TOP TO BOTTOM, © Zhu Hao

Zhu Hao’s images of the city are focused on the objects that we often walk pass unnoticed. As an acute and sensitive photographer, Zhu Hao is immersed in the so-called “intoxication evoked by the object being shot” (Jean Baudillard). With the help of photography, he has gone deeper and deeper into the heart of reality’s fascination.

You can view more of his images here and here.

TOP TO BOTTOM, (from “L ‘Etranger”)
© Kar-Wai Wesley

L’Etranger is an invitation to experience Paris as ‘l’etranger’ or in English, the foreigner; the alien; the stranger; the other…

My friend, Wesley, from Memphis West Pictures is holding an exhibition in Paris, his home for the past three years. This exhibition consists of a series of images photographed by him either at dusk or dawn in Paris. He says, “It’s only in the quietness of these times that I truly feel Paris belongs to me.”

30 June - 31 July
Genesis
15, rue des Lavandieres-Ste Opportune
Paris 75001

Liu Tong has some interesting work up on his site. His series, Dream/Life, is a surreal collection of black and white images.

TOP TO BOTTOM, from (”Dream/Life“)
© Liu Tong

Unfortunately, the links on his site are not functioning now. However, images for the series can still be viewed via the directory listing.

Got this in my mail today for a visual art exhibition in New York. Unfortunately, I’m halfway across the globe!

ChinaSquare Gallery New York is pleased to present Germinators, a group featuring Cao Jingping, Chen Wei, Li Jikai, Liao Yibai, Ma’chunfu, Qu Jiehen, Unmask, Wang Haiyang, Wang Tiantian, Wang Yaqiang, and Zhang Peng.

Germinators includes the work of 11 up-and-coming artists from China and Taiwan, whose work deeply addresses and begins to strip bare the reality of the radical change and societal restructuring that is playing out across the domestic landscape today. Much like a seed nestled deep within the earth that gradually sends out shoots struggling to break free in pursuit of the sun, the work presented in Germinators is equally engaged in the germination of a wholly new social landscape that grows in leaps and bounds as it both analyzes that growth and becomes part of it in equal measure.

Visit the gallery’s website for more information.

Hiroe Kobayash photographs visual poetry.

She says:

It is said that photography performed from the heart captures the truth.
My quest is to cast light on the yuragi filtered through the layers of my
experience. The end result is a world of mystery, images that conjure up
the sumi-e ink drawings of Chinese painting.

TOP TO BOTTOM, (from “White in the Dark”)
© Hiroe Kobayashi

It’s a pity that the images on her site are terribly small!

Opening this Saturday at 2902 Gallery, a group exhibition featuring Amanda Poh, Clarence Aw, Jean Loo, Joel Yuen, mintio, Vanessa Ban and Tan Peiling. The show explores the idea of documenting the living as memory and memory as an intrinsic nature of human - to record the passage of time and life.

13th January
© Amanda Poh

Traces
© mintio

My Suburbia
© Vanessa Ban

Exhibition details:
18 June - 8 July
2902 Gallery, OLD SCHOOL
11b Mount Sophia Road, #B2-09

Opening Hours:
Tue - Sat: 11am–8pm
Sun: 1pm-6pm
Mon: By appointment only

psssttt…go support my friends!

I’m a little late in running this. Singapore’s annual photography-based festival, Month of Photography, is back again this year. It is on from 13 June to 20 July and features a range of activities from exhibitions to workshops.

Visit the official website for more details.

Filipino photographer, Miguel Nacianceno, shoots in a cool detached manner that adds another dimension to his subjects.

In Carnival, he explores the themes of nostalgia, beauty and emotional authenticity.

The surreal and manufactured place served as backdrops to real human emotion. Since carnivals almost always pack up and build some place else, I also felt like capturing that bit of transient quality to the place.

TOP TO BOTTOM, (from “Carnival Photography”), 2002
© Miguel Nacianceno

Visit his online portfolio to see more works.

Good Night, New York
© Miao Jiaxin

4: Photo Group Show, features works by four Chinese-born, New York-based photographers - Zhang Wu, Miao Jiaxin, Zheng Yaohua and Wang Yiqun (whom I featured earlier in the week).

The accompanying exhibition statement, Discomforting Anxieties, is a good read to find out more about the photographers and their works.

Exhibition details:
4: Photo Group Show
May 16th - June 21st, 2008

CAAC Gallery 456
456 Broadway, 3rd Floor
New York, NY 10013

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