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• Japan, Books, Photography

  Eyes of an Island

  12.31.07 | Permalink | 1 Comment

  Shomei Tomatsu, Untitled, Tokyo, 1969. From the series Protest. © Shomei Tomatsu
  Intrigued by Japanese photographers? Bewildered by how they see things? Then Marc Feustel’s Eyes of an Island may interest you. Christmas may be over but the end of the year means that your birthday would be coming soon. =) Lens culture has got an […]

• Korea, Contemporary, Photography

  Yeondoo Jung

  12.24.07 | Permalink | Comment?

  Yeondoo Jung’s Wonderland series transforms children’s crayon drawings into photographs that are part make-believe, part reality.
  For four months, Jung oversaw art classes in four kindergartens in Seoul and collected 1,200 drawings by children between the ages of five and seven. After pouring through them, he carefully selected 17 drawings and interpreted their meanings. Then he […]

• China, Photography

  Shao Yinong and Mu Chen

  12.22.07 | Permalink | Comment?

  Shao Yinong and Mu Chen, a husband-and-wife team, photographed ancestral halls across China, which were appropriated by the Red Army to use as public meeting places. As China moves ahead, these halls are once again transformed for other purposes. These carefully composed images retain the traces of history, becoming in an instant, silent and evocative.
  From […]

• Personal, Blogging

  Happy Holidays!

  12.21.07 | Permalink | 3 Comments

  Here’s wishing everyone a Merry Christmas/Hannukkah and a Happy New Year! I hope that more exciting work from Asia will be featured in 2008. I might be doing some fair bit of traveling next year, hopefully to attend some photography festivals in the region. So stay tuned! I apologize for not posting much lately, I realized […]

• Photography

  Flak Photo

  12.21.07 | Permalink | Comment?

  Andy has been busy making his rounds plugging his website. Flak Photo is a daily photoblog featuring distinctive photography from an international community of photographers since July 2006. The blog aims to promote interesting visual approaches to seeing the world and celebrates the art of exhibiting quality photography online.
  Some of the works featured are pretty […]

• Korea, Photography

  Jeong-Mee Yoon

  12.18.07 | Permalink | 6 Comments

  The Pink and Blue Project by Korean photographer, Jeong-Mee Yoon, shows boys and girls with a collection of their personal items. The color pink represents femininity whilst blue represents masculinity, and we see the children surrounded by items that typify their gender.

  [all images from the Pink and Blue Project, 2005 - 2007, © Jeong-Mee Yoon]
  More […]

• Philippines, Documentary, Photography

  Max Pasion

  12.10.07 | Permalink | Comment?

  Max Pasion is definitely passionate about his work. As a photojournalist from the Philippines, he manages to capture the vibrancy of life. His images are multi-layered and energetic. He shows respect for life through his work.I particularly like this series on Manila. The city teems with life, and Max brings us on a journey to the underside, […]

• Japan, Competition, Photography

  The Ueno Hikoma Awards

  12.08.07 | Permalink | Comment?

  [all images © respective owners]
  The 8th annual Ueno Hikoma Awards, a photography contest organized by the Kyushu Sangyo University aims to discover and nurture young photographers. This year, it saw 1758 works in the adults section and 2309 entries in the high school/junior high school section. [via TAB]
  The winning works can be found here. Fantastic […]

• Korea, Contemporary, Photography

  Jhinryung Oh

  12.07.07 | Permalink | Comment?

  Dream of a Spider Women by Korean Jhinryung Oh is unsettling. Set against Nature as a backdrop, the mysterious masked figures frightens and bewilders the viewer at the same time.

  [all images from Dream of the Spider Women (2003-2006), © Jhinryung Oh]
  She writes:
  Together with my dolls, I dream of rambling around another space. Refusing to accept […]

• China, Photography

  Dong Wensheng

  12.06.07 | Permalink | 1 Comment

  Chinese photographer Dong Wensheng’s works are cinematic. He manages to create a mysterious world in his evocative images using muted colors and tones.

  From the series, Chinese Garden

  Meditating Head Sculpture, from the Tranquilizing Room series
  [all images © Dong Wensheng]
  Most of the works can seen at Fun Art Space’s website. Click on works under Dong Wensheng. There’s more of his […]

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