Maurice Asseo
Photography

5524 Greystone Street
Chevy Chase, MD 20815-5534
phone: 301-652-2459
fax: 301-986-1628
email: masseo@verizon.net

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Maurice Asseo, a photographer, was born in Paris and grew up in Istanbul. His photography ranges from pictures of people to nature, derivations and abstracts. His Photo-Tints are digitally obtained from his own slides and printed on art paper. The composition of his pictures is influenced by his mathematical upbringing and by his dabbling with play directing—in parallel to his electrical engineering and regional development planning studies.

Maurice Asseo has visited more than eighty countries and has extensively photographed Turkey, Morocco, Rajasthan, Nepal, Bhutan, Egypt, Brazil, France, Sicily, Canada, West Africa and the U.S.A. His poetry has been published in French, English, and Turkish. Often exhibited in the USA and abroad, he is a prolific slide show producer and the author of two works in progress, Expressive Color Photography: A Course in Visual Design, and The Bosporus and Beyond. The latter is based on two slide shows that capture the legacy of the many civilizations that have flowered in Anatolia and Istanbul.

One of his first shows, Chimeras, won first prize from the Photographic Society of America in 1981, as did his following entry in 1982. Nilotic Invocation is addressed to the ancient gods of Egypt. A Road into the Amazon tells the story of the settlers of that region, whose journey and hardships Maurice Asseo tracked through World Bank missions as a senior agricultural economist. His latest show, Masks and Masquerades, Carnival in Venice, is a colorful review of the 2002 carnival placed in the context of the geography and history of Venice.

Maurice Asseo is a former president of the Greater Washington Council of Camera Clubs and of the International Photographic Society of the World Bank and IMF. The Assembly of Turkish American Associations has presented him with its Outstanding Achievement in Culture and Art Award.


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