TRIPLE BLOW: Indonesia In The Midst of Catastrophes

About

Kemal Jufri is one of Asia’s leading Photojournalist based in Jakarta, Indonesia. He started his career in photography more than a decade ago as contract photographer for Agence France Presse (AFP) Jakarta bureau in 1996. At the end of 1998 he left AFP to work as a contributing photographer for Asiaweek magazine until the magazine close down in 2001. Since then, as a freelance photographer, he regularly works on assignment covering stories across Asia for major publications around the world including TIME Magazine, Newsweek, The New York Times Magazine, STERN, Der Spiegel, Business Week International, El-Mundo, International Herald Tribune and many more. He has also participated in numerous photo exhibitions in Indonesia and overseas.

Some of the awards and recognition he received includes:

1998 – Newsweek magazine Best Picture of the Year
2000 – Award of Excellence in General News category from POYi (Picture of the Year International) USA
2000 – US News & World Report Magazine Best Picture of the Year
2000 – Tempo Magazine’s Indonesian Artist of the Millenium
2001 – Pantau Magazine Most Outstanding Young Indonesian Journalist Award
2004 – World Press Photo Internship grant with Corbis Photo agency in Paris
2005 – 21st American Photography Annual Award
2005 – Time magazine Best Photo of the Year
2006 – Silver Award for Best in News Photography from IFRA (The world’s leading association for newspaper and media publishing)
2007 – 2nd Place in Science & Natural History category from POYi (Picture of the Year International) USA
2007 – World Press Photo Millennium Development Goals Book Project Grant
2008 – Exhibition winner PX3 (Prix De La Photographie Paris) Human Condition Photography contest.
2008 – Honorable Mention in the National Geographic ‘s All Roads Photography awards program.
2008 – United Nations- FAO Grant to document the Human Faces of Avian Influenza in Indonesia.
2009 – 3rd Place in Local Personality Portrait category from NPPA BOP (Best Of PhotoJournalism) contest in USA
2009 – PDN Photo Annual Award in the Photojournalism & Documentary Photography category

Kemal Jufri 's current location:
Jakarta , Indonesia

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