Pinoy wins slot in top photography masterclass
05/09/2013
An image from the award-winning photo essay “Marked: The Gangs of Baseco” by VJ VillafrancaMANILA, Philippines – A Filipino has won a slot at the World Press Photo’s 2013 Joop Swart Masterclass, the first Filipino photographer to be selected for the annual event, reputably among the most prestigious of its kind.
VJ Villafranca, who holds a Diploma in Photojournalism from the Konrad Adenauer Asian Center for Journalism (ACFJ) of the Ateneo de Manila University will join 11 other young men and women photographers from 10 countries for the six-day masterclass meeting on November 2 to in Amsterdam.
Michiel Munneke, World Press Photo executive director, made the announcement during the opening of the 2013 World Press Photo Exhibit in Amsterdam last month.
The masterclass is the second of two top international photography honors won by Villafranca. In 2008, while still a student, he won the London-based Ian Parry Scholarship award, the first Filipino to do so. His DPJ photo essay documenting the lives of gang members of the "Chinese Mafia Crew" living in Manila's Baseco compound won him the award. The photo essay is one of six photo essays in ACFJ’s traveling exhibit “Asian News in Pictures.”
“Hope” is the theme of the photo essays to be produced in this year’s masterclass. The photographers will interact with six prominent experts to discuss technical and visual aspects of their work, as well as their role as a photographer, according to a World Press Photo announcement.
The 2013 masterclass members were culled from 174 candidates from 54 countries whose portfolios were screened by an international jury.
The Joop Swart Masterclass is named after World Press Photo's late chairman, an ardent supporter of young photographic talent.
The Diploma in Photojournalism has been offered by ACFJ since 2006. It was developed under a grant from World Press Photo which also helped developed ACFJ Diploma in Multimedia Journalism launched in 2011.
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