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 Photographer
Wu Jialin |
1942 Born on October 22 in Zhaotong County, Yunnan Province, China.
1961 Graduated from Yunnan University's Middle School in Kunming.
Worked as primary school teacher, as a journalist at the local
Propaganda Centre, and at the Zhaotong County Cultural Center.
1969 Started his self-taught photographic career.
1981 Admitted to the All China Photographers' Association.
1989 Held "Touring Yunnan" photo exhibition in Taipei and Kaohsiung, Taiwan.
1993 Published first album "Mountain Folks in Yunnan".
1994 Ten photos selected in the "Exhibition of Contemporary Photos of
Mainland China, Hong Kong and Taiwan" held at the Hong Kong Art
Center.
1996 "Mountain Folks in Yunnan" exhibited at the 7th Fotofest in Houston,
Texas, USA
Exhibited "Yunnan, China" at the 9th Mois de la Photo, Paris
1997 Photo series "Mountain Folks in Yunnan" won the "Mother Jones
International Fund for Documentary Photography" prize; Wu Jialin travelled
to New York in June to claim the prize.
Exhibited "Mountain Folks in Yunnan" at the International Center of
Photography, New York.
Exhibited "Mountain Folks in Yunnan" at the Internationale Fototage
Herten, Germany
1998 At the invitation of Mark Haworth Booth, Director of the Victoria Fine Arts
Museum, England, Wu Jialin compiled comments for the museum
collection of China-theme photos from the Cartier Bresson's photo
exhibition.
1999 Participated in "Art Going to the People - Metro Photo Exhibition" held at
the Stockholm National Museum, Sweden.
Participated in "China - the 50th Anniversary of the Peoples' Republic"
Photos and Publications Exhibition held in New York, which was
sponsored by the Aperture Foundation; the exhibition later went on
international tours.
2000 Won award for the photo exhibition "Moments of Intimacy - Families,
Friendship and Love", New Zealand and the "Third Wang Zhong Culture
Award", Yunnan
Shot "Fashion of the Times" photos for the New York Times Magazine
Odyssey Issue.
2001 Held "The World in Black and White" photo exhibition respectively at the
1st Pingyao International Photo Festival in Shanxi and the T'Cafe/Gallery
in Kunming, China
2002 Nine photographs selected in the Blink Album "100 New Photographic
Elites of the World" by the Phaidon Publishing House (UK), in which
only two Chinese photographers were listed.
Held "Man and Nature 2002" photo exhibition at the Nordica, Kunming
2003 Representative photos "Chitchatting 1999 in Chengdu" selected by Henri
Cartier Bresson for "Les Choix d'Henri Cartier-Bresson". Out of
candidates from all countries, Bresson personally chose 85 photographers
for the 1888 - 1999 period. Only 39 among the selected photographic
masters of the world are still alive.
Ten photos entered the 13 Photographic Elites exhibition at the "Fotofest
1992 - 2002" held at Samara Art Gallery, Russia.
2004 Held "Wu Jialin Photos" at Moscow Museum of Modern Art, Russia
Album "Surprises" published.
Exhibition "Animals in Wu Jialin's Humanistic Environment" held at Au
Pavillon Musee Fabre, Montpellier, France
2005 Published "Instants of the Mysterious Lands - Wu Jianlin's Album."
Exhibited "Animals in Wu Jialin's Humanistic Environment" at the South
Taiwan Art University.
Invited to Hamburg, Germany to participate in the Bff-Kongress Hamburg
2005 sponsored by Bund Freischaffender Foto-Designer; Wu gave a
lecture, presenting a slide-show of 60 pieces of his photographic works.
Competed with 175 photographers from all over the world for the 2005
Gold Prize of the Bresson's Photographic Foundation (H.C.B); was
chosen as one of five candidates to enter the final competition.
Exhibited "Animals in Wu Jialin's Humanistic Environmen" at the First
Lianzhou International Photographic Exhibition.
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