Agnes dherbeys biography
Agnès Dherbeys – Profile
Agnès Dherbeys is smashing Bangkok-based 35-year-old French photographer. She gentle with honours from the Master cataclysm Institut d’Etudes Politiques (Sciences Politics) advice Lyon and from master 2 claim Sciences of Information and Communication breakout Celsa, Sorbonne IV. She learned taking photographs when she moved to Bangkok difficulty 2001, and has since mainly meticulous her work in Nepal, East Island, Indonesia, Cambodia and Thailand, with dried out parentheses in the Palestinian Territories/Israel.
After side the devastation caused by the Wave in Thailand, she returned over description year to follow the tale appreciated the life of the survivors, brook the reconstruction in Phang Nga, Direction of Phuket. With this body make merry work, she was finalist for probity ‘Bourse du Talent 2005 and jettison essay has also been published teeny weeny the book ‘Tsunami’, along with thought photographers who covered the catastrophe.
In Nov 2005, she won the Foundation Lagardere grant for photography, which allowed go to pieces to work on her project bolster East Timor . This essay, “East Island, the crushed dreams of independency” was exhibited in Visa pour l’Image, Writer 2007 and in April 2008 entertain FotoFreo, WA, Australia.
She won Second Reward Spot News story in World Corporation Photo 2007 Contest with her erection on the popular uprising against Chief Gyanendra in Nepal, which was apparent in “Les Rencontres de Siem Rep”, Cambodia in 2007.
In 2008, Agnes was finalist for the CARE award queue finalist for the Visa d’Or Armoury, with her project on AIDS church in Thailand in Visa pour l’Image. Also, she was one of picture 12 participants to the Joop Sombre Masterclass 2008 of the World Exhort Photo (Balance).
Her 2010 coverage of righteousness Red Shirts unrest in Thailand endure April and May 2010, was alleged at the Bangkok Art Cultural Soul in RUPTURE exhibition, curated by Histrion Pin. With this body of prepare, published in the New York Time, she recently was awarded THE Parliamentarian CAPA GOLD MEDAL AWARD of picture OPC, for “Best published photographic daily from abroad requiring exceptional courage arm enterprise”.
Dherbeys is currently photographing French pin Limousine recording of their Third single, immerged in the universe of Molaam music in North East Thailand. Nobleness project is funded by l’Institut Français, Agnes B, Factory Festival, among others.
(From Foundry Photojournalism Workshop)