The 2017 edition of the Lianzhou Photo Festival, held from December 2, 2017 to January 2, 2018, mainly focused on the selfie and looked at how social networks have changed photography. Among the works presented were Huang Guaier’s images of the world who question the indistinct border between virtuality and reality; Jiang Zhenqing’s humanistic project on Tibetan people; Kurt Tong’s series on Mak Ngan Yuk, an eighty seven year old woman who was his nanny and worked for his family for nearly 40 years; and He Bo’s images about the French terrorist attacks.
Tag: Kurt Tong
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Lianzhou Festival 2017: He Bo, Kurt Tong, Jiang Zhenqing & Huang Guaier – The Eye of Photography
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Kurt Tong Interview
Kurt Tong Interview – A Photo Editor
Jonathan Blaustein interviews photographer Kurt Tong. JB: You and I met, as I have with several people I’ve interviewed, at Review Santa Fe in 2009. I don’t think we’ve seen each other or spoken since. I’ve got to give a shout out to that class of ’09. Th
via A Photo Editor: http://www.aphotoeditor.com/2012/02/29/kurt-tong-interview/
Absolutely. I went Paris Photo recently, and it is the same 8 or 10 photographers who are dominating the whole scene. It’s almost like they’re eating the main meal, and there’s another 200 photographers eating the scraps around it. And I’m not even eating the scraps