Group Zuper Senior Year: Iquitos Youth, GZSY or Graduation Mahatma Gandhi is a graduation of Iquitos, a product of PAMB productions and is inspired by the whole saga of High School Musical. It is indeed a major project in Iquitos, a city in the successful film Chullachaqui and Immortal of Dorian Fernandez. Is mainly based on a popular graduation of Iquitos and is part of high school "Virgen de Loreto". The original name is Grupo Zuper Promo.
History
Group Zuper Senior Year: Iquitos Youth originated from an agreement between teenagers from school "Virgen de Loreto." On July 17 this organization is formed, with targets comprehensive lessons, and such recognition from the students. That same day inaugurated its official website in order to make this promotion in different parts of the country, although the site was based in Spanish. The first results of the surveys was not satisfactory. PAMB production had to resort to certain methods to promote these students and to understand their goals and wanted to follow the professions.
PAMB productions used the publication of a first poster. This drew the attention of several people and the same school, recognizing the school as "a creator of ideas." In March, the group heard rumors that other Zuper Promo baccalaureates would be promoted, this being the first to do so as popular.
The October 26 is released the teaser trailer in Iquitos page hosted on YouTube. At first the teaser did not have some features advertising, but what happens the second trailer to be more professional. The reality was that PAMB productions born with Group Zuper Senior Year: Iquitos Youth and Zuper Graduation Disc, as one company too young.
It starts the first deliveries of prizes to high school. And in November, has its first commitment is known to the Community Project is to help rural schools with low economy to education. That makes up range.
After a while, is a bit forgotten and then back to November 30, becoming more serious. Likewise, the design of the Web page changes to a more mature.
Launching the fourth trailer, going to the third party is considered more a mini-trailer. In the fourth most popular trailer called the baccalaureate, placing Last Chance as a soundtrack and the music of High School Musical songs and property officer Wonderland Music Company (BMI). The most striking new feature is that the gold dominates much of the products in Group Zuper Senior Year: Iquitos Youth.
The fourth trailer was a success, reaching in many cellular and iquiteños reaching translated into English, without altering the title. Then PAMB production agreement was translated into two languages such as English and Portuguese, the latter being unconfirmed.
Currently, Grupo Zuper Promo latest projects is Christmas and preparing for the big event called the Boom! Zuper Senior Year In The End.
Members
*Amasifuen del Águila, Katia Alejandra
*Andrade Pereira, Adrian Francesco
*Arévalo Flores, Jefree Stefano
*Cardozo Vargas, Lenin
*Chia Sanchez, Mónica YenJi
*Coblentz Ríos, Rommel Antohny Bryan
*Escudero Meléndez, Juan Manuel
*García Gómez, Sandra Priscyla
*Gomez Morey, Carlos Marcos
*Llanos Rodríguez, Diana
*Macedo Ríos, Robert
*Malca López, Mario Francisco
*Meza Bravo, Percy Alexander (founder de Group Zuper Senior Year: Iquitos Youth)
*Michuy Zegarra, Oshiro Javier
*Morales Ramírez, Eduardo Augusto
*Obenhausen Chávez, Carlos Junior
*Orbe Villasis, Evelyn Maritza
*Panduro García, Hugo Enrique
*Panebra Nuñez, Ulises Israel
*Pinedo Arévalo, Claudio Rafael
*Ramírez Pérez, Bruno Francisco
*Reategui Echevarría, Valeria
*Rengifo Dávila, Jimmy Joseph
*Reyna Ríos, Norma Rocío
*Ríos Silva, María Elena
*Rodríguez Pinedo, Juan Ricardo
*Rojas Guzmán, Erick Marcelo
*Saldaña Ruíz, Roger Junior
*Sandoval Jarama, Ricardo André
*Sinacay Ruíz, Fernando
*Sotelo Ferry, Efraín Antonino
*Tello Cornejo, Carlos Alberto
*Torres Rengifo, Randy
*Torres Villaorduña, Patricia del Pilar
*Tresierra Bendayán, Álvaro Áaron
*Vásquez Ramirez, Fresia
*Vásquez Soplin, Ruben Romeo
*Villacorta Gonzales, Carlos
*Villacorta Zegarra, Andrea
Terms
Graduation
is the term that refers to the transition from one stage to another by means of awards and scholarships. Promo Zuper Group is based a lot in the saga of High School Musical 3: Graduation.
Bachillerato
The baccalaureate is the study period with those obtained the Bachelor degree is a part of the education program which might consist of between 2 and 4 years. These are post-secondary education and pre-university education. At the end of high school, in some countries, the student performs an examination of selectivity, which is a written test to gain access to university studies. The Bachelor is not mandatory and the subjects taught are more specialized in high school, ie, are intended to science or literature. The aim is to prepare academically Baccalaureate students to higher education.
Promotion
The original term for this group because it is spoken in and around Iquitos Peru. The promotion is a long term peak passing a group of students to move from one stage to another. For example, a child from school and after high school to college. But given the promotion among high school and college is one of the most compromising.
Bachelor's degree
Puerto Rico and Peru, used the word "baccalaureate" to translate into Spanish the term bachelor's degree, which constitutes the first four or five years of college education, whose closest equivalent in the rest of the Spanish-speaking world is the degree.
Logo
Logo Group Zuper Senior Year: Iquitos Youth changed.
*On July 17 the first logo is in a unique design with the representation of Group Zuper Promo letters Arial Rounded MT Bold style, with touches of bright translucent green and yellow.
*The second lasted little logo remains the same but with different text letter. Adopted a red tone and style of letter is Smudger LET. You can see clearly the fourth trailer.
*The current logo is more striking, the most enjoyable. There were rumors that the text would not appear and would be replaced with the insignia of promoting Mahatma Gandhi, but that was discarded. The logo is the original text in red with white edges with lyrics Mekanik LET style.
*A new logo for the DVD will be premiering in the coming year.
Spin Off
*Zuper Graduation Disc
*University: Star Success (for January 17 2009)
Released DVD
The official said the launch of the DVD for 5 or 6 January 2009 under the name Group Zuper Senior Year: Live from the Parthenon of Iquitos. For that, PAMB productions were released on December 7 of the first DVD minitrailer A Night To Remember as background music and was released on December 23 in minitrailer English. At the beginning of minitrailer announcement comes with a warning that the background music is owned by Walt Disney Records.
Language Web Official
The official website of the group announcing this version English version socialize with countries outside the U.S. as and Australia.
History
Group Zuper Senior Year: Iquitos Youth originated from an agreement between teenagers from school "Virgen de Loreto." On July 17 this organization is formed, with targets comprehensive lessons, and such recognition from the students. That same day inaugurated its official website in order to make this promotion in different parts of the country, although the site was based in Spanish. The first results of the surveys was not satisfactory. PAMB production had to resort to certain methods to promote these students and to understand their goals and wanted to follow the professions.
PAMB productions used the publication of a first poster. This drew the attention of several people and the same school, recognizing the school as "a creator of ideas." In March, the group heard rumors that other Zuper Promo baccalaureates would be promoted, this being the first to do so as popular.
The October 26 is released the teaser trailer in Iquitos page hosted on YouTube. At first the teaser did not have some features advertising, but what happens the second trailer to be more professional. The reality was that PAMB productions born with Group Zuper Senior Year: Iquitos Youth and Zuper Graduation Disc, as one company too young.
It starts the first deliveries of prizes to high school. And in November, has its first commitment is known to the Community Project is to help rural schools with low economy to education. That makes up range.
After a while, is a bit forgotten and then back to November 30, becoming more serious. Likewise, the design of the Web page changes to a more mature.
Launching the fourth trailer, going to the third party is considered more a mini-trailer. In the fourth most popular trailer called the baccalaureate, placing Last Chance as a soundtrack and the music of High School Musical songs and property officer Wonderland Music Company (BMI). The most striking new feature is that the gold dominates much of the products in Group Zuper Senior Year: Iquitos Youth.
The fourth trailer was a success, reaching in many cellular and iquiteños reaching translated into English, without altering the title. Then PAMB production agreement was translated into two languages such as English and Portuguese, the latter being unconfirmed.
Currently, Grupo Zuper Promo latest projects is Christmas and preparing for the big event called the Boom! Zuper Senior Year In The End.
Members
*Amasifuen del Águila, Katia Alejandra
*Andrade Pereira, Adrian Francesco
*Arévalo Flores, Jefree Stefano
*Cardozo Vargas, Lenin
*Chia Sanchez, Mónica YenJi
*Coblentz Ríos, Rommel Antohny Bryan
*Escudero Meléndez, Juan Manuel
*García Gómez, Sandra Priscyla
*Gomez Morey, Carlos Marcos
*Llanos Rodríguez, Diana
*Macedo Ríos, Robert
*Malca López, Mario Francisco
*Meza Bravo, Percy Alexander (founder de Group Zuper Senior Year: Iquitos Youth)
*Michuy Zegarra, Oshiro Javier
*Morales Ramírez, Eduardo Augusto
*Obenhausen Chávez, Carlos Junior
*Orbe Villasis, Evelyn Maritza
*Panduro García, Hugo Enrique
*Panebra Nuñez, Ulises Israel
*Pinedo Arévalo, Claudio Rafael
*Ramírez Pérez, Bruno Francisco
*Reategui Echevarría, Valeria
*Rengifo Dávila, Jimmy Joseph
*Reyna Ríos, Norma Rocío
*Ríos Silva, María Elena
*Rodríguez Pinedo, Juan Ricardo
*Rojas Guzmán, Erick Marcelo
*Saldaña Ruíz, Roger Junior
*Sandoval Jarama, Ricardo André
*Sinacay Ruíz, Fernando
*Sotelo Ferry, Efraín Antonino
*Tello Cornejo, Carlos Alberto
*Torres Rengifo, Randy
*Torres Villaorduña, Patricia del Pilar
*Tresierra Bendayán, Álvaro Áaron
*Vásquez Ramirez, Fresia
*Vásquez Soplin, Ruben Romeo
*Villacorta Gonzales, Carlos
*Villacorta Zegarra, Andrea
Terms
Graduation
is the term that refers to the transition from one stage to another by means of awards and scholarships. Promo Zuper Group is based a lot in the saga of High School Musical 3: Graduation.
Bachillerato
The baccalaureate is the study period with those obtained the Bachelor degree is a part of the education program which might consist of between 2 and 4 years. These are post-secondary education and pre-university education. At the end of high school, in some countries, the student performs an examination of selectivity, which is a written test to gain access to university studies. The Bachelor is not mandatory and the subjects taught are more specialized in high school, ie, are intended to science or literature. The aim is to prepare academically Baccalaureate students to higher education.
Promotion
The original term for this group because it is spoken in and around Iquitos Peru. The promotion is a long term peak passing a group of students to move from one stage to another. For example, a child from school and after high school to college. But given the promotion among high school and college is one of the most compromising.
Bachelor's degree
Puerto Rico and Peru, used the word "baccalaureate" to translate into Spanish the term bachelor's degree, which constitutes the first four or five years of college education, whose closest equivalent in the rest of the Spanish-speaking world is the degree.
Logo
Logo Group Zuper Senior Year: Iquitos Youth changed.
*On July 17 the first logo is in a unique design with the representation of Group Zuper Promo letters Arial Rounded MT Bold style, with touches of bright translucent green and yellow.
*The second lasted little logo remains the same but with different text letter. Adopted a red tone and style of letter is Smudger LET. You can see clearly the fourth trailer.
*The current logo is more striking, the most enjoyable. There were rumors that the text would not appear and would be replaced with the insignia of promoting Mahatma Gandhi, but that was discarded. The logo is the original text in red with white edges with lyrics Mekanik LET style.
*A new logo for the DVD will be premiering in the coming year.
Spin Off
*Zuper Graduation Disc
*University: Star Success (for January 17 2009)
Released DVD
The official said the launch of the DVD for 5 or 6 January 2009 under the name Group Zuper Senior Year: Live from the Parthenon of Iquitos. For that, PAMB productions were released on December 7 of the first DVD minitrailer A Night To Remember as background music and was released on December 23 in minitrailer English. At the beginning of minitrailer announcement comes with a warning that the background music is owned by Walt Disney Records.
Language Web Official
The official website of the group announcing this version English version socialize with countries outside the U.S. as and Australia.
Matthew Langton (born April 7, 1988), also know as Matty, is a Canadian actor and baseball player.
Biography
Langton was born in Montreal, Canada, and has been living there ever since. He grew up in the Pointe-Claire area, graduating from St-Thomas High School in suburban West-Island Montreal in 2005.
In high school, he was a member of the hockey team, as well as the softball and rugby teams. Also, he played competitive hockey for the West-Island Hockey Association and led his team to numerous championships. When he was not lacing up the skates or studying for school, Langton played elite baseball throughout the province of Quebec.
From 2003-2005, Matthew was part of the Drama Club at his high school where he developed his passion for acting, in the play "And Then There Was One". In 2007, he joined the Montreal School of Performing Arts (MSOPA) where he participated in several other plays.
Career
Baseball
Langton is most famous in the Montreal region for his accomplishments in the baseball world. In 2006, as the starting pitcher for John Abbott College, Matthew was named the top pitcher of the Canadian Intercollegiate Baseball Association (CIBA). Also, in 2008 as a member of the Lasalle Cardinals, he was named player of the year in the Ligue de Baseball Elite du Quebec (LBEQ). He maintained a perfect record of 15 wins and 0 defeats, which ensured that he would be named Most Valuable Player to his team. He was named Player of the week on 3 separate occasions as well as Player of the month twice. At the Canadian Championship for Junior Baseball in Prince-Edward-Island, Matty led Team Quebec to their first gold medal since 1995 .
Acting
The following is a list of Langton's various performances :
Theatre
* Constable Jones/ Mr. Dawes, Jr. in Mary Poppins for the MSOPA Holiday Production
* David Coggins in The Family Way at the MSOPA Express-O-Theatre
* Matthew Charisma in And Then There Was One for the St-Thomas High School Drama Department
* Louis in Wake at the MSOPA Express-O-Theatre
Film
* Mike Haller in A Casually Dressed Man for the Trebas Institute
Television
* Salesman in A Man's Car for the Trebas Institute
Hockey
Matthew started playing hockey at the age of 5. He played for the West-Island Royals, a team located in suburban Montreal. At the age of 18, he decided to stop playing ice hockey competitively in order to focus on acting and baseball. However, he still plays ball hockey competitively in the Beaconsfield Ball Hockey League. Currently, he is the leading scorer of his team (The Ducks) with 40 goals in 10 games.
Biography
Langton was born in Montreal, Canada, and has been living there ever since. He grew up in the Pointe-Claire area, graduating from St-Thomas High School in suburban West-Island Montreal in 2005.
In high school, he was a member of the hockey team, as well as the softball and rugby teams. Also, he played competitive hockey for the West-Island Hockey Association and led his team to numerous championships. When he was not lacing up the skates or studying for school, Langton played elite baseball throughout the province of Quebec.
From 2003-2005, Matthew was part of the Drama Club at his high school where he developed his passion for acting, in the play "And Then There Was One". In 2007, he joined the Montreal School of Performing Arts (MSOPA) where he participated in several other plays.
Career
Baseball
Langton is most famous in the Montreal region for his accomplishments in the baseball world. In 2006, as the starting pitcher for John Abbott College, Matthew was named the top pitcher of the Canadian Intercollegiate Baseball Association (CIBA). Also, in 2008 as a member of the Lasalle Cardinals, he was named player of the year in the Ligue de Baseball Elite du Quebec (LBEQ). He maintained a perfect record of 15 wins and 0 defeats, which ensured that he would be named Most Valuable Player to his team. He was named Player of the week on 3 separate occasions as well as Player of the month twice. At the Canadian Championship for Junior Baseball in Prince-Edward-Island, Matty led Team Quebec to their first gold medal since 1995 .
Acting
The following is a list of Langton's various performances :
Theatre
* Constable Jones/ Mr. Dawes, Jr. in Mary Poppins for the MSOPA Holiday Production
* David Coggins in The Family Way at the MSOPA Express-O-Theatre
* Matthew Charisma in And Then There Was One for the St-Thomas High School Drama Department
* Louis in Wake at the MSOPA Express-O-Theatre
Film
* Mike Haller in A Casually Dressed Man for the Trebas Institute
Television
* Salesman in A Man's Car for the Trebas Institute
Hockey
Matthew started playing hockey at the age of 5. He played for the West-Island Royals, a team located in suburban Montreal. At the age of 18, he decided to stop playing ice hockey competitively in order to focus on acting and baseball. However, he still plays ball hockey competitively in the Beaconsfield Ball Hockey League. Currently, he is the leading scorer of his team (The Ducks) with 40 goals in 10 games.
Ohm Phanphiroj is an international art and fashion photographer from Thailand. He works mainly in Atlanta, New York City, Australia and Bangkok. His works are shown in galleries and museums in the USA and Europe as well as in Asian countries.
Phanpfiroj's snapshot-aesthetic shows primarily young men in a kind of trivial, intimate situations. One can find analogies with the works of Wolfgang Tillmans.
Biography
Ohm Phanphiroj began his professional career as an artist and photographer in 1997, while working on a graduate degree in filmmaking with the Oscar award winning filmmaker, Gary Moss. That same year Ohm was featured in the Dutch film journal, Screen Talk, as an up-and-coming filmmaker on the strength of his short art film, I Wish You Were in Hell. He continued producing short films, but wanted greater artistic control over the final product, something difficult to achieve in filmmaking since it depends on the input of so many individuals. This desire for greater artistic control drew Ohm to photography, which he found suited him more than filmmaking. His first series, “Strangers in the Night”, explored non-verbal communication and nocturnal human behavior. A series of black and white images of highly charged nighttime activity combined a cinematic style with an invitation to the viewer to explore more intimate aspects of the human psyche and human behavior. These photographs generated considerable interest in his work. This initial very successful series led in 1997 to his first exhibition at Fay Gold Gallery, one of Atlanta’s most prestigious galleries. That same year Ohm was inducted into the Phi Beta Delta National Honor Society for International Scholars
Ohm’s work has generated ever greater interest from galleries, magazines, and private collectors. Awards include the Golden Light Awards and Ernst Grant competition award in 1997; Photo District News in 1999, 2000, and 2001; Photo Forum national photographic competition in 1998, and 2000; Art Director’s Club Award in 2000; Applied Art Magazine Award in 2000; and Epson Award in 2001. In addition, his work has been very favorably reviewed in numerous newspapers and magazines, including Atlanta Journal and Constitution in 1997, 1998, 2000, 2001, and 2003; Art Papers magazine in 1999; Winston-Salem Journal in 1999; and Creative Loafing magazine in 1997, 1998, 2000, and 2003.
In 2000 Ohm completed his second Masters in Film at Georgia State University and received a scholarship to pursue a graduate degree in photography at the world renowned Rochester Institute of Technology. While there, he taught as an adjunct professor and exhibited his work at the Sex Museum in NYC. Barbara Bernstein, a curator at the Brooklyn Museum of Art, met Ohm and, after reviewing his portfolio, characterized him as a first-class photographer who would achieve international recognition.
With this encouragement, Ohm moved to New York City and signed with Marge Casey + Associates, as well as with Sugarloaf in Australia, and the stock agencies Getty Images, Wire Images, and Wenn. Since then, his work has been featured in many publications, including Interview, Harper’s Bazaar, Wallpaper, Men’s Health, Cleo, Atlanta, Out, Genre, Esquire, Blue, Travel and Leisure, Mate, Expresso (Holland), and Pref (France). He was also appointed international fashion director of Esquire magazine, Asia section, from 1997-2000; and he is currently Fashion and Creative Director of Qr magazine and a correspondent for MATE magazine, Germany. In 2003 Genre magazine named Ohm Phanphiroj one of twelve influential photographers, and Out magazine named his second photo book, Rare Views, one of the best photo books of 2006.
Monographs published since 1997 include Rough Stuff, Rare Views, and Night Hawks. Ohm’s work is also featured in four anthologies: Visions (2006), Mien Schwules Auge 4 (2007), Night Visions (2008), and Nerve Photo Book (2008). He is currently at work on his fourth monograph to be published summer 2008.
Currently Ohm holds the position of lecturer in photography at Assumption University and at Rangsit University in Thailand.
Education
*ABT MFA Photography, Rochester Institute of Technology
*2000 MA Filmmaking and Photography, Georgia State University
*1995 MA Communications, University of Northern Iowa
*1993 Certificate Language and Cultural Studies, Memphis State University
*1991 LL.B. Law, Thammasat University, Thailand
Photo-books
* 2004: Rough Stuff
* 2006: Rare Views
* 2007: Night Hawks
* 2007: Visions
* 2008: Night Visions
* 2008: Mien Schwules Auge 4
Poetry Books
* 1990: Love
* 1992: Emotion
* 1994: Love & Faith
Awards
*• International Photographer's Award
*• Photo District News
*• Applied Art Magazine
*• Art Directors’ Club
*• Epson Photographic Award
*• Photographer's Forum Magazine
*• The American Photo on Campus
*• Tallahassee Museum of Fine Arts
*• The Print Center
*• Eyedrum Gallery
*• Post National Annual Black & White Photo Contest
*• Art Gallery
*• Golden Light Awards and Ernst Hass Grant Competition
Phanpfiroj's snapshot-aesthetic shows primarily young men in a kind of trivial, intimate situations. One can find analogies with the works of Wolfgang Tillmans.
Biography
Ohm Phanphiroj began his professional career as an artist and photographer in 1997, while working on a graduate degree in filmmaking with the Oscar award winning filmmaker, Gary Moss. That same year Ohm was featured in the Dutch film journal, Screen Talk, as an up-and-coming filmmaker on the strength of his short art film, I Wish You Were in Hell. He continued producing short films, but wanted greater artistic control over the final product, something difficult to achieve in filmmaking since it depends on the input of so many individuals. This desire for greater artistic control drew Ohm to photography, which he found suited him more than filmmaking. His first series, “Strangers in the Night”, explored non-verbal communication and nocturnal human behavior. A series of black and white images of highly charged nighttime activity combined a cinematic style with an invitation to the viewer to explore more intimate aspects of the human psyche and human behavior. These photographs generated considerable interest in his work. This initial very successful series led in 1997 to his first exhibition at Fay Gold Gallery, one of Atlanta’s most prestigious galleries. That same year Ohm was inducted into the Phi Beta Delta National Honor Society for International Scholars
Ohm’s work has generated ever greater interest from galleries, magazines, and private collectors. Awards include the Golden Light Awards and Ernst Grant competition award in 1997; Photo District News in 1999, 2000, and 2001; Photo Forum national photographic competition in 1998, and 2000; Art Director’s Club Award in 2000; Applied Art Magazine Award in 2000; and Epson Award in 2001. In addition, his work has been very favorably reviewed in numerous newspapers and magazines, including Atlanta Journal and Constitution in 1997, 1998, 2000, 2001, and 2003; Art Papers magazine in 1999; Winston-Salem Journal in 1999; and Creative Loafing magazine in 1997, 1998, 2000, and 2003.
In 2000 Ohm completed his second Masters in Film at Georgia State University and received a scholarship to pursue a graduate degree in photography at the world renowned Rochester Institute of Technology. While there, he taught as an adjunct professor and exhibited his work at the Sex Museum in NYC. Barbara Bernstein, a curator at the Brooklyn Museum of Art, met Ohm and, after reviewing his portfolio, characterized him as a first-class photographer who would achieve international recognition.
With this encouragement, Ohm moved to New York City and signed with Marge Casey + Associates, as well as with Sugarloaf in Australia, and the stock agencies Getty Images, Wire Images, and Wenn. Since then, his work has been featured in many publications, including Interview, Harper’s Bazaar, Wallpaper, Men’s Health, Cleo, Atlanta, Out, Genre, Esquire, Blue, Travel and Leisure, Mate, Expresso (Holland), and Pref (France). He was also appointed international fashion director of Esquire magazine, Asia section, from 1997-2000; and he is currently Fashion and Creative Director of Qr magazine and a correspondent for MATE magazine, Germany. In 2003 Genre magazine named Ohm Phanphiroj one of twelve influential photographers, and Out magazine named his second photo book, Rare Views, one of the best photo books of 2006.
Monographs published since 1997 include Rough Stuff, Rare Views, and Night Hawks. Ohm’s work is also featured in four anthologies: Visions (2006), Mien Schwules Auge 4 (2007), Night Visions (2008), and Nerve Photo Book (2008). He is currently at work on his fourth monograph to be published summer 2008.
Currently Ohm holds the position of lecturer in photography at Assumption University and at Rangsit University in Thailand.
Education
*ABT MFA Photography, Rochester Institute of Technology
*2000 MA Filmmaking and Photography, Georgia State University
*1995 MA Communications, University of Northern Iowa
*1993 Certificate Language and Cultural Studies, Memphis State University
*1991 LL.B. Law, Thammasat University, Thailand
Photo-books
* 2004: Rough Stuff
* 2006: Rare Views
* 2007: Night Hawks
* 2007: Visions
* 2008: Night Visions
* 2008: Mien Schwules Auge 4
Poetry Books
* 1990: Love
* 1992: Emotion
* 1994: Love & Faith
Awards
*• International Photographer's Award
*• Photo District News
*• Applied Art Magazine
*• Art Directors’ Club
*• Epson Photographic Award
*• Photographer's Forum Magazine
*• The American Photo on Campus
*• Tallahassee Museum of Fine Arts
*• The Print Center
*• Eyedrum Gallery
*• Post National Annual Black & White Photo Contest
*• Art Gallery
*• Golden Light Awards and Ernst Hass Grant Competition
The definition of a Subprime Nation, on the website subprimenation.org is one that is falling short in its duty of care to its citizens. The basis of the term was influenced in 2007 by the subprime lending market in the US, UK and Ireland. The word subprime was added to the Oxford English Dictionary in June 2008.
The term has been used in Ireland since the General Election 0f 2007 under a number of variants Sub-Prime Nation, SubPrime Nation etc. The term was also used by Patrick Buchanan, in the US in 2008 but his reference point was primarily the US$ and may have been better termed Subprime Currency. The website subprimenation.org was registered in December 2007. The most obvious example of a Subprime Nation in 2009 is Zimbabwe.
The prime concern, in Ireland 2009, is that the country may be sliding into Subprime Nation status, not just because of the collapsing property market and the failing banks, but because the current government seems to be favouring the interests of a handful of property developers and prominent businessmen in its restructuring methods.
Background
Ireland (The Republic of Ireland) went through an unprecedented boom during the decade 1998 - 2008. Three key factors led the economic growth; a massive EU structural fund contribution (subsidy) in the 1990’s, a dramatic cut in taxes - especially corporation tax and a property boom fuelled by low interest rates. During the boom years there were a number of allegations, most of which remain unsubstantiated, that there was at best collusion and at worst corruption between key property developers, banks and leading politicians to create an Austrian Business Cycle Theory type housing bubble.
When the international banking crisis developed in 2008 the Irish Government moved swiftly to shore up a banking system that was heavily at risk due to over exposure to the Irish property bubble. The government gave an unprecedented guarantee to all depositors, without limit, that it would underwrite the safety of their monies in the Irish banking system. This guarantee is the financial equivalent of 35 years of (2007) income tax receipts. Whilst this has kept the banks open it has not allayed the fear of the Irish public who have dumped the shares in the major banks to such an extent that they are becoming penny stocks, using the SEC definition.
2009
The Irish government is now working on a plan to recapitalise the banks. There is growing public disquiet that public money is being used to shore up one bank which is not a national main street clearing bank - Anglo Irish Bank. This bank is seen as the developers bank, due to the proportion of its business which is transacted with a relatively few number of builders and developers. The Chairman of the bank had to resign recently as he was found to be borrowing €89M from the bank and concealing this debt from the shareholders by “bed and breakfasting” the loans, when the auditors were due, in conjunction with other banks.
The Austrian Business Cycle Theory, which was first advanced in the 1930’s, indicated that housing bubbles are simply giant scams orchestrated by banks. To quote from the relevant article:-
[The monetary boom ends when bank credit expansion finally stops - when no further investments can be found which provide adequate returns for speculative borrowers at prevailing interest rates. Evidently, the longer the "false" monetary boom goes on, the bigger and more speculative the borrowing, the more wasteful the errors committed and the longer and more severe will be the necessary bankruptcies, foreclosures and depression readjustment]
The concern of large sections of the Irish people is in bailing out Anglo Irish Bank with public borrowing, that future generations will end up paying for, will be the act of a Subprime Nation where the scarce resources of the state will be used to give a “soft landing” to a few businessmen at the expense of many and that in doing so the state will be one that is falling short in its duty of care to its citizens.
The term has been used in Ireland since the General Election 0f 2007 under a number of variants Sub-Prime Nation, SubPrime Nation etc. The term was also used by Patrick Buchanan, in the US in 2008 but his reference point was primarily the US$ and may have been better termed Subprime Currency. The website subprimenation.org was registered in December 2007. The most obvious example of a Subprime Nation in 2009 is Zimbabwe.
The prime concern, in Ireland 2009, is that the country may be sliding into Subprime Nation status, not just because of the collapsing property market and the failing banks, but because the current government seems to be favouring the interests of a handful of property developers and prominent businessmen in its restructuring methods.
Background
Ireland (The Republic of Ireland) went through an unprecedented boom during the decade 1998 - 2008. Three key factors led the economic growth; a massive EU structural fund contribution (subsidy) in the 1990’s, a dramatic cut in taxes - especially corporation tax and a property boom fuelled by low interest rates. During the boom years there were a number of allegations, most of which remain unsubstantiated, that there was at best collusion and at worst corruption between key property developers, banks and leading politicians to create an Austrian Business Cycle Theory type housing bubble.
When the international banking crisis developed in 2008 the Irish Government moved swiftly to shore up a banking system that was heavily at risk due to over exposure to the Irish property bubble. The government gave an unprecedented guarantee to all depositors, without limit, that it would underwrite the safety of their monies in the Irish banking system. This guarantee is the financial equivalent of 35 years of (2007) income tax receipts. Whilst this has kept the banks open it has not allayed the fear of the Irish public who have dumped the shares in the major banks to such an extent that they are becoming penny stocks, using the SEC definition.
2009
The Irish government is now working on a plan to recapitalise the banks. There is growing public disquiet that public money is being used to shore up one bank which is not a national main street clearing bank - Anglo Irish Bank. This bank is seen as the developers bank, due to the proportion of its business which is transacted with a relatively few number of builders and developers. The Chairman of the bank had to resign recently as he was found to be borrowing €89M from the bank and concealing this debt from the shareholders by “bed and breakfasting” the loans, when the auditors were due, in conjunction with other banks.
The Austrian Business Cycle Theory, which was first advanced in the 1930’s, indicated that housing bubbles are simply giant scams orchestrated by banks. To quote from the relevant article:-
[The monetary boom ends when bank credit expansion finally stops - when no further investments can be found which provide adequate returns for speculative borrowers at prevailing interest rates. Evidently, the longer the "false" monetary boom goes on, the bigger and more speculative the borrowing, the more wasteful the errors committed and the longer and more severe will be the necessary bankruptcies, foreclosures and depression readjustment]
The concern of large sections of the Irish people is in bailing out Anglo Irish Bank with public borrowing, that future generations will end up paying for, will be the act of a Subprime Nation where the scarce resources of the state will be used to give a “soft landing” to a few businessmen at the expense of many and that in doing so the state will be one that is falling short in its duty of care to its citizens.