[BCMA] FW: Photo exhibit and National Geo photographer at the Classical Chinese Garden

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For Immediate Release                                             Contact:
Mirjana Galovich 

February 12, 2014
Director of Marketing and Communications
T: 604. 662. 3207 x 204 

GUIZHOU China, IN THE SEASON OF NEW RICE - exhibit at Dr. Sun Yat-Sen
Classical Chinese Garden

IN SHORT:  The exhibit GUIZHOU CHINA, In the Season of New Rice by
anthropologist and award-winning photographer Evelyn Nodwell runs March 1 to
30, 2014 at the Dr. Sun Yat-Sen Classical Chinese Garden, 578 Carrall Str.,
Vancouver. Included with admission to the Garden.
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Exhibit Opening - March 1, 2014, 2 pm - 4 pm with guests Dr. Brian Pendleton
and Dr. Li Yu, China scholars and instructors at Langara College who will
contextualize the subject of the images, rural Guizhou province and ethnic
minorities. Opening is free but doesn't include admission to the Garden.

FULL:  The exhibit GUIZHOU CHINA, In the Season of New Rice explores village
and small town life in Guizhou Province at a time of China's growing
urbanization. On March 15th at 2pm renowned photographer, Sam Abell of
National Geographic fame, joins Evelyn Nodwell for a walking conversation of
her works displayed in the Garden's gallery.  

Abell's cowboy photograph of branding in Montana was named one of the 50
greatest pictures ever made at National Geographic.  

 "The beauty and spontaneity of these photographs are thanks to the
welcoming openness and good nature of the Guizhou people who live in one of
the least developed China's provinces", says Nodwell and adds: "Many
villages are accessible only over rough, winding and narrow gravel roads and
some only on foot. In Zhanghan village, we were the first outside visitors.
" 

More than one-third of Guizhou's towns and steep, green hills are populated
by diverse indigenous ethnic minorities whose images can be seen in the
GUIZHOU CHINA, In the Season of New Rice exhibit.    

Nodwell's images document traditionally embroidered and silver-adorned
dresses, traditional food, water buffalo fights, bare back horse races,
dancing, lusheng pipe playing and young people courting.   

BIOGRAPHIES - 

 

As an Anthropologist, Evelyn Nodwell has worked in British Columbia and
India. Based on her research in India, she produced two television
documentaries in collaboration with Knowledge Network. 

 

As a photographer, Evelyn has had prints in the Burnaby Art Gallery Sales
and Rental division, and has had photos published in Canadian Geographic
Magazine, The Province newspaper and Vancouver Coast and Mountains Tourism
publications. She has given photo workshops and judges for camera clubs. One
of her images scored 4th out of 280 submitted by photographers from across
BC at the 2013 judged North Shore Challenge. 

 

Sam Abell's forty-year career has been dedicated to achieving artistic
expression through documentary photography.  He has pursued his goals
primarily through lengthy, in-depth coverage for National Geographic.  At
the same time, he has maintained a career as an artist, teacher and author.
A one-person exhibit and monograph of his work at mid-career titled Stay
This Moment was organized by the International Center of Photography in New
York in 1990. 

In 2002 a traveling exhibit and monograph of his work titled Sam Abell: The
Photographic Life was organized by the University of Virginia Art Museum.
His other book credits include Seeing Gardens (2000) and The Life of a
Photograph (2008).  In 1996 the Garden Writers of America named Mr. Abell
'Garden Photographer of the Year' for his work on the book Contemplative
Gardens. Mr. Abell was a founder of the Santa Fe Center of photography and
has been a member of the boards of the George Eastman House, Rochester, NY
and the University of Virginia Museum of Art. 

 

 

Mirjana Galovich 

Director of Marketing and Communications 

 



 

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