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Monday, May 26, 2008

AP opens photo exhibit, workshop for Cuban students and photojournalists

AP opens photo exhibit, workshop for Cuban students and photojournalists
Posted on Sat, May. 24, 2008
The Associated Press

HAVANA --
The Associated Press opened an exhibit of historic and current
photojournalism on Saturday, to be followed by a three-day workshop for
promising local photographers.

The three-month exhibition was mounted at the San Francisco Convent in
Old Havana, across a plaza from the AP's Cuba bureau. A parallel
workshop for 16 Cuban students and working photographers aimed to foster
quality news photography on the island.

The exhibit features dozens of historic images from AP's photo archive,
focusing on coverage of conflicts in places such as Vietnam, Iraq and
other parts of the Middle East. It also includes standout images from
Latin America.

AP's director of photography, Santiago Lyon, opened the exhibit at a
gathering of about 200 journalists, artists and officials.

"We look forward to showing some of the AP's best photojournalism to the
Cuban public and professionals as well as working with Cuban
photographers to demonstrate and explain best practices and techniques
for effective visual communication," he said.

The exhibition was edited by Enric Marti, the AP's regional photo editor
for Latin America and the Caribbean, and Dario Lopez, the AP's chief
photographer for Mexico and Central America.

The workshop was organized by Ricardo Mazalan, AP's chief photographer
for Colombia, and was being conducted by Mazalan, Marti, Lopez and AP's
chief photographer for Cuba, Javier Galeano.

http://www.miamiherald.com/948/story/545604.html

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