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Yan Preston


Artist's Statement
Recently re-settled in north Manchester from Beijing, I am continuing my interests in landscape and documentary photography. With various impacts in my understanding of life, gained from these two apparently very different places and the broad areas covered by my extensive travelling, I often focus on the cultural and economic aspects in various locations, examine the relationships between human and nature, individual and the society. By getting very close to my subjects, people or people’s marks on the land, I try to blur the geographic barriers, capture the madness, hopes and struggles which we all live with.
Images of work




Brief CV

Education:

Sep 2006- Sep 2008 Master Degree of Photography, Bradford College, UK
Sep 2005- Jun 2006 Bachelor of Arts, Bradford College, UK

Exhibitions:

Sep 2006- Mar 2007 Cherish-Chinese Families in Britain, National Portrait Gallery
Nov – Dec 2006 Winter Art Show, Artsmill Gallery, West Yorkshire

Award and Commission:

2006 Cherish-Chinese Families in Britain, photographic project commissioned by the National Portrait Gallery
2006 Selected artist for PAD Scheme (Professional Artists Development Scheme) by Chinese Arts Centre.

Artistic Workshops:

Apr 2007 Exhibition workshop for The Real Thing: Contemporary Art from China, Tate Liverpool
Jan 2007 Exhibition workshop for Collective Identity, Chinese Arts Centre
Oct 2006 Family Portraits workshop, Chinese Arts Centre
Jul 2007 Working As a Professional Photographer workshop, Bolton and Bury School Conference

Contact
Email: yan@yanoutdoor.com
Website: www.yanoutdoor.com

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