Dépaysement Exhibition

Dépaysement Exhibition: Risky Liu

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Name
Risky Liu
Submission Title
My PLACE
Country
Hong Kong
Photographer Bio
Risky K.C.liu from Hong Kong China

Full Name : Liu Kim Ching (RiskyLiu )
My origin country : Hong Kong China
Filmmaker/Street-photographer/Video Editor

My short biography

I love my birth place. Every minute I want to use the power method to capture. Every expression of light and shadow. The city is changing. These are beautiful topics. More importantly, the shutter press. All things will be fixed, can not be returned and can not be repeated.

I like Henri Cartier Bresson’s classic quote.

“There is a creative fraction of a second when you are taking a picture. Your eye must see a composition or an expression that life itself offers you, and you must know with intuition when to click the camera. That is the moment the photographer is creative. Oop! The Moment! Once you miss it, it is gone forever. “- Henri Cartier Bresson

Submission Information
2018
Selected works in World Street Photography
First curator’s choice
https://www.kujaja.com/en/photo-competitions/winner/streetphotography-competition-2017-6

Selected works in blankwallgallery

Exhibitions – Portraits 2018


(20 April until 3 May)

Selected My feature Review will be published in EYE-Photo Magazine July 2018 issue

Selected works in EYE-Photo Magazine Photo Group

Selected two works in People- and Street Photography – World Trip

2017
Selected works in blankwallgallery

Exhibitions – Portraits 2017

2016
Selected works in blankwallgallery
http://www.blankwallgallery.com/exhibitions-monochrome-2016/

Website or Social Media Links

Dépaysement Exhibition: Edas Wong

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Name
Edas Wong
Submission Title
Street Is My Playground
Country
China, Hong Kong
Photographer Bio

Awards:

Brussels Street Photography Festival International Singles Public Prize 2017
Honorary Mention, The Independent Photographer, Street Photography Award, September 2017
Juror’s Pick, LensCulture Street Photography Awards 2016
Second prize, X Prime (Leica X1/X2) Contest 2014

Finalists:

Alghero Street Photography Awards 2018
Italian Street Photo Festival 2018 (2 photos in single, 1 photo in single by phone)
Miami Street Photography Festival 2017 (1 photo)
“Down By The River”Street Photography Competition 2017 (2 photos)
StreetFoto San Francisco “International Street Photography Awards” 2017 (2 photos)
Miami Street Photography Festival 2016 (1 photo)
Brussels Street Photography Festival 2016 (2 photos)
Miami Street Photography Festival 2015 (3 photos)
“Under Construction” Street Photography Competition 2015 (1 photo)
Nat Geo Awards (Hong Kong) 2014 (1 photo)

Submission Information
Treat street as playground, Use imagination to take photos
Website or Social Media Links
http://www.edaswong.com/

Dépaysement Exhibition: Dustin Shepard

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Name
Dustin Shepard
Submission Title
Capturing things I see
Country
Japan
Photographer Bio
I don’t really consider myself a photographer. More of a film maker. But I do enjoy taking pictures. But I’ll never claim that title. I love Japan and come every year. This is my first time being here for months! I been making videos since 2009 November. But I always enjoyed taking pictures. Even more so lately. I hope you guys enjoy some of the shots I’ve been taking. These are just some. Have tons and still got 50 more days here in Japan left.
Submission Information
I’m not sure if I’d call it a series. But I pretty much just walk up to people and ask to take a picture. Sometimes I do ask and just shoot.
Website or Social Media Links
https://www.youtube.com/user/eldente

Dépaysement Exhibition: Yuriy Ogarkov

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Name
Yuriy Ogarkov
Submission Title
Shamans Of Siberia
Country
Russia
Photographer Bio
I am a Ukrainian portrait and travel photographer based in Barcelona, Düsseldorf and Kiev. Impressed by the multiple facets of life and the beauty of light, I explore the world around me through the lens of my photo camera. In my photographs, I try to communicate a sense of place, atmosphere, and mystique of a moment in a poetic visual language.
I am intrigued by the unknown. Therefore I try to travel as much as possible in order to explore new places that I have never been to before, to learn about cultures and tell stories about my experiences through the photography.
Submission Information
The Republic of Tuva, The Republic of Khakassia and Irkutsk Oblast are not only famous for their traditional throat singing Khoomei, national wrestling sports Khuresh and picturesque nature, but also for their ancient culture of shamanism.
Shamanism is a widespread religious practice that maintains a strong influence on people of Siberia. Shamans are mostly seen by local inhabitants as healers, wise saviors, and portals between humans and the spirits of the ancestors. They get their energy from nature, where nature is their best supplier, their truthful teacher, and their only home. Nomadic lifestyle and philosophical perception of time making these communities sage like the Sayan Mountain and calm as floating flocks of the gigantic white clouds that together perform a harmonious symphony of eternal beauty in that authentic venerable culture.
Website or Social Media Links
http://yuriyogarkov.com

Dépaysement Exhibition: Hon Hoang

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Name
Hon Hoang
Submission Title
Foreign Home
Country
Vietnam
Photographer Bio
Hon Hoang is a Vietnamese-American street, portrait, and event photographer currently based in Los Angeles, California. He was born in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, but grew up in Los Angeles. He began studying Photography shortly after graduating from UCLA where he studied Psychology. He sees Photography as a medium that answers questions, satisfies curiosity, and showcases the things that are often left unseen.
Submission Information

Finding the right words buried under two and a half decades of assimilation proved to be difficult. Perhaps it was my accent, my child-like vocabulary, or maybe everything about me was foreign to this place I thought of as home.

Being in Ho Chi Minh city after 11 years since my last visit feels different yet the same. The skyline has given birth to more towers seeking to touch the sun. Wealth has found itself in the pockets of the Vietnamese people yet has forgotten many others. Even with these progressions, much of the city has stayed the same. It’s inhabitants working day by day, to live, to provide for the future. Street vendors beginning their work before the sun wakes or never having stopped to begin with. Construction workers laboring under a feverish heat, finding solace in the brief moments of wind and rain. Citizens working well into old age, doing work meant for much younger bodies.

This place is rich in its traditions and superstitions. People having muted conversations with those that have long left the world. Hands clasped, with pulsating ember, the hopeful pray. Wishing for health, wealth, and whatever might be. I see a country with hope, hope for a future that’s better than what most experienced in the past. The hardships, turmoil, and labor that bled into the soil that grows bounty. It’s a country in search of identity and ownership, both of which have been unknown.

Website or Social Media Links
https://honhoang.com/
@honnnhoang

Dépaysement Exhibition: Martin Bennie

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Name
Martin Bennie

Submission Title
The Villagers And Countryside

Country
South Korea

Photographer Bio
I travel the world with my job and was fortunate enough to arrive in South Korea on Geoje island, just at the start of a huge drive to make this small island more popular in 2007. I spent the next ten years taking photographs all over Korea in coastal regions mainly and have amassed a huge selection of Korean scenes.

Submission Information
I explored many small farming villages, farming towns and people’s homes to find people who don’t want to change. At the speed that society has been changing, I want to try and record that calm that Korea possess. There is little left of the old Korea now. High rise apartments are taking over the landscape.

Website or Social Media Links
https://martinbennie.smugmug.com

Dépaysement Exhibition: Md Enamul Kabir

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Name
Md Enamul Kabir
Submission Title
Coexistence
Country
Bangladesh
Photographer Bio
I am Md. Enamul Kabir from Bangladesh. I grew up in a small town called Kotchandpur. It’s a small but beautiful town. Now I live and work in the capital city, Dhaka.
Never have I ever imagined that I’ll be walking around with a camera, stopping at irregular intervals, snapping photos left and right; never had any interest in photography.
At the end of 2012, I was unemployed and struggling to find a job. I’d tag with local online photography group, visiting different places, mostly to kill time. I was actually hoping someone will take a good portrait of me and I can use that on my FB profile.
Later, I met a photographer named Imtiaz Alam Beg, whose words inspired me to get behind the lens. Now, I can’t take my eye of the viewfinder, it seems.
I prefer my photos to be concise and cohesive. I try to achieve the best result possible with fewer subjects. I like to shoot animals and unnoticed moments; try to keep the questions of why and how in my photographs and also try to find different meaning in our society and personal feelings with my Canon 550D,18-55mm.
My work has exhibited in HIPA-2014,2017, Miami Street Photography Festival-2016,2017, StreetFoto San Francisco-2016, LSPF-2017, Brussels Street Photography Festival-2017, Summer in Your City-2017, Lens culture Street Photography Award, 2017, Lens culture Exposure Award, 2018, EyeEm Photography Award-2017, Sony World Photography Award 2018, Photography on a Post Card-2017, Behind the Portrait-Gulf Photo Plus, Dubai and also published interview in many magazine and blogs including 121clicks and in-public.and published in books- WSP’15, WSP3,WSP4, OMOE 15.
Submission Information
Since the beginning of civilization, animals have been an integral part of human lives. In the modern mechanized cities, people may not depend on animals for livelihood or security as much, but, in every society, new or old, people have and will continue to coexist with animals. Interaction with animals takes various forms: from medical necessity to emotional support. These are all ways to friendship. Living in close surrounding of animals teaches us humbleness, honesty and sensitivity. I can feel that I have become a better, more compassionate person by getting close to the strays in my city. One can act fake and fool a person but one has to be honest to get animals’ respect.
Website or Social Media Links
https://www.facebook.com/EnamSaying

Dépaysement Exhibition: Sakurako Nagaiwa

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Name
Sakurako Nagaiwa
Submission Title
The Other Side of Japan
Country
Japan
Photographer Bio
Japanese living in Italy.
I am a full-time vintage shop manager and freelance fashion/art writer.
On my free time I paint and take pictures.
I started taking pictures since I came in Italy 8 years ago.
I adore people, life, vibes and I want to explain my vision of life through the lens of a camera.
Submission Information
Living in a foreign country, I happened to see my own nation from a different point of view.
Japanese people are usually quiet, well manned and calm; but when parties come, they totally change and feel the positive vibes.
Pictures were taken during Halloween time in Tokyo: I had never seen this drastically change of behavior before and it really amazed me, needless to say I had fun too!
Website or Social Media Links
https://www.instagram.com/sakurakonagaiwa_street/

Dépaysement Exhibition: Lidija Baard

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Name
Lidija Baard
Submission Title
The City and The City
Country
Hong Kong, South Africa
Photographer Bio
I’m a film photographer, originally from South Africa. I have spent almost the entirety of my twenties living in Seoul, South Korea, and traveling through Asia, all the while tagging my trusted Minolta x 700 around. I have no concept of adulthood outside of Korea, a thought which terrifies me, but one in which I can also relish in. I can comfortably say that this is my home, that I have found my place, despite living perpetually under the tag of being a ‘foreigner’.
Submission Information
The works I am submitting are intentional, in-camera double exposures. The process involved shooting through a roll of film and then re-spooling the film to be exposed again. The result creates a strange and dream-like mash-up of space and time, with the cities overlapping and spilling out onto each other.
Website or Social Media Links
https://www.instagram.com/analogiquement/

Dépaysement Exhibition: Daniele Martire

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Name
Daniele Martire

Submission Title
Purgatory, the Entrance (Vanishing Lives)

Country
Japan

Photographer Bio
Daniele martire (italy, 1985) is a full-time project manager who loves design and experiments with photography on the side. He started documenting concerts with a film camera, and delves into digital nowadays as well. As an introspective person, he uses photography as an intimate tool to remember faces and places and to express his feelings and visions. He began street photography in japan, depicting daily life in double exposures. To him, street photography is all about feeling the city, its sounds, scents and lights – the boundaries in between observing and living in the city. He is co-founder of the superluna collective.

Submission Information
‘e canterò di quel secondo regno, dove l’umano spirito si purga, e di salire al ciel diventa degno’

“vanishing lives, the entrance” is the introductory part of the project “Purgatory”, an oneiric journey reinterpretation of Dante’s work in a modern way, demonstrating how still modern it is while focusing on critical topics of japanese society.
Shot late at night in Tokyo and suburbs when salarymen are finally going back home, just few hours before waking up to go back to work again; subjects are wandering the lively huge city like lost souls, their identities and lives fully controlled by corporates, someone intended to break the loop by committing karoshi (i.e.overwork death), one of the biggest issue in japan rarely spoken about on the outside. They are at the entrance of the Purgatory since, on the contrary of Dante’s work, they still can find their life back by fully committing government and corporates to change their laws and policies, without affecting productivity.

Something is already changing, slowly.

Website or Social Media Links
http://danielemartire.tumblr.com/