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Hsu Sheng-Yuan
"Strangers"
"Hsu loves being on the move. He holds his small camera and bag, beaming as
usual, surrounded by lots of beautiful girls (he calls them "strangers") from his life. This guy has been on a Long March of photography for the past several years, and shows no signs of tiring.
Hsu is always pathologically happy and infectiously enthusiastic, but sometimes his photos and words can break your heart. Some people must be genetically predisposed to explore the frontiers. And Hsu is the one."
Steven Shiau
(30
black & white and color photographs)
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Kattia García
"The Wedding"
"Our inherited social and cultural conventions mark our children’s birth, baptism, sweet sixteen parties and weddings as significant events of life. To make true certain narcissistic dreams and keeping up appearances seem to be a human necessity in such occasions.
In Cuba, the fifteen-year birthday parties (the equivalent of the sweet sixteen party in the USA) and the weddings often are lavish. Projecting an image of high social and economic status seems more important than the sheer joy of a celebration in the company of friends and loved ones. These events imitate a lifestyle dictated by mass media that is well off the household’s means. Evidently, the cultural level, motivations and aspirations of the protagonists also play an important part."
(15 black & white photographs)
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Wang Fu Chun
"Natives of Northeast China"
"I really think that Wang Fu-Chun is a typical Native of Northeast China. Both his face and his work represent Northeast China. If a native photographer of Northeast China took the pictures of the Natives of Northeast China, then it must be a very interesting thing. About his photographic career, Wang Fu-Chun has said:
"As a freelance photographer, the goal is not to create artistic works, but to experience life, to think about life, to prove life and to exhibit life. I believe that with time, when looking back at these photos, we will surely have different feelings"."
Wang Rui
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Olivier Boëls & Lena Tosta
"Holy Ashes"
"Holy Ashes is the black and white readings on photographer Olivier Boëls and anthropologist Lena Tosta’s experiences with Hindu ascetics.
Lying on beds of thorns or meditating naked on snow-capped peaks, hindu holy men have always populated our imaginary Indias. Fabled and reviled but rarely understood, these extreme ascetics continue to stir the materialist mind as one of the most exotic modes of existence on Earth."
Lena Tosta
(35 black & white photographs)
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Zhang Huibin
"The Charm of the Countryside"
"Over two thousands years ago, the first poetry collection, The Books of Odes, were written in Central China, the very heart of the Motherland. The book's ancient stories inspired me to create The Charm of the Countryside. I started this project on Central China in 1994 and took 10 years to finish.
I hope these photos are not only seen as a record of reality, but also as my personal view of human nature, of happiness, anger, sadness and joy. My photos present the complex countryside life, nowadays struggling between the past and the present. I love my hometown, its history, land and labor life, although there is also little bit of sadness."
Zhang Huibin
(45
black & white photographs)
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Les Krims
"Pictures in the time of the culture wars"
"For a time in the States, growing criticism of liberal culture’s strident agenda offered signs that the left was quivering, getting grayer, loosing its grip, starting to shrink, beginning to molder & leak. For example, Jacques Derrida's death, on October 8, 2004, provoked an astounding revisionist article: “The Theory of Everything, R.I.P.,” by Emily Eakin, published in The New York Times (October 17, 2004). Several of Derrida’s contemporaries and acolytes admitted to Ms. Eakin, that they had hoped and believed their “theories” would
foster a Marxist revolution in the West (amazing!).
Les Krims
(45 black & white and
color photographs)
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Daniela Edburg
"The remains of the day"
"I like to work standing on the edge of things, where we can see their contradictions. That place where we can see quite clearly that artificiality is the true Human Nature, where a decaying body makes huge and colorful plastic flowers grow"
Daniela Edburg
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Giuseppe
di Bella
"Abu Ghraib"
"Art that seeks
to expose the reality of our contemporary political
situation is increasingly being quashed by authorities
with questionable agendas. Drawing on thinkers such
as Walter Benjamin and Frederic Jameson, Norman Wilcox
discusses the production, distribution and reception
of Giuseppe Di Bella’s Abu Ghraib Series."
Giuseppe
di Bella
(19
color photographs)
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Stephen Dupont
"Raskols of Papua New Guinea"
"In 2004 Stephen Dupont
infiltrated a Raskol comunity to document the
individuals behind the facelessness of gang
warfare. His Raskols series presents formal
portraits of the "Kips Kaboni" or
"Red Devils", Papua New Guinea´s
longest established Raskol group"
Stephen Dupont
(25
black & white photographs)
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Trisha
Ziff
"The Mexican Suitcase"
"I returned
from a short trip to New York in January 2007 with
a project to find a Ben Tarver in Mexico City. He
had inherited photographic negatives taken by Robert
Capa during the Spanish Civil War. I was not the
first person to be asked to help retrieve them, but
for many reasons 12 years had passed since Ben Tarver
had first reached out to Professor Green of Queens
College an expert in the Spanish Civil War. It was
a result of this brief correspondence initiated by
Tarver that Cornell Capa became aware of the lost
material of his brother."
Trisha
Ziff
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Pablo
Meyer
"Family Tree"
"It was early 1998 when
I got a letter from my aunt Conny Meyer and
my uncle Roger Meyer. It was an invitation
to attend the 90th birthday of a cousin of
my grandfather, Ilse Meyer in Israel. I had
no idea it was going to be her birthday, since
I had never heard about her before.
A family reunion? I knew Conny Meyer, but Roger Meyer? Who was this uncle
I didn't know of? We have to take into account that, since I was an only
child whose father was also an only child, my idea of a family reunion
was two or three people at the most."
Pablo Meyer
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Gaby
Messina
"Soul Mates"
"Following her
success with Grand Women Exhibition, Gaby Messina
presents her new work, “Almas Gemelas”.
A series of portraits of twin brothers and sisters
of all ages. The artist, mother of two years old
twins, was motivated to discover and understand more
about this intense and profound relationship. She
presents images that were snatched from a magical
reality where the careful choice of colour and lighting,
and the setting, help to compose stories with great
visual and emocional impact."
"Grand
Women"
"Gaby Messina
has worked on her Grandes Mujeres (Grand Women) series
over the course of the past two years. During the
development of this project she has brought together
carefully selected pieces that in a combined form
create a defining style in her work. Her depiction
of the subjects, elderly women, is born from the
first and lasting impression that she receives from
each one. It is the tenderness and a faint expression
of the artist’s influence that emerge as common
characteristics in the images."
Juan
Travnik
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Soody
Sharifi
"Maxiatures" and "Persian Delights"
"I have included two
concurring bodies of works 'Maxiatures
and Persian Delights' which continuously
feed off and compliment each other both conceptually
and technically. These images point to a more
layered, carnivalesque reading of the two cultures;
but in emphasizing the delicate fiction underpinning
these images, the images come closer to representing ‘reality’ than
what is seen in most news media. Through these
images, I explore the tension between public
and private spaces, depicting images which
undo the images of Islamic stereotypes represented
through the narrow focus of the daily media."
Soody Sharifi
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Joachim
Froese
"Rhopography"
"Rhopography
refers to the Greek word rhopos, meaning trivial
objects, small wares, trifles. This old fashioned
term for still life painting is the title for a series
of images referencing 17th century Flemish still
life paintings which often included moths and beetles
in their imagery.
"Species"
Species is a Latin
term used in the 13th Century to describe divine
rays of light that were believed to emanate from
God in order to create life on earth. It is used
as the title for a new series of photographs produced
in 2005 which references fresco paintings from the
Late Gothic and Renaissance period in Italy."
Joachim
Froese
(29
black & white photographs)
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José
Luis Cuevas
"The Smelly one"
"Its official name
is “Salon Orizaba” and perhaps
it’s the most singular beer hall in all
of the old downtown Mexico City. To find it,
you can ask for “La Apestosa”,
the nickname that the place has literally adopted
and keeps with pride to the last detail.
"La Apestosa" is
a place of encounter for alcoholics and prostitutes.
This photographic essay documents the relations
between them and the atmosphere of the place.
A dark place where alcohol and sex reign."
José Luis Cuevas
(26
black & white photographs)
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Ernesto
Ramírez
"Urban Archeology" and "Close to Heaven"
"Both works explore the tracks and nooks of Mexico
City. Urban Archeology examines the ruins and the
city waste to document how these remains, on the
one hand, contain an aesthetic of the epoch and also
how the great urban concentrations promote the culture
of waste
Close to heaven
is a visit to the urban rooftops, trying to explain
how these spaces have become an extension of the
house; these territories are the destination of all
that nostalgic trash of what we once were."
Ernesto
Ramírez
(24
black & white and color photographs)
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Various
authors
(Mexico)
"The gaze of 45 mexican photographers"
Curated by Francisco Mata and Pedro Meyer
"The 45 great contemporary
Mexican photographers bring their most representative
works to China, and show the Chinese audiences
a rich view of contemporary Mexican photography.
These photographers, with the abundant resources
of unique Mexican philosophy, history, culture
and art in their heart, direct their gaze to
Mexico and China as well. Through their gaze,
one can see that the photographers have been
thinking seriously on questions as the religions,
local customs, social development, and urbanization
constructed by the historical heritage and
contemporary context, the locality and global
quality weaving together. At the same time,
they take the situation in Mexico as an example
to cause the audiences to concern and to explore
the various problems in each culture."
Wang Huangsheng
Director
Guangdong Museum of Art, China.
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"The exhibition The
gaze of 45 Mexican Photographers presents for the
first time in history, a representative selection
of Mexican photographers in China. The exhibition
is possible thanks to the support of the Pedro
Meyer Foundation, being this, the organization’s
first project, under the curatorship of Pedro
Meyer and Francisco Mata. The show reflects
the diversity of thought and vision with which
images are produced nowadays in Mexico."
Alejandro Castellanos
Director
Centro de la Imagen, Mexico.
(450
black & white and color photographs)
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Various photographers
(Latin America)
"Hecho en Latinoamérica
Revelation, Uprising and Fiction"
"Three decades have passed since the First Latin American Photography Colloquium in 1978, it can be seen nowadays as an historical event, fundamental for the reconstruction of the recent Latin American iconographic memory. Those who participated in its organization and activities were both actors and witnesses of a very fortunate situation, which brought together several elements that existed at the same time, but were isolated, in some countries (such as Argentina, Brazil, Colombia, Cuba, Mexico, Peru and Venezuela), photography had a similar development, even though there was not an intensive and constant exchange of information that allowed to compare the work, except for the networks of photographic clubs, which had little social and cultural standing outside their small circuit."
Alejandro Castellanos
(460
black & white and color photographs)
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Diego
Goldberg
"Eight lives"
"How
can you talk about the suffering of others, of
grave illness, of extreme depravation? Numbers
are meaningless for most people; they don’t
drive anyone into action. We are numbed by the
terrible statistics. Millions of children die at
birth every year for lack of adequate healthcare.
Few remember the numbers.
The UN asked us to do a work regarding the Goals
of the Millennium: pictures and texts that would
be exhibited since October 12th of 2005 in the UN’s
headquarters in New York when the heads of state
of all over the world gathered there."
Roberto
Guareschi
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Hector Mediavilla
"The Congolese Sape"
"The arrival of the French to the Congo, at the beginning of the 20th
Century, brought along the myth of Parisian elegance among the Congolese
youth working for the colonialists. Many considered the white man to be
superior because of their technology, sophistication and elegance. In
1922, G.A. Matsoua was the first–ever Congolese to return from Paris
fully clad as an authentic French gentleman, which caused great uproar
and much admiration amongst his fellow countrymen. He was the first
Grand Sapeur."
Hector Mediavilla
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Charise Isis
"American Stripper"
"For the last twelve years, I have worked on and off in the world of exotic dance (strip clubs). It is a world harshly judged by the mainstream and generally negatively depicted by the media. Strippers are often viewed as dysfunctional people on the fringe of society.
Throughout my career as a dancer I have come to know some very powerful and creative women. I have witnessed deeply moving and healing experiences and I have seen a great deal of beauty and strength within this industry."
Charise Isis
(22 black & white photographs)
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Hans Neleman
"Night Chicas"
"Night Chicas is an anthropological tour through a damaged landscape
of various Guatemalan prostitutes. Photographer Hans Neleman travels
over the bodies of these women conscious that their stories are best
unearthed through the vessels of theirtrade. Neleman captures the sober
awareness that resonates warily, and sometimes proudly, that the women
are marked, but not defined by their bodies."
George Pitts
(34 black & white photographs)
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