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September 2007

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• Exhibitions, China, Photography

  Jiang Zhi

  09.20.07 | Permalink | Comment?

  Jiang Zhi’s Things Would Turn Simpler Once They Happened is currently exhibited in a group show at m97 gallery.

  © Jiang Zhi

  © Jiang Zhi
  Jiang’s series of large-scale photographs entitled “Things Would Turn Simpler Once They Happened” speak of the individual’s hopes that something unexpected and beyond their control would come and bring change to their otherwise […]

• Japan, Photography

  Takahiro Kaneyama

  09.19.07 | Permalink | Comment?

  Takahiro Kaneyama is a Japanese photographer based in New York. Apparently he graduated from SVA in 2001. His series, While Leaves Are Falling, is an introspective body of work. After his grandmother died, he began taking photos of the remaining women who raised him - his schizophrenic mother and two aunts as an act of […]

• Korea, Photography

  Hyun-Jin Kwak

  09.17.07 | Permalink | 2 Comments

  Hyun-Jin Kwak was the receipient of the Hasselblad Foundation Victor Fellowship in 2005 for her series Girls in Uniform.

  © Hyun-Jin Kwak - High Noon

  © Hyun-Jin Kwak

  © Hyun-Jin Kwak

  © Hyun-Jin Kwak
  In her works Hyun-Jin Kwak examines the issues of culture and sense of belonging. These fabricated moments depict rituals of acceptance, things that girls do to […]

• Personal

  Back Online

  09.17.07 | Permalink | Comment?

  After some grueling phone calls to retrieve the password that wasn’t sent to me, I’m back online! It’s been tough not having my RSS feeds, emails and everything in between. Expect the pace to be slower for the next few days as I pick my online life back again. In the mean time, I will […]

• Blogging

  Red Egg

  09.14.07 | Permalink | Comment?

  In Chinese culture, it is customary to celebrate when a baby is a month old. The parents would invite relatives and friends over for a party where red-dyed eggs are given to guests for happiness and renewal of life. What better way to celebrate this event then to present photographs of red eggs to my […]

• Blogging

  Month Old Baby

  09.14.07 | Permalink | 5 Comments

  This baby is officially a month old now! I would like to thank all my readers (that’s you) for your support. Here’s a short report of the foray with emphasis on my methodology and results/findings.
  Methodology
  I typically spend about two to four hours each day scouring the web for interesting stuff to show. I write at […]

• Japan, Photography

  Chie Yasuda

  09.14.07 | Permalink | Comment?

  Chie Yasuda’s photos taken in old gardens and museums are ‘pervaded with a unique sense of aura that has accumulated densely just in that particular space’.
  Curator Mitsuda Yuri on her works:
  When Chie Yasuda travels, she stops to look at the obscure, abandoned corners of old botanical gardens and museums. She often notices things deteriorating within […]

• Japan, Photography

  Yuki Aoyama

  09.14.07 | Permalink | 3 Comments

  Yuki Aoyama’s images of school girls and men in business suits suspended in mid-air are rather funny. He manages to cause viewers to believe, albeit for a moment, that the subjects defy gravity.

  © Yuki Aoyama

  © Yuki Aoyama

  © Yuki Aoyama

  © Yuki Aoyama
  See more images of people jumping in his gallery.
  Reminds me of my school’s entire ad […]

• Personal

  Short Disruption in Services

  09.13.07 | Permalink | Comment?

  I would not have access to the Internet over the weekend as I would be changing my ISP. My current ADSL line would be cut on Saturday but I would have to wait till the next working day, which is Monday, for my new ISP to reconnect my line. They promised that I would be […]

• Japan, Photography

  Alao Yokogi

  09.13.07 | Permalink | Comment?

  Alao Yokogi has a varied portfolio on his website and a blog [in Japanese] dedicated to his work. He was born in the Chiba Prefecture in 1949, studied at the Tokyo University in the late 60s. He recently published his book - Teach Your Children 1967-1975, a chronicle of his life as a student.

  © Alao […]

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