MONGOLIA: PLATINUM PRINTS exhibition in Bangkok

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MONGOLIA: PLATINUM PRINTS

photographer: Hamid Sardar-Afkhami
28 JANUARY - 28 FEBRUARY 2010


Serindia Gallery's fifth exhibition this January features the pinnacle of the photographic print media: Platinum Prints — in MONGOLIA by Hamid Sardar-Afkhami.

Inspired by the pioneers of ethno-photography during the Age of Exploration, such as Edward Curtis who photographed the Indian peoples of North America and Canada, Hamid Sardar-Afkhami dedicates his cameras to making a visual record of Mongolia’s last nomad tribes. Spanning over almost a decade, Hamid’s expeditions in Mongolia have produced three award-winning documentary films and a single important photographic collection concentrating on nomadic culture at the cusp of a great irreversible change.

The Mongolia Platinum Collection focuses on what Hamid considers to be an ancient and enduring feature of nomadic civilization — the spiritual reciprocity between animals and man and their connection to the environment. Following horse-breeders, bear-hunters, wolf-tamers, eagle-masters and reindeer riders on their seasonal migrations, Hamid presents timeless iconic compositions that take us to a place where men still speak the language of the animals.

Platinum prints are considered the ‘king of visual prints’ — they display unsurpassed and long-lasting details, produced by direct exposure of negatives on platinum deposits brushed directly into the paper. Some photographers only printed certain images in platinum (Robert Mapllethorpe’s The Corral Sea, and Irving Penn’s collection at the National Gallery of Art, Washington, for example). The result is greater tonal range, detail and longevity unmatched by other methods using classic silver gelatin or the digital process. The lifespan of a platinum print guarantees it will be viewed three hundred or four hundred years from now, perhaps more. Hamid thus insures these icons a life beyond their own and his.

Hamid’s iconic compositions have already come into several private and corporate art collections such as the prestigious design house Hermès.

Hamid Sardar-Afkhami is a professional photographer as well as a scholar of Tibetan and Mongol languages who received his Ph.D. from Harvard University. After moving to Nepal in the late 1980’s and exploring Tibet and the Himalayas for more than a decade, he went to live in Outer Mongolia in 2000 to make a record of people’s customs and manners of life before they became divorced from their natural and spiritual environment.

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Gallery website : http://www.serindiagallery.com/
 
spectacular, kit. thank you so much. one of my lifelong dreams was to ride a mongol pony. the closest i got was hearing my daughter describe the experience. she is a medical anthropologist and spent months there doing resarch for the UN in nomadic villages. she said mongolia is one of the few places on earth where the death rate is higher than the birth rate ...
 
spectacular, kit. thank you so much. one of my lifelong dreams was to ride a mongol pony. the closest i got was hearing my daughter describe the experience. she is a medical anthropologist and spent months there doing resarch for the UN in nomadic villages. she said mongolia is one of the few places on earth where the death rate is higher than the birth rate ...

I wish I would visit Mongol once in my life. Also want to try a yak's milk and living in those extreme condition. All of my knowledge about this place came from Genghis Khan in the movie and some documentary about their powerful composite bow which I really love to have one. 🙂


michaelbialecki said:
Thanks Anat for the info....I think I will check it out next Sunday, send me a message if you want to meet up.....cheers, michael

The next Sat. (Feb. 6-7)I will be at some seminar in Pattaya. I'll call you if any change made. cheers, kitaanat
 
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