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Before her career as a photographer, the 38-year old American Carolyn Drake studied Media Culture at the Brown University in Providence. Afterwards she spent most of her time in front of the computer as a multimedia-producer and designer in Manhattan´s Silicon Alley.

Eventually she had enough of perceiving the world through the internet. She took a timeout and traveled through Southeast Asia. Thereafter she studied Photography at the International Center of Photography in New York and subsequently graduated as Master of Visual Communication at Ohio University.

^{From her work »The Last Days of Uighur«, 2007: One of numerous of small community businesses clustered along the main streets of the Old Town in Kashgar which will be demolished as the government tears down this historic district.}

After an internship at the renowned magazine National Geographic and a photo-job at the Palm Beach Post she went to Ukraine for a year being endowed with a Fulbright scholarship. There she created her multiple-awarded work about the devastated coal industry. Since a while she lives in Istanbul wherefrom she has been photographing in whole Middle East and Central Asia. Meanwhile Carolyn Drake received several awards, including the World Press Photo Award 2008 in the category »Feature Stories«. She will give her lecture on Thursday, June 17th at 5 pm in the auditorium of the Design-Center.

^{From her work »The Last Days of Uighur«, 2007: Uighur laborers string electric lines across Taklamakan Desert, part of the Chinese government's effort to develop the west}

To Carolyn Drake's website

Untill a year ago the Italian photographer Ernesto Bazan was mainly known to insiders. Although he had already been awarded with the W. Eugene Smith Grant, the Grant of Mother Jones Foundation for photojournalism, the World Press Photo Award and the scholarship of the Alicia Patterson Foundation and the Guggenheim Foundation.

But then on the New York Photo Festival in May 2009 his book »Cuba« has been granted with the 1st price for the best photobook of the year. This was meant to be his ultimate breakthrough. When Ernesto Bazan book-signed »Cuba« on the photojournalism-festival Visa Pour l´Image in Perpignan, many visitors where carrying their book back home like a precious trophy.

On Friday, June 18th at 5 pm, the 50-year old Italian will present his work in the auditorium of the Design-Center for the first time throughout Germany.

Ernesto Bazan hails from Palermo. As a 14-year old he got his first camera and started to photograph life in Sicily. Photography became his passion. In 1978 he went to New York where he studied at the School of Visual Arts. There he graduated in 1982.

From 1992 to 2006 Ernesto Bazan lived in Cuba and gave workshops in photography. In the meanwhile he created his unusual book »Cuba«, a mixture of narrative, surreal, and athmospheric pictures. His photography is based on the roots of journalistic photography, but Bazan with his darkish black and white photographies yet is a crosser between photojournalism and art-photography. Depending on each picture the needle indicates either way. For friends of photography it is nonetheless inspiring.

 

To the website of Ernesto Bazan

^{Subcontracted workers clean up an oil spill at an abandoned Shell Petroleum Development Company well in Niger Delta. From Ed Kashis Project » Curse of Black Gold «}

^{Ed Kashi. Photo: Uwe H. Martin}

The New York photographer Ed Kashi confirmed his participation in the 2nd Lumix Festival for Young Photojournalism. On Saturday, June 19th 2010 he will talk about his work and show a selection of his photo and multimedia stories in the auditorium starting at 11 am.

During his career the photojournalist Ed Kashi (born in 1957) has worked in more than 60 countries, among that were numerous assignments for National Geographic, as well as for The New York Times Magazine, Time and Geo. He received countless awards in differents disciplines, besides the World Press Photo Award he also received prizes for excellent prints and for experimental film.

The non-profit multimedia production firm Talking Eyes Media of his wife Julie Winokur is producing, often in month of work, large-scale multimedia projects with a combination of video, audio interviews and photos together with him. » This form allows us to tell the stories we want to tell in a more complex and more complete way than what is possible in print. We reach a lot more people and we can give the people themselves a voice. «

^{Sisters Sadie Janis (89) and Zona Fills the Pipe (91) at a pow wow in Pine Ridge Indian Reservation. In his project » Aging in America «, Ed Kashi shows many realities in the aging US society.}

Human stories are the trademark of the photographer-filmmaker couple Ed Kashi and Julie Winokur. Stories that tell about aging in the own society, of stranded persons of a privat health system, and of their own family.

To the website of Ed Kashi

Former Hannover photography student Uwe H. Martin visited Ed Kashi for the FreeLens Magazine #28 and has made abstracts of his article available to us.

^{At the 1st Festival for Young Photojournalism: visitors follow Thomas Hoepker's lecture in a live transmittal,
as the auditorium is packed. Photo: Felix Seuffert}

For the first time, Panasonic donates the Lumix Multimedia Award at the 2nd Lumix Festival. The best multimedia production will be awarded with 5,000 euros. Just as for the FreeLens Award the authors must not be older then 35 years and the body of work needs to be of journalistic nature. A selection of the best entries will be shown during the festival on large screens of our main sponsor Panasonic.

Application form and competition rules Lumix Multimedia Award