DESIGNOJEK» Pok Chi Lau http://blog.designojek.com Design, Art and Music News from Lawrence, Kansas Wed, 30 Nov 2011 20:46:54 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Pok Chi Lau: Flow China http://blog.designojek.com/2008/05/07/pok-chi-lau-flow-china/ http://blog.designojek.com/2008/05/07/pok-chi-lau-flow-china/#comments Wed, 07 May 2008 12:02:29 +0000 Dave http://blog.designojek.com/?p=341 Pok Chi Lau is a photographer and teacher from Lawrence, KS who has made Chinese migration and the emergence of China a focal point of his work over the past 40 years. Pok Chi was my photography teacher in college…

]]> Pok Chi Lau is a photographer and teacher from Lawrence, KS who has made Chinese migration and the emergence of China a focal point of his work over the past 40 years. Pok Chi was my photography teacher in college and had an enormous influence on me and my work in terms of how I approached image making as well as how I looked at different cultures through the lens of a camera. He still remains a strong influence of mine as well as a friend and so I was very excited to learn that he has a new book of his work out called Flow China!

In his words:

“The photographs culminate 40 years of my work in the topic of Chinese migration and the emergence of China in an unprecedented pace that shocked the world. I question the process and the cost of how these monumental and irreversible changes affect the faces of the ordinary common folk of this monstrous and diverse nation.”

If you’re interested in seeing more of his work, you can visit his website at www.pokchilau.com where you’ll find a nice gallery of his photographs and you can order his book Flow China as well as his first book Dreams of the Golden Mountain. Pok Chi’s images are fascinating, shocking, humorous, haunting and beautiful and his books are a great addition to any collection. As an added bonus, proceeds from the sales of his books will used for scholarships and charity!

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