Zoom with me to Beijing

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Bikes, Shanghai


I'm thrilled to announce that a long term dream is beginning to take shape.

In collaboration with the International Center of Photography, here in New York, and the Three Shadows Photography Art Center, in Beijing, I'm leading a workshop in photography this summer in China.

From the ICP website:

Explore Chinese culture through your photography. Join Sean Justice for a behind-the-scenes, upclose and personal tour of Beijing, an urban powerhouse and city of many charms. Our host, the Three Shadows Photography Art Center, is a contemporary gallery and research institute devoted to photography as a fine art. We will visit Beijing's art districts, galleries, and studios, enjoy the city's cafés, bookstores, and art-related events, and attend guest lectures by Chinese artists and curators. All the while, we will be using our picture-making skills to engage what we are learning and seeing. The trip includes must-see city highlights and cultural outings to the Temple of Heaven, Summer Palace, Houhai Lake District, Olympic Village, and, of course, a stroll through the Forbidden City, the onceexclusive imperial residence and the heart of the empire for 500 years. We will walk through Tiananmen Square, built on the orders of Mao Zedong and perhaps the largest public plaza in the world. Our itinerary includes a day excursion to the 2,000-year-old Great Wall.

The workshop fee is $3000 and includes 10 nights' lodging, welcome and farewell dinners, entrance fees to sites, and internal transportation. The workshop is limited to 12 participants. The single supplement is $700. A nonrefundable $500 deposit is required upon registration. Full payment is due by May 15, 2010.

The dream goal is to establish a semi-permanent home for American-Chinese collaborations between photographers and artists.

For a long time Chinese artists have been focused on getting to know America; it's time now for American artists to start getting to know China — and the best way to do that is to go there and join the conversation. I'm absolutely convinced that you'll find the experience inspiring, provocative and life-changing.

I hope you'll zoom with me on this fabulous adventure.

For more on my work in China since 2005, please take a look at my book, Swimming at the Center of the World.


Comments

Matt Shrier said…
Very exciting to see this goal reached, your enthusiasm about this project is inspiring, I'm intrigued by how it will continue
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