An exhibition of 17 black-and-white photographs, entitled Between Love and Duty: Chinese Youth Culture, by Rian Dundon, the 2007 Tierney Fellowship award recipient from the Department of Photography & Imaging at New York University, will go on view July 3 at the Tisch School of the Arts.
In this exhibition Dundon strives to document the human narratives of a generation of Chinese working to resolve their interest in their own country’s history and that of the West. China’s culture is struggling with poverty and punk rock, with mahjong and sexuality, with arranged marriages and a reborn academia. Illuminating these disparities, Dundon shows the emotional and cultural specificity of the “one-child” generation.
The exhibition will remain on view through August 9, 2008 in the Gulf+Western Gallery at 721 Broadway (at Waverly Place). Gallery hours are 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. weekdays and noon to 5 p.m. Saturdays. The exhibition is open to the public, and admission is free. A photo I.D. is required when entering the building. For further information, call 212.998.1930, or visit www.photo.tisch.nyu.edu.
The annual Tierney Fellowship grant was established by the Tierney Family Foundation in 2005. It is awarded to a Photography & Imaging alumnus who has shown excellence in the field of photography and has graduated within the past seven years. The primary goal of the Fellowship is to find aspiring artists who will be tomorrow’s leaders and to assist them in overcoming challenges that photographers face at the start of their careers.
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Dundon ’03 is an Irish-American freelance photographer and writer. He is represented by Atlas Press Photo and is a regular contributor at Pacific News Service. His work has been exhibited at the 2007 Angkor Photography Festival in Cambodia as well as the inaugural New York Photo Festival in 2008. Dundon’s work has appeared in Stern, The New York Times, The South China Morning Post, Time, The Detroit Free Press, The Irish Times Magazine, Out Magazine, and The San Francisco Chronicle among others. His commercial clients include Rocawear Clothing, The City of Newark, and The International Center of Photography.
The Department of Photography & Imaging at the Tisch School of the Arts is a four-year B.F.A. program centered on the making and understanding of images. Students explore photo-based imagery as personal and cultural expression. Situated within a university, the program offers students both the intensive focus of an arts curriculum and a serious and broad grounding in the liberal arts.
