Coffee Chats w/ Anthony Gebrehiwot
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Coffee Chats is a series of virtual casual gatherings with the CEAD team with industry guests.
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Coffee Chats is a series of virtual casual gatherings with the CEAD team with industry guests. Hosted virtually in small intimate groups, these gatherings will provide a space for group conversations with practitioners who are interested in supporting OCAD U students and grads to offer mentorship, and share their professional insights and journey, while collectively creating an online community.
Anthony Gebrehiwot is an award winning visual artist, photographer and community leader whose creative lens re-visions photography as an ongoing dialogue of social change between subject and society. A self-taught artist and photographer, Gebrehiwot founded XvXy-photo in 2014 focusing on studio portraiture. To date, he has worked with several notable brands such as Nike, Royal Bank of Canada, Vice Canada, Absolute, Hudson Bay, The City of Toronto and Linkedin to name a few. His work has been featured in over thirty local and international publications such as the Star, the Globe and Mail, PAPER Magazine, Elle UK and Yahoo Lifestyle.
Themes: Maintaining a commercial and artist practice, improving your craft, concept building, networking, social media, tips for recent graduates interested in photography.
Website: http://www.xvxyphoto.com/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/tonyxtones/
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