Ginger Liu

York St John University, Faculty of Arts, Graduate Student

Manchester Metropolitan University, Photography, Graduate Student

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Photographer, Writer, Filmmaker
PHD Researcher in Artificial Intelligence and Visual Arts Media @YorkSJ
MFA Photography (MMU)
BA (Hons) Contemporary Media Practice (UW)

My practice centers on re-staging, reinventing, remembering and reimagining the past using family portraits, the family photo album, memoir, memory, pop culture and history.
Supervisors: Jacqueline Butler and David Brittain

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How I made Give Me the Key

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Interview with Zanele Muholi by Ginger Liu

Liverpool's Open Eye Gallery showcases the first major exhibition in the UK for South African pho... more Liverpool's Open Eye Gallery showcases the first major exhibition in the UK for South African photographer and visual activist Zanele Muholi Zanele Muholi. Muholi has exhibited her work of black lesbian and LGBTI South Africans for more than a decade and has achieved international recognition by producing a visual history which keeps visible the faces, bodies and lives of a community living with homophobic violence and discrimination.An other photographer might focus a little too much on the sensational subjects of rape and murder that affects a community, but in Muholi's hands there is a determination to show the whole picture. In doing HOME MAGAZINE EVENT INTERVIEW WITH ZANELE MUHOLI BY GINGER LIU

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Liverpool International Photography Festival LOOK/15: Exchange

This months biennial Liverpool International Photography Festival LOOK/15: Exchange, coincides wi... more This months biennial Liverpool International Photography Festival LOOK/15: Exchange, coincides with the 175 year anniversary of Cunard where the city welcomes the three grand dames of the ocean, Queen Elizabeth, Queen Mary 2 and Queen Victoria cruise ships to its port in celebration of the first transatlantic crossing in 1840. LOOK/15 uses this history in part for its theme: Exchange - Women, Migration and Memory with 34 photography exhibitions and more than 50 events dotted around the city over a two week period.

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Zanele Muholi Showcases Vukani at Liverpool's Open Eye Gallery

Liverpool’s Open Eye Gallery showcases the first major exhibition in the UK for South African pho... more Liverpool’s Open Eye Gallery showcases the first major exhibition in the UK for South African photographer and visual activist, Zanele Muholi. Muholi has exhibited her work of black lesbian and LGBTI South Africans for more than a decade and has achieved international recognition by producing a visual history which keeps visible the faces, bodies and lives of a community living with homophobic violence and discrimination. Through another lens the photographer might focus a little too much on the sensational subjects of rape and murder that affects a community but in Muholi’s hands, there is a determination to show the whole picture. In doing so her audience is witness to a very personal connection between photographer and participant with gorgeous images of dignity, defiance and celebration of black lesbians and LGBTI.

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Paris Photo LA 2015 Sound and Vision Interview

In its third year, Paris Photo Los Angeles has hosted scores of international galleries and exhib... more In its third year, Paris Photo Los Angeles has hosted scores of international galleries and exhibited world renowned photographers and moving image makers. The LA photo fair is held in Hollywood’s Paramount Pictures Studio from May 1-3 and an integral part of this three day exhibition is the Sound and Vision program, which brings together in Conversation, renowned photographers, artists and filmmakers to discuss influence and practice.

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Hormazd Narielwalla - Saatchi Art Solo Show Interview

Collage artist Hormazd Narielwalla kickstarts a new Saatchi Art solo show series with a collectio... more Collage artist Hormazd Narielwalla kickstarts a new Saatchi Art solo show series with a collection of work that utilizes his signature discarded and spent bespoke Savile Row tailoring patterns which he transforms into creative collages of Hormazd imaginations.

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Art Shay Retrospective at drkrm gallery in China Town

drkrm was founded by John Matkowsky who has a twenty-five year reputation as a fine art black a... more drkrm was founded by John Matkowsky who has a twenty-five year reputation as a fine art black and white printer in Los Angeles. The drkrm gallery specializes in documentary and photo-journalistic work, cutting edge and alternative photographic processes and the display and survey of popular cultural images both current or historic.

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Metamorphosis of Japan After the War Open Eye Gallery

After its defeat by the allies in 1945 in the bloodiest of wars, Japan pulled itself up from the ... more After its defeat by the allies in 1945 in the bloodiest of wars, Japan pulled itself up from the ruins and underwent one of the most political, economical and social transformations in world history. In the twenty years leading up to the Tokyo Olympics in 1964, democratic freedom led to an explosion in artistic freedom and in photography in particular. Curated by Marc Feustel and Tsuguo Tada, Metamorphosis represents eleven Japanese photographers who worked through these two defining decades in Japan’s post-war history and each of whom photographed Japan and its people in all its metamorphosis from defeat to global economic power.

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Doug Rickard's NA captures American Zeitgeist through snippets of YouTube voices

Those familiar with artist Doug Rickard’s A New American Picture and his recreated images from Go... more Those familiar with artist Doug Rickard’s A New American Picture and his recreated images from Google Street View representing America’s underbelly and its disenfranchised American Dream through deserted landscapes, ominous backroads and bleak cityscapes. Rickard is also behind photography sites American Suburb X and These Americans. His new work “N.A.” is on show at Little Big Man Gallery in downtown Los Angeles and YouTube is his focus.

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Talks by Ginger Liu

Cindy Sherman at The Broad GLIU

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Drafts by Ginger Liu

How I Made I Have Lost Myself

“The more I performed as my mother, the more I became her. I am writing a script about her and me... more “The more I performed as my mother, the more I became her. I am writing a script about her and me and our relationship and how we have reluctantly reversed our roles – Mother and Daughter. I am slowly losing myself, just as my mother is losing herself. I am taking on my mother’s identity by performing her and by caring for her and writing about her. By shooting a film a day, I am forced to film when I don’t always want to.”

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How I made Give Me the Key

I produced two short films for my Master of Fine Arts in 2017 about living with dementia while I ... more I produced two short films for my Master of Fine Arts in 2017 about living with dementia while I was caring for my mother Noni. The first short Give Me the Keyportrays an earlier and significant account of my mother’s dementia and I Have Lost Myself is an experimental film about blurred identities. Noni was in the advanced stages of the disease by this time and her illness was a little easier to handle because of her limited mobility and loss of any real conversation.

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