witnessing refugee crisis many times before.
Greg Constantine
Greg Constantine is an American/Canadian documentary photographer based in Southeast Asia. He has dedicated his career to long-term projects about human rights, inequality and injustice.
He has spent the past eleven years working on the project Nowhere People, which documents the lives and struggles of stateless communities in nineteen countries around the world, including: Bangladesh, Myanmar, Nepel, Malaysia, Sri Lanka, Kenya, Ivory Coast, Dominican Republic, Ukraine, Serbia, Italy, Holland, UK, Iraq, Kuwait and Lebanon. Since 2006, he has been documenting the persecution of the stateless Rohingya community.
He is the author of three books including: Exiled To Nowhere: Burma’s Rohingya (2012) which was named a 2012 Notable Photo Book of the year by Photo District News Magazine (US) and the independent on Sunday (UK) and the book Nowhere People (2015) which was recognized as one of the Tip Ten Photo Books of 2015 by Mother Jones Magazine.
Atilgan Ozdil
Atilgan Ozdil, born in 1985, in Istanbul, is a photojournalist based in New York City, where he works for Anadolu Agency.
In 2010, he began his professional career as a photojournalist in one of the most famous Turkish newspapers and after that continued with Anadolu Agency in 2012. Within this period, Atilgan was assigned to cover Malian migrants in Mauritania, Syrian civil war, Florence hurricane, migrant caravan in Tijuana, Mexico and several other conflicts, projects, natural disasters and catastrophic events.
While in New York, he completed several overseas assignments on behalf of Anadolu Agency, including Migrant Caravan in 2018. Numbers of his works draw attention and such as Time, New York Times, The Guardian, Bloomberg, BBC, Huffington Post, The Telegraph etc.
Fabiola Ferrero
Fabiola Ferrero is a Venezuelan journalist and photographer covering Latin American. Her personal work is the result of how her childhood memories contrast with nowadays Venezuela where she lives. The economic crisis, political violence and the grief of her own home has led her to explore how societies act under hostile contexts and to focus on the human condition through writing and photography. She uses photography, along with other skills, to develop investigations based on research.
She is part of the World Press Photo 6×6 Talent Program South America, the VII Mentor Program and a Magnum Fellow.
As well as developing independent investigations in Latin America, her work has been featured in TIME, The New York Times, M Magazine, Le Monde, The Wall Street Journal, Bloomberg Business Week, BBC and others
Suthep Kritsanavarin
Suthep Kritsanavarin is a photojournalist from Thailand who has chronicled environmental, social, and humanitarian issues in Southeast Asia for nearly two decades.
His work is based on the firm belief that a photojournalist must act as conscientious observer of society and culture: he has to contribute to social change on a local and global level.
Suthep Kritsanavarin has worked on an investigative report on Rohingyas since 2009. His work has chronicled Rohingyas’ horrifying journeys from Myanmar and Bangladesh to Thailand, Malaysia, Indonesia, and even to Australia and their hardships in these countries with moving, passionate photographs.
