Turn your Passion into a Business - by Michael Chan & Wong Maye-E

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Date: 23rd April 2016
Time: 1:00pm to 6:00pm
Location: Canon Event Room, Fusionopolis
Registration Charges: FREE!!!

12:00pm - 1:00pm Registration
1:00pm - 1::15pm Launch of imagePROGRAF PRO-500 Professional A2 Printer
1:15pm - 3:00pm Michael Chan
3:00pm - 3:30pm Tea Break
3:30pm - 5:30pm Wong Mayee-e
5:30pm - 6:00pm Q & A, Submission of Survey Form

More Information

Taking pictures is an enjoyable activity, but if you decide to turn it into a job it may not be as fun anymore. To be a successful photographer, you need to be absolutely obsessed with photography and have an inner compulsion to communicate stories u feel strongly about.

The beauty of photography as a career is to show people a different side of a subject, an angle they could never have imagined without your image. You have the ability to surprise people with your pictures, to catch the magic moments, to make people dream, laugh, cry, smile.

Every image tells a story. With your camera and the Canon PIXMA PRO, your captured images depict how you see the world, and share it with others. What could be more wonderful?

Canon PIXMA PRO marks the difference between a professional photographer and a social media ‘photo-taker’. Expanding the colour gamut of your image with improved colour saturation and deeper, darker blacks allows a professional photographer, like yourself, to achieve new levels of colour and skin tone reproduction.

With Canon PIXMA PRO, we can help you on your journey as a professional photographer – to see your images through from pixel to pigment.

Professional photographers, Michael Chan and Wong Maye-E, will be sharing valuable tips on how to shoot captivating action-filled pictures and showcase their professional work amassed from years of experience from hobbyist to professional photographer.

 

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Michael Chan
http://www.visualartisans.net/

For years, Michael’s passion for photography has brought him to all walks of life, bringing life to the mundane through his street photography. Discovering his penchant for wedding photography in 2008, he focused his efforts on adding beauty and elegance to his well-honed street style, culminating in a unique look at wedding photojournalism.
Within that year, Michael has already been graded and awarded entry into the highly coveted Master Photographers Association (MPA). Coupled with a unique style, his pictures have also earned him awards in prestigious international events.
Strongly rooted in his belief that every matrimonial event should be unique and special to the couple, Michael has gone on to create more wedding stories, capturing qualitative and memorable moments over the years and more to come.

 

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Wong Maye-E

Wong Maye-E joined AP as a staff photographer in 2003. Based in Singapore, Maye-E's work is centered around Sports reportage, entertainment, politics, and regional news stories. Maye-E has covered headlining events such as the 2014 World Cup, Thailand political protests, and the devastation of the Philippines Typhoon.

Maye-E is now AP’s lead photographer for North Korea. Currently the only full time AP journalist based in Singapore, she started her photography career at Singapore’s national broadsheet paper, The Straits Times in year 2000.

She graduated from Temasek Polytechnic’s School of Design in Visual Communications in year 2000.

Awards:
http://www.photojournalism.org/contest/winners/2015/feature-picture-story-essay/

Links to write ups and work showcased internationally:

Time Lightbox:
http://time.com/3811769/north-korea-photos-wong-maye-e/

North Korea in the Washington Post: https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/inside-north-korea/2014/10/27/2956e096- 5e2e-11e4-91f7-5d89b5e8c251_gallery.html?hpid=z7

Other links:
http://yahoonews.tumblr.com/post/95713028117/photographer-wong-maye-e-wong- maye-e-joined-ap-as

http://news.yahoo.com/photos/photographer-wong-maye-e-1408630606- slideshow/photographer-wong-maye-e-photo-1408630966988.html

http://blog.apimages.com/2014/08/29/photographer-wong-maye-e/

http://blog.apimages.com/tag/wong-maye-e/

http://fence.photoville.com/2015/maye-e-wong-inside-north-korea-a-closed-society/

Photos by Wong Maye-E, The Associated Press

 

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Direction to Canon Office

Canon Singapore Pte. Ltd.
1 Fusionopolis Place,#14-10 Galaxis (East Lobby)
Singapore 138522


You do NOT need to change pass from the security counter at the lobby.
Look for ushers with Canon lanyard and they will be there to guide you to take the correct lift lobby.


Below are directions to our offices at Fusionopolis Place, Galaxis via MRT, bus or car.

MRT
The nearest MRT station is one-north (CC23), on the Circle Line (Orange Line).

Exit at Exit D (towards Galaxis)
- Follow East Lobby (Not West Lobby) for Canon main office

Bus
The nearest bus stops are:
Opposite Portsdown Camp (18159), SBS Service 191
Opposite JVC Electronics (18051), SBS Service 91

Car
You can reach our office by car:
- Via the Ayer Rajah Expressway (AYE), take exit 8 to North Buona Vista Road. Turn right to Portsdown Road, then turn right to Fusionopolis Place.

*We would recommend you to check the best efficient driving directions from your departure location via the various online map services such as Google Maps.

Google Map Link
https://goo.gl/maps/UVdfSYwvWaB2

 

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