SIMONE DOUGLAS EXHIBITS WORK AT PINGYAO INTERNATIONAL PHOTOGRAPHY FESTIVAL

Australian born, NYC-based artist Simone Douglas this month journeyed to the ancient town of Pingyao, located in China's world-heritage listed Shanxi provence, for the 14th annual Pingyao International Photography Festival.

Douglas, whose exhibition with British photographer Christopher Bucklow, Sun to Sun, came to a close at Artereal Gallery last Saturday, was invited to exhibit a series of her work at the internationally acclaimed festival, joining some of the world's leading international photographers, where she spoke to audiences daily about her practice.

Since its inception in 2001, the Pingyao International Photography Festival has attracted over 16 million viewers and toured to international destinations including the USA, France, Japan, Spain, India, Belgium and Australia. 

 

Pingyao International Photography Festival

Stand-in: Landscape, Pingyao International Photography

Festival, 2010

Artereal artist and New York based photographer Simone Douglas has recently returned from exhibiting as part of the 2010 Pingyao International Photography Festival.

Stand-in: Landscape, an exhibition curated by Jim Ramer, and featuring the work of Simone Douglas, Arthur Ou and Jim Ramer, was held within a 2,500 year old walled village in an old warehouse in varying states of repair.

"These artists utilize the photographic medium to critically investigate the representation of spaces from the artificial to the naturalistic. Their work is an examination of the artificial or the constructed in landscape photography. They each have approached the genre of landscape photography in ways that depart from the documentary or 'straight', instead using sets, props and artificial stylization to construct scenes or views that recall naturalistic settings, but consciously undermining the fidelity of landscape photographs, and throw open a sequence of questions that cause the viewer to reconsider the perceptual de-stability of the photographic image."
-  Pics magazine, issue 22, 2010.