The Spring 2015 issue of the Trans Asia Photography Review, entitled “Vital Signs: Photography and Eco-Activism in Asia”, is now viewable online at <tapreview.org>.
The Trans Asia Photography Review is an open access scholarly journal, published by Hampshire College in collaboration with Michigan Publishing, with support from the Five College Consortium. Additional support for this issue came from the Luce Initiative on Asian Studies and the Environment.
The Spring 2015 issue includes the following essays and curatorial projects:
Xavier Ortells-Nicolau, Gray Pastoral: Critical Engagement with Idyllic Nature in Contemporary Photography from China
Jean Loh, Lu Guang’s China Water Survey
Lisa Botos, Spotlight on Environmental and Social Concerns in Hong Kong: the WYNG Masters Award
Inderpal Grewal, Gauri Gill and Rajesh Vangad: “Fields of Sight”
Sandra Matthews and Olivier Krischer, From Cell Phone Camera to Satellite Sensor
Kuo Li-hsin, Nuclear Waste Out of Lanyu: Indigenous Indignation in Taiwan Seen through Guan Xiao-rong’s Photographs
Mihoko Yamagata, Fukushima Notes: Photographs by Kei Kobayashi
And the following reviews of books and exhibitions:
Liangyou: Kaleidoscopic Modernity and the Shanghai Metropolis, 1926-1945, ed. By Paul G. Pickowicz, Kuiyi Shen and Yingjin Zhang, reviewed by Yajun Mo
Ars Orientalis 43, reviewed by Gael Newton
Chinese Contemporary Photography 2009-2014, reviewed by Stephanie Tung
Afterimage: Contemporary Photography from Southeast Asia, reviewed by Kimberly Shen
Each issue also includes an annotated list of “Recent Publications of Note” by Raymond Lum, and an extensive listing of online archives, databases and other resources.
Sandra Matthews
Associate Professor of Film and Photography
Hampshire College
Amherst, MA 01002, USA
Editor, Trans-Asia Photography Review
tapreview.org