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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.
reference:
http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=245916973507&ref=nf
Map: http://www.serindiagallery.com/contact/
Gallery website : http://www.serindiagallery.com/
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.
reference:
http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=245916973507&ref=nf
Map: http://www.serindiagallery.com/contact/
Gallery website : http://www.serindiagallery.com/