Mentors 2012

MASTER CLASS WORKSHOP
ZED NELSON (United Kingdom) was born in East Africa, Nelson graduated from Westminster University, London, with a degree in photography and filmmaking. He divides his time between editorial assignments and long-term personal projects. Having gained international recognition and numerous awards during two decades as a documentary photographer, Nelson’s recent work embraces an increasingly considered, conceptual approach to reflect on contemporary social issues.

Nelson’s seminal book Gun Nation - a disturbing reflection on America's deadly love affair with the gun – was published in twelve countries and awarded five major international photography prizes. Love Me, Nelson’s second book, reflects on the cultural and commercial forces that drive a global obsession with youth and beauty. The project spanned five years, involved photography in 18 countries across five continents, and was recently nominated for the Deutsche Börse Photography Prize.

Nelson’s latest project ‘Hackney - A Tale of Two Cities’ explores the London borough that he has lived for most of his life. It was here he went to school, learnt to ride a bicycle, lost his virginity and took his first drugs. In his twenties Hackney represented a place to get away from. But today, Nelson has fallen back in love with the area. This series meditates on the confusion of cultures, clash of identities and the beauty and ugliness that co-exist in the borough today. Nelson’s work has been exhibited at Tate Britain, the ICA and the National Portrait Gallery, and is in the permanent collection of the Victoria & Albert Museum. www.zednelson.com 

 

ADVANCED WORKSHOP
PIOTR MALECKI (Poland) Though photography began for Piotr Malecki as a way of filling the slack hours after school it soon developed into a full-blown passion, and completely defined his professional life. Choosing first to study film-making at Silesian University in Katowice, Piotr then moved to the UK to study photography in Bournemouth, returning to Poland as a staff photographer for the weekly news magazine Wprost. He soon recognized that in order to tell stories of importance, and to satiate his wanderlust he needed to go freelance, a decision which has taken him across Europe, Russia, China, Palestine, and the USA.

In addition to photography, Piotr is seriously involved in creating multimedia projects. His video A Thousand More, which was shot in New York won first prize in FotoWeek DC’s 2011 Documentary and Experimental category. Piotr is a director of Napo Foundation that helps young people enter the photography world and teaches photojournalism at Warsaw University.

Piotr’s work has been published in the New York Times, the Guardian, Financial Times, Der Spiegel, Stern, Newsweek Japan and Poland, Polityka Magazine, and National Geographic Poland. More about him on his blog.

 (c) Courtesy of Adam Lach / Napo Images

 

 

META KRESE (Slovenia) has a degree in agronomy and master’s degree in cultural anthropology from University of Ljubljana. She learnt photography in London, when work in darkroom was still forceful. In 2003 she has trained at Danish school of Journalism in the Network SEENPM. As a journalist and photographer she is working for some Slovenian newspapers and magazines, sometimes foreign too. She also equipped several books – some were hers – with photographs. She has been editor of Slovenian magazine Fotografije for 10 years and equal time editor of Adria Airways In-Flight Magazine. She had solo exhibitions in Slovenia, Austria, Italy and Nicaragua. She also received numerous awards. Among others she is the winner of the Writing for CEE 2011 and for the outstanding journalistic work award from Slovenian Association of Journalists 2005. In 2006 she was nominated for Albert Renger-Patzsch Award. Her numerous media reports, often with social topics are from Slovenia, distant places (Pakistan, India, Middle East, Caucasus, Turkey) and also closer, but no less interesting Balkan countries (Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Albania, Bulgaria). For few years she has also worked as a journalist with the ITF (International Trust Foundation for Demining) and ISOP (Austrian non governmental organization).

 

BEGINNER WORKSHOP
UROŠ ABRAM (Slovenia). After attending high school for design and photography he began working as a photographer for Mag, Ekipa and Frka. He also worked with other editors and agencies. During this time he was also assistant to the different Slovenian photography masters, such as Jure Breceljnik and Tomo Brejc. He has participated in numerous group exhibitions and produced several solo exhibitions abound Slovenia and Croatia. From 2005 to 2008 he has studied photography at the Prague Academy of Fine Arts (FAMU). He is an author of the first photographic exhibition in former monastery church Gallary Božidar Jakac in Kostanjevica. His projects are mostly experimental. From the photographic angle he mastered theoretically and practical digital, traditional techniques and a little less conventional procedures. www.abramphotography.com

MULTIMEDIA WORKSHOP
ANNA STEVENS (United Kingdom) is multimedia producer for Panos Pictures, a London-based photo agency specialized in global social issues. Panos Multimedia works in collaboration with photographers and campaigning organizations to produce multimedia and film for online, broadcast and installation, and have won numerous awards for their work. Anna also curates the vimeo channel Panos Picks, a selection of inspiring uses of photography and film; experimental, art, documentary, and new technologies. She is co-founder of online photography gallery and blog Contact Editions.

 

WET PLATE COLLODION WORKSHOP
MIŠO KESKENOVIĆ (Serbia) - Wet Plate Collodion is a pioneer photographical technique invented in 1851. We will be making Wet Plate Collodion ambrotypes, tintypes and collodion glass negatives. On the second half of the workshop we will be making also salt print and cyanotype. On the end we'll learn how to print a digital file on genuine salt print or cyanotype. For participation to the workshop no previous knowledge is needed. Workshop will be conducted under mentorship of Miša Keskenović (RS), a true master in photography techniques of 19th Century and Borut Peterlin (SLO) as his assistant.

We offer 10% of discount to all the applicants who will pay full price before 1 July 2012. Please be aware that the number of participants is limited.