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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