Dan Luo
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- Exposition
Exhibition : « Simple Song » by Luo Dan
Running concurrently in the M97 Project Space (in the Former French Concession) will be a selection of Luo Dan's photographs from his acclaimed “SIMPLE SONG” series made between 2010-2012. Luo Dan spent nearly two years traveling in an under-developed and mountainous region of China’s southern Yunnan Province, the Nu River Valley photographing a Christian community whose values and way of life have remained largely intact for hundreds of years. Luo Dan chose to employ the traditional wet-plate collodion photographic process which dates to the mid-nineteenth century.
LUO Dan: SIMPLE SONG Installation view 2016, M97 PROJECT SPACE
“I have traveled a long road, I have seen a lot of things, and in the end I have realized that all differences are actually similarities. And so I stopped, ... - Exposition
M97 Gallery presents Luo Dan «China Route 318, North-South, Simple Song»
Beginning in 2006, Luo Dan set out across China to document the enormous spectrum of Chinese society. Leaving behind his decade-long career as a photojournalist, and inspired by the likes of Robert Frank and Jack Kerouac, LUO Dan embarked on two long journeys crisscrossing China to document his fellow countrymen. "China Route 318" (2006) is comprised of images made during his first trip, which took him along this famed road from East to West, starting in Shanghai and ending in Lhasa. While these photographs offer a glimpse of China at a certain point in time, with the absurdities and peculiarities of a nation amidst great change, through them we see the artist's desire to find beauty among chaos, both in the landscape and its people.
"Dingri, Tibet" (2006) © Luo Dan. Cour...
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Running concurrently in the M97 Project Space (in the Former French Concession) will be a selection of Luo Dan's photographs from his acclaimed “SIMPLE SONG” series made between 2010-2012. Luo Dan spent nearly two years traveling in an under-developed and mountainous region of China’s southern Yunnan Province, the Nu River Valley photographing a Christian community whose values and way of life have remained largely intact for hundreds of years. Luo Dan chose to employ the traditional wet-plate collodion photographic process which dates to the mid-nineteenth century.
LUO Dan: SIMPLE SONG Installation view 2016, M97 PROJECT SPACE
“I have traveled a long road, I have seen a lot of things, and in the end I have realized that all differences are actually similarities. And so I stopped, ...
Beginning in 2006, Luo Dan set out across China to document the enormous spectrum of Chinese society. Leaving behind his decade-long career as a photojournalist, and inspired by the likes of Robert Frank and Jack Kerouac, LUO Dan embarked on two long journeys crisscrossing China to document his fellow countrymen. "China Route 318" (2006) is comprised of images made during his first trip, which took him along this famed road from East to West, starting in Shanghai and ending in Lhasa. While these photographs offer a glimpse of China at a certain point in time, with the absurdities and peculiarities of a nation amidst great change, through them we see the artist's desire to find beauty among chaos, both in the landscape and its people.
"Dingri, Tibet" (2006) © Luo Dan. Cour...