Week14 - Ho Fan

Ho Fan (Chinese: 何藩) (born October 8, 1937)is a celebrated Chinese photographer, film director and actor. He has won over 280 awards from international exhibitions and competitions worldwide since 1956 for his photography.

《HONG KONG YESTERDAY》

Week13 - John Clang

John Clang, born Ang Choon Leng (Chinese: 汪春龙; pinyin: Wāng Chūnlóng), is a New York-based Singaporean photographer and visual artist. Clang's work has been exhibited in galleries and museums worldwide. National Museum of Singapore and Singapore Art Museum acquired his artwork as part of their permanent collection.

In January 2013, a showcase of over 90 works by Clang was exhibited at the National Museum of Singapore, together with more than 40 historical family portraits from the museum's collection.

This is a series of family portraits utilizing Skype technology to do live recording of Singaporean family members and project them across continents.

Drawing upon my own experiences of being separated from my family as a New York-based Singaporean, this work documents and examines our condition of new-wave diaspora - Singaporean families of various races and ethnicities grappling with the same predicament of separation through time and space.……（《Being Together》）

Being Together - Yuen family (Los Angeles, Toa Payoh)

Being Together - Tye family (Paris, Tanglin)

Being Together - Toh family (New York, Los Angeles, Yio Chu Kang)

Being Together - Chia family (Hong Kong, Upper East Coast)

Being Together - Yip family (New York, Telok Kurau)

Being Together - Boey family (Tokyo, Paris, Ang Mo Kio)

Being Together - Yeo family (New York, Sengkang)

Week12 - 李振盛

Li Zhensheng (Chinese: 李振盛; pinyin: Lǐ Zhènshèng; born September 22, 1940) is a Chinese photojournalist who captured some of the most telling images from the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution, better known as the Chinese Cultural Revolution.

His employment at the Heilongjiang Daily, which followed the party line, and his decision to wear a red arm band indicating an alliance with Chairman Mao Zedong, allowed him access to scenes otherwise only described in written and verbal accounts.

His recent publication of the book, "Red-Color News Soldier" exhibits both the revolutionary ideals and, more notably, many of the atrocities that occurred during the Cultural Revolution. The Heilongjiang Daily newspaper had a strict policy in accordance with a government dictate that only "positive" images could be published, which consisted mostly of smiling revolutionaries offering praise for Chairman Mao. The "negative" images, which depicted the atrocities of the time, were hidden beneath a floorboard in his house before he brought them to light at a photo exhibit in 1988.

Week11 - 张干琦

Chien-Chi Chang (張乾琦) (born 1961, Taichung, Taiwan) is a photographer and member of Magnum Photos.

Chang focuses on the abstract concepts of alienation and connection. “The Chain,” a collection of portraits made in a mental asylum in Taiwan, was shown at La Biennale di Venezia (2001) and the Bienal de São Paulo (2002). The nearly life-sized photographs of pairs of patients chained together resonate with Chang’s look at the less visible bonds of marriage. He has treated marital ties in two books—I do I do I do (2001), a collection of images depicting alienated grooms and brides in Taiwan, and in Double Happiness (2005), a depiction of the business of selling brides in Vietnam. The ties of family and of culture are also the themes of a project begun in 1992. For 21 years, Chang has photographed and videoed the bifurcated lives of Chinese immigrants in New York’s Chinatown, along with those of their wives and families back home in Fujian. Still a work in progress, “China Town” was hung at the National Museum of Singapore in 2008 as part of a mid-career survey and at Venice Biennale (2011) as well as at International Center of Photography, New York (2012). Chang’s investigation of the ties that bind one person to another draws on his own divided immigrant experience in the United States.

《The Chain 》

Week10 - Manit Sriwanichpoom

Born in 1961, Thai artist Manit Sriwanichpoom lives and works in Bangkok.

For years, Manit has been a leading figure in Bangkok's lively contemporary art scene. Whether satirizing the foibles of Thai nationalism, or rattling the skeletons of the country’s bloody political past, Manit's work is always insightful and provocative. Best known for his acerbic photographic critiques of Thai consumerism, Manit's trademark Pink Manseries has been exhibited the world over. But his most recent projects mark a return to formal concerns and open up new questions about the future of a country divided, wracked by political and symbolic crisis.

Manit's work is held in the collections of the Maison Européenne de la Photographie (Paris), the Fukuoka Asian Art Museum (Japan), the Singapore Art Museum and the Queensland Art Gallery, and in numerous private collections. His solo exhibitions include Bangkok in Pink at the Yokohama Museum of Art, Lambs of God at the Centre for Contemporary Photography (Melbourne), Pink Man in Paradise at Monash University and Valentine Willie Fine Art (Kuala Lumpur), and Beijing Pink at the Highland Gallery (Beijing). In 2007 he was awarded Japan’s prestigious Higashikawa Overseas Photographer Prize.

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Week9 - Hiroshi Sugimoto

Hiroshi Sugimoto (杉本博司, Sugimoto Hiroshi), born on February 23, 1948, is a Japanese photographer currently dividing his time between Tokyo, Japan and New York City, United States. His catalogue is made up of a number of series, each having a distinct theme and similar attributes.

His Personal Websit:http://www.sugimotohiroshi.com/index.html

Seascape: Cascade River, Lake Superior, 1995. Silver Gelatin Print

Seascape:   Aegean Sea, Pillon,1990.     

Seascape: Sea of Japan, 1997.

Seascape: Baltic Sea, near Rügen, 1996. 

Seascape: Ligurian Sea, near Saviore,1993.

Seascape: North Atlantic Ocean, Cape Breton, 1996

CARIBBEAN SEA,JAMAICA,1980

Week8 - Lv Nan

Lv Nan is a China photographer live in Beijing now.Lv Nan is given the name “the most legendary photographer in China”. His legend comes from his unique characteristic and his mysterious creative experience. During fifteen years’ of his photography career, Lu has been a preacher of imagery. For many people in the Chinese photography world, he seems to be even more famous in the “art” circle. One of his early pieces Add One Meter to a Nameless Hill has become one of the classic images in the Chinese contemporary art history. Lu is the first Chinese photographer who’s recognized by the well-known Magnum Photos. He is also the only Chinese photographer that had been featured in the APERTURE magazine. Lu is constantly invited to participate in numerous exhibitions; however, he is extremely selective about the exhibitions he is involved with. Lu also refused to have his portrait taken by others, so it’s very rare to see any photo documentations of him. For fifteen years, Lu has been leading a life that’s almost like a monk, spending his time working and studying. Lu believes in that “good stuff comes out of reticence.”

His personal websit:http://www.artlinkart.com/en/artist/overview/bbbiruu

Worshippers, Shaanxi, China(Series: On the Road), 1992

Worshippers receiving communion in the open air, Shaanxi, China(Series: On the Road), 1992

Worshippers walking towards consecrated land, Shaanxi, China(Series: On the Road), 1992

Church members gathering for Sunday worship, Shaanxi, China(Series: On the Road), 1992

Mongolian nun and her adopted daughter who was abandoned, Inner Mongolia, China(Series: On the Road), 1992

Confession, Shaanxi, China(Series: On the Road), 1992

Holy Communion, Shaanxi, China(Series: On the Road), 1992