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• Portraits, Thailand, Photography

  Ohm Phanphiroj

  08.15.08 | Permalink | 3 Comments

  TOP TO BOTTOM, © Ohm Phanphiroj
  Ohm Phanphiroj is a well-regarded art and fashion photographer from Thailand. His portraits are highly charged with intimacy and tension. I visited Whitespace Gallery where his Identity Crisis: Transsexual Series was on show. It featured triptychs of transsexuals and a short note on when they underwent their transformation. I found […]

• Thailand, Exhibitions, Photography

  Life is Beautiful

  08.09.08 | Permalink | 2 Comments

  TOP TO BOTTOM, (from “Life is Beautiful“)
  © Manit Sriwanichpoom, 2008
  One of the first galleries I visited was

• Bangladesh, Documentary, Photography

  Bangladesh, standing on the edge

  07.30.08 | Permalink | Comment?

  © Munem Wasif
  Munem Wasif has received this year’s City of the Perpignan Young Reporter’s Award at Visa pour l’Image, the premier International Festival of Photojournalism. I wrote about Wasif last September here. Since then, he has worked on a number of excellent work and his name seems to be popping up everywhere.
  Munem’s work is well […]

• Iran, Contemporary, Photography

  Mohammadreza Mirzaei

  07.28.08 | Permalink | 6 Comments

  A few weeks ago, I had a short email exchange with a reader on whether the blog should feature work from some countries. Iran, and other Middle Asian states were embroiled as I considered them to be Middle Eastern countries. I ruminated over it for several days and it did not feel right - how […]

• Art, Singapore, Contemporary, Photography

  Joel Yuen

  07.22.08 | Permalink | 4 Comments

  Joel recently bagged the 27th UOB Painting of the Year competition with his body of work, Anatomical Fantasies of Meat. This generated quite a big wave of debate within our little island, where many felt that a photograph should not win the competition and that they are too grisly to be considered art. Parallels […]

• China, Contemporary, Photography

  Zhu Hao

  07.05.08 | Permalink | 1 Comment

  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 […]

• Exhibitions, Singapore, Photography

  L ‘Etranger - Kar-Wai Wesley

  07.02.08 | Permalink | 2 Comments

  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 […]

• China, Photography

  Liu Tong

  06.29.08 | Permalink | 3 Comments

  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.

• Taiwan, Exhibitions, China, Art, Photography

  Germinators

  06.27.08 | Permalink | Comment?

  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 […]

• Japan, Art, Photography

  Hiroe Kobayashi

  06.23.08 | Permalink | 2 Comments

  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 […]

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