Klojen (malangkota.go.id) – The Youth, Sports and Tourism Agency (Disporapar) of Malang City held a Malang Photography Workshop attended by photo enthusiasts at the Merdeka Square of Malang City, Thursday (15/2/2024). This training was held to support and strengthen the launch of Malang City as a World Creative City in 2025. Participants and the results of this training will be periodically and will be synergized with other creative economy actors, such as product design, culinary and fashion.
That was conveyed by the Acting Mayor of Malang, Dr. Ir. Wahyu Hidayat, MM after opening the event. According to him, photography is one of the creative economy sub-sectors that has a wide market and is in great demand. "When synergized with other creative economy sub-sectors, it will strengthen each other and be mutually beneficial," he said.
In addition to producing classy photo works and photographers, Wahyu said that this training is also expected to be a means to exchange knowledge between amateur and professional photographers. This training will also be carried out continuously and there will be special assistance.
"We are currently promoting 17 sub-sectors (creative economy) in Malang City, one of which is photography. There have been several activities that we have carried out in order to make Malang City a creative economy city in 2025 tomorrow, in one year Malang City will become a world-class creative economy city, one of which is support from photography," explained Wahyu.
In order for the target of making Malang City a world creative city to be realized properly, Acting Mayor of Malang Wahyu admitted that other creative economy sub-sectors are also being continuously boosted. For example, videography training, encouraging fashion shows especially those driven by young generation fashion designers and providing facilities to obtain recognition of Intellectual Property Rights (HAKI) for the creative economy actors. (say/yon)
