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Old Age Joy!

By Anh Vu Do

2021 Annual Mobile Photography Award

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I Have Received 14 Awards in the 2023 Julia Margaret Cameron International Awards for Women Photographers!  The works above will all be on display starting in mid-April at the Fotonostrum Gallery in Barcelona, Spain, along with works from other award winners from around the globe. I was hoping I could figure out a way to attend the opening, but I can’t.

I received word about these awards at the close of 2022. But to say that the news was overwhelming would be putting it mildly. This is why I’ve waited until now to share the news here.

Following the loss of my home, studio, all my tools, my garden and all my work to the Almeda wildfire, I drove a motorhome I bought to live in after the fire 11,000 miles around the United States. I immersed myself in nature, visited old friends, and asked them for help in recovering my mind, my identity, my sanity.

When I returned in June of 2022 and set up camp in my motorhome on a hill in Ashland, Oregon, I was mostly still in a state of shock and bewilderment. Confounded and flabbergasted. I spent the summer walking around Ashland connecting with agencies set up to help wildfire survivors and seeing friends. But it was hot, uncomfortable living in one place in a motorhome, and I was always expecting more fire. I felt in no way grounded. Always afraid. 

By the time it started getting cold again I was still camping. In the cooler days, I began to imagine, however tentatively, that I might one day share some mobile images again. Maybe some from my trip, some of my meditations and deep experiences of both pain and steady transformation. Nevertheless, I still felt so vulnerable. So discombobulated. So tenuous about whoever I had thought I was before the fire. So unclear about who I might become as a senior artist who had lost all evidence of her previous life and her work.

It was in that state of mind that I decided, one November morning, to send some of my mobile images to the International Julia Margaret Cameron Awards competition for women photographers. The entries didn’t cost much - a huge motivator since I’m broke now. Why not? I thought of my entries as a kind of trial balloon, particularly the images I entered from the Almeda Firewalk Series that I’ve been working on since 2021.

I expected nothing and figured that if anything I sent got any kind of attention from the juror, Barbara Davidson (a woman whose courageous photography I have admired for decades), maybe I could reinvest in thinking of myself again as a living photographer and mobile artist. If not, I could just keep on drinking my way from one day to another, wondering when I should just pull the plug on this life.

Getting the news that not one or two - but almost ALL - of the entries I submitted had received awards put a serious dent in my stupor. For a couple of days, I danced around on Facebook and called and told old friends. I couldn’t have felt more delighted or more affirmed in my creativity and I took the awards as evidence that I hadn’t actually lost all my skill even if I didn’t believe that myself. I lost everything else, right?

But the thing about trauma recovery is that it’s anything but linear.  Survivors don’t just go from sad to elated and stay there. We remain afraid. Stunned. Suspicious. Doubtful. And isolation can easily remain our best friend. We know how bad we still feel. And we know how everyone who knows us just wants us to feel good again and go back to where and who we were before the trauma. They’re tired of hearing about the pain. So we stop telling them about it. We get quiet and we hide out.

Hence ... the time it’s taken for me to feel up to making this post here today.

I told my friend, John, this morning that over the last month I am starting to feel  that my mind may actually be healing. A bit. After two-and-a-half years. Yes, I’m still the iPhoneArtGirl. Yes, I still make mobile photographs and mobile art almost every day. And maybe, just maybe, I will one day be able to courageously share more here than an awards announcement.

Tomorrow morning, I’m planning to venture out to a speed-dating event at the Medford Library. I don’t know what’s going to happen there but it’s my hope to have a few minutes of conversation with private foundations and government funders who I can imagine could use the Almeda Wildfire Series to serve their stakeholders. I’ll be looking for partners who might see it in their interests to help me take all the pain and the transformational gifts I’m starting to experience into community conversations with their stakeholders in communities of all sizes around the state.

I know there are people like me all across Oregon who need to re-connect much more substantively with their neighbors so all of us can BELONG TOGETHER AGAIN even if the political trance has people believing we can’t. There are such large climate, environmental, housing, medical care, educational, economical, ethical and spiritual challenges ahead. We cannot meet them in isolation.  

If you read this far, I thank you warmly for your time, your consideration, and your care. Namaste.

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Spherical Robots to the Rescue - Technology Org

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Spherical Robots to the Rescue - Technology Org

Spherical scouting robots designed for space warn first responders of gas leaks, other dangers.

Dr. Alice Agogino was researching spherical, skeletal robots that might one day be dropped onto Mars or the Moon to collect information and conduct science experiments, when she realized her NASA-funded technology could have terrestrial benefits as well.

Squishy Robotics’ tensegrity sensor robots help first responders determine their approach to a disaster scene. Pictured here during a subway attack scenario exercise at the 2021 Unmanned Tactical Application Conference, the robots can detect gas leaks and other hazards. Image credit: FLYMOTION LLC

Reading a report on the dangers and high death toll of disaster response, Agogino recognized that her robots, fitted with the right sensors, could gather data at the scenes of fires, crashes, explosions, and other disasters to help first responders assess situational dangers like toxic gas leaks and plan their approach.

“We thought, wow, if we can do this on the Moon, we should be able to do it on planet Earth and save some lives,” said Agogino, director of the Berkeley Emergent Space Tensegrities Lab at the University of California at Berkeley.

She went on to cofound Berkeley, California-based Squishy Robotics Inc. The company makes impact-resistant, customizable robots for public safety, military, and industrial uses.

Weighing less than three pounds, the stationary robot can be integrated with most commercial drones. Image credit: Squishy Robotics Inc.

‘The Robot Itself Is the Landing Gear’

Agogino’s robots look like ball-shaped skeletons made of rods and elastic cables. She describes the structure as “a tension network” – if one of these robots is dropped, the impact is distributed across the whole network, dissipating the force, according to the principle of tensegrity.

The term tensegrity – short for tensile (or tensional) integrity – was coined in the 1960s by architect R. Buckminster Fuller, who popularized geodesic domes, which are also tensegrity structures.

For NASA, the ability of tensegrity robots to withstand the impact of a long drop is especially interesting, as is the ability of these structures to collapse into a small package during travel.

The agency awarded Agogino and her UC Berkeley lab Early Stage Innovations (ESI) funding in 2014 to research tensegrity robot mobility using gas thrusters.

Firemen training – illustrative photo. Image credit: Hush Naidoo Jade Photography via Unsplash, free license

The $500,000, multi-year, proof-of-concept ESI grants aim to accelerate the development of innovative space technologies that have significant potential. The funding is offered through the Space Technology Research Grants program, which supports academic researchers working on space-related science and technology.

Agogino and her team were designing space exploration probes that could drop from a planetary orbit or a larger spacecraft, survive the drop carrying delicate sensors, and then roll and jump over rough terrain to perform missions and scientific monitoring on the Moon and on other planets.

“Think about the Mars Curiosity and Perseverance rovers,” said Terry Fong, chief roboticist in NASA’s Intelligent Robotics Group at Ames Research Center in Silicon Valley, California.

Fong, who was the NASA-side technical representative for Agogino’s grant, explained that the Mars rovers had to be gently lowered to the planet’s surface with the elaborate Sky Crane system, which was heavy and complicated and used only for the final part of landing on Mars.

A drone transports one of Squishy Robotics’ tensegrity robots as part of an exercise with Southern Manatee Fire and Rescue in Florida. Image credit: Southern Manatee Fire and Rescue

“With tensegrity robots, the robot itself is the landing device,” Fong said. “It could survive a fall from very high up and then keep going.”

The tensegrity devices can be folded flat for travel – in fact, that’s how Agogino ships the ones Squishy Robotics sends to customers. Once the robot unfurls, its instruments and sensors are suspended in the center, protected from the impact of a fall or crash.

“So, you save on throwaway mass,” Fong said. “It’s expensive and difficult to launch mass into space, so you want more of it to be used beyond landing, to be used on the surface with scientific instrumentation and other payloads.”

Informing the Decision to Suit Up

NASA also researched Earth science applications for tensegrity robots, which might be used to monitor, for instance, a glacier that’s about to break off into the ocean.

“That’s the kind of place you just would not want to, or could not, send a person to because it’s very risky,” Fong said. “The whole surface could collapse. With a structure that could survive a drop but still be mobile afterwards, you would have basically a super instrument positioning system.”

On Earth or on other planets, tensegrity robots offer a relatively easy way to place delicate instruments into difficult-to-reach areas. Indeed, that’s the principle behind Squishy Robotics.

Agogino and her team began speaking to fire departments and public safety officials in a process known as customer discovery. “At this point, we’ve interviewed around 300 first responders,” she says. “And it turns out there is a real need with hazardous material emergencies.”

For these customers, Squishy Robotics now puts miniaturized chemical gas sensors inside the tensegrity robot structure that can be dropped by drone, helicopter, or fixed-wing aircraft, to take readings in an area before firefighters go in. Currently, the company only offers stationary robots, but Agogino and her team are working on mobile models as well.

The data these robots collect can inform firefighters’ decisions about whether to wear hazardous material gear, which can add up to an hour of prep time – a delay that’s only worthwhile if it’s necessary.

Tensegrity robots can be “squished” down for easy packing and shipping – a feature that’s especially interesting to NASA because there’s not much extra room on spacecraft. Image credit: Squishy Robotics Inc.

From Firefighting to Preventing Fires

Squishy Robotics has worked with some of the largest fire departments, including Southern Manatee Fire and Rescue in Florida, the Tulsa Fire Department in Oklahoma, and the San Jose Fire Department in California. The company has also established reseller agreements with a number of distributors.

Agogino’s tensegrity robots also have military uses, such as helping to defuse bombs, and industrial applications, primarily helping to monitor gas and electric lines.

Wildfire prevention is another emerging area for Squishy Robotics. Tensegrity robots can monitor high-risk areas, help authorities respond to reports, and ensure that smaller fires have been fully extinguished.

“The early detection of wildfires is critical,” Agogino says, “because so many of the wildfires that have become raging firestorms could have been prevented if they had been caught early when the fire started.”

Agogino is now emeritus, having retired in December 2022 from Berkeley, a move that allows her to spend more time on Squishy Robotics.

NASA’s Fong said he was happy to see Agogino was able to spin off the tensegrity robot technology.

“We believe these robots could serve unique purposes for space,” he said. “She obviously saw a way to also have a major impact on Earth.”

Source: NASA

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Speaker Bios

Keynote Speaker:

Jackie Wang is a poet, scholar, multimedia artist, and Assistant Professor of American Studies & Ethnicity at the University of Southern California, where she researches race, surveillance technology, and the political economy of prisons and police. She is the author of Carceral Capitalism (Semiotext(e), 2018), the poetry collection The Sunflower Cast A Spell To Save Us From The Void (Nightboat Books, 2021, National Book Award Finalist), and the forthcoming experimental essay collection Alien Daughters Walk Into the Sun (Semiotext(e), 2023).

Graduate Students:

Mo Brouwer is a grad student in the English department studying early modern representations of rural labour.

Boz Deseo Garden (they/them/it/its) is an interdisciplinary artist whose practice works within the semiotic, cinematic, and psychoanalytical impasses articulated by Afropessimist thought. Through video, sculpture, photography, and writing Garden’s work studies the Slave as the unthought heuristic for signification, mattering, and the drive of the Subject.

Jameson Austin Leopold (they/them/he/him) is a PhD student in Culture and Theory studying psychoanalysis, sexual violence, and the limits of representation. They are a neurotic Freudian, a rhetorician of power, and a walking, talking scandal.

Anannya Mukherjee is a 6th year PhD candidate in the UCI Department of Comparative Literature. Her scholarly interests include popular entertainment, cross-platform internet culture, fandom, folklore and folk epistemology, unreality, and the production of the self and the other in narrative.

Mell Rivera Díaz is a PhD Candidate in the Department of Spanish & Portuguese at the University of California, Irvine. His academic work explores the development of the ideology of mestizaje from the early XXth century to the present through a focus on Puerto Rican poetry––written on the island and the diaspora–– in Spanish, English, and Spanglish. You can find some of his work in Liminalities: A Journal of Performance Studies and Diálogos: Revista del Departamento de Filosofía de la Universidad de Puerto Rico. He is the author of a book of poetry titled de ir sé que vine.

Morgan Slade is a Ph.D. Candidate in Comparative Literature with emphasis in Critical Theory.

Haley Suh is a PhD student in English at UC Irvine. Her current research focuses on Victorian literature and culture, novel theory and narrative theory, genre, and Marxist theory and Psychoanalysis.

Dylan J. Taylor is a PhD student in Comparative Literature at UC Irvine. His current research engages critical philosophy of race, aesthetics, deconstruction, and media archeology to interrogate the often violent and ironic conditions by which putatively world-representational technologies become codified and mobilized as such—and thus how the world itself comes, in turn, to be understood as that which is internally available to its own representation by determinable, phenomenal means.

Yeekwan ��Vanessa” Wong is a PhD student in the East Asian Studies department at University of California, Irvine. Her research interests include feminist theory, gender studies, postcolonial studies, modern and contemporary Chinese literature and film.

Yue Xiaoyang is a second-year PhD student in the Department of East Asian Studies at the University of California, Irvine. His research interest is the selfhood in Japanese personal documentary and Japanese I-novel. He graduated from Waseda University with an MA degree in film studies. His master thesis focuses on how the exploration of self in Kawase Naomi’s personal documentaries undermine conventional notions of family, women’s roles and locality in Japanese society.

2023 conference organizers: Diya Mathur, Carolin Huang, Chenglin Lee

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Winner – Macro. ‘Duo’.

Photographer: Fabio Sartori

2021 Mobile Photography Awards

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Un buon giorno ai nostri oziosi letto del lunedì dell'angelo. Copertina che riprende l'holi festival, rito induista che simboleggia la rinascita, terminato ieri. Strana coincidenza, che sia di buon auspicio? Immagina ottenuta tra le vincitrici del contest fotografico Mobile Photography Awards di cui potete ammirare le altre immagini vincitrici nel relativo articolo. Ci spostiamo su Youtube Premium con la docu-serie Dancing With The Devil, che ripercorre il viaggio della cantante Demi Lovato sulla strada della droga, fino alla sua rinascita... ed uscita del nuovo disco.  Rimaniamo in tema musicale, con il ventesimo disco della band sarda Tazenda, dal nome alquanto esoterico: Antistasis. Concludiamo con la recensione del libro di Emanuele Altissimo, dal titolo Luce rubata al giorno. Siccome siamo degli eterni ottimisti, vi riepiloghiamo le mostre in programma sulla città di Milano... abbiamo l'impressione che qualcosa si stia muovendo... Oramai rituale la programmazione aggiornata di film e serie tv di questa settimana sulle principali piattaforme di streaming la nostra selezione di concerti in streaming.  #NoNewsMagazine #NNMag #NNMagazine

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Fatima Shbair wins the Anja Niedringhaus Courage in Photojournalism Award

© photo: Fatima Shbair / text: IWMF

Brazilian and Iranian-Canadian women photographers also recognized

[September 29, 2021 – WASHINGTON, DC] – Today, the International Women’s Media Foundation presented Palestinian freelance photojournalist Fatima Shbair with the seventh annual Anja Niedringhaus Courage in Photojournalism Award. Since 2015, the international award has honored women photojournalists who take risks to capture humanity in dire circumstances, illuminating underreported and sometimes silenced stories. The prestigious award was created in honor of German Associated Press photojournalist Anja Niedringhaus, who was killed in Afghanistan in 2014.

Shbair’s portfolio rose above more than 100 applications that represented women photojournalists from more than 40 countries. At 24 years old, Shbair is the youngest winner of the ‘Anja Award’ to-date and is a self-taught, freelance photojournalist. Her portfolio, “11 Days of the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict,” includes unique moments of tension, violence, devastation, and hope all captured from Gaza City in May 2021.

“Life here is different, and I had to find a way to [show] what was happening,” says Shbair from Gaza. “Despite successive wars and tragedies, people here dig deep in search of hope, and their lives matter – it’s my responsibility to convey their voices to the world.” Shbair continued: “Anja’s work gives us the determination to continue on the path despite the difficulties. I can’t find the words to describe how honored I feel to receive this award.”

The IWMF also recognized two other women photojournalists with honorable mentions in the competition: Brazilian photojournalist Adriana Zehbrauskas, currently working in Phoenix, Arizona, and Iranian-Canadian photographer Kiana Hayeri, who is based in Kabul, Afghanistan. Zehbrauskas’ portfolio included energetic yet sensitive portrayals of migration and the toll of COVID-19 in Latin America, while Hayeri’s work spotlighted the rising conflict and looming crisis in Afghanistan from an alternative perspective.

“Within the past two years so many communities worldwide have been pushed to the brink in order to survive,” says the IWMF’s Executive Director Elisa Lees Muñoz. “Anja’s focus on resilience, hope and the intimate struggles people face in times of crisis is a legacy we turn to now more than ever. The IWMF is thrilled to recognize this year’s winner, Fatima Shbair, as well as Kiana Hayeri and Adriana Zehbrauskas in Anja’s name.”

This year’s jury included Corinne Dufka, Jacqueline Larma, Robert Nickelsberg, Tara Pixley, and Bernadette Tuazon. Together, the committee issued the following statement on this year’s Anja Award selection: “The portfolios from this year’s winner and honorees draw in the viewer and continue to grow with impact and intimacy. Each photojournalist demonstrated remarkable tenacity and developed clear and close bonds with her subject, accessing what few photographers can convey. We congratulate Fatima, Adriana and Kiana on their remarkable work; Anja would be proud to recognize each of you.”

Anja Niedringhaus was a recipient of the IWMF Courage in Journalism Award in 2005. The winner’s $20,000 prize is made possible by the Howard G. Buffett Foundation. Honorees’ images and captions, biographies and headshots are available for media use with proper attribution; to inquire further, please contact Charlotte Fox (cfox@iwmf.org).

Courage in Photojournalism Award Winner

This year’s winner, Fatima Shbair, is a Palestinian freelance photojournalist from Gaza City.

After studying business administration for three years at Al-Azhar University in Gaza, Shbair switched to study journalism and began concentrating on photojournalism in 2019 through independent study and working in the field.

In 2020, Shbair began to receive assignments from several international agencies, including Getty Images and The New York Times, to cover her hometown as tensions continued between Israel and Palestine. Her assignments increased in 2021 but came with the challenge of working during a global pandemic, which also strained and ravaged her own community. Shbair is currently a contributor to Everyday Middle East and continues her work with Getty Images. Her work has been exhibited in Palestine, the UAE, London, and Paris.

As a women photojournalist, Shbair’s gender and line of work are challenged daily, due to the conservative nature of society in Gaza, and the prevenance of male photojournalists in the industry.

Juror Dufka noted, “Fatima’s stunning photo essay is one of the strongest entries the jury had the pleasure of reviewing these past several years. Her work with light, angles, and composition is remarkable as she weaves through a forest of destruction in her own backyard.”

Juror Larma continued, “She clearly spent a great deal of time with her subjects and pursued what’s beyond obvious for most photojournalists. Within these 11 days, Fatima took the time to pursue intimate storytelling, showing us both the physical and emotional toll on her subjects while operating in extreme danger.”

From Gaza, Shbair further remarked: “Courage is not just about taking risks; being human first is the true courage of a photojournalist. It is a great honor to receive this award, especially in Anja’s image, as we are all still learning from her creativity, journey, and pursuit of the truth.”

Twitter: @FatimaMshbair, Instagram: @fatimashbair

Courage in Photojournalism Honorees

Honoree Kiana Hayeri was born and partially raised in Iran and was first introduced to photography in high school after her family moved to Canada. Hayeri left Toronto during her final year of university and traveled to Afghanistan on assignment in 2013, where she’s remained.

In 2021, Hayeri received the Robert Capa Gold Medal for her photographic series, “Where Prison is Kind of a Freedom,” documenting the lives of Afghan women in Herat Prison. In 2020, she received the Tim Hetherington Visionary award and was named as the 6th recipient of the James Foley Award for Conflict Reporting.

Hayeri was an IAAB fellow in 2011 and completed a CIS artist residency at MIT University in 2012. In 2014, she was named as one of the emerging photographers by PDN 30 Under 30. In 2016, she was selected for the IWMF’s cross-border reporting fellowship to work on her proposed story in Rwanda and DRC and was selected as the recipient of Chris Hondros Fund Award as an emerging photographer. In 2017, Hayeri received a grant from European Journalism Center to do a series of reporting on gender equality out of Afghanistan and received Stern Grant in 2018 to continue her work on the state of mental health among Afghan women.

Hayeri is a Senior TED fellow, and her work has appeared in The New York Times, Le Monde, Harper’s Magazine, Washington Post, NPR, Monocle Magazine, Wall Street Journal, Marie Clare, Glamour, The Globe and Mail, Al Jazeera America, and CBC, among others.

When reviewing Hayeri’s portfolio, Tuazon noted that, “These images can only be captured by a woman with her specific access and lens. Every single day in this portfolio demonstrates unbelievable courage as the women and children she illuminates convey a harrowing narrative.”

Twitter: @kianahayeri, Instagram: @kianahayeri

Adriana Zehbrauskas is a Brazilian documentary photographer based in Phoenix, Arizona. Her work is largely focused on issues related to migration, religion, human rights, underrepresented communities, and the violence resulting from the drug trade in Mexico, Central and South America.

Zehbrauskas contributes regularly to The New York Times, UNICEF and BuzzFeed News and her work has been widely published in outlets such as The New Yorker, The Washington Post, The Guardian, Stern, Le Monde and El País, among others.

She is the recipient of a 2021 Maria Moors Cabot Prize, a New York Press Club Award in Feature-Science Medicine and Technology in the Newspaper category for the article “Zika’s Legacy: Catastrophic Consequences of a Continuing Crisis (NY-2018) and a POY International (2019). She was a finalist for the Premio Gabo (2018) and received two Honorable Mentions at the Julia Margaret Cameron Award (2018).

Zehbrauskas is one of the three photographers profiled in the documentary “Beyond Assignment” (USA, 2011, produced by The Knight Center for International Media and the University of Miami. She’s a recipient of the first Getty Images Instagram Grant and was awarded Best Female Photojournalist -Troféu Mulher Imprensa (Brazil). Her mobile photography work was selected by Time Magazine for the “29 Instagrams That Defined the World in 2014″ and her project on Faith in Brazil and Mexico was awarded an Art & Worship World Prize by the Niavaran Artistic Creation Foundation.

She’s an instructor with the International Center of Photography (ICP- NY), the World Press Photo Foundation, Gabriel García Márquez’s Fundación Gabo, the Foundry Photojournalism Workshop and serves as a jury member to dozens of grants and awards worldwide.

Commenting on Zehbrauskas’ portfolio, juror Pixley said, “The strength of her images is indicative of a lengthy time occupying difficult spaces despite both health and safety concerns. Her consistency across countries, issues and movements reveals the same, unique human connection.”

Twitter: @AZehbrauskas, Instagram: @adrianazehbrauskas

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BIOGRAPHY OF GHANAIAN VIDEO DIRECTOR & I.T PROFESSIONAL, DROMOR NARH

DROMOR NARH (DROMOR) - GHANAIAN VIDEO DIRECTOR

Henry Padi Dromor Narh Comrade-Darlington Oduro (born 13 July 2000) known professionally as Dromor is a Ghanaian video director, I.T Professional, afrobeat/R&B singer, Sports Journalist and CEO of Dromor Narh Group. In 2018, Dromor released a demo titled; “My Darling” as part of his training into the music fraternity. He followed up with other releases; “Gimme Shades”, “Won Party”, “Gbedu”, “Kid” and a few others. In 2019, he paused his pursuit for music and focused on his studies at the University of Ghana, Legon. As part of his school studies, Dromor began his videography and photography career which led to his fame. Dromor’s father is Michael Narh Nartey and his mother is Esther Ansaa Sackey Narh.

Background Information

Birth Name – Narh Henry Padi Dromor

Born – 13 July 2000 Accra, Ghana

Genres – Afrobeat, Alternative R&B, Hip Hop

Occupation(s) – Video Director, Software Developer, Musician, Sports Journalist, CEO

Achievement(s) – 2nd & 5th Place in Senior High School Spelling Bee Contest in 2018, Male Artiste Of The Year Nominee at Campus Music Awards 2020.

Years Active – 2021-present

Education

Dromor had his pre-school education at First Class School at Nungua. He continued his basic education at McAshley International School and completed Junior High School at Acropolis Maranatha Academy. Dromor completed O’Reilly Senior High School after taking a transfer from St. Martin’s Senior High School and is now an undergraduate student of University Of Ghana, Legon. He is studying BSc Information Technology.

Early Life and Career

Dromor was raised in Accra in the Greater Accra Region of Ghana. He was born into a family of five; his father, mother and two siblings. His father was a lover of country music and his mother, a chorister. These borne out of him the music he does today. He was the first born and as a result began education very early at 7 months old.

He began as a small sports journalist by writing his own sports news and reading it out loudly. At age 10, he loved to be a medical doctor and this resulted into him offering science in Senior High School. He was influenced by Chris Brown, Bruno Mars and Patoranking into doing music. His bestfriend, Van Gilbert (also a hip-hop musician) brought out of him the music talent at senior high school.

Dromor released a song titled “My Darling” which he recorded alone in August 2018 on some few unpopular websites for free downloads, and preceded to release “Won Party” which he featured Kweku Mortey, Dausty, Baggy, and 4ties under the stage name, “Umar Henrie”. These songs got him signed to Manuel Hypes Entertainment. He later parted ways with the record label few months after. He then released “Gimme Shades” and its remix which featured Jahmoney. He followed it up with songs like “Simajorley” after he rebranded to PhyneBoy.

Things were very tough since he didn’t get the people he wanted to reach and this requested another rebranding. He had a new stage name, Hepadrona and released two afrobeat songs under this name; “Baashoor” and “Kid” which featured his bestfriend “Trust Bravo”. He couldn’t still reach the right audience he wanted and rebranded to his current stage name, Dromor. He began his videography and photography when he began offering Bachelor of Science in Information Technology at the University of Ghana, Legon in February 2021. He began with a mobile phone and eventually bought the needed equipment for his work.

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C.V 2023

ANDREW PHILIP DONALDSON

PRODUCER/DIRECTOR/D.P/EDITOR/WRITER.

Latin Grammy and Cannes Short Film Awards.

DEMO REEL  

Date of birth:

4th June 1977 - Age: 46.

Nationality: British.

Languages: English, Spanish, and some Italian.

Email:

apdproducer@gmail.com, planetavivamx@gmail.com

Mobile:

U.K  (+44) 0 7543 660643

Mexico (+52) 1 55 2132 6985

Web site:

http://drewdonaldson.tumblr.com/

YouTube channel

BIO:

I have produced films in the Americas, India, Africa and, England for the past 21 years, working with networks such as the BBC, ABC News, MTV, and HBO. I co-produced and filmed the Grammy Award-winning documentary “El Objeto Antes Llamado Disco” and Sang del Drac a multiple award-winning Short Film including Best Short Film and People’s Choice at the Cannes Short Film of the Year 2021

as well as numerous videos and documentaries in the field of music with an accumulated 150 million views on YouTube for an estimated 60 videos that I have produced for the likes of Café Tacuba, Julieta Venegas and Nortec, lately I have produced and directed 2 projects Autismo A B P and  Koretsky - Signs Of Life (Official Video) that I am keen to share with you. In 21 years I have worked on a total of 20 documentaries, 3 films and lots of music videos.

My true passions and expertise are in Producing,  Directing, and Shooting, it’s where I feel most resourceful nowadays!

I see myself as a key element to any production with a professional and ethical way of executing any script, shot list or project.

Skillset - Team leader, problem solver, planner, initiative.

Interests - Film, ecology, sustainability, and anthropology.

Professions -

Producer, Director, Director of Photography, videography, Multi-Camera Director, Editor (Final cut, Premier), Audio Engineer, Social Media Networking. Facebook, Instagram, and YouTube.

Applications -

Final Cut, Premier, Photoshop, Microsoft Office, Excel, iWork,  Social Media Networking. Facebook, Instagram, and YouTube.

Past Work -

2022. Paul Hampton - The Great Unknown, Director, D.P. Editor. 2021. Pedro Martinez - Otra Vez. Writer, Director, Editor. 2021. Pedro Martinez - No Es Amor. Writer, Director, D.P. Editor.

2020. Sang del Drac, A.D, Associate producer, 2 Cannes Short Film Awards.

2020. Ole Koretsky-Signs of Life- Homage to Dolores O`Riordan Music video. All.

2020. Tordo - EPK Latest Album (All) Director, D.P. and edit.

2019. Informe Sobre Caricias Guillermo Briseño y Elenco. All.

2019. Cine minuto Autismo, E.P, Writer, Director, D.P and Editor.

2018. Elise Lebec – Saqqara- Making of - Producer.

2018. Elise Lebec – Saqqara- Music Video- Producer.

2017. Rolando Luna-Buena Vista Social Club –Music Video, Dir., D.P., Editor.  

2017. Un Aplauso al Corazon - Guillermo Briseño. Director, D.P., Editor.

2017. Natalia Marrokin- A mi Doliente Estrella- Music Video, Producer.

2017. Natalia Marrokin - Go Down and Go Down- Music Video, Producer.

2017. Beto Hale Orbs of Light, Music Video, Producer.

2017. Beto Hale Orbs of Light, The making of, Producer, Camera, and Audio.

2016. Bosque de Niebla, 9 Award Winning Film, Audio, Additional Photography.

2016. Meme de Real- Café Tacuba, Todo va esta bien, Lyric Video, D.P.

2016. Meme de Real- Café Tacuba, Todo va esta bien, Producer.

2016. Alejandra Guzman - Esa Noche - Music Video, Producer.

2016. Beto Hale Closer to You, Music Video, Producer.

2016. Moenia-Sony Records, Music Video Producer.

2015. Ana Torroja – Documentary, Addition Photography.

2015. MTV unplugged Doc - Pepe Aguilar & Meme, Addition Photography.

2015. DLD-Sony Records Cruzadas Music Video, Producer.

2015. Gift - Documentary, Director, Camera, Editor.

2015. Reboot the Robot-Why- Music Video, Director, Camera, Editor.

2014. Nortec - Camino Verde Music Film and Clip, Associate Producer.

2013. Beta - “Luces”. Directo, D.P, Edit.

2013. Cafe Tacuba. - The Film, “El Objeto Antes Llamado Disco”. Photography.

2013. Julieta Venegas. - Music DVD and Clip “Momentos”. Photography.

2013. Cafe Tacuba. - Making of “Aprovechate, Music Video”. D.P.

2012. Cafe Tacuba. - Music Video “Este Lado Del Camino”. Producer, Photography.

2012. Cafe Tacuba. - Tour Concerts (45 In Total) Director of Photography

2010. Duncan Bridgeman’s Film: “Hecho En Mexico”. Camera and Audio.

2010. ABC News: “Special Coverage. Haiti”. The Aid Movement and News.

2009. Mark Vincent’s: “Violence In Mexico”.

2009. HBO: “Sports 24/7. Juan Manuel Marquez vs Mayweather. Series”. Fixer.

2009. HSBC/ Jacaranda Productions: “U.K Cooperate Video”. Audio Mixer.

2008. BBC: “Special Reports Juarez, Mexico”, Camera Operator, Audio and Editing.

2008-2013. MTV Bunin & Murray: “The Island”. Audio Mixer 5 Series

2008. Discovery Channel: “Bullet Proof Vest” Documentary. Audio Mixer

2007. Independent Documentary “Day Noon Night”. D.P, Producer.

2005. World Wildlife Foundation-Telcel: “Papalotzin” (The Journey of the Monarch Butterfly Documentary). Assistant Director, Camera.

I have also had extensive experience working as a Multi-camera Director for over 50 concerts for Cafe Tacuba and Camera Operator for artists such as Iron Maiden, Mumford and Sons, Julieta Venegas, Ariana Grande, and Mick Hucknall from Simply Red.

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2021 Annual Mobile Photography Award

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Scottish Design Awards 2022

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Scottish Design Awards 2022 News

1 February 2022

Marking 25 years of the Scottish Design Awards

photograph : www.jwaphotography.com

Scottish Design Awards 2022 Open

1st of February 2022 – Organised by Urban Realm, in partnership with The Drum, the Scottish Design Awards have been showcasing boundary shaping work, industry best practice and sustainability in all forms for a quarter of a century. Now on the cusp of a new era, we will be celebrating a new generation of design professionals who’ve gone above and beyond in delivering their briefs.

Entries are now open to architects, engineers, graphic, interior and digital designers for inclusion in this year’s award diet and we want to see what’s been keeping you busy over the past year. Join us as we emerge from lockdown with new energy and a desire to give back to those who have given the most.

Urban Realm editor John Glenday said: “The old proverb that time flies when you’re having fun couldn’t be more true of my time overseeing the Scottish Design Awards, a period which has never failed to delight and surprise with a regular diet of class-leading architecture and design.

“The best design works not just within the given spatial and client constraints of the moment but remains relevant for future generations. It is only by taking a step back and observing today’s success stories in the context of prior decades that presented work can be judged in terms of the greatest test of all, the passage of time.

“As we turn our attention to an unknowable future we can be certain only that today’s best stand on the shoulders of giants.”

All entries for each of the categories below must be received before 31 March 2022 via the Scottish Design Awards website.

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CATEGORIES JUDGED BY THE ARCHITECTURE PANEL

LIGHTING • Lighting

INTERIORS • Interior Design

ARCHITECTURE • Regeneration • Residential – Single home • Residential – Multi unit • Affordable Housing • Health Building or Project • Education Building or Project • Commercial/Office/Hotel Building or Project • Public Building • Future Building or Project • Retrofit • Low Cost Project Schemes Under 200k

MASTER PLANNING/LANDSCAPING • Public Realm/Landscaping • Master Planning

TALENT • Young Architect of the Year

CATEGORIES JUDGED BY THE DESIGN PANEL

GRAPHIC • Print design • Brand Identity • Poster • Item of Self Promotion • Packaging

DESIGN FOR GOOD • Design for Good

EXPERIENTIAL DESIGN • Experiential – Incorporating: audiovisual, graphic and object-based displays

DESIGN CRAFTS • Craft – Incorporating: Photography, Typography, Illustration, Copywriting

DIGITAL MEDIA • Website Design • Mobile/App Design • Visualisation • Moving Imagery Design/Animation Design

TALENT • Young Designer of the Year

2022 JURY will be announced on 10 February 2022.

Scottish Design Awards are supported by Cosentino, Vision Events Glasgow, Porcelanosa Scotland and Rock Rose.

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Scottish Design Awards 2021

Scottish Design Award winners unlock success following a night of celebration

Scottish Design Awards 2021 Grand Prix:

Lockerbie sawmill office & visitor meeting rooms: photograph : Dapple Photography

Scottish Design Awards 2021 Winners

Architecture Grand Prix

AWARD: Konishi Gaffney and Entuitive for Lockerbie sawmill office & visitor meeting rooms

Chair Award

AWARD: Brown & Brown Architects for Lower Tullochgrue

Lower Tullochgrue, Aviemore photograph © Gillian Hayes

Practice of the Year Award

AWARD: Moxon Architects

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Photographer: Jinyi He

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Our favorite video editing app has just been named Apple's iPad App of the Year

Apple has just announced its App Store Awards 2021, which highlight its favorite apps and games of the year – and our best video editing app has just won its iPad App of the Year category.

LumaFusion, which first arrived on Apple's tablet back in 2017, deservedly picked up the title, with Apple stating that the app makes "video editing faster, less intimidating, and more portable for creators at every level". 

It may have been around for a few years, but Lumafusion has matured nicely in recent times, adding features like HDR support and, in July 2021, a handy new video stabilization feature. As our review says, it's now "the mobile app that's synonymous with desktop-grade video editing".

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The reason why LumaFusion is so popular is because, rather than stripping out features to create a dumbed-down mobile experience, it makes complex features more accessible to a wider audience.

For example, there's a versatile multi-track editor that lets you create six tracks for your video, graphics and audio, plus another six for extra effects like music or voiceovers. The app's magnetic timeline is also speedy and responsive, even when you're working with 4K footage, and there are lots of extra tools to make further tweaks.

Another bonus, particularly when compared to Adobe apps, is that LumaFusion is one-off payment, rather than an ongoing subscription. At $29.99 / £25.99 / AU$46.99, it's not exactly cheap, but it is good value considering the app's power. That said, if you're looking to edit just a single clip, rather than put together a multi-layered video, then LumaFX ($0.99 / 99p / AU$1.49) is a more affordable alternative.

Analysis: A worthy winner that shows the editing power of the latest iPads

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Apple's App Store Awards are editorial picks, rather than being based entirely on the number of downloads, so they can be a good way to discover apps that aren't necessarily riding high at the top of the charts. 

In more recent years, there's usually been a photography or video-related app in Apple's picks. For example, in 2019 its iPhone App of the year was Spectre Camera, which lets you create long exposure photo effects, while in 2018 its top Mac app was the image editor Pixelmator Pro.

Lumafusion isn't exactly an up-and-coming app, but Apple's decision to give it a gong in this year's App Store Awards shows both the booming popularity of mobile video editing and the increasing, desktop-level power of its tablets.

The latest iPad Pro 11 (2021), for example, is more than capable of being your only video editing machine, while apps like Lumafusion will comfortably run on more affordable iPads, as long as they're running iPadOS 14.4.1 or later.

If you'd like to see which apps have been the most outright popular in terms of downloads this year, though, then Apple has also published that list. From star constellation finders to recipe organizers, there are some good ones in there – and it's always good to know that your homescreen is freshly stocked with the best apps out there.

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