Everybody call him Marks, peoples say he is outgoing, caring, nice, cool, gentleman, humble, straight to the point, sometime he so quite, relegius, Intelligent, thinkers, honest, Confident, social butterfly, helpful & friendly. He always said : ‘Im still learn many thing in this life, Im not PERFECT person, Im not SUPER, or im not done in this life, especially with my self, so don’t expect too much, I just being my self. I just being what God want me to be.. In my life i just make everything simple, my life is to love, doing the best for me and another. “Hey life is not easy but make it simple”.
Markus A.Prabowo was born and raised in Jakarta 1976, His first introduction & interest to photography began at Junior High, the image breaks into his life when, as a child, he receives his 1st camera Nikon FA, gift of his father. There were no photo schools at that time, this make him self-learning from many resource & books, after a period as an autodidact 1996 he start learning from few seminar and professional photographer.
After graduating from high school, he earned a degree Computer Science majors faculty of management of Informatika university of Bina Nusantara (1996). The real fire of passion lights up during the last years at High Schools & during in collage he active in student photo clubs and other photographic club, at this time he was intent on pursuing photography as a career by teaching, mentoring, & exhibition.
In reform era he started his career as a director of photography & photojournalist, he refuse working at office and chooses working on dangers street. After finishing studies in collage he decided to started & managed his own photographic business.
He says photography is fun, challenging, seriously, exciting & part of his life. His major interest in photography is in fashion, fine art, photojournalism & commercial photography.
* Education / photography seminar & artistic
- Professional Photography seminar 2000
- Seminar of Fotojurnalistik IISIP 1998 / 9
- NewYork Institute of Photography 1995-1996
- ASEAN Modern art lecture 1998
- Workshops fashion & high fashion by Primacolor 2004
- Seminar fashion photography Harper Bazzar Magazine 2004
* Activity and organization
- Director of photography & photojournalis at FORMAS 1997-1999
- Founder of Artistic of Photography Bina Nusantara 1998
- Deputy of Club Artistic of Photography Bina Nusantara 1998-1999
- Member of HMPF 1998 & Secretary of HMPF 1999
- Counsellor of artistic photography workshop
- Peliputan Pemilu 1999 HMPF
- Sahabat of Galeri Fotojurnalistik Antara 1997/8-1999
- Founding markus ap photography 2002
- Commissary of Pt.Rhema Muliatama 2003
- Curator Photograph Exhibition Warna-Warni 2003
- Curator Photograph Behind lens 2004
- Photography Speekers & Mentor
- Web designer & Web developer – 2000 – Present
- www.persembahanhidup.org – Web Admin & Owner January 2002 – December 2003
- Manifesto + Magazine – Chief Editorial & Director of Photography August 2009 – Present
* Photograph exhibition
- “ New Indonesia ?” Galeri National 1999
- “ First Step” Univ Bina Nusantara 1999
* Photography Tools
- Nikon Digital Professional Camera
- Canon Digital Professional Camera
- Nikon SLR Camera
- Medium Format
- Studio Lighting
- Dark Room
* Software
- Adobe Photoshop CS2
- Dreamwaver
- Flash Professional
- Capture One Pro
- Nikon Capture 4
- Adobe Illustrator CS2
- Adobe Indesign CS2
* Hardware
- Intel Pentium 4 3.0GHZ 17"107E Philips 1GB 280GB ATI Radeon 9250 128MB
- Apple Ibook G4 14" TFT 640MB 40GB ATI Radeon 9550 32MB
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