The Asia-Europe Foundation (ASEF) is organising the 9th ASEF
Journalists? Colloquium, which will be held in New Delhi (Gurgaon),
India from?9-11 November 2013.
We are pleased to invite interested journalists from ASEM countries to apply for participation. To apply, more information can be found
here:
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Travel subsidies to and from New Delhi and accommodation will be
provided by the organisers for successful participants.
All applications should be submitted online by?Monday, 12 August 2013.
The ASEF Journalists? Colloquium, now on its 9th edition since 1998,
will gather some 15 practicing and experienced journalists and experts
from Asia and Europe. Participants will gather for a closed-door,
informal meeting to discuss challenges for the media in reporting on
sustainable development, in particular on energy, green growth and
economy, and poverty reduction.
The Asia-Europe Foundation
31 Heng Mui Keng Terrace, Singapore 119595
T:?+(65) 6874 9700?| F:?+(65) 6872 1135?| E:?info@asef.org
www.asef.org
Author: Shahidul Alam
Time Magazine Person of the Year 2018. A photographer, writer, curator and activist, Shahidul Alam obtained a PhD in chemistry before switching to photography. His seminal work “The Struggle for Democracy” contributed to the removal of General Ershad. Former president of the Bangladesh Photographic Society, Alam set up the Drik agency, Chobi Mela festival and Pathshala, South Asian Media Institute, considered one of the finest schools of photography in the world.
Shown in MOMA New York, Centre Georges Pompidou, Royal Albert Hall and Tate Modern, Alam has been guest curator of Whitechapel Gallery, Winterthur Gallery and Musee de Quai Branly. His awards include Mother Jones, Shilpakala Award and Lifetime Achievement Award at the Dali International Festival of Photography.
Speaker at Harvard, Stanford, UCLA, Oxford and Cambridge universities, TEDx, POPTech and National Geographic, Alam chaired the international jury of the prestigious World Press Photo contest. Honorary Fellow of Royal Photographic Society, Alam is visiting professor of Sunderland University in UK and advisory board member of National Geographic Society.
John Morris, the former picture editor of Life Magazine describes his book “My journey as a witness”, (listed in “Best Photo Books of 2011” by American Photo), as “The most important book ever written by a photographer.”
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