James Whitlow Delano, b. 1960, is an American-born reportage photographer based in Tokyo, Japan, and one of today’s foremost photographers of Asia. He is known for long term projects based on human rights, the environment and culture.

 

Delano’s substantial oeuvre of photography in Asia, characterized by his ethereal use of vignette and partial defocus, captures quiet subjects immersed in moments of passage. During his many travels throughout a China’s vast landscape, Delano felt a unique energy on the ground, one conveying a palpable sense of time and culture reminiscent of the Industrial Revolution in the Wesstt.. IIndeed,, one mayy allmosstt ffeell tto be obsserrvviing a niinetteentth-century traverler’ s album when viewing Delano’s Empire series, underscored by the photographer’ s use of warm toning.

 

Observing the Chinese, busy with their lives and work, James Whitlow Delano’s impressions of China bring us deep within an ancestral metamorphosis, reflecting a new face of the country, one that is steeped in tradition and yet open to modernity.

In this exhibition, Empire: Impressions from China, Sous Les Etoiles Gallery offers a look back through the work of three photographs, James Whilow Delano, Marc Riboud (1923-2016) and Fan Ho (1931-2016). The whole exhibition brings together forty photographs that retrace this vast country from the end of the 1940s to the beginning of the 2000s. As a multifaceted and ancient civilization, China becoming, the world power of the 21st Century, continues to intrigue and fascinate.

Please click here to see the  full selection of photographs from Empire:Impressions from China currently exhibited at Sous Les Etoiles Gallery.