EVOLUTION--2007 GUANGZHOU PHOTO BIENNIAL until 08.07

Guangzhou Photo Biennial, was initiated in 2005, with its basic principles of maintaining both international and humanized perspectives of image sociology, to participate and promote development of contemporary Chinese photography and culture. The overall theme of the first biennial was “Re (-) viewing the city”, focusing on the problems of urban development in the process of modernization and man’s double statuses in such a context both as a “viewer” and a “viewee”. Photography verbalizes the issues in an expressively unique and direct language, and, as a result, the First Guangzhou Photo Biennial gained the massive attention and favorable comments. Now the publicly expected second biennial, the 2007 Guangzhou Photo Biennial has finally arrived. The main theme of this biennial is entitled “Evolution”, shifting its focus from the topic of space to time in an effort to highlight and characterize the highly effective dynamic visual text communications within the self-defined framework of Chinese contemporary photography history. A tentative study on the issues of generation, division, transformation and evolution of the contemporary diversified photography, and the interactive and responsive patterns generated between Chinese photographers, artists and the attractions of alien cultures against the coming internationalized background has become the major academic goal advanced for the biennial.