Posted on August 5, 2016, 7:19 pm, by QT Luong, under
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This is a mid-year update about the “Treasured Lands” exhibits for 2016, looking at past, present, future events, and a miss. “Treasured Lands” moved at last to the Bay Area during the winter, hosted by the PhotoCentral Gallery. PhotoCentral is a community gallery ran by photographers and educators Geir and Kate Jordahl. Besides their excellent […]
Posted on July 29, 2016, 4:11 pm, by QT Luong, under
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In the context of my project America’s Best Idea, I’ve started a new series called The Theater, which is still in its early phase compared to the other series in the project such as The Visitor and the series linked within. The National Park Service Organic Act of 1916 states two goals: to conserve the […]
Posted on June 9, 2016, 11:39 pm, by QT Luong, under
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On the occasion of the release of the USPS stamps celebrating the NPS Centennial, Metro Silicon Valley ran a cover story about my photographs of the national parks. There is an adage: “all news is local”. The other press coverage for that stamp of Theodore Roosevelt National Park is from North Dakota papers, for example […]
Posted on May 20, 2016, 10:32 pm, by QT Luong, under
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While my nature photography celebrates mostly the wildness of the landscape, I have also been examining the national park idea through The Window and The Sign series. They pay homage to the work of the National Park Service via some of their most archetypical infrastructure, which have now spread around the world. In addition to […]
Posted on April 27, 2016, 12:03 pm, by QT Luong, under
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I am honored that one of the U.S. stamps commemorating the 100th anniversary of the National Parks Service carries my photograph. The stamp will be officially released on June 2. A distinctive characteristic of my project to photograph all the national parks is that I sought to explore each corner of each of them, even […]
Posted on April 7, 2016, 2:24 pm, by QT Luong, under
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This is the full text of the introduction to my upcoming book In February 1993, I visited Yosemite for the first time. It was love at first sight. That visit marks the start of my 20-year affair with the National Parks. Growing up in France, mountaineering had provided me with my only experiences of wilderness. […]
Posted on January 7, 2016, 2:42 pm, by QT Luong, under
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Happy New Year! In 2016, the centennial year of the National Park Service, my exhibit Treasured Lands will travel across the country. The exhibit consist of 59 large format photographs, one for each US National Park. Treasured Lands has been in Southern California at the Fullerton Museum Center since last November. It closes on January […]
Posted on May 30, 2015, 10:49 am, by QT Luong, under
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As I became more aware that National Parks nature are also a human construct, in parallel with my nature work, I have been working on a few series that examine how the components of this construct direct the way we look at nature. I’ve introduced before The Window, in which we turn our back to […]
Posted on April 1, 2015, 1:13 pm, by QT Luong, under
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One of the wonders of nature is that, if you look close enough at just about anything, you will find unexpected wonder. In this new series of images, I examine the microscopic world of sand grains. High-magnification photography reveals beauty and variety normally hidden to the naked eye. Can one really “See a World in […]
Posted on December 15, 2014, 11:53 am, by QT Luong, under
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The photography for which I am known so far depicts the National Parks as wilderness. However, while collaborating with Ken Burns and Dayton Duncan, I became more aware of their nature as a human construct. The National Park Service Organic Act states two goals: to conserve the natural scenery and to provide for its enjoyment […]
