Backportraits by longwei (14 pictures)

 Backportraits...

I've been travelling in China more or less for ten years now and to celebrate this anniversary, nothing could be better than a new BOP exhibition.

My two previous exhibitions in BOP deal with two different topics but they express my feelings as a foreigner in this country. They reflect my surprises, my view, and my thoughts. To end this first decade of Chinese experience, I wanted to give another insight on this country. Would it be possible to show China as the Chinese actually see their country? As a foreigner, when I take portraits or landscape views, most of the time,...
(2008-05-03)

 The people of Karosta by seb (26 pictures)

 As Hern42 wrote, in Karosta, there are wrecked buildings, relics of a past when it was a russian navy base ; in the middle of it, a shining jewel : their golden orthodox cathedral. An art center, too, where people try to introduce modern culture in a place that has become a ghetto. And there is this crazy group of european artist/architects collectively known as Exyzt (www.exyzt.org), who could not of course prevent themselves from being attracted to this weird environment and from creating from scratch an art festival there, for the people of Karosta. Oh yes, because in...
(2007-01-06)

 Impressions of China by th (13 pictures)

 These photos have been taken during trips in China in 2005 and 2006. It is a collection of special moments, special lights, special places...
(2008-01-11)