EXHIBITION: Reclamation: Artists’ Books on the Environment, San Francisco Center for the Book, San Francisco, CA
San Francisco Center for the Book and San Francisco Public Library host Reclamation: Artists' Books on the Environment, a juried exhibition of artists' books exploring our relationship to the environment at this moment on the planet.
Environmental concerns demand increasing attention, from rising temperatures and dangerous weather events, to crises in water quality, to multiplying fires...the list goes on, echoed around the globe. Book artists create works that involve, educate, and inspire action. Book art takes many forms. Reclamation: Artists' Books on the Environment seeks to inspire and educate viewers to reflect on climate change and its impacts locally, nationally, and internationally. At the same time, the exhibition endeavors to avoid dualistic arguments common to today’s divisive political scene.
This exhibition takes place under the umbrella of The Codex Foundation's EXTRACTION: Art on the Edge of the Abyss call to action.
PUBLICATIONS: Survival International's 50th Anniversary Special Edition Calendar
I’m honored to have one of my photographs included in Survival International’s Special Edition 50th Anniversary 2019 calendar. The calendar benefits the great work they do protecting the global rights of tribal peoples’ around the world. The calendar includes the following other photographers:
Steve McCurry
Livia Monami
Yann Arthus-Bertrand
James Morgan
Timothy Allen
Wayne Quilliam
George Rodger
Claudia Andujar
Jane Baldwin
Carol Beckwith & Angela Fisher
Brent Stirton
Gleison Miranda/FUNAI
Bryan & Cherry Alexander
Sebastião Salgado
Please join me in purchasing the calendar for €14.00 at catalogue.survival.it.
PUBLICATION: Only the River Remains | Kara Women Speak
2017
21 x 26.5cm
Soft cover / Perfect binding
114 pages
Limited Edition, 100 copies, signed and numbered
₩90,000 / $90.00
ISBN 978-89-976052-6-2-03660
For one decade Jane Baldwin has visited Ethiopia, Africa, documenting the lives of Kara women living on the Omo River through photography, voice recordings and video. Baldwin is especially focused on bringing their voices to the world after witnessing the imperiled ecosystem and endangered livelihood of these women due to the construction of dams and other development policies.
"Working behind a medium format Hasselblad, the relationship between the artist and subject is unbroken, forming a cross-cultural bridge of human understanding. The direct gaze of each woman exhibits a transparency of spirit, both vulnerable and of tremendous strength."
- Anne Veh, Curator
Project Director Sangyon Joo
Curator Kwan Hoon Lee
Coordinator Soo Yeon Kim
Translation Zoey Hayeon Lee, Cathy Kyu Yeon Kim
Book Design Min Young Kim
Korean Proofreading Juyoung Jung
Printing and Binding Datz Books
Book ©2017 Datz Press
Photographs ©2004-2014 Jane Baldwin
Text © Jane Baldwin, Anne Veh, Lori Pottinger
All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced in any form without written permission from the publisher and artist.
The entire bookmaking process of this book is carried out with exquisite craftsmanship by Datz Books.
PUBLICATION: Magazine Gitz vol.9 | Resonant Voices
2017
23 x 30 cm
Soft cover / Perfect binding
104 pages
$25.00
ISSN 2093-7970
Publisher's Letter
Introduction by Anne Veh
Artist Lonnie Graham
Artist Jane Baldwin
Publisher’s Letter
Resonance means something rings true in one another,
influences one another.
The waves spread far.
It means empathizing with something and following it,
and when the vibration amplifies and deepens
different things meet to become stronger.
We are looking for a witness to life,
someone who will listen to our stories,
wipe away tears,
hold our hand.
We are looking to become one again.
As temporary visitors,
where do we come from
and
where are we going?
With the language of light,
which is like a spell,
returning to that road,
we face and embrace the land
with the deep eyes of the sky.
To all those who are searching for a path,
it is the light arriving,
the warm air rising,
the fair and upright, unbiased
conversation resounding between us all.
In the playground of light
a quiet sound of the world can be heard.
You are here in the place I emptied myself.
As a single circle,
as a river flowing with life
we ask the way back.
—Sangyon Joo, Director of the Datz Museum of Art
*This volume is published in conjunction with the exhibition “Resonant Voices”, which held from Sep. 9, 2017 to Feb. 25, 2018 at the Datz Museum of Art, Korea.
ARTICLE: 12 Things, 1. SVMA Exhibit/Event – Jane Baldwin Exhibit: Kara Women Speak
12 Things, 1. SVMA Exhibit/Event – Jane Baldwin Exhibit: Kara Women Speak
July 2015
Baldwin found herself quietly sitting with the Kara women, watching, listening and adapting to the natural rhythms of river life on the Omo. Her curiosity and willingness to bare witness to their stories engendered a trust that evolved slowly and developed into a lifetime multimedia project. Kara women are the keepers of the ancient oral traditions; through storytelling the legacy of a harmonious and interdependent way of life is preserved in myth, proverb and song.
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