China Back from Tibet
Tibet is a great place to travel to, and Lhasa is one of my favourite cities to relax in, although it’s always nice to get back home to Shanghai. Below are a few shots from the trip.
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Shanghai Photography Exhibitions: October
This month:
M97 – Yang Yong’s solo exhibition “On Edge” (showing until October 16th)
Ofoto – Uncertain Times – Shanghai by Ma Kang (showing until October 21st)
18 Gallery – Yang Yongliang’s “Peach Colony” (showing until October 20th)
am Art Space – “City Tracery” by Christina Shmigel & Yu Ji (showing until November 13th)
Beaugeste Gallery – “Bees” by Zhe Chen (showing until November 2nd)
Around Space – is opening a group show on October 29th entitles Human / Happiness
Kunst Licht – Instant Again by Yang Hongxun (until October 27th)
Beijing:
Three Shadows Photography – Coal + Ice
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Back in Lhasa
It’s been a year since I was last in Lhasa on the Middle Kingdom Ride, and the city is still as spectacular as it was then. This time I’m hear shooting at the St. Regis hotel for Hostetler / Zhang / Studer , an American landscape architecture firm. I’ve extended my stay for a day so I can head to the Sera Monastery and photograph the monk debates. The debates take place every afternoon at 3pm, and, in my opinion, are one of the “must see’s” in Lhasa. You can expect to see photos from the monastery soon.
In the meantime I’d like to share a map of my favourite photo locations in Lhasa with you. I’ll be updating it with more locations as soon as I get back to Shanghai.
The photo below was taken at my favourite Potala Palace viewpoint (which is the only one on the map at this point – 09.25.11)
That’s all for now. Check back soon for more photos of Lhasa and the Sera Monastery.
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New Project – Women at home
Personality is reflected in many different ways in a portrait. In the women at home series the houses, and the objects they are filled with, reflect the personality of their owners, lending themselves to the narrative of the portrait.
The series was commissioned by a Shanghai based market research company, and is part of a book which examines the Chinese woman’s ideal of beauty. The shoot began in Shanghai, China’s business hub, and then took us to industrial Shenyang in the northeast, and to Chongqing municipality in Sichuan. For two weeks our team of 4 including an art director, a journalist, and a guide, conducted interviews and took photographs of the women in their homes.
See the series here.
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696 Weihai R.d Series via Wonderful Machine
This article via the Wonderful Machine blog:
Art in China
Tuesday April 5th, 2011
The arts community of China has been in the news the past few days, because of the detention of artist Ai Weiwei. This kind of government repression receives a lot of attention and appropriate condemnation, but I was interested in learning more about the creative community there. Are there other obstacles to creative work, which aren’t related to the obvious censorship? And what have people managed to produce in spite of these obstacles?
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The Gap – China Campaign (video)
I’m a big Annie Leibovitz fan. Although I’d heard about the gap campaign she shot, it wasn’t until last week that I was down near Nanjing road and saw the billboard.
Keep reading for more info on Annie Leibovitz Gap China campaign…
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Shanghai Photography Exhibitions
Well Shanghai, after taking tens of thousands of photographs of you it’s time for me to give something back, so I present what I hope to become a monthly staple here on the blog, the Shanghai Photography (or related) Exhibition listing for February 2011.
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Links
http://www.the-photographer-directory.com
http://phodir.com/
http://www.listphotography.com
http://www.commercialphotographersdir.com
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Work for free???
I was recently asked by a non-profit to do some photography for them, so I consulted my handy chart from www.shouldiworkforfree.com.
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Marketing for Photographers
2010 has flown by, and while planning my attack for 2011 I came across this article from Rob Haggart over at APE. Here, they talk about how photographers can successfully market themselves to new clients. Definitely worth a read.
QUESTION:
The other day I received my second invitation to participate in AtEdge. I’m really flattered, but the price tag of almost $8K is a bit steep for me. The photography industry is very competitive and it’s about getting your images out there and seen. What are the best options for promoting your work and getting it seen? Resource guides, Workbook, Blackbook. Premium websites such as Photoserve, Dripbook. Direct mail, email blast (I’ve spoken to AD’s and they say they receive 50-100 emails a day and have stopped looking at them). Entering contests… All these services have pro’s and con’s, but they all cost. Seems if you want to take your photography career up to the next level, you have to pay to play. How do you get the most bang for the buck? Where do creatives look for photographers?