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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 or 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 & wite 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 & wite 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 & wite 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 & wite 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 & wite 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 & wite 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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