I recently spoke in The United Arab Emirates in September 2019 at the Xposure Festival, which is the largest photography conference in The Middle East (and one of the biggest in the world) about my project in Chernobyl!
I co-presented with Jeff Garriock, the filmmaker who made a documentary about our trip to Ukraine last year.
In a joint-effort, our photography from Chernobyl was in it’s own exhibition for the week and we did a nearly hour-long presentation together speaking about our experiences in Ukraine on September 19th!
Below are some of my images that were either in the exhibition or in our presentation:
Not only did I get to participate and hear so many industry professionals speak (and to see their work first-hand) but spending the entire time getting to know them personally was a real honor, and a highlight in my career.
Among the many talented photographers were:
AFSHIN ISMAELI, AMI VITALE, ANTONIO ARAGON RENUNCIO, ALICE WIELINGA, ESSDRAS M SUAREZ, FRANKIE QUINN, FLORIAN LEDOUX, GRÉGORY POL, IRA BLOCK, JASON HAWKES, JEFFREY GARRIOCK, JOE MCNALLY, JOHN MOORE, JUAN JOSE REYES, LAUREL CHOR, LINUS ESCANDOR, MICHAEL CHRISTOPHER BROWN, MOBEEN ANSARI, PETROS GIANNAKOURIS, PHILIP LEE HARVEY, RICHARD LE MANZ, SOMI NWANDU, STEPHEN WILKES, STEVE WINTER TIMOTHY ALLEN, WILL BURRARD-LUCAS, XAVIER PORTELA, ZIYAD ALARFAJ
A full list of presenters can be found at: https://xposure.ae/photographers-2019/
To make the whole thing even more exciting, my photo made the cover of the festival program:
Check this cool video of the program out: https://www.facebook.com/xposureXPF/videos/426053364702500/
Here are some random iPhone photos of our gallery and behind the scenes:
Read a local news report about our talk called Generations of Chernobyl by clicking: http://www.sharjah24.ae/en/sharjah/204238/XPOSURE-shines-light-on-Chernobyl-Disasters-lost-generations
Many thanks to Jeff for the following photo of me inside our gallery:
Thanks to everyone in Sharjah and at Exposure (especially Simon Newton) for the top-notch treatment and one of the best weeks ever. It was so inspiring to see how the people and government of Sharjah and The UAE value photography and the arts! I look forward to returning soon to experience more of this amazing place.
CLICK HERE TO READ MY POST ABOUT MY TRIP TO CHERNOBYL
#Chernobyl #Ukraine #PWB #xposure
*****ABOUT RON*****
After spending the past 20 years founding and working with some of the best and busiest wedding photography studios in the U.S. and photographing over 500 weddings around the globe, Ron B. Wilson has reconnected with his true passions: travel and fine-art photography. So starting “Art, Style, Flow”, a travel inspiration blog and online magazine featuring his photography, was a natural process and has been a work in progress for the past 20 years.
New York City and Miami Photographer Ron B. Wilson specializes in an award winning fashion based documentary style of photography. Ron was recently featured in Professional Photographer Magazine with an article about the {revisited} sessions that he created, and over the past few years he has been honored with many awards at the WPPI and PPA’s Imaging USA Conferences.
Ron’s primary goal is to tell stories with images and to bring out the very best in every detail of each subject he photographs. He is available for fashion, advertising, travel and editorial assignments.
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