I’m honored to have my Lost and Found series featured in French Vogue as a story on Burning Man. From Maud Charmoy, translated by Quinn Connors:
At the end of every summer, Black Rock Desert welcomes almost 50,000 bohemian festival goers to come reconstruct Black Rock City, a pop-up town fueled by solidarity, art, independence and free spirits, which then disappears into ash at the end of the week. This week, the 2012 Burning Man takes place, so dive into one of the hottest festivals of the year with the uplifting photos from the Lost and Found series by photographer, Peikwen Cheng.
Featured on French Vogue
Featured on CNN Photos
I’m honored to have my Lost and Found series featured by CNN on CNN Photos in their feature “Finding ‘ability to dream’ at Burning Man”.
Burning Man has definitely been a source of inspiration for me. It has inspired me to dream bigger and do more – in an open-minded and open-hearted way.
On the playa, people are free to realize their dreams. As adults, we often feel that we can’t do this or can’t do that. We might feel bound by the restraints of the “real world”; however when we were children, we felt boundless. We were only limited by our imagination. This series Lost and Found is about regaining this freedom to not only dream, but to realize one’s dreams.
Thank you to all of the people who shared moments with me on the playa and participated in these spontaneous collaborations. May we continue to realize our dreams.
Selected to the Eddie Adams Workshop – 25th Anniversary class
Thank you to the 2012 selection committee for inviting me to be one of a 100 of photographers in the 25th Anniversary class of the esteemed Eddie Adams Workshop. I’m honored and grateful for the opportunity to connect with and learn from such an amazing community of leading professionals.
The Eddie Adams Workshop is an intense four-day gathering of the top photography professionals, along with 100 carefully selected students. The photography workshop is tuition-free, and the 100 students are chosen based on the merit of their portfolios.
A panel of over 30 judges selected 100 applications (50 students and 50 professionals).
Eddie Adams, a pulitzer-prize winning photojournalist:
…covered 13 wars, beginning with a stint as a Marine Corps combat photographer in Korea in the early 1950s and ending in Kuwait in 1991. He did three tours of Vietnam with the Associated Press and won the Pulitzer Prize for photography for his shot of a Viet Cong lieutenant being executed at close range on a Saigon street by a South Vietnamese general.”
The New York Times’ Lens Blog recently covered the legacy of Eddie Adams and his influential Eddie Adams Workshop in their feature “Barnstorming for 25 years”
Thank you C/O Berlin for an amazing opening and exhibition!
Thank you all for your support! It was an amazing evening, with 1500-2000 people in attendance, for the joint opening of Arnold Newman’s Masterclass and my Lost and Found exhibition.
It was an honor to have my exhibition paired with Arnold Newman’s inspiring and thought-provoking retrospective (curated by the team of William A. Ewing, Todd Brandow and Stephan Erfurt).
It was wonderful working closely with Ann-Christin Bertrand (curator) and Eileen Seifert (critic) on this exhibition.
Thanks for everyone who came out and supported this exhibition, including the C/O Berlin team and our generous sponsors and partners! As well as to Sueddeutsche (Germany’s largest circulation paper) and Photographie.de (German photo magazine) for the amazing spreads!
Thank you!
Solo exhibition opening at C/O Berlin: Talents 26 – Lost and Found
I’m excited and honored to be featured by C/O Berlin in their distinguished Talents exhibition series – promoting emerging international artists and critics. It was wonderful collaborating with critic Eileen Seifert who interviewed me and wrote the accompanying text to my images in our catalog.
I will be exhibiting my series Lost and Found in my first museum show. This is the culmination of a decade of work (2000-2010) capturing dreams shared on the Black Rock Desert. I hope you can make it to the exhibition:
Talents 26 . Lost And Found
Opening: March 2, 2012, 7 pm
Exhibition Dates: March 3 to April 24, 2012
show info and more info
C/O Berlin
Postfuhramt, Oranienburger Straße 35/36, Berlin
daily 11 am to 8 pm
venue info
Special thanks to those who made this show happen:
A Program by C/O’s e.V.
Sponsored by Investitionsbank Berlin
In Cooperation with Deutsche Börse Group
Supported by Goethe Institut . DruckConcept . AV Tour . Dinamix . Grieger
Media Partner Sueddeutsche.de
Free on the Range published in The Sunday Times – feature on the Renaissance Photography Prize
London’s The Sunday Times, April 3rd, 2011 edition, published a feature in Spectrum on the Renaissance Photography Prize – highlighting winning work including Free on the Range from my Lost and Found series. Also featured are fellow photographers: Walter Fogel, Lottie Davies, Richard Boll, Mark Emerson Hamilton, William Eckersley
Fortunately I’ve been able to access digital copies (online, iPad). Unfortunately it’s impossible to find a print version in the US or China. Big thanks to Anna Gavazzi in London for saving me a copy!
Thank you Renaissance Photography Prize – a surprise…two awards
Congratulations to the Renaissance team and committee, and in particular to Fiona Gifford and Monica Takvam, on a most successful Renaissance Photography Prize 2011 – fundraising a record amount towards Breast Cancer Care. The exhibition and gala event were a success with over 500 people in attendance at the Gala event.
I was surprised and honored to receive two awards for my images Lamp Mobile and Free on the Range for the categories of Environment and Motion respectively. A special thanks to judges Michael Hoppen, Brian Aris, Bridgette Lardinois, Philippe Garner, Rhonda Wilson and Lorna-Mary Webb. It was wonderful meeting the panel in person, as well as many of my fellow photographers.
London wouldn’t have been the same without friends. A big thanks to the crew that supported me and shared pints: Alex, Anna, Antonio, Avid, Blake, Doug, Courtney, Ed, Erin, Esther, Fran, Liana, Mark, Mike, Seiji and Scott.
Selected for C/O Berlin’s Talents 2011 program
I am honored to be selected to C/O Berlin’s distinguished Talents 2011 program:
Since 2006, in the Talents exhibition series, C/O’s e.V. has been promoting young photographers and art critics at the threshold between education and career. Each year, four photographers are chosen to exhibit their work on a specific theme at C/O Berlin in the Postfuhramt as well as at the Goethe Institute in New York City. Each solo exhibition is accompanied by a publication in which images and text enter into dialogue. Talents is an experimentation space for young international contemporary photography and art criticism. As a platform for the future, the C/O Berlin Talents program is unique and unrivalled in Europe.
Congratulations to my fellow photographers who will also be participating:
Mirko Martin (Germany)
Anne Schuhmann (Germany)
Timotheus Tomicek (Austria)
Big thanks to the esteemed panel for supporting our work:
Felix Hoffmann (Curator, C/O Berlin)
Anne-Marie Meckmann (Deutsche Börse Groupe)
David Elliott (Curator, Author)
Anton Corbijn (Photographer)
As details become available, I will provide more information about my solo exhibitions later this year in Berlin at C/O Berlin and in New York at the Goethe Institute.
Shortlisted for Renaissance Photography Prize 2011. London Exhibition.
I’m honored to be shortlisted twice for this year’s Renaissance Photography Prize and will be exhibiting work at the Mall Galleries in London, March 21-26, 2011 along with fellow selected winners.
The Renaissance Photography Prize benefits an important cause – fund raising for breast cancer research and care.
Thank you to the Renaissance team and this year’s esteemed judges:
Brian Aris
Philippe Garner
Michael Hoppen
Brigitte Lardinois
Lorna-Mary Webb
For more information about the exhibition and Celebrity Private Gala event (March 23), please go to Renaissance’s website.
Intimate China exhibition
I am honored to participate in AM Gallery’s exhibition, Intimate China – featuring China-based artists:
Peikwen Cheng, Seppe Van Grieken, Jonathan Browning, Ryan Pyle, Jingyi Yang, Gemma Thorpe, Stefen Chow, Boris Austin, Jasper James, David Hartung, Camille Levert, and Simon Dean
AM Gallery
1 Borough Street
Brighton, United Kingdom
Exhibition: March 1-20, 2011
Opening: March 1, 8pm