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Camille Zakharia: Coastal Promenade

Camille Zakharia uses his camera to document the journey taken since his departure from Lebanon in 1985. Born in 1962 in Tripoli, Zakharia fled his country's civil war, and spent time in the US, Turkey, Greece and Canada before moving to Bahrain in 1999. A graduate with a Bachelor of Fine Arts from Nova Scotia College of Art and Design (Halifax, Canada), and a Bachelor of Engineering from the American University of Beirut, Zakharia received numerous accolades for his work and exhibited in distinguished venues across North America and the Middle East. In 2009 he was shortlisted for the prestigious Jameel Prize at the Victoria & Albert Museum for Islamic art.

Coastal Promenade was commissioned by the Ministry of Culture of Bahrain as part of the Reclaim project, which won Bahrain the Golden Lion Award in their participation at the 2010 Venice Architecture Biennal. The series looks at the present state of the archipelago's coastline, devasted over the last few years by urban change.
Adopting the classical documentary tradition, Camille Zakharia has produced an inventory of the shoreline's landscapes and architecture of lost, desolate zones devoid of animal, plant or human life. And yet these places possess a fragile everyday beauty: beneath a cloudless sky, a sprinkling of fishermen's huts stands as relics of a declining culture - an architecture without architects, as the photographer calls it, which is equally threatened by political and social change.

Coastal Promenade

@Camille Zakharia / Musee du Quai Branly, Photoquai 2011

@Camille Zakharia / Musee du Quai Branly, Photoquai 2011

Camille Zakharia " Coastal Promenade " is currently on exhibit at the Musee du Quai Branly

September 13 - November 11, 2011

Courtesy Musee du Quai Branly / Photoquai 2011
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Chan-Hyo Bae: Existing in Costume, Fairy Tales

Chan-Hyo Bae was born in Busan, South Korea, in 1975. After graduating in photography in 2003, he moved to London where he took out a further degree from the Slade School of Fine Art. His photographic work is shown regularly in the United States, the UK and Asia.

Chan-Hyo Bae focuses on the complexity of relationships between East and West, and the exacerbating influence of colonial imperialism. His large-format color prints, in which he plays unidentified female British monarchs from the 13th to the 19th centuries appear to be a cheeky sort of wish fulfillment.

As I see it, Orientalism was born out of Western cultural preconceptions about Asia a conquered territory out of a false image that sees the culture of the other from an ethnocentric, self-absorbed point of view. It was this kind of anti-Oriental prejudice that suddenly made me aware of the chaotic, alienated state of my own identity - a confusion I try to show in my work. I began by examining portraits of Henry VIII and Elizabeth I, which highlight the forces behind the building of the British Empire.
My recent work on Fairy Tales deals even more explicitly with the feelings of alienation and prejudice I see at the core of Western culture. This involved studying and interpreting the most representative of these tales, like Cinderella, Snow White, Rapunzel and Beauty and the Beast. What I found was class-based social organization and, above all, the implicit message that in order to be happy, the weak must submit to the order of things established by the strong.
~~ Chan-Hyo Bae

Chan-Hyo Bae lives and works in Toronto. Existing in Costume, Fairy Tales is on view at the Musee du Quai Branly in Paris.

@Chan-Hyo Bai / Musee du Quai Branly, Photoquai 2011

@Chan-Hyo Bae / Musee du Quai Branly, Photoquai 2011

@Chan-Hyo Bae / Musee du Quai Branly, Photoquai 2011

@Chan-Hyo Bae / Musee du Quai Branly, Photoquai 2011

@Chan-Hyo Bae / Musee de Quai Branly, Photoquai 2011

@Chan-Hyo Bae / Musee du Quai Branly, Photoquai 2011

Courtesy Musee du Quai Branly / Photoquai 2011, Paris

Chan-Hyo Bae: Existing in Costume, Fairy Tales

Group Show, Sepember 13 - November 11, 2011

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Marian Drew: " Still Life "

This body of work variously titled Still Life, Still Lives, Australiana, Every Living Thing and All that remains explores the genre of the European 'Still Life' painting as translated into the context of Australia and contemporary art practice. This work questions colonial cultural heritage and the philosophical discourses that frame human relationships to animal and to wildlife in particular. The long lens of the "wild life photographer" is replaced by the close up lens, painted light and the table top.

Marian Drew is Associate Professor in Photography at the Queensland College of Art, Griffith University. Her work is held in numerous public and private collections including the Getty Museum and the National Gallery of Australia. She has held 25 solo exhibitions in Australia, the United States, France and Germany. Drew represented Australia in the First Asia Pacific Triennial in 1992.

Marian Drew uses road kill animals in her work and states: "With this work I aim to bring an actual and specific death to our attention and to acknowledge this animal's close link to the sustainment of our lives."

" Still Life" hopes to draw attention to the value and beauty of these animals and acknowledge the relationship these animals have to our present lives.

Marian Drew's Still Life series will be on exhibit at the Quai Branly Museum from September 13 to November 11, 2011.

Marsupial with Protea, 2006

@Marian Drew / Dianne Tanzer Gallery