Fotograf
Steven Achiam
Born 1976, Amager, Copenhagen - Denmark
Lives and works in Copenhagen
Education
Professional Bacholor of Photojournalism, Danish School of Journalism, 2007
Trained videophotographer from Casper Thorsøe Video Production, 1996
Work experience
Staff photographer at Danish business daily "Børsen", 2007-
Internship at Danish business daily "Børsen", 2004-06
Technical Director, financial television CNBC Nordic, 2001
Producer of 11 episode travel documentary for kid's television DRB&U,1997
Awards
2007 1st prize Sports Feature Story Danish POY 2007 - Sumo Boys
Honorable Mention by Unicef Photo of the Year - Sumo Boys
3rd Prize Daily Life Singles, "Immigrant Worker, Kuwait"
World Press Photo Awards 2007, Holland
2nd Prize Visuel Journalism 'Insomnia - Sleepless Nation', Danish Press Photo of the Year
PDN 2007 Selected for Student Category
2004 "Love & Intoxication in The Blue Lagoon",
1st Prize Feature Story Danish Press Photo of the Year
Award of Excellence Pictorial, POYi US
1st Prize Feature Story and Feature Photographer of the Year
(student category) Lucie Awards, US
Bibliography
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Corruption is part of the everyday life in the mostexpensive capital of the world, Moscow. The power has changed hands.Now it is no longer the mob but the Russian state apparatus whichcontrols the money flow.
Annually USD 319 billion - this isthe estimate of the independent Russian think tank Indem Foundation -and it corresponds to more than two and a half times the annual budgetof the Russian state.
Commissioned by Dagbladet Børsen Magazines, September 2006, Issue DK-1000
Hamal Munaf from Bangladesh works in temperatures of about 45° Celsius as sales person in an open-container kiosk in Kuwait. He is one of about 170,000 expatriate Bangladeshis working in Kuwait. Most workers arrive in the country legally on contracts to do cleaning and other menial tasks in a booming economy, but many claim that they end up receiving salaries drastically lower than those they were promised.
Commissioned by Dagbladet Børsen Magazines, September 2006, Issue DK-1000
Awarded 3rd Prize Daily Life Singles, World Press Photo Awards 2007
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*** Available for assignments ***
Represented in Germany by Focus Agency
Photojournalist (1976)
Steven Achiam is based in Denmark and works at Danish business daily and magazine Børsen and is free to take on editorial commissions. He is working on a long term book project on Japanese sumo boys.
2007: 1st prize Sports Feature Story Danish POY - Sumo Boys, Honorable Mention, "Sumo Boys", UNICEF Photo of the Year. 3rd Prize Daily Life Singles, "Imigrant Worker, Kuwait" WORLD PRESS PHOTO. Graduated from Danish School of Journalism in photojournalism. 2nd Prize Visuel Journalism "Insomnia - Sleepless Nation", Danish Press Photo of the Year. 2004: Award of Excellence Pictorial, "Love & Intoxication in The Blue Lagoon", POYi as well as 1st Prize Feature Story Danish Press Photo of the Year. Feature Photographer of the Year & 1st Prize Feature Story (student), Lucie Awards. 2004-06: Internship at Danish financial daily "Børsen". 2001: Technical Director financial television CNBC Nordic. 1997: Tv-producer travel DOCUMENTARY for kid's television DRB&U. 1996: Trained VIDEOPHOTOGRAPHER from Casper Thorsøe Video Production.
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