About Marco Ryan

Marco Ryan was born in the UK, but now lives in Singapore following the last 4 years living in Cairo, Egypt where he ran the Cairo Photo Studio, Cairo Photo Tours and worked as a freelance travel photographer. He has now reentered Corporate life as a Partner For Accenture in SIngapore but continue to teach, freelance and enthuse about photography in every spare moment.

Marco’s passion is for travel reportage, especially recording the more humanitarian aspects of life. Marco has founded and runs Focus for Humanity – a Not For Profit foundation that provides grants and supports to Humanitarian photographers and NGOs.

His time based in Cairo has allowed an unparalleled and privileged view into the lives of ordinary Egyptians, although much of his work is in South East Asia and the USA. Now based in SIngapore, he is taking a similar approach to immersing himself in the endless opportunities that South East Asia provides photographically.

With Karl Grobl, Marco helped to found and become a core faculty member of the Angkor Photo Workshops. He retains ownership of the Cairo Photo School – a franchise of the world famous Bangkok Photo School run by is friend and mentor, Gavin Gough – as well as the Cairo Photo Studio – a commercial photography studio run byhis Egyptian business partner, Ramy Salem, which focuses on Fashion and Product work.

Marco is an award winning photographer who has worked for corporations such as The Asia Foundaiton, Boyden International, Kempinski Hotels, Singapore Airlines and Pownall International. His work has been published in Silverkris (Singapore Airlines travel magazine), Digital Photographer, Cleo, Euphoria, Conde Nast Traveller as well as numerous travel magazines. He has exhibited in the UK, EGypt, USA and shortly, in Singapore.

He is contactable through this blog for commissions or fine art prints of his work and for his workshops. IN 2012 he will be running a series of travel mentoring workshops for Singapore based photographers. His portfolio is available here