Aung Chan Thar

Myanmar | B. 1997

Aung Chan Thar is a young ASEAN storyteller and travel photographer from Myanmar. With numerous photography accolades, including AFIAP, BPSA, QPSA, LPSS, APSS, and BEPSS, he has earned recognition through over 160 international awards from more than 25 countries, showcasing his exceptional talent and dedication. He has imparted his photography knowledge to over 1000 young individuals and university students in Myanmar. Supported by ACB, his conservation photography workshops in Myanmar resulted in a photo exhibition and book publication. He is the founder of the Myanmar Photography Academy (MPA), which provides free photography education to the youth of the country. His journeys have taken him deep into the heart of Myanmar, allowing him to capture its traditional culture and lifestyle with a touch of artistic finesse.

CREDENTIALS


 

2025 
Xposure International Photography Awards 2024 - First prize 
World Water Day Photo Contest 2025 - Overall Winner 
Photography 4 Humanity 2024 Global Prize - Top 10 
SEARCA Photo Contest - People Choice Award 
14th Mobile Photography Awards 2024 – 2 Honorable Mentions 
5th Smartphone Photography Competition (SPC) - Honorable Mention 
10th Nevsehir Municipality Cappadocia - TFSF Mention 
Chiangmai CAD New Year Countdown 2025 - Third Prize 

2024 
Greenstorm Photography Awards – First Prize Winner 
Vivo VISION + Mobile Photo Awards – Category Winner 
Honor Magic Moments Awards 2024 - Excellent Work Award 
Itel Photo Contest 2024 - Consolation Prize 
The Andrei Stenin International Press Photo Contest - Winner 
MPS All Myanmar Photo Contest - 2nd Place Winner, Consola on Prize 
SEARCA Photo Contest - People Choice Award 
KAAF Photo Contest - 2 Honorable Mention Awards 
The Motif Collective Photo Contest - Honorable Mention 
1st Adana Orange Blassom Carnival - IAAP Diploma 
Turkiye Mobile Photo Awards 2024 – 1st, 2nd, 3rd and 7 Honorable Mentions 
Myanmar International Photo Circuit - Honorable Mention 
ASEAN SX Photo Contest – Myanmar National Award  
Make world green again - IAAP Silver Medal 
One Eyeland World's Top 10 Mobile Photographer – Gold Award 
One Eyeland World's Top 10 Mobile Photographer – Silver Award 
Turkiye Mobile Photo Awards 2024 - 1st Place Winner 
Turkiye Mobile Photo Awards 2024 – 2nd Place Winner 
Turkiye Mobile Photo Awards 2024 – 3rd Place Winner 
Turkiye Mobile Photo Awards 2024 – 7 Honorable Men on Awards 
Myanmar International Photo Circuit (MPS) - Honorable Mention 
Myanmar International Photo Circuit (FCCV) - Honorable Mention 
Myanmar International Photo Circuit (APS) – 2 Honorable Mention Awards and many more.

2023 
American Photography Open - Grand Prize Winner 
Samsumg Nightography Photo Contest 2023 – First Prize Winner 
International Photo Compe on - First Prize Winner 
Oneplus Photo Awards - 3rd Place Winner 
SYP Photostory Competition: Water Security for All - 2nd Place Winner 
Honor Magic Moments Awards - 3rd Place Winner 
6th BENIN INTERNATIONAL PHOTO CONTEST - IAAP Gold Medal, ANAPHAB Special Award 
One Eyeland World's Top 10 Mobile Photographer - Top 10 
One Eyeland World's Top 10 Mobile Photographer – Gold Award 
One Eyeland World's Top 10 Mobile Photographer – Silver Award 
One Eyeland World's Top 10 Mobile Photographer – Bronze Award 
One Eyeland Myanmar Top 10 Mobile Photographer - Top 1 
Interaction's Photo Contest - Co-Winner 
Created for Alpha - People Choice Award 
4th COUNTRY OF HEAVEN PHOTO CIRCUIT - Circuit Bronze Medal, Honorable Mention 
The Magic of Autumn - First Prize Winner and many more.

2022 
KOLGA TBILISI PHOTO - First Prize Winner 
One Eyeland World's Top 10 Mobile Photographer - Bronze Prize 
One Eyeland World's Top 10 Travel Photographer - Bronze Prize 
CWA Photo of the Year Compe on - 2nd Place Winner 
Siena International Photo Awards - Remarkable Artwork 
Internatonal Photo Compe on "Flow of beauty" - 2nd Place Winner 
Better Photography Magazine Photographer of the Year - Silver Award  
Weather Photographer of the Year - Mobile Winner 
Honor Magic Moments Awards - Recommendation Award 
Xiaomi Imagery Awards – 2 Outstanding Prize  
Huawei Next Image Awards - Best in Category Winner 
Mobiography Awards - Honorable Mention 
Photography 4 Humanity Global Prize - Top 10, Honorable Mention 
Weatherwise Photo Contest - 3rd Place Winner, Honorable Mention 
1st International Circuit Photo Format - FIAP Silver Medal, FIAP HM Ribbon, PSA HM Ribbon 
6th Lion City International Salon - PSS Silver Medal, FIAP Blue Ribbon 
The 18th International Photographic Contest - Honorable Mention 
Art RIBEIRAO PRETO - National Diploma 
Betterphoto.Com - Second place winner 
Vienna International Photo Award - Honorable Mention and many more.

2021 
Xiaomi Imagery Awards - Grand Prize Winner 
Pink Lady Food Photographer of the Year - 2nd Place Winner 
MUSE Photography Awards - Category of the Year (Mobile) 
MUSE Photography Awards – Platinum Winner, Gold Winner   
EU4Youth Photo Competition - 3rd Place Winner, Favorite Winner 
Vivo VISION + Mobile Photo Awards - Category Winner 
Margaret mcnamara Education Grants Photography Competition - 3rd Place Winner 
Zooming in on Biodiversity Photo Contest - First Prize Winner, People Choice Award 
GPU - Under 25 Free Photo Compe on - GPU Bronze Medal 
Country of Heaven Photo Circuit – Merit award 
2021 International Martial Arts Photo Contest - Fine Work Prize 
Smile World International Photography Awards - Honorable Mention 
INBAR 2021 Photography Competition - Highly commended 
Mekong-kor Photo Contest – Winner 
14th Annual International Color Awards - Honorable Mention 
RAINBOW 5TH INTERNATIONAL CIRCUIT - ICS CM and many more.

2020 
GPU Under 25 Free Photo Competition - GPU Gold Medal 
5th Lion City International Salon - FIAP Gold Medal 
Youth Eyes On The Silk Roads International Photo Contest - First Prize Winner 
Country of Heaven Photo Circuit - Circuit Merit Award and Circuit Gold Medal 
Mobile Photography Contest (Moment) - 2nd Place Winner 
2nd International Photo Exhibi on NARIKALA - FIAP Gold Medal 
Shadowhunter Circuit - Salon Silver Medal 
TRILATERAL CIRCUIT - Trilateral Gold Medal 
Orhan Holding 16th International Photography Competition - FIAP Silver Medal 
YPS International Salon - GPU Gold Medal 
SEARCA's 14th Annual ASEAN Photo Contest - First Prize Winner 
One Eyeland World's Top 10 Mobile Photographer - World Top 10, Gold Award, Silver Award 
67th Singapore International Photography Awards - IAAP Bronze Medal 
Smile World International Photography Awards - Honorable Mention 
10th Annual Mobile Phone Awards (MPA) – Honorable Mention 
APA Photographer of the Year - Honorable Mention 
Tokyofoto Awards - Honorable Mention 
ND Awards – Honorable Mention 
CHROMATIC PHOTO AWARDS - Honorable Mention 
14th KONYA CULTURE & TOURISM DIRECTORATE - FIAP Mention 
Raffles Photo Awards (RPA) - Raffles Merit Award 
ARBELLA 10th International Photography Competition - FIAP Men on and many more. 

2022
"Life in and around Inlay Lake”: A multimedia digital exhibition on Google Arts & Culture under the Young ASEAN Storyteller initiative, showcasing the traditions, environment, and daily lives of local communities. 
2025
Photography 4 Humanity: A Lens on Climate Justice
In Colors Project ED#3 JOY, Lumicroma, Portugal

2024
“Sustainable Action”, Inle Lake

2023
UNESCO Silk Roads Programme – 35th Anniversary Exhibition

2022
Featured “A Threat for the Green World”, Hpa-an, Myanmar
In Colors Project ED#1 REACT, Lumicroma, Portugal

2020
Youth Lens on the Silk Roads (UNESCO 2nd edition)

 

2023
Conservation Photography Workshops for Myanmar Youth: Conducted in Hpa-an, Inle, and Indawgyi under ASEAN Centre for Biodiversity (ACB) a sustained, residency-style commitment.

Myanmar Photography Academy (MPA) Founding: Long-term coordination of workshops, mentorship programs, and landscape projects, akin to ongoing residency and leadership work. 
 

Exposições Lumicroma

IN COLORS PROJECT ED#1 REACT!
React! is a portrait of the human condition and the perception of the world, showing different speeds, multiple realities, encounters and inequalities, so many reactions.
The broadness to which ... Ler Mais
React! is a portrait of the human condition and the perception of the world, showing different speeds, multiple realities, encounters and inequalities, so many reactions.
The broadness to which the theme is open is represented in this set of 50 artworks by photographers from 22 nationalities. React! to what, from what perspective? The possibility of endless interpretations is mirrored in an exhibition in which the reaction is as much in the photographed "scene" itself as in the impression of the person who photographed it, and also, and always, in the eye of the person who appreciates the photograph. In this realm, there is the image of time and place, of many places and many qualities of time. There is the beauty of moments, spaces, cultures and traditions. There is a whole scale of emotions. There is the poetry of landscapes and the destruction wrought by war. There is fantasy in improbable scenarios. There are global concerns, personal instances. Sometimes the weight of existence; sometimes the lightness of laughter in the face of death. There remains, still, the certainty of a kaleidoscopic world, in permanent change, so that stories repeat themselves. Because man repeats himself. The continuity of life is also maintained. It is in the faces of many. It is in the colors. It is in the light of black and white. It is in the instinct. In the will. In what is lost, in what is conquered.

Curated by Sandra Maria Teixeira

IN COLORS PROJECT – a borderless initiative by Lumicroma – reclaims the relevance of photography as a sociocultural record and artistic intervention. Through the convergence of experiences reflecting on the current world and through photographic creation, it aims to annually trace the grand image of the time in which we live. Ler Menos
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IN COLORS PROJECT ED#2 HOME
With HOME, the theme of the 2nd edition of IN COLORS PROJECT, we set photographers from all over the world a challenge made of delicate matter. We wanted everything from photography - the artistic and ... Ler Mais
With HOME, the theme of the 2nd edition of IN COLORS PROJECT, we set photographers from all over the world a challenge made of delicate matter. We wanted everything from photography - the artistic and emotional act, the conscious and political act, light and shadow. The result is an exhibition that manifests multiple realities in the same blood.
In 74 photographs, 32 authors from 14 nationalities give us the most poignant portrait of what we are, what we do and what we are failing at. Because HOME has smiles and exposed wounds. It shows a sense of belonging and an absurd lack of ground.
It is the human cloak of a thousand patches to which we all belong.
This is our Home. And we can't close our eyes.

Curated by Sandra Maria Teixeira

IN COLORS PROJECT – a borderless initiative by Lumicroma – reclaims the relevance of photography as a sociocultural record and artistic intervention. Through the convergence of experiences reflecting on the current world and through photographic creation, it aims to annually trace the grand image of the time in which we live. Ler Menos
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AUSCHWITZ: TRACE(S) OF A LEGACY
Auschwitz: Trace(s) of a legacy is a project that uses photography as a means of creating a link between past, present and future.
To keep the memory alive appeals to reflection and to vigilanc ... Ler Mais
Auschwitz: Trace(s) of a legacy is a project that uses photography as a means of creating a link between past, present and future.
To keep the memory alive appeals to reflection and to vigilance and encourages the commitment of future generations, so that, through these, the voices of the survivors, which will soon no longer be heard, can echoe.
We know the history, we have seen the films and we have read the books. We have always been told that Auschwitz is the true symbol of Holocaust, since more than one million jews were murdered there. A factory of killing people! Gypsies, ho-mossexuals, Jehovah's Witnesses and political dissidents also suffered in this dark place.
We have read about the hideous experiments carried out by Mengele in Auschwitz. We have seen photographies of the survivors, of the corpses, of the crematoriums, of the abandoned personal belongings. We started our journey to Poland with the thought that we would be prepared to face the interpretative centre of the Holocaust and, through it, find the answer to our restlessness: how could this have been humanly possible?
During the journey, we revisited those with whom we had previously shared the feeling of the concentration camp. All the pages, testimonies and faces remained well alive in our memories.
We have arrived, the presence in Auschwitz overwhelms us!
No memory, read, studied, seen or heard can be compared to standing right there. In the deafening silence of that place, which carries within itself the imense loss of human sense, the question of Theodor Adorno gains strenght: How can poetry be possible after Auschwitz Ler Menos
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COURA'S PARADISE

Alfredo Cunha's eye, attentive and sharp, documents this magic, this spirit of brotherhood, this collective happiness. The joy of the audience and the euphoria of the bands, who never forget th ... Ler Mais

Alfredo Cunha's eye, attentive and sharp, documents this magic, this spirit of brotherhood, this collective happiness. The joy of the audience and the euphoria of the bands, who never forget that breathtaking human wall and the generous way they are received. It captures the sweetness, the serenity, the deepest peace, the shared love, the respect, the amazement, the unique energy of the Taboão river, contrasted with the exaltation, the apotheosis, the celebration and the joy, that sacred emotion that Almada Negreiros once said was "the most serious thing in life".

Year after year, we need the Paredes de Coura Festival to recharge the batteries of passion, to dispel the mediocrity of the grayest days, to cure the diseases of the sadness that makes us pale and to chase away the city carrion that burrows into our bones. To fill ourselves with beauty, euphoria and the deepest peace, in divine communion with nature. On pilgrimage, in a perpetual return to magic.

Curated by Sandra Maria Teixeira

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IN COLORS PROJECT ED#3 JOY
This third edition of the In Colors Project, under the theme JOY, brings together 75 works by 56 authors from 22 countries, forming an emotional atlas that interrogates the ways in which joy is expres ... Ler Mais
This third edition of the In Colors Project, under the theme JOY, brings together 75 works by 56 authors from 22 countries, forming an emotional atlas that interrogates the ways in which joy is expressed in a world marked by geopolitical tensions and systemic crises.
Photography, as a device for representation and mediation, emerges as a territory for ideological, aesthetic, and poetic experimentation. The selected images map out visual strate- gies through which different cultures are encoded, ritualized, and transmitted. Encompassing a range of representational expressions – from collective celebration to intimate contemplation – each author presents a singular visual lexicon, revealing joy as a socio-anthropological and aesthetic praxis, while envisioning the creation of possible futures.

The curatorial approach is structured around the hypothesis that the photographic image constitutes a device for reconfiguring sensibility, for analyzing and interpreting reality, transfigured and appropriated into autonomous and individual realities, prompting us to question the conditions of possibility for pleasure, encounter, and transformation in contemporary societies.

Curated by Aníbal Lemos and Sandra Maria Teixeira

IN COLORS PROJECT – a borderless initiative by Lumicroma – reclaims the relevance of photography as a sociocultural record and artistic intervention. Through the convergence of experiences reflecting on the current world and through photographic creation, it aims to annually trace the grand image of the time in which we live. Ler Menos
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