Portrait nominee

The fishermen of Ngapali Beach, Myanmar is a series of portraits from a project I have been working on over the past couple of years. Continuously revisiting the fisherman's village to capture their day-to-day life. As the country has been opening up in the last couple of years and cell phones, the Internet and the influence of the western world is more and more visible but the actual day-to-day routine hasn’t changed. During my last visit in December 2018, I wanted to finish the project by portraying some of the fishermen just before they board their boats in the late afternoon being out on the water until the early morning in old, leaking, wooden boats. Only lit by numerous, now obviously, LED light bulbs powered by a car battery.

Sittig Fahr-Becker

2014 Fuji X Photographer
2012 Exhibition: Berlin Yangon, Two Cities, Two Continents, One Camera, In Berlin
2011 Freelance Photographer
2010 Photographer For Cabinet 206 Department Store Berlin
2009 Photography Assistant At Enno Kapitza Photography
2008 Photography Assistant At Achim Bunz Photography
2007 Diplom In Graphic Design And Photography, Bauhaus Dessau;
Diplom Topic: “Faces Of Myanmar” ( Photography And Layout )
2002 – 2007 Studies In Graphic Design And Photography At Bauhaus Dessau
2005 Graphic Design And Photography, RGD Mumbai, Indien
2001 – 2002 Graphic Designer At Arte Media, Berlin
2000 – 2001 Freelance Photographer London And Berlin
1998 Town Planning Courses, Westminster University, London
1996 – 1998 A-Levels Bellerbys College, Mayfield
(Interior Design, Geography, Business Studies)

Born 19.12.1980