LATEST and BIO
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| -current location: Bangkok THAILAND -available for assignments Agnès Dherbeys is a Bangkok based 34 years old French photographer. Agnes recently was awarded THE ROBERT CAPA GOLD MEDAL AWARD of the OPC, for “Best published photographic reporting from abroad requiring exceptional courage and enterprise” for the Red shirt Bangkok Turmoil of 2010. These images shot in Thailand last April and May 2010, were exhibited at the Bangkok Art Cultural Center in RUPTURE exhibition, curated by Olivier Pin. She graduated with honours from the Master of Institut d’Etudes Politiques (Sciences Politics) of Lyon and from master 2 of Sciences of Information and Communication from Celsa, Sorbonne IV. She learned photography when she moved to Bangkok in 2001, and has since mainly focused her work in Nepal, East Timor, Indonesia, Cambodia and Thailand, with some parentheses in the Palestinian Territories/Israel. After covering the devastation caused by the Tsunami in Thailand, she returned over the year to follow the tale of the life of the survivors, and the reconstruction in Phang Nga, North of Phuket. With this body of work, she was finalist for the ‘Bourse du Talent 2005 and her essay has also been published in the book ‘Tsunami’, along with other photographers who covered the catastrophe. In November 2005, she won the Foundation Lagardere grant for photography, which allowed her to work on her project in East Timor . This essay, “East Timor, the crushed dreams of independency” was exhibited in Visa pour l’Image, France 2007 and in April 2008 in FotoFreo, WA, Australia. She won Second Prize Spot News story in World Press Photo 2007 Contest with her story on the popular uprising against King Gyanendra in Nepal, which was exhibited in “Les Rencontres de Siem Rep”, Cambodia in 2007. In 2008, Agnes was finalist for the CARE award and finalist for the Visa d’Or Magazine, with her project on AIDS temple in Thailand in Visa pour l’Image. Also, she was one of the 12 participants to the Joop Swart Masterclass 2008 of the World Press Photo (Balance).Her 2010 coverage of the Red Shirts unrest DHERBEYS works for international Press, such as the New York Times, Time Magazine, Newsweek, Le Monde, GQ France, VSD, Geo, Sunday Time Magazine, ... among others. -------------------- STUDIES - 1999> Diploma DESS (Master 2) of the sciences of information and communication, Haute Ecole des Sciences de l’Information et de la Communication (CELSA), Sorbonne, Paris IV - 1998> Master with honours of l’Institut d’Etudes Politiques, Lyon II, section Politics and Communication AWARDS - 2011: THE ROBERT CAPA GOLD MEDAL AWARD for “Best published photographic reporting from abroad requiring exceptional courage and enterprise” (Red Shirts / Growing Pains) - 2010: Finalist Visa d’Or NEWS, Visa pour l’image, Thailand: Red Shirts/ Growing pains - 2008: > Finalist CARE award, Visa pour l’image, Temple of Dooms > Finalist Visa d’Or Magazine, Visa pour l’image, Temple of Dooms > Joop Swart MasterClass (BALANCE) - 2007: > Second Prize Spot News Story, World Press Photo, Nepal: Uprising of Wills > KMOPA – Japanese Museum of Photographical Arts, Collection Young PortfolioAcquisitions - 2005 : > KMOPA – Japanese Museum of Photographical Arts, Collection Young Portfolio Acquisitions > Winner Grant ‘Fondation Lagardere’ East Timor : From Independence to dependance > Finalist ‘La bourse du Talent’, with ‘the hell of the water’, the devastation of the Tsunami in Thailand EXHIBITIONS - 2010: > RUPTURE BACC Red May, 15 000 visitors > Bangkok in Turmoi FCCT - 2008 > 'Blight and Hope: Poverty Seen through the Lens' South Korea and London, Collective exhibition, Temple of Dooms > Temple of Dooms, Menotrentuno II, Sardinia, Italy > Temple of Dooms, CARE exhibition, Visa pour l’Image > East Timor: the shattered dreams of independency – FotoFreo Festival, Murdoch University, Australia > group Exhibition Motherhood by EVEphotographers, FNACs Spain - 2007 > East Timor: the shattered dreams of independency, Visa pour l’Image - 2006 > Group Exhibition Motherhood by EVEphotographers in Lianzhou Photo Festival; China in FNACs Spain 2008-2009 > Exhibition Nepal: Uprising of Wills, Angkor Photo Festival, Cambodia > Exhibition Paradise: Launch of La trentaine sympathique magazine, Triptyque Paris France - 2004 > Exhibition: Backs to the wall, the tragic everyday life of the Palestinians under Israeli occupation, Romans, France - 2001 Nepal, between the Maoist guerrilla and the royal parricide by Prince Dipendra, Foreign Correspondant Club, Thailand BOOKS -Part of collective book "Tsunami - Regards croises de photoreporters", 2006, Editions Plage, France -“On Photography”, Korean photographers, written by Yeonha Choi . |
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