Shafwan ZaidonBorn in Kuala Lumpur in 1994, 7 Sept, Muhammad Shafwan Bin Mohd Zaidon, better known as Shafwan Zaidon, is a graduate of Diploma Photography and Creative Imagine from Universiti Teknologi MARA (UiTM) and his studies in Bachelor Creative Photomedia at UiTM Puncak Alam. He is the youngest in his family and has four siblings. He has been involved in photography since 2009 while he was at school by learning from friends. His ardent passion for photography, especially in photojournalism and documentary photography initiated the pursuit of his ambition as a full time photographer in 2012.
Now he continues his journey as a press photographer at one of the media agencies in Malaysia, Malay Mail for 5 years. As a press photographer, he has delivered every single assignment that is being given such as breaking news, politics, crime, disasters and sports. He was experienced in covering the Malaysia 14th General Election and some other State Elections. In 2021, Shafwan got a chance to witness how the massive floods affected thousands of people in Klang Valley and also in Temerloh, Pahang. Over 2 years, he was also involved in managing the photography community called The Biddys. The Biddys is a platform of emerging photographers to showcase their visual thoughts by promoting in social media platforms. Shafwan was one of the people responsible for creating content materials for each platform such as digital posters, video promotions, and live sharing sessions. He is also involved in handling some of the photography exhibitions produced by The Biddys from sketches to the outcome of the event. Along his journey as a press photographer, he hopes that he will be able to learn and produce a good body of works for his portfolio. He also manifested to get a chance to deliver more photo stories for the people, especially photography enthusiasts so that he may share the knowledge and his visual thoughts toward the audience. 2021:
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