About Pascaline Steiner: Photographer, Art collector, Ms. Steiner co-founded zone 2point8 to keep Black and White photography alive. The Digital evolution has closed most of the sources for film photography, making this medium even more precious. With it's studio space and dark room, zone 2point8 gives Ms. Steiner the platform to continue to explore the nuances of light in portraits and street photography in the tradition of the masters of Black and White.
About Jean-Louis Atlan click on: The interview
About Gerard Rancinan click on: rancinan.com
About Georgiana Warner click on: georgianawarner.com
About Chris Morris clik on: viiphoto.com
About Antoine Schneck: French photographer based in Paris, Antoine Schneck pushes the art of portrait to a new level. Making full use of the technical advances in digital photography, his portraits, and his still life photographs, have a haunting presence and a razorsharp accuracy. From Europe, Africa, China and India, Antoine captures the unique traits of each individual to tell the story of the broad diversity of the human race. For more info click on: www.schneck.fr
About Claire Bouleau: Using urban environments as well as nature as her subjects, Ms. Bouleau displays a gift for true originality,. Her photographs reveal the secret beauty hidden in a splash of water, a blade of grass, a sidewalk, or a wall in the ghetto. For more info click on: www.clairebouleau.com
About Jianhua Gong: Jianhua is an accomplished photographer and recognized member of Chinese Association of Photographers and a Board Member of Shanghai Association of Photographers. He has conducted artistic photography for decades and his portfolio includes over 1,000 published photographic works and a series of personal exhibitions in the United States, Japan, and China, winning gold and silver prizes in many international and domestic competitions. He has also published a series of photography books such as Shanghai Nong Tang and Shanghai Pictorial.
Since 1980s, Gong has devoted great attention and energy to the characteristics and change of the human history, socio-culture, and architecture of “Shanghai nongtang (alleyways)” and “Shanghai Shikumen houses.” The great amount of photo images shot by him in Shanghai have not only had artistic values but also kept irrevocable socio-historical traces of the city.
In the forthcoming “FotoWeekDC” held at Georgetown of Washington DC on November 7-14, 2009, Zone 2point8 (former Zone Zero) will present Jianhua Gong’s “BEFORE SHANGHAI” photographic exhibit for a historical look at Shanghai before the Chinese City transformed into the modern metropolis it is today.
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