Taufan Wijaya, S.Sos., M.A.

Taufan Wijaya began his journalistic career at the Jawa Pos daily in Surabaya in 2007. He then became a staff member at the 2009 Kompas Gramedia Group Tribune to establish new newspapers in Jambi and Medan. In 2013, she published a photo book entitled ‘Dekat Perempuan, which contained the story of an Indonesian woman’s cancer while on duty in Batam for a year. He decided to become a freelance journalist in 2014 and published the manuscript for the book ‘PhotoJournalism’ with Gramedia Pustaka Utama. Her books ‘Photo Story’ and ‘Visual Literacy’ followed with the same publisher in 2016 and 2018.

He has exhibited both group and solo photos, won several photo awards in the social field, attended training at Antara, received photo grants, and judged national and international photo contests. He has collaborated on a documentation project with photographer Michael Yamashita. After completing his studies on a scholarship at the Ateneo de Manila University, he is now more active as a documentary photographer and independent curator. Judging competitions and conducting reports are still being carried out, even though since 2019 he has been teaching journalism at Multimedia Nusantara University.