Anthony Asael

Education

Asael graduated from Solvay Business School in Belgium.

Career

He is of Turkish and Italian origin. Anthony Asael has traveled through, photographed and taught in all 193 United Nations member countries. At 7 years old, he developed his black-and-white photography in his laboratory

He traveled with and learned from Ruggero Gabbai – a professional Italian photographer and film director

He held several management positions at various Information Technology and telecommunication companies. In 2004 he decided to dedicate to the non-profit sector and founded, an organisation that claims to promote tolerance and cultural exchanges in schools.

Having traveled throughout the world and encountered with different cultures, Asael aims at giving a right of expression to children and building more tolerance through artistic exchanges and communication. He wants to be the international platform of child art exchanges, promoting tolerance and creative cultural exchanges while using the universal language of Artist

The World Art Book of (also called, The World seen through the Eyes and Rhymes of the Children) was launched the 20 of November 2009 at the United Nations in New York in the frame of the 20 years anniversary of the Children Rights Convention.

lieutenant presents in one book each of the 193 United Nations member countries through a local child, with a single portrait and a drawing and a poem by the child. Anthony Asael was the main photographer in this expedition. Asael"s artwork and photography have been shown in over 80 exhibitions since 2000.

His exhibitions "Colors and Scents", "The 8 Millennium Goals", "Children Rights", "Know your World" and the "Children World Art Tour" has toured through 5 continents.

He was featured in 2006-2008 within exhibitions on the Millennium Goals in Brussels, Milan, Antwerp, Toronto, New York and in Santiago for the 60th anniversary of the Unicef. The Children World Art Tour was launched in 2010 at Antwerpen-Centraal railway station and Tour & Taxis in Brussels.

In 2012, with, his work was shown at the World Expo 2012 in Yeosu, South of Korea and in Rio de Janeiro for the Rio+20 United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development.

Achievements

• With, he has provided photography classes to over 388,000 children in over 1650 schools through partnership with United Nations International Children's Emergency Fund or SOS Children Villages. He and has also been honored at the United Nations International Children's Emergency Fund for the 20 years anniversary of the Children Rights Convention and exhibited in the United Nations International Children's Emergency Fund headquarters for the event at the same time as launching their World Art Book. In 2009, he also won the first Prize of the Kodak Smile Festival in Paris.