18th May at Zico House / Theme: 'RELATIONSHIP'
**International selector: Yumi Goto (Thailand/Japan)
Yumi Goto is an art and photo documentary project coordinator and curator.Her work has focused on the development of cultural exchanges that transcend borders through collaboration with local artists and NGOs in areas affected by conflict.
She launched and serves as editor-in-chief of pdfX12 | photo documentary folioX12, a free photographic portfolio digitally distributed since 2007. Goto also has worked as a photo editor for the 100th memorial photographic book project, This Day of Change by the Japanese publisher Kodansha in 2008-2009. In 2010, She launched a weekly photography blog “I was there”. (photo © Jean Chung)
**Selected photographers:
- Roubaye Korab
Roubaye Korab is an independent photographer born in 1987. In 2009, she receives her BA in Photography from the Universite Saint Esprit Kaslik. She has participated in the IHPE07 (International Heritage Photographic Experience 07.) She is currently based in Beirut, working on different commissions as well as her personal projects.
Bryan Denton is a freelance photojournalist based in Beirut, Lebanon. He began his career covering news, conflict and social issues after graduating from NYU's Tisch School of the Arts, focusing on photography and Middle Eastern and Islamic studies. Bryan has been a contributing photographer with the New York Times since 2005, and his work has also been featured on the pages of TIME, Newsweek, GQ, The Wall Street Journal, The Times of London, Der Spiegel, The National, Courrier International, The Globe and Mail, and The New Republic and he has recently completed assignments in Afghanistan, Lebanon, Georgia, Saudi Arabia, Yemen, Iraq and Haiti.
- Odette Makhlouf
Lebanese Odette Makhlouf holds a diploma in cinema studies from the Universite Saint Esprit – Kaslik and a master’s degree in cinema and audio-visual studies from Paris 8 – France. Since then she has been working on different feature films and TV commercials.
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