2013 Lishui, China International Photographic Art Exhibition and Culture Festival

 

Natural History installed in the Lubro Pump Factory complex in Lishui

We met curator Yan Li of High Noon Culture and Art at Filter Photo Festival in Chicago last year. She included our work in the publication People’s Photography in Beijing and subsequently invited us to bring our portraits from Natural History to Lishui, China for a show of “Unconventional Photography” co-curated with Blue Mitchell of Diffusion Magazine. So we packed up 15 portraits and Barbara headed for Lishui in Zhejiang province in southeastern China to join the 9 other invited artists for this opportunity and adventure.

The Lubro Pump Factory complex of 8 buildings housed numerous curated and individual exhibits of Chinese and international photographers and one building devoted to photobooks. The factory is no longer working but the site was full of history. At bottom, this installation by Little Big Press of Rome was displayed against the eloquent patina of the abandoned factory. Additionally there were five other sites to see photography. Over 200,000 people attended the 4 day event.

Clay Lipsky submitted a wonderful summation on Lenscratch: http://lenscratch.com/2013/11/2013-lishui-photo-festival-clay-lipsky/