About Masters

The WMA Masters is a non-profit photography award aiming to nurture the growth of photography as an art form in Hong Kong, as well as stimulate dialogue and...

The WMA Masters is a non-profit photography award aiming to nurture the growth of photography as an art form in Hong Kong, as well as stimulate dialogue and foster community awareness on socially relevant issues of critical importance to Hong Kong.


Winner & Finalists

WASTE ‧ Masters
Your Trash. My Treasure.
Abby Au
IDENTITY ‧ Masters
He was lost yesterday and we found him today
Leung Chi Wo + Sara Wong
TRANSITION ‧ Masters
Louis Daguerre’s Nightmare
SHEK Ming Fai Phil
TRANSITION ‧ Masters
The Flag Of Hong Kong, Waving In the Wind
Joseph, LEUNG Mong Sum
AIR ‧ Masters
Last glimpse of Hong Kong
Lau Ching Ping
IDENTITY ‧ Masters
The Architecture of Insurgency
Johnny Gin
WASTE ‧ Masters
In Situ
Lam Hoi Sin
OPPORTUNITY ‧ Masters
The day you put me on
Kin Bon YIP
OPPORTUNITY ‧ Masters
The Crescent Void
Sharon LEE
WASTE ‧ Masters
Your Trash. My Treasure.
Abby Au

Zoher Abdoolcarim

Based in Hong Kong, Zoher Abdoolcarim was appointed as Asia Editor, TIME International, in June 2008 overseeing TIME’s award-winning Asia edition. Prior to this role, he was a senior editor at TIME Asia, a position he held since 2002 where he helped shape all aspects of TIME’s coverage of Asia. His cover stories include a June 2007 article on the 10th anniversary of the British handover of Hong Kong to China, a November 2011 lead essay comparing China and India, and a prologue on India ahead of its landmark May 2014 elections. Zoher also writes commentary on Asian affairs for TIME.

Prior to joining TIME Asia, Zoher was managing editor of Asiaweek and an editor at Singapore-owned Asian Business. Over the course of his career, Zoher has been a foreign correspondent based in Indonesia, Malaysia and Singapore, with reporting assignments in the Philippines, India, Brunei and Hong Kong. He has been involved in watershed Asia stories including the Ninoy Aquino assassination, the ousters of Ferdinand Marcos in the Philippines and former Indonesian President Suharto, the Tiananmen Square crackdown in Beijing, Hong Kong’s handover to China, the Asian financial crisis and the continuing impact of the rise of China on the region and the world.

Over the years, Zoher has interviewed many of Asia’s leaders. An ethnic Indian born and raised in Hong Kong, Zoher is a fluent Cantonese speaker and a British national. He graduated from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Frank Kalero

Kalero has a Media Communication degree from Pompeu Fabra University in Barcelona. Former resident at Benetton’s Fabrica (Italy). Founder of the OjodePez magazine (Spain), co-founder of Invaliden1 Galerie (Berlin), of the art magazine The World According To (Berlin), and the pan-Asian photography magazine, Punctum (India). He directed the Ojodepez Photo Meeting Barcelona. For three years he was the art director of the GetxoPhoto Festival (Bilbao). At the present is part of the team developing an online platform for new media called SCREEN. He has been part of the WYNG Photo Award jury team for the past three years (Hong Kong). He was the Artistic Director for the 4th and 5th Biennial PhotoQuai, held at the Museum Quai Branly (Paris). Cofounder of photo festival, GoaPhoto (Panajim, India). He has been teaching at the Joop Swart Masterclass 2014. In 2015, he was invited by the Armenian government to make a collective exhibition on Genocide, on the occasion of the 100 years of the Armenian Genocide. Also in the same year, he was the chairman of the World Pride Award Jury (Amsterdam).

Jehan Chu

Jehan Chu is an Art Advisor and publisher of the ‘Art Guides’ series of iPhone apps with over 12 years of industry experience. Formerly with Sotheby’s Auction House in New York, and Head of Client Development in Asia, he left in 2008 to start Vermillion Art Collections, a specialized art advisory working with private and corporate art collectors. He now sits on the Board of Directors of Para/Site Art Space and the HK Ambassadors of Design, and is a member of the Asia Art Archive Collector’s Circle steering committee. Jehan also authored the ‘Collectionist’ column for Time Out Magazine and has lectured on collecting art for the Asia Art Forum, ArtHK International Art Fair, as well as major banks and associations. Jehan is a graduate of Johns Hopkins University and holds a degree in International Relations and East Asian Studies, as well as instruction certification in Visual Thinking Strategies.

John Stanmeyer

John Stanmeyer is a photojournalist and humanist dedicated to social and political issues that define our times.

Over the last decade, John has worked nearly exclusively with National Geographic magazine, producing over 12 stories for the magazine and resulting in 10 covers. Between 1998 and 2008, John was a contract photographer for Time magazine, during which time he photographed the war in Afghanistan, the fight for independence in East Timor, the fall of Suharto in Indonesia, and other significant world news events. His years with Time resulted in 18 covers of the magazine.

In 2001, he cofounded with six of the world’s leading photojournalists the VII Photo agency. By 2005 VII was listed in third position in American Photo’s “100 Most Important People in Photography.” VII now represents 20 of the world’s preeminent photojournalists whose careers span 35 years of world history.

January 2015, Stanmeyer became a VII Distinguished Member. The same month, John brought his ten years of stories with National Geographic to National Geographic Creative while his historic archive of 20+ years of visual history remains at VII.

He is the recipient of numerous honors, including the prestigious Robert Capa award (Overseas Press Club), Magazine Photographer of the Year (POYi), and numerous World Press, Picture of the Year and NPPA awards. In 2008, his National Geographic cover story on global malaria received the National Magazine Award. In 2012 was nominated for an Emmy with the VII documentary film series, Starved for Attention and in 2014 was the recipient of the World Press Photo award for his photograph from Djibouti titled, Signal.

John has published a number of books including Island of the Spirits, a journalistic/anthropologic look at Balinese culture documented during the five years he lived on the island. His latest book, a VII Photo Agency collaboration titled Questions Without Answers (Phaidon), was released in 2012, chronically the last 30 years of social conflict and change around the world.

In 2013, John opened Stanmeyer Gallery & Shaker Dam Coffeehouse in West Stockbridge, Mass, combining photography and education around his passion for brilliant coffee, wrapping the two around ethically procured, human rights-based direct trade coffee with the social issues represented in his photographs.

Stanmeyer lives on a farm with his family and many fireflies over summer in the Berkshires of Western Massachusetts.

Sze Lai Shan

Lai-shan SZE graduated from the Baptist University with a Bachelor’s degree in Social Work (Honors) in 1995 and from the University of Hong Kong with a Master of Laws (Human Rights) in 2004. She joined the Society for Community Organization (SoCO) as a community organizer in 1995. In SoCO, she plays a variety of roles, from researcher, organizer, case worker, facilitator to educator. She sees it her duty to exhaust every legal means to empower every underprivileged, to help the poor to get fair opportunities, to be rid of poverty and poor living conditions, to uphold of social justice and protection for human rights.


Events

14AprSat, Apr 14 - Mar 24, 2018Exhibition Period
TRANSITION ‧ Masters
TRANSITION – WMA MASTERS & WMA FILM EXHIBITION ​
2018-04-14
14AprFri, Apr 14 - May 06, 2017Exhibition Period
MOBILITY ‧ Masters
2017 WMA Masters Exhibition
2017-04-14
10AprSun, Apr 10 - 19, 2016Exhibition Period
IDENTITY ‧ Masters
2016 WYNG Masters Award Exhibition
2016-04-10
14AprSat, Apr 14 - Mar 24, 2018Exhibition Period
TRANSITION ‧ Masters
TRANSITION – WMA MASTERS & WMA FILM EXHIBITION ​
2018-04-14
14AprFri, Apr 14 - May 06, 2017Exhibition Period
MOBILITY ‧ Masters
2017 WMA Masters Exhibition
2017-04-14
10AprSun, Apr 10 - 19, 2016Exhibition Period
IDENTITY ‧ Masters
2016 WYNG Masters Award Exhibition
2016-04-10

News

LIGHT ‧ Masters
WMA Masters 2019/20 ‘Light’ Comes to a Close
2021-01-27
LIGHT ‧ Masters
Recipient of WMA x FORMAT Fellowship 2020 announced
2019-12-23
LIGHT ‧ Masters
WMA Masters 2019/20 ‘Light’ finalists announced
2019-12-17
LIGHT ‧ Masters
WMA x FORMAT Fellowship 2020 – Open Call
2019-08-28
LIGHT ‧ Masters
WMA Masters 2019/20 — Call for Submissions on the theme ‘Light’
2019-05-31
OPPORTUNITY ‧ Masters
WMA Masters 2018/19 “Opportunity” Announcement of Finalists
2018-12-11
OPPORTUNITY ‧ Masters
WMA Masters 2018/19 — Call for Submissions on “Opportunity”
2018-05-31
TRANSITION ‧ Masters
WMA Masters and Commission 2017/18 – TRANSITION Winners Announced
2018-04-15
TRANSITION ‧ Masters
TRANSITION – WMA Masters & WMA Film Exhibition ​
2018-03-15
TRANSITION ‧ Masters
WMA Masters 2017/18 – Transition Announcement of Finalists
2017-12-18
TRANSITION ‧ Masters
WMA Masters 2017/18 — Call for Submissions on “Transition”
2017-06-15
MOBILITY ‧ Masters
WMA Masters 2016/17 – MOBILITY Winners Announced
2017-04-13
MOBILITY ‧ Masters
WMA Masters 2016/17—“Mobility” Exhibition of Finalists’ Works
2017-04-12
MOBILITY ‧ Masters
WMA Masters 2016/17 – Mobility Announcement of Finalists
2016-12-12
MOBILITY ‧ Masters
WMA Masters 2016/17 Call For Submissions: MOBILITY
2016-07-05
IDENTITY ‧ Masters
WYNG Masters Award 2014/15 – IDENTITY and Winner Announcement
2016-04-14
IDENTITY ‧ Masters
WYNG Masters Award 2015/16 – IDENTITY Announcement of Finalists
2015-12-27
IDENTITY ‧ Masters
WYNG Masters Award 2015/16 Call For Submissions: IDENTITY
2015-06-15
WASTE ‧ Masters
2014/15 WYNG Masters Award WINNER and Commission Recipient Announced – WASTE
2015-04-23
WASTE ‧ Masters
WYNG Masters Award 2014/15 – What A WASTE
2015-04-16
Masters
WYNG Masters Award 2014/15 | WASTE
2014-06-16
AIR ‧ Masters
WYNG Masters Award 2013 WINNERS Announced
2014-05-03
AIR ‧ Masters
WYNG Masters Award Finalists’ Exhibition – GASP!
2014-04-24
AIR ‧ Masters
WYNG Masters Award 2013 – AIR FINALISTS ANNOUNCED
2014-01-20
POVERTY ‧ Masters
WYNG Masters Award WINNERS Announced – Poverty In The Midst of Plenty
2013-03-01
POVERTY ‧ Masters
WYNG Masters Award 2012 – Poverty FINALISTS ANNOUNCED. 2013 WYNG Masters Award Theme Revealed
2012-12-28
POVERTY ‧ Masters
WYNG Masters Award For Photography Launch Event
2012-05-10
LIGHT ‧ Masters
WMA Masters 2019/20 ‘Light’ Comes to a Close
2021-01-27
LIGHT ‧ Masters
Recipient of WMA x FORMAT Fellowship 2020 announced
2019-12-23
LIGHT ‧ Masters
WMA Masters 2019/20 ‘Light’ finalists announced
2019-12-17
LIGHT ‧ Masters
WMA x FORMAT Fellowship 2020 – Open Call
2019-08-28
LIGHT ‧ Masters
WMA Masters 2019/20 — Call for Submissions on the theme ‘Light’
2019-05-31
OPPORTUNITY ‧ Masters
WMA Masters 2018/19 “Opportunity” Announcement of Finalists
2018-12-11
OPPORTUNITY ‧ Masters
WMA Masters 2018/19 — Call for Submissions on “Opportunity”
2018-05-31
TRANSITION ‧ Masters
WMA Masters and Commission 2017/18 – TRANSITION Winners Announced
2018-04-15
TRANSITION ‧ Masters
TRANSITION – WMA Masters & WMA Film Exhibition ​
2018-03-15
TRANSITION ‧ Masters
WMA Masters 2017/18 – Transition Announcement of Finalists
2017-12-18
TRANSITION ‧ Masters
WMA Masters 2017/18 — Call for Submissions on “Transition”
2017-06-15
MOBILITY ‧ Masters
WMA Masters 2016/17 – MOBILITY Winners Announced
2017-04-13
MOBILITY ‧ Masters
WMA Masters 2016/17—“Mobility” Exhibition of Finalists’ Works
2017-04-12
MOBILITY ‧ Masters
WMA Masters 2016/17 – Mobility Announcement of Finalists
2016-12-12
MOBILITY ‧ Masters
WMA Masters 2016/17 Call For Submissions: MOBILITY
2016-07-05
IDENTITY ‧ Masters
WYNG Masters Award 2014/15 – IDENTITY and Winner Announcement
2016-04-14
IDENTITY ‧ Masters
WYNG Masters Award 2015/16 – IDENTITY Announcement of Finalists
2015-12-27
IDENTITY ‧ Masters
WYNG Masters Award 2015/16 Call For Submissions: IDENTITY
2015-06-15
WASTE ‧ Masters
2014/15 WYNG Masters Award WINNER and Commission Recipient Announced – WASTE
2015-04-23
WASTE ‧ Masters
WYNG Masters Award 2014/15 – What A WASTE
2015-04-16
Masters
WYNG Masters Award 2014/15 | WASTE
2014-06-16
AIR ‧ Masters
WYNG Masters Award 2013 WINNERS Announced
2014-05-03
AIR ‧ Masters
WYNG Masters Award Finalists’ Exhibition – GASP!
2014-04-24
AIR ‧ Masters
WYNG Masters Award 2013 – AIR FINALISTS ANNOUNCED
2014-01-20
POVERTY ‧ Masters
WYNG Masters Award WINNERS Announced – Poverty In The Midst of Plenty
2013-03-01
POVERTY ‧ Masters
WYNG Masters Award 2012 – Poverty FINALISTS ANNOUNCED. 2013 WYNG Masters Award Theme Revealed
2012-12-28
POVERTY ‧ Masters
WYNG Masters Award For Photography Launch Event
2012-05-10