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We are delighted to present to you our first issue of Photojournalism by Camerapixo. Every issue will evolve with new interesting stories and views on the world. For much of the last century, photojournalists have enjoyed a host of options for disseminating their images to the world. The digital revolution has changed the face of photography and photojournalism, allowing unprecedented speed in delivering photos and superior quality. Photography and travel really go hand in hand. Photography is more than a job; it is a way to savor the world and everything in it. And this is where Photojournalism steps in, it is a demanding career, requiring proficiency in many areas and total commitment in time and energy. So in this issue we present “Back in time” photography from Africa where time has stopped when it comes to shooting photos with the latest technology equipment. Refugees in Burmia, latest 1000Miglia Race in Italy or street demonstrations and much more. We are giving freelance photojournalists a chance to get experience by issuing a Press ID Card. Read few testimonials and find out how it works... Enjoy! Camerapixo Team Artur J. Heller Anetta G. Heller

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More than a thousand counter-demonstrators gathered in the town square of Malmö to protest the racist organization’s Swedish Defence League demonstration, this Saturday Counterdemonstrators marched from Möllevångstorget to the square. SDL and counterdemonstrators were separated by double rows of barricades, and about 50-100 cops were on the spot. After 20 or so members of the SDL turned up, they were met by loud boos and whistles. The counter-demonstrators threw smoke bombs and there were some minor clashes with the cops. The racists tried to make a speech, but got completely swamped by the counter-demonstrators. The message was loud and clear: No racists on our streets!

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Adrien Tache France

Young photographer from Southern France, photography has been a passion since he was a teenager. But when he experienced the moving photography school « Atelier Nomade » in West Africa, his relation with photography changed a lot and became more « social and humanist ». That’s where Adrien started his report about west african photographer. Most of them are equipped with old manual reflex cameras from the 70’s and 80’s and are suffering economical difficulties, while digital photography is getting the upper hand. What will happen when everyone is equipped with a camera and is able to shoot the same or better pictures than

the photographer? As a witness to this turning point in their profession, Adrien’s wish was to immortalize them with their “third eye”, inside or outside their studios. Proud, shy, amused… hidden behind their lenses, every photographer had his own way of reacting, looking and gripping on the camera. This is a way for them to show the reality of their job and to keep a track of an almost forgotten era. After this project Adrien told to himself to continue to use photography further than a simple esthetic work. If he can denounce, improve a situation, help his subject or just be like a “past archivist”, he’ll manage to stay on this way.”

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African Photographer A profession in transition The uncertain balance of a job between two eras Mohamed, Omar, Diallo or Siby are African and photographers. These ‘pictures catcher’ come from Mauritania, Senegal and Guinea Conakry. In this area of Africa, photography still plays an important part in society. Yagfa, The doyen of Nouhadibou’s photographer’s (Mauritania) explains: “There is no artistic photographic culture in Africa. We only want souvenirs“. From simple I.D. photos shot in a kitschy studio to album orders for weddings, christenings, official ceremonies...the photographic profession in Africa isn’t finished but the job itself, very different, from in the West, is changing. “Mechanical”. A strange word to describe a manual reflex camera, but that’s what professional photographers call their old equipment. If some of them are now using digital or electronic manual reflex

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cameras, many are still working with old cameras from the 70/80’s : Konika, Canon, Pentax, Zenith... Even though some of them call themselves traveling photographers, most of them have their own studios, often with tempting coloured shop fronts, decorated by the local ‘calligraphist’. The interiors, lit by neon light, are usually simple, and equipped with a single sofa for customers, a table and a few plastic accessories. On the wall are hung posters or colourful fabric that is used as a background for portraits. The cost of rental and materials being high (films, printing...), It is common for premises to be shared with other professions, such as dressmaker or barber. Sometimes, the studio is directly located in the photographer’s house, like Siby’s from Senegal, who confides that he ‘needs to have another job to make ends meet’. Some of his colleagues are also builders, part time teachers, or nursing auxiliaries. Furthermore, from June to September, during ‘wintering’, which corresponds to the rainy season, business decreases. It’s only after harvest that weddings and ceremonies start

up again. For these photographers, especially those from villages, film processing and development are posing problems: “Working with manual cameras is getting more expensive, because the laboratory I use to ‘wash’ (develop) my pictures is 300km away from my studio” says a photographer from a village in the area of Podor (Senegal). “I pay the roundtrip bus ticket to get there, and sometimes, customers aren’t able to pay the pictures they ordered, or collect them 2 or 3 years later”. In these countries, a 13x18 print costs around 0.70 euros, which is expensive when you think that a basic meal only costs half that. There was a time where African photographers had to ‘send their films to France to for black and white development’ says a photographer near Maliville, Guinea Conakry. If the economical argument is highlighted, there are few other parameters that should be taken into account “Although digital photography is less costly, it could be the end of the photographic profession”.

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Digital Photography Between fascination and abnegation For Mohamed, Nouakchott photographer (Mauritania), the development of digital photography is not necessarily good for business. Digital cameras and cell phones with integrated cameras are easily accessible to the general public and the way they shoot pictures is similar to us. If we do not improve our photographic skills, our studios will soon close and only film processing labs will remain open to print customers’ personal pictures. Here, the simple fact of owning a camera is an added value, which enables too many people to call themselves photographers and quickly set up in business. Competition is harsh, some are breaking prices to get by and there is very little solidarity between photographers”. Despite this pessimistic discourse about the future of their profession, Mohamed sees a solution: training. “African photographers today do not have access to training, the little knowledge they

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do have is transmitted verbally. They use this or that setting depending on the light, and often inappropriately. Those who want to become photographic- reporters have to study in Dakar (Senegal) as Mauritania doesn’t have any photographic schools”. This lack of training is seen in the result. Photographs are usually ‘overwhelmed’ by frontal flash, badly, adjusted, framed, anticipated, and focused. “One day, I accidentally slowed down my shutter speed and when I developed my picture, I was surprised to see that there was a double exposure with the background and my model’s face. I realized that we don’t know our cameras well and that we were limiting ourselves to the settings we always use. For my part, I’m pretty sure that without proper training and good equipment, we are heading straight towards the decline of our profession”. Léa Bages & Adrien Tache Traduction: Pauline Moriot Dunn Official website

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in search of a story Gokhan Cukurova USA

As a self-taught photographer, Gokhan started his career with shooting landscapes and travel images in a no-internet world. His work has been shown in more than twodozen exhibitions, and Gokhan has won international recognition from Outdoor Photographer Magazine in 2008. Capturing images on film and finalizing his negatives in his small darkroom was the way of life. Now his way of life includes photographing over 40 weddings a year, teaching the business side of photography, organizing networking events, as well as hosting wedding photography workshops in Chicago, Poland, the Czech Republic and Italy.

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Hello Gokhan, and welcome to Camerapixo! For those who don’t know you, could you briefly introduce yourself? I am a professional weddingportrait photographer, photography instructor who loves photojournalism and street photography based in Chicago, USA.

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I grew up looking at first Turkish Magnum photographer Ara Güler’s old Istanbul photos. When I was a kid, every time his photos were published in magazines or newspapers, I would cut those photos and hang them on my wall. 1940s, 1950’s Istanbul captured on Black and White film. When I was 23 I immigrated from Turkey to the United States. My new home was St. Paul, Minnesota, I started living with my older brother Cihan. I have to admit, I was very homesick. I missed rest of my family a lot. One frigid winter morning I went and bought a plastic, disposable camera. My goal was to take a few photos of the city of St. Paul and the mighty Mississippi River because my family had no idea what Min-

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nesota looked like. As you know, people who live outside of the United States will be very familiar with New York, Los Angeles or Miami from the movies. Minnesota does not make it to movies that often. After taking a few pictures in the city I went by the river. There was this big Catholic Church and a tree with no leafs. I think I made a connection between myself and that tree, a man away from his family and a tree with no leafs… Who knows! After photographing the tree I thought to myself that it would be a nicer photograph if the sky was orange like in the late afternoon. Then I realized that my sunglasses were orange color. I simply put my glasses in front of the lens and took another shot. My older brother liked that photo even more than I did. Later I sent those 4×6 glossy prints to Turkey, one night I came home from work and saw my life was changed forever. My brother bought me my first camera, an entry level film SLR, a kit lens, entry level tripod, a camera bag, a few rolls of film and two photography books. It was the greatest gift of all times. I was so hooked. Within nine months, my photos

were hanging in a gallery in uptown Minneapolis, the biggest city in Minnesota. Since then I have had over 20 exhibitions in different venues.

When did you first start and when did it become a full time? Started in 1999, become a full time photographer in 2009.

Do you agree that for a photographer to be successful, one should develop their own style?

Absolutely. Nothing can add more value to the artist than developing his/her own style. It may be confusing for the beginners, we all have been there. Before learning the craft well, before studying the history of it, without experimenting A LOT, one can not develop a style. I am sorry but “grab a camera and go out, shoot what catches your attention” can not be translated as having your own style. Style means consistency. You are known for something. Since my name starts with the letter G, I call this the G-factor. We all have to sit down and put our hats on the table, think what is our Gfactor. What separates us from others? We have to answer

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that question very honestly. It could be anything, but we have to have that answer! In the beginning, it’s ok if the young photographer shows signs of inspiration, influences from other well known names in the photo world. If someone re-creates stunning images of a world-renown photographer for learning experience, I don’t see anything wrong with it.

What I mean by that is if the young photographer is learning how the light was used in that image, how the person was placed in the frame i.e. a fashion shoot or photographing a bottle of scotch, that’s ok. At the end of the day, if the young photographer does not know anything, will be helpless to develop his/her own style. By learning different rules, techniques etc. the next generation photographer will decide what he/she likes or dislikes. After that he/she will implement what works for his/her vision, maybe blend and spice things up, the end result should be unique. As long as photographers work their way towards finding their own way of capturing, seeing some influence from masters in the early stages should not discourage anyone. It’s very normal.

Do you consider street photography a difficult thing? Street photography is a very hard genre to shoot in my opinion. Very hard. It’s search of light, search of story, search of your own soul, trying to document our own society at its purest form… And it does not guarantees any pay, actually it almost guarantees “no pay” at all. It’s something you do from heart. You do not know what’s waiting for you at the next corner and you need to be prepared. Lucky shot may unfold in front of your eyes the very next second and if you are not prepared, it’s gone! I love that!

Black & white vs. color photography - your thoughts? It’s a personal choice of the artist of course and I prefer mostly Black and White. Most of my street shots are BW. That’s how I see, how I envision the streets, the city, the society. But sometimes the color makes the photo. Color is one extra layer, one extra element in the image vs different shades of grey. There will be some photos that would not have the same impact if they were BW.

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The end result is what matters. Color or BW is not that important. Alex Webb’s work… Colorful, yet brilliant. It took me a while to understand his work. Now I think it’s mind-blowing.

Recently you were published in the Leica Camera Blog. Must be exciting. Do you shoot with Leica cameras or lenses?

It was an honor for me. Leica has its own league, own place in the camera world, it’s an instrument with a soul, many of the historic images of the first century of this craft was captured on Leica cameras for their simplicity, durability and image quality. They do make great cameras and even greater lenses but they don’t make photographers. I do not own any Leica gear, I have shot with many different models though. Feels like tanks. But really, having a Leica has not made anyone a better photographer. Other brands like Fuji makes really nice cameras as well.

You are also the founder & director of Chicago Photographic Society. Could you tell us more about it?

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Little over four years ago, I started a small Facebook group for photographers from all levels, all backgrounds and zero tolerance to negative energy, ego and bad attitude. My philosophy was to teach what I know and learn from others. Now that same philosophy “each one, teach one” have become the philosophy of CPS (Chicago Photographic Society) as we have grown to over 2,000 members in more than 40 countries. Although the name says Chicago, this is now an internationally known non-profit organization. We encourage our members to connect with their peers in their cities, create collective work, volunteer in their communities, inspire youth in their local area high schools, bring photography closer to low-income neighborhood kids with our Future Photographers Project and become one big family.

The last workshop or seminar you attended and why?

Last workshop I attended was the recent WPPI On The Road 2013.

I am definitely not a workshop junkie, I try to be very picky with instructors who are “in my opin-

ion” qualified to teach. With the fellow NYC wedding photographer Jason Groupp being the new director of membership & education at WPPI has shown great results in the photo industry pretty fast. There was a great selection of speakers who are experts in their fields and the workshops were one full day platform + one full day hands-on intensive. Having instructors like Bob Davis, Sandy Puc in the speaker line up makes it a must a see, even though I have seen them many times. They keep inspiring, keep raising the bar. Also there was a very decent size trade show added to this program so I got to make new connections, also got a chance to see some of my old vendor friends who do not reside in Chicago.

What are some current projects you are working on?

I just came back from a trip to Poland and Italy, taught two workshops there. It was amazing. It’s a terrific feeling to visit Europe 5 times in last 4 years. Right after my return from Europe I finished moving into my new studio. Still working on it and hopefully by the end of May we will have our doors open for business.

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What is your favorite part of the day to capture street photography?

I like the Chicago’s rush hour if I am shooting in downtown area. Morning or afternoon rush hour, thousands of people hurrying for home or work... For example, if you are shooting in downtown Chicago on a sunny day, due to very tall buildings, different part of streets will have different lighting. It can be more challenging which I like. It forces you to know your exposure settings and you have to be able to switch from bright sunny to dark share on the fly. If it’s an overcast day, it’s much easier.

What equipment do you have for a typical shoot day?

I have an extensive camera collection. If I am shooting film, I like my Yashica rangefinder or Exakta Varex SLR or one of my TLR cameras. If I am shooting digital, I like my Fuji X-10 a lot.

What is your dream location to photograph?

Everyone has their own picks of course for me, New York and Istanbul are dream for street

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photography. I was born in Istanbul but I was not a photographer when I left Turkey. I have traveled a lot last 15 years, every year I went somewhere new, that’s why Istanbul was pushed down on the list. I have seen more than half of the United States from Alaska to Florida, California to New York, Mexico and many cities in Europe. I’d love to go to rural China, rural India, Japan, and I know it does not have much to do with street photography but I’d love to go to small villages in Siberia and Tibet and Chile someday.

time, I would say: don’t listen what others say. Photography is not owned by anyone and someone’s social media status does not make that person an authority, hear everyone but listen to yourself, your heart. Young photographers pay too much attention to what others think or pay too much time talking about gear. Photography is an art form and everyone will have a different opinion on one photo. Do what you like and don’t care about else. That’s the first step to be yourself, communicate with the world through the lens.

What’s the biggest lesson you’ve learned, and would pass along to other new photographers just getting started?

One advice to photographers who are just entering the Street Photography?

Biggest lesson: If you like to earn a living from photography, learn how to run a business and taking photos. You can be the best photographer in the world, if you can’t sell them, it is not good. Running a photography business is not different than running any other business. Learn how to run a business. Advice for hobbyist who already have job they love and like to take photos on free

How about two?

Great!

- Learn how to operate your cameras main settings blind folded.

- Learn what Zone Focusing is and how to use it.

Something you’re still learning?

Business-marketing-branding. How we do business is con-

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stantly changing, the client I have today is much different that client I photographed 5-10 or 12 years ago. Photography is is all I do for a living.

What change would you expect for the photography sector in the future? Also what are some of the biggest challenges you think it faces today? I am almost certain that within my lifetime we will see mobile phones producing photos with 4x5 large format resolution. I own a large format camera and highly recommend anyone to learn how to use one. Challenge to photo industry today… There are many challenges and there will always be challenges but I think the biggest challenge today is “now” attitude. The technology thankfully gave us wonderful tools but also made some things worse. There will be pros and cons of everything in life. Photographers paying less attention to detail brings lack of quality. Shooting without a purpose is almost a new norm and I would encourage young photographers to use the tools available today to enrich their knowledge on the history of photography, art of photography instead of loosing the war

against the rush we often feel to shoot/post, move to the next shot. Take your time and tell a story instead.

Do you feel like you have a good balance between your personal and working life? I hope to think so :) I choose not to work on Sundays unless it’s a very special wedding. I don’t want to be the person who dedicates his life to his work instead of his family. Work can be found, you have only one family. When I am 50 or 60 years old, I don’t want to look back and realize I wasted my life working too much and not spend enough time with the people who matter the most. Although I am a fulltime wedding photographer and summers are our busiest season, I block at least one full week in the middle of summer just for family vacation. Even if we don’t go anywhere fancy, we spend time together. You can not pay me enough to make me work on those days. I plan those dates in a year in advance and never book a wedding for those days. Just because I am a wedding photographer, my wife should not be punished with winter vacations. It takes planning,

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Which five words would your friends use to describe you?

Tough one. I would ask them. But if I may reconstruct your question and say how I would like my friends to remember me at my funeral… Selfless, funny, loyal, talented, fearless.

Who are some photographers you admired, and who are some photographers that have the biggest influence on you right now?

Ara Guler, Sebastiao Salgado, Jerry Ghionis, Dorothea Lange, Michael Kenna, Steve Mc Curry, Elliot Erwitt, Garry Winogrand, William Klein, Sally Man, Koudelka, Earnst Haas, Vivian Maier… Each taught me something different and inspired me with the body of work they have created. Sebastiao Salgado’s new book “Genesis” is out now. 8 years

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social disruption in southern Europe, combined with a more impressionist and “light” approach in his “street” vision.

He was deeply influenced by the French In 2004, he came back photographic humanist to his first passion, i.e., school and the Ameriphotography and mainly can street photograworks in street subjects phers. and documentary projects. He strongly believes that photography still is a Published in various powerful medium to denewspapers and maga- scribe and help to underzines (Washington Post, stand our world, and as The Observer, Mountain such it should constantly Record...), he is trying to cross the artificial borders witness, through his pho- between, art, document tographic projects, the and journalism. current brutal and violent

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Commemoration of the Carnation Revolution (1974), which overthrew the fascist regime / Lisbon / Portugal

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Demonstration against NATO, / Lisbon / Portugal

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Protest against austerity. On the sign: “Is it too much to ask for a job in my own country?” (Unemployed ortuguese told to just emigrate by the Prime-Minister)

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Radoslaw specializes in wedding photography as well as black and white, to which he is devoted every day. But his passion is travel and photography in conflict zones - especially places long forgotten by the media and the public, like Colombia, Mexico, Kashmir, Burma. With photographs he is looking for a man and emotions. He photographs only with focal lenses - especially wideangle. This allows him to get close pictures of people, to talk and get to know them.

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Far away from white sandy beaches, wild islands, beautiful temples, about 250 Burmese refugees are struggling daily for survival in a rubbish dump in Mae Sot. The war took everything from them - loved ones, all the possessions and freedom. They had to flee from Burma, illegally, through the river to the closest city in Thailand - Mae Sot. They settled in a rubbish dump. Most of them come from the state of Karen and Kachin. They earn money for living by collecting and sorting of waste - plastic, glass, aluminum. In the filth and stench, children and adults are trying to collect as much waste that will be suitable for sale. They work with their families (even children age 5) from sunrise to 3 am. One family is able to earn a maximum of one dollar a day. Children do not go to regular school, do not have a playground, do not eat sweets their childhood and the future is lost. They had to pay to even be able to live here. They are banned from leaving the land-

PHOTOGRAPHER fill - if they did, they would be arrested, sent back to Burma and have to pay a huge fine, because they are here illegally. But what they would go back to? Their homes were burned and destroyed farms - they have nowhere else to go. They live in huts made of boards, foils and from whatever they will find at the dump. “Company”, which buys sorted out waste from them, pays 4 times less, than what they would get a few miles away in the city.

They are forced to work with only one company - otherwise they would have problems. Most children are born here without any medical help. There is small organization at work here, and a few volunteers who are trying to help - providing water, food, drugs, and organized activities for children. The monks also try to help. But still it is not enough. In spite of so much misery and tragedy the people here are able to enjoy life. They meet in the evenings, light candles, sing and dream of a better future. In the area of Mae Sot are three refugee camps.

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In contrast to the inhabitants of the landfill, a refugee live here legally - they have legal refugee status. They all share one thing - they were evicted from their land in Burma by a brutal military dictatorship. The camps are guarded by Thai soldiers and residents need a special permit to be able to leave the camp. To get inside you have to cross several checkpoints that seem to be just to stop the Burmese without valid documents and extort a bribe for passage. Many charities and volunteers are at work there. There are schools where children can learn English as well as in accordance with the program of secondary and higher education. There is a small hospital, a few shops - you can even buy mobile phones. The houses are built of bamboo piles, and a roof of palm leaves are used. Most people do not work - in the camp is not possible to work with a few exceptions. However, many people illegally sneak out from the camp and work in factories and on farms on the outskirts of Mae Sot. They can apply for a special permit that would entitle them to work outside the camp - but only a few are granted. Life goes on here slowly, people do

PHOTOGRAPHER not want to go back to Burma as nothing awaits them there but war. Outside the camp and dump hundreds of illegal refugees live on the outskirts of the city they settle on abandoned land along the border. “Bridge of Thai-Burma Friendship” on the river border of Thaung Yinna is already open. However, few people cross the border legally - most of them flow on rafts, boats. Border areas are controlled by the Thai Rangers, who for appropriate “fee” see nothing, hear nothing and know nothing. That’s how dozens of Burmese daily flees to Thailand in search of a better life. A few months ago, a peace agreement has been signed in Burma, but it is only a “game” of the government. There is still war in several states such as Kachin, where the government for their own businesses is trying to deport ethnic minorities occupying the land. Thus, the world’s longest civil war seems to have no end. Refugees have no hope of return and peaceful life.

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Roberto considers himself a very lucky man because he began photography in a very difficult period of his life and taking photographs helped him. He lost himself in photographic art, havig a very good computer knowledge he had no problem learning modern digital photography technique so Roberto spent a lot of time improving art and communication features. Image communication is amazing for Roberto, he likes lots photography techniques but at the moment he prefers nude arts and travel reportage.

Roberto is active in a “non profit” agency with master in visual communication and Photoshop techniques. They organize photographic travels not only in Italy, Roberto also collaborated with Toscana & Chianti News. Roberto hopes to become a full time professional photographer to make a dream come true. “Good light to everyone.”

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SUPERBIKE Motorcycles was my great passion (and photographic of course!) finally I can shoot at Superbike World Race in Italy-Monza, one of the best circuit in the world. I didn’t know that this live event was so amazing! I follow other motor sports but nothing else is so great like this live events.

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1000MIGLIA As Enzo Ferrari said “the most beautifull race in the world”: fashion, motor sound, not only Italian design and great pilots... I try to tell everyone about it and show the beaty of it.

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TRAVEL I love travel and photography, I travel often allover world to make workshops possibile to other photographers, far from business and vacancy route, so photographers can live with local person, eat with local person and live a full immersion real life experience.

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Zsolt Repasy Hungary

Zsolt Repasy is a freelance photographer from Budapest, Hungary. Zsolt is focusing primarily on cultural, social and humanitarian images. He has travelled extensively around the hidden corners of Europe and South-East Asia. Several of Zsolt’s action sports and travel images have been featured by National Geographic, Corbis Images and Camerapixo magazine, including reportages from Transylvania, Dublin, Sarajevo and Bosnia.

Currently Zsolt is freelancing for Corbis Images, Demotix, several NGO’s, working on social, cultural and humanitarian issues and in the meantime, he is working on an action / extreme sport portfolio. Zsolt is available for travel, documentary, sports and humanitarian photography assignments.

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Many elderly women travel a long way alone to sell their goods in Negreni / Transilvania / Romania

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“I’ve been using the Camerapixo PressID since October 2012 and it gained me entry to a few venues and programs. It proved to be useful and I always got immediate support from Camerapixo Team when needed.”

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Marcin is a man, who snaps some photos from time to time. He started his adventure with photography relatively recently, about six years ago. By this time he read quite amount of books on how to take pictures. After six years, he managed to get equipment of his dreams, thanks to which Marcin can express his ideas. In his opinion it is not true that the equipment is negligible, at least for the time until one will try to measure up with the level of Irving Penn and Ansel Adams.

camera where something interesting happens and is crazy about clean shots. Marcin doesn’t like having unwanted items in the frame in addition to the main subject. It bothers him to the extent that he can devote to this frame correctness of the composition or doesn’t take the photo at all. That is why he loves discussions about the composition of which he thinks the orthodox approach of many people is wrong. It is not always clear as to the conditions under which a photo was executed. Of course, you should take Marcin takes photos of care as much as posbasically everything. He sible for the picture to be always wants to make it well watched. However, original, interesting and the correctness of the shown in a different way. composition is best taken He loves to be with the care of in the studio.

Marcin has recently began interest in theater photography. It turned out to be quite difficult, but the effects compensate for the whole effort. He works full time but every free moment Marcin tries to devote to photography in theory or practice, because it is his escape from “everyday life” and lets him forget about everyday problems. Thanks to photography he can feel the adrenaline.

Marcin puts all the effort to quit shooting photos but start doing photography.

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Guitar Guinness Record is an event organized periodically for several years at the Wroclaw Market Square. The originator is Leszek Cichonski, of course, well-known guitarist born in Wroclaw. During trying to set a new Guinness record participants are playing together one of the most famous and distinctive guitar tracks of Jimmy Hendrix “Hey Joe” and “Smoke on the water” from the repertoire of Deep Purple. The only requirement for joining the play is to have a guitar and mastering a few simple tricks “Hey Joe”. At the same time having a guitar must be understood quite easily. The participants compete with each other for the ideas on guitar reminiscent instruments but rather made of genuine items. Of course, one must be able to use this guitar as instrument to play Hey Joe. Examples of these guitars that I remember the most, were done with shovels and toilet seat! I do not know about you, but I’ve never heard someone playing the toilet seat or a shovel. The event gained a huge popularity in the whole of Poland, and probably more. On

PHOTOGRAPHER the day of setting a record you can meet people with guitars throughout the whole city. They play in the streets, trams, buses, railway stations, just everywhere. These are people of all ages. The youngest participant I have seen was maybe three years old, the oldest probably more than ninety. This day can easily be called the feast of the guitar. The organizers shall ensure that during each subsequent trial, the world’s biggest stars of the guitar play together with the participants. For example Steve Morse (Deep Purple), Greg Koch, Ray Wilson (Genesis), Jennifer Batten (Michael Jackson’s guitarist), John Corabi (Motley Crue). Unfortunately, this year they failed to beat the record of 2009, when 7275 guitarist played together. Perhaps the weather was the effect, because the leaden clouds covered the sky and the rain still hung in the air. But I am sure that next year the Wroclaw Market Square will again be full of guitarists.

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“I am a holder of Camerapixo Press Card for about three months. I wondered if it is worth to spend the $ 99.95. Honestly I strongly hesitated whether Press Card will meet my expectations. Now I know that it was well invested money and do not regret a single cent. Press Card with Camerapixo turned out to be an excellent key to many closed doors. The best example here will certainly be accreditation, which I recently received from Dead Can Dance band management

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He was born in Vienna, lives in Austria. Photographer and filmmaker. Made numerous short feature films with screenings worldwide. Photographic work exhibited throughout Europe, the United States and Asia. Winner of the New York Photo Award 2012 in the category Fine Art. Books: Less Is More (2009), Grayscales. early b&w photographs (2010), Right Time Right Place (2012), Milky Way (2013).

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“People are unhappy because they don’t know that they’re happy” - Fyodor Dostoyevsky Being at the right place at the right time is usually associated with happiness and success. But what happens when we are at the right place at the wrong time? Do we even know that this is the right place? And what if it turns out that it is the wrong place after all? But the right time! “Right Time Right Place” is a collection of photographs I made in the last five years on my travels through Europe. The images revolve around the question of whether it is possible for a person to be in the right place at the right time. Is the ideal state of space and time something we are awarded or is it a state we have long been living in without being aware of our good fortune? I hope I have not succeeded in answering this question. Nothing fails more pathetically than an artist’s attempt to explain

PHOTOGRAPHER the world and its relationships. Rather, my work leads to the conclusion that the world cannot be explained. Once an exhibition visitor in New York told me that, when viewing my photos, she felt that the protagonists seemed to be kind of disobedient. I really liked that interpretation. “What Robert Rutoed brings to the contemporary photographic dialogue is that intangible ability to see the world with a skewed lens - a lens that is compassionate and at the same time, unkind. It is a lens that is the stuff of operas and nightmares, comedies and slapstick. Robert finds that split second of humor or truth telling and that instant of social documentation or absurdity that makes us not only laugh at ourselves, but also laugh and feel embarrassed all at the same time. Or should I say, at The Right Time.“ (Aline Smithson, from the foreword to the book „Right Time Right Place“) “Right Time Right Place” was awarded the Special Prize of the Czech Center of Photography at the Photo Annual Awards. A photo from the series won the New York Photo Award 2012 in the category Fine Art.

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Andrea Krizsai was born in Hungary, but throughout her life she had the opportunity to live in many different parts of Europe. Currently she lives in Berlin, Germany. She makes street photography capturing the moments of everyday’s life. Andrea Krizsai has always been interested in what’s happening in the world. First she started photographing demonstrations to recall these moments. When she worked on her report “Lost Property Wasted Life”, which is about the current economic situation in Hungary, Andrea recognized how important it is to her to show topics also from the view of the persons concerned.

Andrea Linss, born in Berlin - principal residence still Berlin freelance photographer, who focuses basically on street photography and documentary photography. In her photography the human being is prioritized - in the daily routine, in his or her urban environment, in his or her dedication to social issues, as for example energy policy, globalization, animadversion on capitalism, the fight for cultural freedom, asylum policy and gentrification. Andrea document the change of her city and the growth of its protests through her photography.

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Yusuf Beyazit

Gabriele Senft lives and works in Berlin. She works as a freelance photojournalist. Her motivation is supporting people in their struggle for a peaceful life with each other and bracing them for their fight against the leaders in departments and in the government with the help of photographs. She wants closeness between people by creating true photodocumentations in their daily lives.

Ruben Neugebauer is a freelance photojournalist, currently based inBerlin. He is working for several NGOs and Media. His work is focusing social and ecological issues. Furthermore, Ruben Neugebauer is part of the photojournalism cooperative.

In times like these, when social disparity keeps increasing, Yusuf believes it is his oral obligation to document the current affairs of the world, to pinpoint today’s injustices, and to give a voice to people’s hopes, fears, and actions. He is fully aware of the fact that the resulting photographic documents are always influenced by his own emotional lens. Yusuf Beyazit, born 1960 in Turkey, living in Berlin for 17 years.

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“I’m free since last night. Thank you to all our friends and comrades. We are united in the continuing fight. No matter what. Countless we are because we don’t have another choice but victory” ARASH DUST HUSSEIN, a refugee who was being arrested by the police because he offended against the residency obligation. “He was in search of freedom. This is the result.“, says the banner the asylum seekers of the accommodation center in Würzburg have placed beside the altar. The occasion is the suicide of the Iranian Mohammad Rahsepar in January year 2012 who fled to Germany some months previously, to build a new life in human conditions for himself and his family there. In Iran he left behind his wife and his 8-year-old son Mohammad, who are the reason that he has taken this difficult path. Contrary to his expectations, he found no freedom, but isolation. No help, just rejection.

PHOTOGRAPHER The resistance against the asylum policy in Germany and in Europe is beginning. There are more and more refugees from all over the world in addition to German activists and sympathizers forming a unit in order to rebel against the living conditions in German accommodation centers. A protest march from Würzburg to Berlin is being considered. In addition to this, a bus is supposed to cover the same distance in the same period of time to assist those who don’t feel up to the 600 kilometer foot march but still want to join the protest. On September 8th, 2012 the race is on – the Refugee Protest march starts. The idea behind this is to visit other refugee camps in Germany and to exchange information with the asylum seekers there to activate more people attaching themselves to the campaign. In Berlin I had the chance to meet Farith (24), a camp inhabitant who has been living in Germany for two and half years now. Originally he is from Afghanistan, but he fled his home country because of the political situation. His family is still living in the conflict area.

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Right from the beginning Farith has been supporting the Protest March just because he wants to make a difference. “The circumstances in German accommodation centers are bad.“, he says. “It doesn’t remind me of a shelter but more of a prison.“ The refugees get a package of food and an amount of pocket money per month. A lot of them would rather work for their money but that is not permitted. The study of the German language is not being supported, far from it – Farith tells me that the dialogues between the so-called advisers and the residents are limited to single words and instructions. Questions and conversations beyond that are being ignored. The education of the children is being adversely affected by the conditions of the authorities. Ambiguous if the compulsory education also takes effect for children who are asylum seekers. Most of the kids have to wait for month or even for years to get a place at a German school. The refugees also complain about the domestic circumstances. The rooms are too small for the determined number of asylum seekers, who

PHOTOGRAPHER are supposed to stay there. In a single room three refugees are being placed – in a bit bigger rooms up to seven refugees. The employees obviously attach no importance to hygiene, describes the young afghan man to me. The bathrooms and toilets are full of fungi which is posing a risk to the refugee’s health and the kitchens are in a bad state. Another point the inhabitants criticize is the isolated position of the accommodation center. Farith gives me an account of his residential home in Würzburg, Bavaria in which he has lived. The buses there go merely four times a day, although the next city is 34 kilometers away. Most of the refugees can hardly afford the tickets. To reach the city you have to catch the first bus at six am. and the last one at five pm. If you miss the last bus you have to spend the night at the bus station and wait until the next morning. Besides the residency obligation forbids the asylum seekers to leave the area, which has been defined by the appropriate authority. The suicide of Mohammad Rahsepar says a lot about the living conditions of the refugees. Mostly they are traumatized by the happenings in

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their homeland. In the accommodation centers they live on closest area with all the other asylum seekers who have been staying there for months now and have already resigned. The last hopes which they have – based on the asylum – are being gradually nipped in the bud. 19 days the group travels through Germany, meets other refugees, opens the lines for communication and creates a social consciousness of the problem, reassures the asylum seekers and attracts new members for the protest march. More and more refugees from other German cities are in breach of the the residency obligation and fight discretely for their liberty. They rely on confrontation. One demonstration follows another and rallies are being hold. The three principal claims are: abolishment of the refugee camps, annulment of the residency obligation and and a clear breakdown of deportation. Isolation as well as restricting freedom of movement plus the deportation which only serves political and economical interests are being referred as inhuman and violation of human rights by the refugees, the

PHOTOGRAPHER activists and the sympathizers. Already now the increased presence of the public debate about the refugee’s accommodations and their standard of living in Germany arises. The press reports frequently on the development and the newest events. The reaction of German politics are being reduced to the upcoming elections in 2013. Farith and the other asylum seekers are totally convinced that they won’t give up until the asylum policies in Germany haven’t changed. “The last few month were pretty successful.“, he says in broken German and looks at me with his radiant eyes. Firus, his afghan friend is sitting with us at the table and learning German with the help of a child’s book and I’m just thinking to myself how admirable these two guys are, representative for all the other refugees in Germany. Friederike Thieme, 2012

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