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Archived: Speaker of the Day: Mark Milstein

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Mark Milstein is speaker for the CEPIC Congress seminar The Future of Keywording which will be held on 27 May 2016 from 14:30 to 15:30 in Zagreb.

Mark is the founder of Microstocksolutions LLC and DigitalContentSolutions, the leading providers of DAM agnostic ingestion, curation/ review, metadata, and asset management services for the visual media industry and the Fortune 500

Milstein is also the founder of two of Central and Eastern Europe’s most respected photo agencies, Northfoto and Red Dot (now fully integrated into Profimedia) Red Dot was the region’s first internet based photo agency. Northfoto serves a diverse editorial and creative client base in Hungary, Romania, Serbia, and Slovakia.

From 1991 through late 2000 Milstein covered more than 20 conflicts and major natural disasters for Atlantic News Service. More than four years of that were spent photographically chronicling the war in the former Yugoslavia, and included working in Croatia, Bosnia and Serbia. During the second half of the decade, Milstein covered events in Chechnya, Rwanda, Afghanistan, Lebanon, Cyprus, Israel, the West Bank, Gaza, Iraq, Kuwait, Turkey, Congo, and Kosovo.