#Ying Ang Photography

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So proud to announce that my artist book, The Quickening, designed by @teunvdh, was given second prize for the Australian Photo Book Award last month at the closing of @photofestivalau!! The Quickening is now completely sold out, so copies are now only available through the resale market. Excerpt from the book can be viewed here. Please email or DM to see the full video, otherwise the book can also be viewed at the following libraries: V&A Museum, London International Center of Photography, New York National Library, Canberra Photography Studies College, Melbourne

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“The Quickening is ambitious, subtle, inventive and deeply moving. I can hardly remember the last time I encountered a work that made such wise use of tactility in achieving a photographic vision. So many good decisions.” - Teju Cole The Quickening details the claustrophobia, myopia, paradoxical loneliness and luminance of new motherhood and the postpartum period. Riso and offset printed, this uniquely handmade book was published in a limited first edition of 250 copies, redolent of the number of days of gestation before the premature birth of the author’s son. Additionally, 30 copies from a special edition each come with a choice of one of two prints. This number is indicative of the number of days left until the child’s due date. Created as an editioned art book, each copy is signed and numbered. A variety of papers were used to reflect a haptic complexity in addition to a soft french fold that feels full and fleshy in the hands. A chaotic and varying bind with red string is a nod to the stitches used during the emergency caesarean birth of the child and no book is precisely the same. Finalist for the Vevey Images Grand Prix for 2019 Julia Margaret Cameron Award Honorable Mention for 2019 Solo exhibition at Rencontres d'Arles 2019 Winner of the BIFA Documentary Photo Book Prize 2020 Finalist for the Lucie Foundation Photo Book Prize 2020 Tokyo International Foto Award Honorable Mention for 2020 Official Selection for the London International Creative Competition 2020 Finalist for the Perimeter x PHOTO 2021 International Photobook Prize Winner of Belfast Photo Festival 2021 Bronze medal for the Documentary Book Prize at the Moscow International Foto Awards 2021 Px3 Paris Photo Award Honorable Mention for 2021 Australian Photobook Award Honorable Mention for 2022 Finalist for the 2022 SIPF Photobook Award SEE THE PROJECT ~~~ 90 pages with 116 images French fold Combination of offset and riso print Various uncoated papers Softcover with linen sleeve 8.6 x 11 inches First Edition of 280 + 20 AP   Self Published Photos & text © 2021 Ying Ang Design Heijdens Karwei, Amsterdam ISBN: 978-0-646-83323-1 Printed in the Netherlands ~~~ Critical Reviews: "The Quickening wears its handmade-ness on its sleeve. A ream of loose papers held together with a complex patterned variation on a Japanese stitch tells the reader that this is a personal and intimate document… The cacophony of imagery we are presented with oscillates between the manic, the incredibly dark, the gentle, the dreamlike and the intimate… Ang’s book is an exploration of photobook making, and how narrative works in the visual book form—it pushes and stretches concepts of storytelling, of showing and revealing. And finally, it’s a moment of total honesty and openness told in the only way it could have possibly been told." - Daniel Boetker-Smith for Lensculture "Work like Ang’s has such profound value for articulating hard-to-reach experiences that language often fails to capture. She entangles the viewer in the web of social and political issues surrounding the transition into motherhood that are too often ignored and overlooked... The psychoanalyst Carl Jung wrote, “only the paradox comes anywhere near to comprehending the fullness of life” – a sentiment that manifests in Ang’s book over and over again" - Gem Fletcher for Creative Review "Ang’s images are carefully composed and meticulously photographed, showing a mastery and deft use of photographic technique. She uses a wide range of tonality, lighting, contrast, and printing methods to produce different textures and moods, as well as many unexpected transitions from page to page. Many images burst at the seams with symbolism and layers of meaning, resulting in work that rewards repeat viewing and contemplation." - Andy Pham for Paper Journal "The pictures in The Quickening are a gorgeous cacophony of tender and tension-filled scenes interwoven with moments of luminosity which show how easily the lightest moments of motherhood can slip into the difficult ones (and back again). There’s a softness to the pictures, too – a dreaminess that feels like the first moments of waking up, where everything is a little blurry and sleep images linger." - Joanna Cresswell for Refinery29 "Ang’s depiction of matrescence is layered and complex. Her images blend the gentle and soft, with a strain and rawness that becomes all-consuming. Velvety skin is enveloped in warm, delicate light. But, motifs of that tenderness behind misted glass at once suggest fullness and a claustrophobic repetition. The narrative is textured and sensual; it mirrors the intensity of Ang’s lived experience." - Izabela Radwanska Zhang for the British Journal of Photography

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Ying Ang

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Anthropic Shadow

SU Wen-chi

photo © Etang CHEN

PRODUCTION TEAM 

Concept: SU Wen-chi

Choreography: SU Wen-chi, Ruri Mito, Danang Pamungkas

Dancer: Ruri Mito, Danang Pamungkas

Stage Design: LIAO Chi-yu, CHANG Huei-ming

Sound Design: LAI Tsung-yun, Esteban Fernandez

Video Design and New Media Program Integration: YEH Ting-hao

Light Design: Ryoya Fudetani

Costume Design: ZEIGARNIQ

Co-creative Research: CHOW Ling-chih

Technical Director: DENG Siang-ting

Stage manager: HUANG Yung-Zhi, YU Rui-pei

Stage Design Assistant: YU Huai-ru

Light Design Assistant: LIOU Po-Sin

Light Associate: WANG Fang-ning

Sound technician: WU Ang-Lin

Technician: JIANG Yi-shuan, CHEN Ding-nan, YEH Yo-ying, CHANG Ning-siang, TSAI Cheng-han

Photography: JIANG Jing-yuan, CHANG Zhen-Zhou, LIAO Chi-yu

Video documentation: Big Big Chen International Film Inc.

Producer: SUN Ping

Executive producer: WU Ke-yun

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Produced by : National Theater and Concert Hall, TAIWAN

Co-production unit: Le phénix scène nationale Valenciennes

Acknowledgement unit: Taishin Bank Foundation for Arts and Culture, Quanta Arts Foundation

Special thanks: Performance Space, Critical Path, Mirramu Creative Art Centre

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La Côte, a photography special

La Côte, a photography special

FTWeekend magazine’s August photography special looks to the coast as a place, a concept, a source of inspiration. For the subjects of Sophie Calle’s images, it is a place of discovery; in Edmund Clark, they wonder about what constitutes a border. Ying Ang’s work emanates from the Gold Coast underworld and, for Ingrid Pollard, it becomes a source of personal history. Like the shoreline itself,…

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Here’s a list of people who are more deserving of a space at the NGA than Prince Charles

1. Everyone we’ve ever interviewed here: http://thisonthat.org/ - seriously, everyone. Every single one.

2. Trent Parke

3. Narelle Autio

4. Raphaella Rosella

5. Max Pam

6. Graham Miller

7. Bob Adams

8. Adam Ferguson

9. Antonie Bruy

10. That Danish guy who re-photographed the Spencer Baldwin photos - that show would be amazing and the history of those photos and the way the Arrente people used photography as a way of becoming more humanised is something more people need to know about - Christian Vium, that’s his name.

11. Dan and Barney

12. Derek Henderson

13. Felix Wilson

14. Greg Halpern

15. Herbert List

16. Jem Southam

17. John Feely (deserves 2 mentions)

18. Gossage

19. Johannson (deserves 2 mentions)

20. Katrin Koennig

21. Ying Ang

22. Awoiska

23. Larry fucking Sultan

24. Laura Pannack

25. Juno Calypso

26. Mark Klett

27. Masao Yamamoto (pls NGA, pls fucking DO THIS)

28. Matt J Thorne

29. Naoki Ishikawa

30. Pat Tsai

31. All the blokes who used photos to fight logging in Tasmania - not just Dombrovskis but ALL of the lads

32. Jamie/Wouter/Will

33. Meeks

34. Richard Laugharn

35. Rinko

36. Sam Abell (who photographed Australia often and with joy)

37. The dude who set up ACP and photographed Marrickville for years

38. Sarker Protick

39. Sean MacFarland

40. Shadi Ghadirian

41. Simon Deadman

42. Barbara Bosworth (seriously this would be SICK - multi room retrospective: the meadow, the night photos, all the shit she’s published in Korea)

43. Judith Joy Ross

44. Onorato and Krebs

45. Albdorf

46. Todd Hido

47. You Li

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[EBOOK] Read This if You Want to Take Great Photographs of Places (Beginners Guide  Landscape photography  Street photography) Ebook READ ONLINE

[EBOOK] Read This if You Want to Take Great Photographs of Places: (Beginners Guide, Landscape photography, Street photography) Ebook READ ONLINE

Read This if You Want to Take Great Photographs of Places: (Beginners Guide, Landscape photography, Street photography)

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Author : Henry Carroll Publisher : Laurence King Publishing ISBN : 178067905X Publication Date : 2017-3-21 Language : Pages : 128

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Synopsis : [EBOOK] Read This if You Want to Take Great Photographs of Places: (Beginners Guide, Landscape photography, Street photography) Ebook READ ONLINE

An essential guide for emerging artists learning how to take pictures of places.From the author of the bestselling Read This If You Want To Take Great Photographs series, this jargon–free introduction covers all aspects of photographing places, including landscapes, cityscapes, architecture, and interiors.Whatever your camera, interest, or skill level, this indispensable photography guide gives you all the essential techniques and demystifies the work of acclaimed photographers. Packed with practical tips and iconic images, this accessible book will teach everything you need to take meaningful pictures of the places that matter to you most.Split into five sections, the book covers composition, exposure, light, manipulation and location.Featuring the work of iconic photographers: Alec Soth, Ansel Adams, Martin Parr, Robert Adams, Todd Hido, Rut Blees Luxemburg, Julius Shulman, Rinko Kawauchi, Thomas Ruff, Tim Hetherington, Joel Sternfeld, Kyler Zeleny, Julius Shulman, Bert Danckaert, Mitch Epstein, Mitch Dobrowner, Massimo Vitali, Joel Meyerowitz, Stephen Tourlentes, Lee Friedlander, Yoshinori Mizutani, John Hilliard, Simon Norfolk, Charles March, Floto + Warner, Olaf Otto Becker, John Gossage, Kikuji Kawanda, Richard Misrach, Harry Cory Wright, Philippe Chancel, Harry Gruyaert, Brassaï, Richard Mosse, Dodo Jin Ming, Tina Hillier, Jorma Puranen, William Henry Jackson, Matt Siber, Mike Slack, Reiner Riedler, John Davies, Fay Godwin, Dilon Marsh, Steffi Klenz, Kathy Ryan, Bernd and Hilla Becher, Joan Fontcuberta, Ying Ang, and Charles Duke.Read This if You Want to Take Great Photographs of Places is part of the internationally–bestselling 'Read This' series, which has sold over half–a–million books worldwide and has been translated into over 20 languages.More titles in the 'Read This' series:Read This if You Want to Take Great Photographs by Henry Carroll (9781780673356)Read This if You Want to Take Great Photographs of People by Henry Carroll (9781780676241)Use This if You Want to Take Great Photographs: A Photo Journal by Henry Carroll (9781780678887)Read This if You Want to Be Great at Drawing by Selwyn Leamy (9781786270542)Read This if You Want to Be a Great Writer by Ross Raisin (9781786271976)Read This if You Want to Be Instagram Famous edited by Henry Carroll (9781780679679)

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A Creative Family’s Eclectic Apartment in Melbourne’s CBD

A Creative Family’s Eclectic Apartment in Melbourne’s CBD

Homes

by Lucy Feagins, Editor

The lounge room faces north up Spring Street towards Carlton Gardens. Falcon Armchair from Radar, Fitzroy. Artwork by Shübi (left) and David Chazan (right). Arancini Floor Lamp by Moda Piera. Brass sculpture by Gidon Bing from Curatorial + Co. Memphis-style side table from Smith Street Bazaar. Photo – Ying Ang.

A different corner of the lounge room. A collection of vintage furniture and collected artworks by unknown painters. A vintage Persian rug. Photo – Ying Ang.

Another corner of the lounge room! Vintage Dutch armchair by Rudolf Wolf from Modern Times. Photo – Ying Ang.

A maximalist salon wall is the main feature of the lounge room. Vintage Dutch armchair on the right by Rudolf Wolf from Modern Times. Photo – Ying Ang.

Here is one of the two study nooks in the lounge room. Photography from David Schulze‘s exhibition ‘Heads’ at Le Space Gallery. Quattra Desk in Blackwood & NY Marble by Moda Piera. Photo – Ying Ang.

A family portrait! Ying, Oska Shübi (who goes by Shübi) and Michael. Photo – Ying Ang.

The dining room is filled with rattan steel chairs from CCSS. Marble Dining Table by Moda Piera. Photography left to right: David Schulze and Ying Ang, both represented by Le Space Gallery. Flowers from The Green Room in Albert Park, arranged by Ying! Photo – Ying Ang.

Flowers from The Green Room in Albert Park arranged by Ying. Sculpture on dining table by Nikola Vrljic. Photo – Ying Ang.

Rattan steel chairs from CCSS. Marble Dining Table by Moda Piera. Photography left to right: David Schulze and Ying Ang, both represented by Le Space Gallery. Persian rug gifted from a friend. Photo – Ying Ang.

An incredible flower arrangement with blooms sourced from The Green Room in Albert Park. This arrangement was made by Ying! Photo – Ying Ang.

Photography in the dining room from left to right: David Schulze and Ying Ang, both represented by Le Space Gallery. Quattra Desk by Moda Piera. Photo – Ying Ang.

Shübi’s play area! Photo – Ying Ang.

Shübi’s trains and toys fit the colour scheme of the rest of the house! Photo – Ying Ang.

Shübi’s bedroom featuring assorted artworks and vintage furniture. Photo – Ying Ang.

‘Suffice to say I need to make some bookshelves!’ says Michael. Photo – Ying Ang.

The outdoor terrace. ‘This is our main outdoor space the overlooks Treasury Gardens and beyond over East Melbourne, Richmond and out to the Dandenong Ranges. A good spot for a morning coffee,’ says Michael. On the left is a work in progress by Shübi. On the right: a collection of plants outside the main bedroom. Photo – Ying Ang.

Designer and director at Moda Piera Michael Chazan never really considered apartment living until meeting Ying Ang, a documentary photographer; curator, writer and educator at ICP in New York; and director of Le Space Gallery in Collingwood (massive shout out to Ying for taking these beautiful pictures for us!). 

While Michael had always lived in houses throughout Melbourne, Ying spent most of her adult life flying around the world for work, and loved the ability to lock up and leave at a moment’s notice.

When the couple decided to make a home together in Melbourne in 2017, apartment living made the most sense for their busy work schedules, but Michael was hesitant. ‘I was initially skeptical about many other aspects of the apartment lifestyle, and as such aspired to get a house somewhere as our family grew,’ he says. ‘Somewhat ironically, it was only with the birth of our son that I really became an inner-city apartment convert.’ 

Following Oska Shübi’s birth, Michael and Ying began taking full advantage of the location of their Bates Smart–designed apartment on Spring Street via spontaneous cafe visits and people-watching in Treasury Gardens. ‘The ability to walk out our front door and ‘dip into life’ – albeit briefly – really aided in keeping us sane,’ Michael says. 

The couple also started indulging in the occasional ‘nocturnal stimulation’ at Angel Music Bar, and dancing at nearby nightclubs! ‘Sometimes you just need to have an anonymous dance when you’re stuck at home the majority of the time,’ Michael says. 

Michael and Ying’s love for their city location remains the same, but their actual home has evolved significantly over the past three years. Originally a relatively stark shell, Michael has filled the three-bedroom apartment with furniture prototypes designed for his own collection, plants, rugs sourced overseas, $2 art prints, and vintage store finds. 

One small but impactful change has been replacing all the original bright downlights with lamps and soft pendant lighting. ‘To this day, the only time the down lights get put on is if we have lost something tiny on a rug and require blindingly bright light to find it (or when Ying is doing her nails in the bathroom)!’ Michael says. This change has also better highlighted the apartment’s natural light, which guides the family from the breakfast table, to the reading nook, and lounge room as the day progresses.

Even now, this apartment remains in a constant state of flux, with Michael always adding or moving pieces around. ‘I am always wanting to create a new environment or am lusting after some notion of how the place could be. This often involves some crazy piece of furniture that is wildly expensive and not at all needed,’ he says. ‘Ying on the other hand is much more balanced in her approach to our home. She loves what we have, and would be happy for it to stay the way it is… until such time as it changes, and then she is equally as happy with that.’

Michael’s apartment end goal is to create a disparate structure containing all of the couple’s design loves and flights of fancy. He says, ‘It would probably end up looking like some kind of “only a mother could love” monstrosity, but it would be our monstrosity, and would talk to all of the weird things we have liked over a long period of time as our tastes change and evolve.’

Watch this space! 

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Sophie Knittel: Lecture notes

The types of photographer:

Tech: focus on technical side of things (lenses, camera settings, composition)

Creative:

True professional: lack of creativity

What subjects inspire you: “Don’t go for something that only visually appeals to you, chooses subjects that also intrigue you"

Nan golden, Alex Webb, Alec Soth

Feel: “Try to get the person viewing the image to genuinely feel something"

Walker Evans, William Evans, Nobuyoshi Araki

Think: “Choose subjects that make you think and don’t just look good"

Robert Frank, Phillip Lorca diCorcia , Elina Brothers

Research: “It will be clear to whoever is viewing your images how much thought went into them"

Josef Koudelka, Sally Mann, Edmund Clark

Choose your Medium: “Make sure the medium you choose best matches the subject"

camera, video, manual/analog

Decide on protocol: layout of shots, style, colour/black & white. It should have some coherence.

Bernd & Hilla Becher, Pieter Hugo, Charles Freger

Show your work in progress: You are not the best judge of your own work

Olivier Culmann, Ying Ang

Be exigent. Be Ruthless: Don’t be lazy. Don’t take mediocre work.

Henri Cartier-Bresson, Harry Callahan, Ansel Adams

Keep up to date: "Everything has been done in photography, but not by you"

bjp, mowgli, Lens culture. Websites/magazines

Existential question: You do not have to have a style

your signature: Martin Parr, Richard Avedon, Hiroshi Sugimoto.

 Festivals: 

It will feed you and your photography

Inspiration will be everywhere

Networking is also a massive part of festivals

Always carry your work with you

Arles:

Showcases contemporary work.

Most important festival is “Arles”. 

First week is the most important, as this is when the most famous photographers exhibition their work.

Starts in July ends in September.

Portfolio:

Considerations: 

Number of images

Format: loose leaves, book. If its commercial provide a book, if its personal work show loose images.

Support.

Additional Projects

Separate Personal and commercial work

Write synopsis.

For portfolio reviews, target your reviewer.

Bring printed material

Take notes at portfolio reviews

[yingangphoto]

Sketches for an upcoming solo of The Quickening

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That time I curated a photography festival in Georgetown, and invited my parents to come and watch.

[yingangphoto]

On the cusp of turning 3.

This morning I looked into your eyes and felt seen. You are beginning to know me as I find myself again. As you grow, I return. It comes like a revelation. You love me and I, you.

Your babyhood is gone. Lost to time and my patchy memory. Long lonely nights glossed over, hours strapped to a whirring pump and roiling resentment. What remains is the soft roundness left in your cheeks, the dimples in your fists.

[yingangphoto]

“The woman who thinks she can choose femininity, can toy with it like the social drinker toys with wine - well she’s asking for it, asking to be undone, devoured, asking to spend her life perpetrating a new fraud, manufacturing a new identity, only this time it’s her equality that’s fake. Either she’s doing twice as much as she did before, or she sacrifices her equality and does less than she should. She’s two women, or she’s half a woman. And either way she’ll have to say, because she chose it, that she’s enjoying herself.”

- Rachel Cusk, “Aftermath”

[yingangphoto]

I need him as much as he needs me. That midday feed. A few hours away at work and I start craving him proximally. He latches, eyes half mast, both prone. Both recharging on the sensation of skin and milky breath. Five minutes these days is all he needs.

[yingangphoto]

Photographs from the last summer of my youth.

[yingangphoto]

More than when I was a teenager and my body betrayed my difference to the boys I was friends with, more than when my mother told me that the reason she paid for my university education was so that I could marry an educated man, more than the time I was overpowered and violated by a friend, more than the hum of fear and danger on the road when I traveled alone, more than the countless times in the world of photojournalism when I was reminded that I was a visitor at the fraternity. More, so much more. I had never felt so beholden, trapped, isolated, sacred, resentful, needed, stereotyped, shamed, enraged and objectified in my womanhood as I did when I had a baby. 

A lifetime wedged between

Each moonrise.

We wake, feed, laugh,

Cry, sleep, shower,

Cook, clean, repeat.

The outside world passes,

A streak of cirrus cloud.

Ice particles in the wind.

[yingangphoto]

Driving home in a state of seeing and unseeing. I jolt alert and swerve away from the wheels of a truck churning next to me. I imagine not swerving. The front of my car clipping the truck on the highway. Screeching metal, plume of smoke, my body a twisted licorice stick of car seat leather and axel. I imagine my son forgetting me after a while.