Q Art is pleased to announce Intimate Distance, a photography exhibition featuring nearly fifty photographs by nine photographers of the Chinese diaspora in the United States. Young, well-traveled, globally-minded, confident and eloquent… these photographers are distinct from artists of the Social Realism, Kitsch and Pop generations. Individual experience and emotion are the focal points of their artistic creation. While the dual experience of residing in both China and the U.S. underlies the nostalgic melancholy in their works, the refinement of both eastern and western art and literature allows the photographers to engage with a wide range of subjects and employ very different techniques and styles, which are interwoven into the unique richness and sophistication of these photographs.
The physical distance from the home country and the submerged emotional disconnect with the host country often put these photographers in a mood resembling nomads or voyagers. The subdued sense of solitude and strangeness slips through the empty yet stunningly beautiful urban landscape devoid of human presence.
On the other hand, the seeming detachment provides the photographers with a point of entry into their intimate memories and accentuates a stronger personal presence. The close proximity between the photographer and the subject and the conscious aesthetic decisions made by the photographer place the photographer at great intimacy with both the subject and the viewer.
The voyage between distance and intimacy, the past and the present, and here and elsewhere brings us the splendid visual poetics of this exhibition.
Q Art’s temporary location is at 64 Marcy Avenue, Brooklyn, NY. Exhibition hours are Monday through Sunday, 12 pm to 6 pm. For more information, please call 646.643.1532, or 617.306.3209, visit www.qartspace.com, or email: qart.info@gmail.com.
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Bump into Kipp at Coney Island Mermaid Parade.
Got to know him from a Man's Vogue article.
Here is my old post about his camera and Robert Polidori.
Chinese Contemporary Photography
Curated by Zhu Qi
May 10 - June 9, 2007
ChinaSquare New York
545 W 25th Street 8th Fl.
Chelsea Arts Tower
New York, NY 10001
Tel: 212.226.7836
50 BEST Chinese Contemporary Photographers:
Ai Weiwei 艾未未 Bai Yiluo 白宜洛 Cang Xin 蒼鑫 Chen Chieh-Jen 陳界仁 Chen Jiagang 陈家刚 Chen Lingyang 陳羚羊 Chen Nong 陳農 Chen Qingqing 陳慶慶 Chi Peng 遲鵬 Cui Xiuwen 崔岫聞 Dong Wensheng 董文勝 Gao Brothers 高氏兄弟 Han Bing 韓冰 Han Lei 韓磊 Hong Lei 洪磊 Huang Yan 黃岩 Li Wei 李暐 Lian Dongya 練東亞 Liu Jin 劉瑾 Lu Feifei 魯飛飛 Luo Yongjin 羅永進 Ma Liang / Maleonn 馬良 Ma Liuming 馬六明 Ma Yongfeng 馬永峰 Miao Xiaochun 繆曉春 Mu Chen & Shao Yinong 慕辰﹠邵逸農 Qin Ga 琴嘎
Qiu Zhijie 邱志杰 Sheng Qi 盛奇 Shi Guorui 史國瑞 Song Yongping 宋永平 Su Zhigang 宿志剛 Ta Men 他們 Wang Guofeng 王國鋒 Wang Jinsong 王勁松 Wang Ningde 王寧德 Wang Qingsong 王慶松 Wang Wangwang 旺忘望 Wang Yiqiong 王軼瓊 Wu Daxin 吳達新 Weng Fen 翁奮 Xiao Lu 肖魯 Xie Wenyue 謝文躍 Xiong Wenyun 熊文韻 Yang Yong 楊勇 Zeng Han 曾翰 Zhang Wei 張衛 Zheng Guogu 鄭國谷 Zheng Lianjie 鄭連杰 Zhu Yan 朱岩
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Includes Photographs from:
Ansel Adams, Edward Weston, Weegee, Alfred Stieglitz, Robert Frank, Garry Winogrand, Lee Friedlander, Sally Mann, Hiroshi Sugimoto, and etc (you name it!!!)
Exhibition:
Thursday, 19 Apr 07, 10:00 AM - 5:00 PM
Friday, 20 Apr 07, 10:00 AM - 5:00 PM
Saturday, 21 Apr 07, 10:00 AM - 5:00 PM
Sunday, 22 Apr 07, 1:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Monday, 23 Apr 07, 10:00 AM - 5:00 PM
Tuesday, 24 Apr 07, 10:00 AM - 5:00 PM
Wednesday, 25 Apr 07, 10:00 AM - 1:00 PM
Auction:
Session 1: Thursday, 26 Apr 07, 2:00 PM
Individually they are wonderful, together they are unbelievable! The most known member of four is Lu Siqing, features "Butterfly Love". Although I have listened to the music a thousand times, still amazed by the energy that Lu delivers. Feng Ning is probably the youngest, and I love his performance the best! Ms. Huang is very talented and come up the idea of a unique violin quartet.
Prof. Yan is a Professor and Expert in the History of Qing Dynasty. And he is especially good at giving lectures with interesting and easy-to-approach language, which features him on a very successful National Television Program "Baijia Jiangtan" in China, a truly national phenomenon.

Acclaimed Czech artist and fashion designer Libena Rochova, fresh on the heels of her triumphant New York debut this past winter as one of the featured designers in a showcase of talent from the Czech Republic, has created a limited edition set of haute couture dolls, which will be sold in a silent auction at a fashion show to benefit the UNICEF Project “Adopt a Doll, Save a Child.”
The fashion show and silent auction will take place on April 12, 2007 from 7 pm to 9 pm at the New York Bohemian National Hall, a landmark 1895 building at 321-325 East 73rd Street (between First and Second Avenues) that will be the new permanent home to the Czech consulate and the Czech Center, a non-profit organization sponsored by the Czech government to promote Czech culture in the United States. Approximately 300 people, including artists, high society doyennes, business people and members of the New York diplomatic and NGO communities will come together to participate in this one-of-a-kind charity art happening.
Libena Rochova, Czech-born fashion designer, has an outstanding career spanning more than 20 years. Well-known in Europe as a couturier, Rochova specializes in striking dramatic colors, unique fabrics, artistic cuts and lots of paper and glass. She has exclusive boutiques in Prague and Paris.
In addition to couture dressmaking, Libena works with many government institutions, not-for-profit organizations and corporate foundations on social and global issues. She is also a big advocate and voice of inspiration for young designers, and devotes nearly half of her time to helping them reach their goals.
Rochova has received numerous art and fashion awards, including Designer of the Season in the nationwide Fashion Fair Style contest, as well as several prestigious Outstanding Design awards. She was ranked as the #1 Czech Fashion Designer 2006.
Loretta Lux, Isabella, 2001. Silver dye bleach print (Ilfochrome), mounted on aluminum, A.P. 2/3, edition of 7, 19 5/8 x 19 5/8 inches. Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York. Purchased with funds contributed by the Photography Committee and the Harriett Ames Charitable Trust. 2004.79. © Loretta Lux
Featuring works drawn from the Guggenheim museum's permanent collection, Family Pictures explores the representation of families and children in contemporary photography and video. Since its inception in the mid-19th century, photography has always been used to represent the bonds of family, whether through portraiture or documents of important milestones like weddings. In these images, fleeting moments of childhood are captured and preserved, and the family unit is fixed for posterity.
Many contemporary artists create portraits of children—often their own—in works that expand on photography's vernacular tradition as well as the representation of youth in the history of art. Other artists look to harness the power of childhood memory in adult life through fictionalized renditions of past traumatic events; in order to plumb psychological truths, these artists portray a more revealing image of family dynamics and the emotional tone of childhood.
Family Pictures includes both documentary-style and more clearly staged or manipulated work by 16 artists: Janine Antoni, Patty Chang, Gregory Crewdson, Rineke Dijkstra, Nathalie Djurberg, Anna Gaskell, Nan Goldin, Loretta Lux, Sally Mann, Robert Mapplethorpe, Tracey Moffatt, Catherine Opie, Collier Schorr, Thomas Struth, Hellen van Meene, and Gillian Wearing. A version of this exhibition, accompanied by a catalogue, was presented at the Galleria Gottardo in Lugano, Switzerland in 2005; in New York, Family Pictures includes additional artists and recent acquisitions.
We are playing with Sam's SX-70 and Speedgraph in Sino-TV's studio.

The biggest lesson which we can learn from the photography is that from negative we made a positive. -- Koudelka
Josef Koudelka
Conversation and Book Signing
Thursday, April 05, 2007
7:00 p.m.
Free
Aperture Gallery
547 West 27th Street, 4th floor
New York, New York
(212) 505-5555
One of the masters of twentieth-century photography, Czech-born Josef Koudelka has made a unique contribution to the language of photography with his eloquent and transformative images that stand outside time and place. Coinciding with the publication of his stunning new monograph Koudelka (Aperture, March 2007), Aperture Gallery is proud to host a rare intimate conversation between Koudelka, art critic and writer Vicki Goldberg, and an audience of fans. This is an unprecedented and unique opportunity to get up close and personal with one of the photography world’s living legends.
Finally got the Feb issue with my photos published. Thanks Sasa for bring me the copy. (The top left three photos are mine.)
The real time web cast will start March 3/17 EDT 12:00pm - 5pm. Please click the picture to see more.
Patrick Clark extend the invitation to Amanda and me for the TV show "Fashion Fever" in MNN studio.
A "Portable" 5x7 made specially by Kipp Wettstein.
I recently bought Robert Polidori's Photobook "After the Flood", it was evaluated as one of the best Photobooks in 2006. His camera was handcrafted by Kipp Wettstein, a former Rockey Mountain firefighter turned photography. Kipp made the first 4x5 "portable" Graflex camera for himself, so that he can shoot on the fly. And later he made the 6x7 for Robert, the biggest point and shoot in the world. Well, not exactly but, it doesn't require a half-ton tripod.
This is the title for the coming film by June Newton, Helmut Newton's widow.
Helmut Newton is a legendary Vogue photographer.
Photographed by Sam Liu, Polaroid 180.
(To be more precise, it is "Me Meet Mi")
Zhou Mi has great influence on Young Chinese Photographers in United States, including me. I bought his book "Facing" three years ago at a Photography Book Store in Beijing. Over three years later, I got to meet up with Mi for the first time, and had his signature for me. It is interesting to see how things/people travel around and converge at the same place.
I loaned my camera to my officemate, Andy, who went on a trip to Ghana. As return, I am allowed to use his pictures on my website :-) So enjoy your trip with Andy!
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Vintage Camera Ode
-composed on the occasion of the visit of the UN poetry representative to the Young Chinese Photographer’s meeting on Saturday the 13th of 2007 in Williamsburg, New York
Vintage camera! Vintage Camera!
Bolex! Bolsey! Bullseye!
Contax! Compur! Colormatic!
Polaroid! Polaroid! Polaroid!
Flash & Bulbs!
Burke & James!
Bausch & Lomb!
Pyro and PMK.
Rolleiflex! Rolleicord! Rolei SLX!
Retina! Regula! Angulon!
Kodak! Kodak! Kodak!
As new! Brand new! Asis.
User. Dented. Worn.
Old Leica. New Bessa!
Agfamatic! Autoboy!
Cinemaster! Super 8!
Shutter slow. Speeds stick.
Pay Pal. Visa. E-mail. Sent.
Jorn Ake
More pictures to come ...
I am so happy to have the chance to listen to Martin's lecture. I even got a signature and a picture with him. Martin looks different from my imagination, who was supposed to be old, fat, isolated and slow, but rather, he is humorous, energetic, clear minded and good at giving speech. Nomap said his lecture is better than other guys from last year's Photo Expo, I think that might be related to the fact that Martiin has been a teacher, instructor. That even leads to a terrible idea of maybe someday I should be an instructor myself to experience the training of organizing my mind and speech.
The messages that I got from Martin's talk includes:
1. His pictures are from reality, but it is also manipulated in a way to exaggerate (enlarge) the reality.
2. He likes to photo topic or stuff that he either strongly like or strongly dislike. (I consider it a dramatic subject)
3. You need to be conscious about your project or topic. So one single picture doesn't really say much, but together you can find a coherent idea.
4. Be confident on what you are doing. (Martin may be the most controversial member in Magnum, a lot of members don't like him. But it seems he is still the one with the best photo sale record.)
I also enjoyed the surprising value of the dinner at Dallas BBQ Time Square, which was suggested by Simon, Almighty. The discussion of photography and gossip with Nomap became a good source of our dinner.
What a nice day/evening.
P.S. the book I bought is "The Photobook: A History volume II", looks like an excellent text book of Photography History.
2006 New York PhotoPlus Special Event:
AN EVENING WITH MARTIN PARR (FSE) color
Friday, November 3 * 6 PM - 7:30 PM
Magnum photographer Martin Parr is one of the most famous and successful
contemporary photographers in the world today. In a rare appearance on
this side of the Atlantic, Parr will share his distinctive vision,
show images and host an exhibition of recent work. A signed, editioned
print by Martin Parr will be given away at the end of the presentation.
You must be present to win. Sponsored by HP.
The 44th New York Film Festival, Sept 29 - Oct 15, 2006, at Film Society of Lincoln Center.
They have Robin Holland's photos on display. He photographed a large school of directors and actors, including Wong Kar Wai, few I can identify from either name or picture. Wonderful pictures. But it seems that I am the only person visit the Walter Reade Theater just for the pictures, usually people just walk by the pictures, when they are waiting in line to get in the next movie.
Although I have learned this event before, I wasn't really pay much attention to the specific agenda. Until recently, I developed a special interest in a panorama camera Widelux F8, which Jeff Bridges used for "behind the scene" documentary. I paid a visit to his all messed up website, and find the 2004 poster was from him, and I assumed the wonderful picture was made by his Widelux, as usual.
The first time I got interested in Jeff Bridges' work is when I watched the DVD Seabiscuit. The extra feature in the DVD is Jeff's pictures, amazing pictures. The filmography from the movie itself is very beautiful, but I seems more attracted to the documentary.
I came across the message about Atta Kim's photo exhibition at a photographic forum. A brief introduction to the exhibition shows he uses the long exposure technique. It didn't look very appealing to me, at that moment. Then Monika recommended him to me again, in the middle of a dinner. It must be something unique.
I stepped into ICP, where they have one of Atta Kim's project: On-Air.
The big picture on the entrance is riveting and mysterious. It looks like lava with yellow glow. What is that? It turns out a melting ice cube. It took about 8 hours of exposure, and recorded the whole life span of a block of melting ice cube. The long exposure make the light glowing, and full of energy. The photographer is trying to convey the greatness of unnoticeable, the engergy of the stillness, through the insurmountable chisel of time.
The DMZ series are amazing too. It took the photographer years to get the permission to take pictures in the de-militarized zone. And the exposure for each pictures takes around 8 hours. The photographer says the pictures are taken by a shutter speed of 8hours/50yrs (the South Korea is separate from North Korea for 50 years).
My first visit to Aperture Foundation's gallery at Chelsea. The current exhibition is: Regeneration: 50 Photographers of Tomorrow. It listed photographs from 50 contemporary photographers. And this shows an attempt to explore the future of the photography.
The Olive Tree Cafe is located at the West Village, Manhattan. It is one of the most famous Cafe at the village. Ava is the current owner of the cafe and wonderful sweet person. She is so sweet that Fracesco said "I would like to spread her on the bread and have her as breakfast..." One of the unique part of the Cafe is the table, they are made of black stone just like a chalk board. And every table is served with a bowl of white chalk. You can draw/write while enjoying the food. The magic part is that the brilliant idea is from the very beginning of the cafe, some 30 years ago, and the tables have been there for ages! This is also a special place for Francesco. His very first resturant visited in New York. He murmured, "The history is repeating itself."
Everything in the party is soo perfect, and I guess everybody had a good time. That's what I like, everybody happy, which is rare to achieve. Thanks for everybody's coming over. Yann's Studio69 is an awesome place for shooting. He himself is a professional photographer shooting for Magazine Maxim.
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This camera doesn't belong to the expo, but I found it is the most interesting stuff to me. It is Sam's new (old) baby from Prague.

Just created a website for gathering camera deal information. It is called CAMPTURE :) Wow, it is quite memorable, the first day this world has the word "campture". Let us see how many meanings you canfigure out from this single word, "camera, capture, picture, camping, culture, ample, future, true" etc. Isn't it cool?
Wise people are fond of the water, benevolent ones admire the mountains. --Confucius
This is a wonderful book of trekking. I was highly impressed by the perseverance of the author, as well as his knowledge on wild survival. It is also a book about a long period of discovery. The discovery of the mountains and mountaineer himself. To be honest, I appreciate more the words in the book, or the words being together with the pictures (I am sure the pictures are wonderful too, that's why I bought the book). This book actually reminds me of another book "SOUL MOUNTAIN", from Nobel Laureate 2000 Gao Xingjian. I am not comparing those two books, but do feel some connections, not just because the main characters were both climbing the mountains, but more.
Did I say that I am getting sick of sunset?
Below is my Contax. Love the quality of the images, impeccable, superb! But the post processing becomes expensive for me, including the developing and scan. So I just simply go all digital, i.e. I sold the Contax and bought an Olympus C-7070. ( You are looking at the last picture of my Contax, which is from the lens of the new C-7070.)

So how do I made the decision?

(Picture courtesy of cameras.com)
Street & documentary photography is my all-time favorite topic of photography. And recently I found myself addicted to the poetic Lomo photogrphy. The blur, weird images by the cheap plastic cameras is soo amazing. As an amateur photographer, or weekend photographer for now, I apperently don't have the luxury to develop and mass scan negtives. So I decided that majority of my images would be from digital, including the possible lomo pictures. Online search shows me an insane marriage of a $30,000 Imacon digital back (originally designed for Hasselblad), and a $50 plastic Holga camera, with a rubberband! Well, who says that a civilian can not marry a princess. Here it comes. I certainly couldn't afford the 30 grand digital image back, but I do have a digital sensor inside of my Digital Rebel. I plan to play with the gismo a little bit and keep building a digital lomo camera in mind. Actually I have seen some pictures online with Holga and Canon Ixus-i, which comes out quite successful.

Another great gadget I brought home is a Joy Stick TV game set, Namco 5-in-1 Arcade Classics. The Pac-Man game reminds me of the years when I was still a teenage, which is sadly more than 10 years ago. The ultra simple game gave me so much fun. I even invited some friends over my apartment just to share my pleasure :)
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| LOMOchina While I still enjoy taking razor sharp, crystal clear but extremely boring pictures, I find the pictures from this site so intriguing. They are so REAL, more REAL than REAL, yet they are so UNREAL, too UNREAL to be UNREAL. I Lomo it. | Fredmiranda I heard it is good, and it looks good. |
| Luminous Landscape Their website design is aesthetically horrible, but the content is good. And some good guys are there. | Dpreview Famous and influential digital photography website. Their forums are as good as their camera reviews. |
| photo.net I visit their galleries and especially the top rated photo gallery frequently. You can find some master piece and really inspring. People in the forum really seem to know what they are talking about. | Xitek Very good resource of everything. This is a photogrphy concentration. But you need to know Chinese in order to take advantage the website. |
| Paowang Slow to connect in U.S., some times you can find some good pictures. | Zone Zero |
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