Coal + Ice is a documentary photography exhibition featuring the work of 30 photographers from China, the United States, Malaysia, Russia, Hungary, Poland, Norway, Germany and the United Kingdom, whose work, brought together here, visually narrates the hidden chain of actions triggered by mankind’s use of coal.

This photographic arc moves from deep within the coal mines to the glaciers of the greater Himalaya where greenhouse gasses are warming the high altitude climate.  As these mighty glaciers melt at an accelerated pace, the great rivers of Asia that flow from the Tibetan Plateau into the oceans are disturbed, and the lives of billions of people downstream are disrupted.

http://sites.asiasociety.org/coalandice/

Asia Society is the leading global and pan-Asian organization working
to strengthen relationships and promote understanding among the
people, leaders, and institutions of the United States and Asia.
Founded in 1956 by John D. Rockefeller III, Asia Society seeks to
increase knowledge and enhance dialogue, encourage creative
expression, and generate new ideas across the fields of arts and
culture, policy and business, and education. Headquartered in New
York, Asia Society has offices in Houston, Los Angeles, San Francisco,
Washington, DC, as well as Manila, Mumbai, Seoul, Hong Kong, Shanghai,
and Melbourne. The Center on U.S.-China Relations at the Asia Society
was founded in 2006 to address key issues in the U.S.-China
relationship. In seeking new ways of building mutual understanding,
the Center is undertaking projects and events which explore areas of
common interest and divergent views between the two countries,
focusing on policy, culture, business, media, economics, energy and
the environment.

Three Shadows Photography Art Centre presents “Depth of Field,” an overview of the most talented young photographers from Belgium at the moment. The exhibition was previously shown at the Guangdong Museum of Arts in Guangzhou.
Depth of field is an important tool that allows photographers to play with blur to the point of dissolution, and its opposite, focus, that like an eagle’s eye forces the viewer to look at a chosen object with sharp clarity.
The featured photographers include Jimmy Kets, whose unique images taken from daily life border on the absurd, and Arno Roncada, whose series analyzes historical photographs and allows for new connotations and inferences. Charlotte Lybeer focuses on portraits of people in costumes taken from the escapist, fictive worlds of film, video and computer games. Francois Goffin utilizes both blur and focus to train our attention on the poetic details of the simple things in life. The youngest of the group, Lara Gasparotto, approaches image making with a spontaneity reminiscent of the punk and anarchy waves in contemporary photography. Bert Danckaert’s abstractions of unnoticed spaces remind us of the significance of the trajectory, not necessarily the destination, in our daily movements from place to place.
A symposium featuring two of the artists, Arno Roncada and Bert Dackaert, will take place
in the afternoon of the opening day.