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• Philippines, Art, Photography

  Wawi Navarroza

  09.20.07 | Permalink | 1 Comment

  Wawi Navarroza is a full-time photographer from the Philippines. Her personal work is dark and dream-like. She uses traditional darkroom techniques to create worlds where creatures of her mind or mythology roam.

  © Wawi Navarroza - Keys to The Kingdom, Saturnine series

  © Wawi Navarroza - Letters Unsent, Saturnine series

  © Wawi Navarroza - My Valentine Has Hollow […]

• Macau, Art, Photography

  Wong Ho Sang

  09.12.07 | Permalink | Comment?

  Wong Ho Sang’s textured mixed-media and photography series on portaits depict traditional occupations against interiors.
  From art23e.

  © Wong Ho Sang - Chinese Opera Performer

  © Wong Ho Sang - Indian Merchant

  © Wong Ho Sang - Kung Fu Master
  I think the highly graphical nature of the work provides a different take to the usual sentimental images of […]

• China, Art, Contemporary, Photography

  Ni Haifeng

  09.11.07 | Permalink | 2 Comments

  China-born Ni Haifeng has been living and working in Amsterdam since 1994. He works in photography, video and installation art. The interviews on his site has some interesting questions and answers about his work, identity and motivation. He appears to be a very interesting and extremely talented person.

  © Ni Haifeng - No Man’s Land

  © Ni […]

• Personal, Art, Photography

  Art Education

  09.10.07 | Permalink | 7 Comments

  I read with interest the latest going-ons about an art education on Mr. Alec Soth’s blog and The Online Photographer. It’s highly pertinent to me at this point in my life when I’m facing a wide variety of choices with no concrete plan in mind.
  I have been talking to some of my friends from the […]

• Taiwan, Art, Contemporary, Photography

  Yao Jui Chung

  09.06.07 | Permalink | Comment?

  Yao Jui Chung is a multi-talented artist/curator from Taiwan. His works have traveled around the world and there is good reason for that. His works are ‘built around the political themes of power struggles and domination, and the deterioration of culture in a global scale’.

  © Yao Jui Chung - Heaven

  © Yao Jui Chung - Liberation […]

• India, Art, Contemporary

  Avinash Veeraraghavan

  09.06.07 | Permalink | 1 Comment

  Avinash Veeraraghavan’s I Love My India:Stories for a City (2004) caught my attention while I was looking for photography from India. Avinash Veeraraghavan is a young graphic designer who runs a design studio in Bangalore, India. He trained under and went on to work with the Italian designer Andrea Anastasio.
  I Love My India is a […]

• Exhibitions, Art

  U Can’t Touch Dis: The New Asian Art

  09.04.07 | Permalink | Comment?

  U Can’t Touch Dis: The New Asian Art is running from Sep 06 - Oct 13 at ZONE:Chelsea Center for the Arts, New York.
  Presenting the work of 18 young artists, many showing in New York for the first time, U Can’t Touch Dis introduces a cacophony of voices, images, sounds and sites that transform the […]

• China, Art, Contemporary, Photography

  Qiu Zhen

  09.03.07 | Permalink | Comment?

  Qiu Zhen’s My Bride and I is dreamlike, revealing a certain loneliness of being in a huge city.

  © Qiu Zhen
  The bride, a mannequin, becomes an embodiment of his hopes and dreams. After two years in Beijing, the thin line between reality and surreality blurred. He could only express these feelings through photography.

  © Qiu Zhen

  © Qiu […]

• Japan, Art, Contemporary, Photography

  Miwa Yanagi

  08.30.07 | Permalink | 2 Comments

  I was thinking of writing a post on Miwa Yanagi when I spotted a feauture of her in Eyemazing. Stacy Oborn from the space in between (I miss her posts!) wrote about Yanagi back in 2005.

  Miwa Yanagi’s photographs are instantly captivating. The Japanese artist’s bold and fantastical imagination carves out a unique photographic language and […]

• China, Art, Contemporary, Photography

  Wang Qingsong

  08.26.07 | Permalink | Comment?

  Sherman showed some works by Wang Qingsong during his talk and I went to look for more works by him. Born in 1966, he experienced the Cultural Revolution first hand and witnessed the influx of Western culture in China. These experiences form a large part of his work. Most of his works are politically […]

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