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Artist Talk – Dave Tacon

Date: 5 May 2020
Time: 5:00pm
Locations: Online

Cost: Free, donations welcome

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Today, Shanghai is one of the most exciting and stylish cities on the planet, as well as one rife with contrasts and contradictions. Young people, whose grandparents starved in the famines of Mao’s Great Leap Forward and Cultural Revolution, flaunt their new-found wealth under the gaudy lights of nightclubs. Many believe this wealth and love of excess apparent in Chinese society is the birth of the Chinese Dream.
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Available after 1 May 2020
Shanghai-based photographer Dave Tacon is a two-time Walkley Award winner. His portrait and documentary work is held in the permanent collections of the National Portrait Gallery, National Library of Australia and State Library of Victoria. Dave has worked on assignment for the Wall Street Journal, CNN, Travel + Leisure, Al Jazeera, Der Spiegel, Stern, GEO, Die Zeit, the Australian Broadcasting Corporation, The Monthly, Sydney Morning Herald, The Australian and many other publications.

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Once you’ve registered, you’ll receive an email confirmation. The next steps are: 

  1. We will send you an email with a hyperlink to join the session at least 24 hours before the class start time  
  2. We will open the room 5 minutes before the scheduled start of the session  
  3. You will be able to listen through your computer speakers and view the presenter(s) and their images on the screen  
  4. You will be able to ask questions through the ‘live chat’ during the session. We will answer the questions towards the end  
  5. In some sessions, you will be able to ask live questions via your webcam and microphone (depending on your system, you may have to click on permissions or change settings)  
  6. We will let you know within 48 hours when the recording is available 

 

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