lectures 2010
Most of the lecturers of the 2nd Lumix Festival for Young Photojournalism 2010 are not yet fixed.
We will announce them on this page early enough.
The lectures will again be broadcasted to the world as a livestream and uploaded to the festival page afterwards (given that the lecturers consent).
You find video records of the last festival's lectures via the year selection on the left.
Thursday, June 17
Friday, June 18
Saturday, June 19
Thursday, June 17, 5 pm / Carolyn Drake
Before her career as a photographer, the 38-year old American Carolyn Drake spent most of her time in front of the computer as a multimedia-producer and designer. 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 in Ohio.
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«.
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. They will be demolished as the government tears down this historic district.
Friday, June 18, 5 pm / Ernesto Bazan
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.
Ernesto Bazan, who hails from Palermo, lived in Cuba from 1992 to 2006 and gave workshops in photography. In the meanwhile he created his unusual book »Cuba«, a mixture of narrative, surreal, and athmospheric pictures. Bazan with his darkish black and white photographies 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
Saturday, June 19, 11 am / Ed Kashi
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.
Ed Kashi. Photo: Uwe H. Martin
During his career the New York based 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.
Since 2003, the non-profit multimedia production firm Talking Eyes Media of his wife Julie Winokur has been producing, often in months 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. «