Bearing Witness: Documenting China’s Rise

Bearing Witness: Documenting China’s Rise
Ryan Pyle Canadian documentary photographer
March 7, 2012 (5pm) Admission free
55 Laurier Ave East Room 12102 (Desmarais Building, University of Ottawa)
Presented by the Centre for International Policy Studies in association with the University of Toronto’s Asian Institute and the Asia Pacific Foundation

Just recently the world witnessed a massive shift in Chinese demographics, as there are now 51% of people living in urban settings. This new reality of becoming a country of urban dwellers will greatly affect the labor market, social security, access to information, access to education and ambitions of university graduates. Join Ryan Pyle as he walks through some of his behind-the-scene examples.

Canadian born, award winning, documentary photographer Ryan Pyle first visited China in 2001. He has never left since. It was very much Ryan’s first trip to China that inspired him to enter the discipline of photography, and since then his imagery has been featured in the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Time, Newsweek, Fortune, The Sunday Times Magazine and the Financial Times Magazine. In 2002 Ryan moved to China permanently. In 2009 Ryan was listed by PDN Magazine as one of the 30 emerging photographers in the world. Ryan is also a television presenter,  filmmaker and author. He is based full-time in Shanghai.

To view some of Ryan’s work, please visit www.ryanpyle.com.

Lead supplied by Mary and Edwin Lee

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