Artist talk and Q&A: Yan Preston

Dr Yan Wang Preston is a photographic artist interested in the intercultural connections between landscape imagery, ecology, identity and migration. Her work has won many international awards such as the 1 st Prize, Syngenta Photography Award and the 1 st Prize, Professional Landscape, 2019 Sony World Photography Awards. She has exhibited widely and internationally at venues including Fotofest Biennial 2020, USA, Gallery of Photography Ireland, the 56th Venice Biennale and Chongqing China Three Gorges Museum.

Preston’s monographs are Forest and Mother River (Berlin: Hatje Cantz, 2018). She received a PhD in Photography at the University of Plymouth in 2018 and currently lectures at the University of Huddersfield, UK. She is originally trained in Clinical Medicine in Fudan University, China.

There is a padlet resource available  where you can find more about Yan's work and links to other research materials exploring similiar themes. Visit it here https://oca.padlet.org/danrobinson1/YanPreston

Please note this event will be recorded.