Arief Purnomo Dharmoputro (nick name and is friendly called "Purnomo"), was born in Surabaya, East Java. He is the 8th among 10 brothers and sisters. He was raised in a humble family background, and currently Arief lives in Bogor, approximately 35 km from Jakarta.
Purnomo's education background is Industrial Engineering and extended to Marketing Management. His daily style and appearance is simple (wearing Jeans and T-Shirt), that make him feels lot more flexible in participating the activities.
At the beginning, photography was just a hobby, but with the combination of his talent in art of painting and more than 15 years experiance in IT/Digital System, Purnomo decided to concentrate in Photography in the year 2005. He has seriously exercising more and more in the use of digital camera and he finally took the Photographer training at the Canon School of Photograph in Jakarta.
Currently Purnomo owns and directly manages more than 3 companies and has over 25 permanent employees. Those Companies are developed in the area of Engineering and Services and are effectively and efficiently operated in order to compete with the medium and upper level businesses.
The Carrier as Photographer is a never ending career; Purnomo is concentrating more on the object of Culture, Environmental (society) the Indonesian general flora, and other interesting and attractive subject. Arief is keen to develop the profession of Photography by constructing educational center in Photography and developing an Advertising Office and Marketing Consultant.
