FEATURE
POLAR PERSPECTIVES PHOTOGRAPHIC VIEWPOINTS oF CONTEMPORARY CHINA by Kipp Whittaker
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bring it to a new audience in Beijing. Eighty images were collected from platforms such as Weibo, Facebook, Flickr, and other photography websites. Through assembling them together, they hoped to create a dialogue about whether Chinese and international photographers possess similar visions of contemporary China, and if not, how these photographers from different countries and cultures arrive at different understandings of a single society.
june 2014
photos: harry kauffman, victor chenovsky, mate, guanzi tian
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a Risong, director of Inter Art Gallery, and actor-cum-photographer Jonathan Kos-Read, have generated an exhibition of internetsourced photography called Us-Them that traverses different views of modern China through the lens of Chinese and international artists. The collection was originally exhibited at the 2013 Pingyao International Photography Festival and due to its overwhelmingly positive reception, Inter Art Center in 798 decided to