{"id":9376,"date":"2012-02-17T05:00:00","date_gmt":"2012-02-17T10:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.raphotoclub.ca\/wp\/?p=9376"},"modified":"2012-02-18T06:44:05","modified_gmt":"2012-02-18T11:44:05","slug":"bearing-witness-documenting-china%e2%80%99s-rise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.raphotoclub.ca\/wp\/?p=9376","title":{"rendered":"Bearing Witness: Documenting China\u2019s Rise"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ryanpyle.com\/main.php#\/Photography\/World%20Finance%20Center\/1\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-9442\" title=\"Ryan Pyle6\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.raphotoclub.ca\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/Ryan-Pyle6.jpg?resize=640%2C412\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"412\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.raphotoclub.ca\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/Ryan-Pyle6.jpg?w=889&amp;ssl=1 889w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.raphotoclub.ca\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/Ryan-Pyle6.jpg?resize=300%2C193&amp;ssl=1 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/a><strong>Bearing Witness:<\/strong> <strong>Documenting China\u2019s Rise<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Ryan Pyle<\/strong> Canadian documentary photographer<br \/>\n<strong>March 7, 2012<\/strong> <strong>(5pm)<\/strong> Admission free<br \/>\n<strong>55 Laurier Ave East<\/strong> Room 12102 (Desmarais Building, University of Ottawa)<br \/>\nPresented by the <strong>Centre for International Policy Studies<\/strong> in association with the <strong>University of Toronto\u2019s Asian Institute<\/strong> and the <strong>Asia Pacific Foundation<\/strong><br \/>\n<em><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>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. <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Canadian born, award winning, documentary photographer Ryan Pyle first visited China in 2001. He has never left since. <!--more-->It was very much Ryan\u2019s first trip to China that inspired him to enter the discipline of photography, and since then his imagery has been featured in the <\/em>New York Times<em>, <\/em>Wall <a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/ryanpyle\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-9398\" title=\"Ryan Pyle2\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.raphotoclub.ca\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/Ryan-Pyle2-150x150.jpg?resize=150%2C150\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/a>Street Journal, Time, Newsweek, Fortune, The Sunday Times Magazine<em> and the <\/em>Financial Times Magazine<em>. In 2002 Ryan moved to China permanently. In 2009 Ryan was listed by <\/em>PDN Magazine<em> as one of the 30 emerging photographers in the world. Ryan is also a television presenter,\u00a0 filmmaker and author. He is based full-time in Shanghai.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>To view some of Ryan\u2019s work, please visit<\/em> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ryanpyle.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">www.ryanpyle.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h6>Lead supplied by Mary and Edwin Lee<\/h6>\n<div class=\"clearfix\"><span class='ldc-ul_cont' onclick=\"alter_ul_post_values(this,'9376','like')\" >Likes<img src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.raphotoclub.ca\/wp\/wp-content\/plugins\/like-dislike-counter-for-posts-pages-and-comments\/images\/up.png?w=640&#038;ssl=1\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/>(<span>0<\/span>)<\/span><span class='ldc-ul_cont' onclick=\"alter_ul_post_values(this,'9376','dislike')\" >Dislikes<img src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.raphotoclub.ca\/wp\/wp-content\/plugins\/like-dislike-counter-for-posts-pages-and-comments\/images\/down.png?w=640&#038;ssl=1\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/>(<span>0<\/span>)<\/span><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bearing Witness: Documenting China\u2019s 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\u2019s Asian Institute and the Asia Pacific Foundation Just recently the world witnessed a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":120,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[18],"tags":[48],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7qnxV-2re","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.raphotoclub.ca\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9376"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.raphotoclub.ca\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.raphotoclub.ca\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.raphotoclub.ca\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/120"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.raphotoclub.ca\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9376"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.raphotoclub.ca\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9376\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.raphotoclub.ca\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9376"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.raphotoclub.ca\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9376"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.raphotoclub.ca\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9376"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}