Archive for the ‘Photography’ Category
Afar – July/Aug 2011 – Naoshima remains popular!
July 16th, 2011Another shot from the ever-popular Naoshima Island. This time of Yayoi Kusama’s ‘Pumpkins’. You can check the PDF out here: Yayoi Kusama’s ‘Pumpkins’, or pick up an actual copy of the magazine from newstands. You can also check out some Paris recommendations on page 18 from friend Frances Hsieh…..
'Pumpkins' by Yayoi Kusama on Naoshima Island in Japan's Seto Inland Sea. Photographed by Andrew Rowat.
Google Alerts & Stock Photography
July 14th, 2011I recently exited 1998 and decided to check out something called ‘the internet’ and this new company called ‘Google’, which doesn’t seem to even be a real word.
One of the fantastic features that Google offers is something called ‘Google Alerts’ whereby you receive an email every time your chosen keywords appear on the searchable web. So I am now delighted whenever ‘shaved alpaca’ chimes into my inbox. Seriously. Do a Google images search on that – they look like Dr Seuss animals.
But I digress.
What I really wanted to say was I actually have a keyword set for “Andrew Rowat” (I know, the vanity of it all), which allows you to see who is saying what about you. Most of the time there is actually dead silence. Which isn’t surprising at all. But occasionally you see links to published works, or people commenting on your photography, or well, blog posts like this.
This morning I received an alert with my name and followed the link to a Time magazine article on the most expensive cities in the world to live. One of my shots from Singapore, which is licensed through Getty, appeared in the article: http://moneyland.time.com/2011/07/14/top-10-most-expensive-cities/photo/3/
So this is all a very long-winded way of saying that using Google Alerts can help you track the life of some of your images and see where they end up. Vanity indeed.
Interior Design Magazine – Benesse Art Site
July 5th, 2011If you pick up a June 2011 issue of Interior Design Magazine you will see some additional outtake images from the shoot I originally did for WSJ. Again, you are taken to Naoshima Island in Japan, at the Benesse Art Site to see some of Tado Ando’s impressive architecture. You can see the PDF of how it appears in the magazine here: Benesse Art Site Japan – June 2011 Interior Design Magazine – Andrew Rowat
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- Tado Ando Museum photographed by Andrew Rowat
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- Aerial shot of Tado Ando Museum photographed by Andrew Rowat
Newsweek – Not So Lonely Planet – Mongolia
May 19th, 2011This week’s Newsweek (is that redundant?) has some of my images from Mongolia, including the cover as part of their travel double-issue. You can check out how it appeared in the magazine in the PDF here: Newsweek Cover – May 16 2011 – Andrew Rowat
A Mongolian ger in the steppe with star trails behind it.
Hiking in Tibetan India – The High Himalayas of Ladakh
April 18th, 2011Early last Fall saw me hiking in Ladakh, the Tibetan region of India’s Himalaya mountains for the folks with High Life. Flying into Leh was like having a front-seat in a video game as your plane angled its way between soaring peaks. The whole landscape, and the people, are incredibly beautiful – everywhere you turn there is a different monastery; an incredible vista; or a terrifying road snaking its way up a mountain. For this trip I joined Janet Street-Porter, to provide the images for her prose. You can see some of them below in the gallery, or take a look at how it appeared in the magazine
Mongolia Polo – In Chinggis Khan’s Ancient Capital
April 18th, 2011Late last summer I was afforded a wonderful opportunity to travel to Mongolia (again – I have a habit of ending up there) at the behest of the good folks at British Airway’s High Life magazine. Once there I teamed up with the amazing Justin Cartwright, who in addition to being an incredible author is also a terrific person to spend a week with in a ger (the circular Mongolian tent).
Nestled in a valley (I will let you read the article) near the ancient Mongolian capitol of Karakorum, Shanghai Tang decided to stage a polo cup – an event that culminated with a set of International players taking on the best Mongolian players. With predictable results. The Mongolians delivered a sound beating to the international cast that was assembled.
Mongolia is a magical land and if you ever have the opportunity (or make) to go there you must seize it. You can view the result of the collaboration here: Mongolia Polo – British Airways High Life – Andrew Rowat
I have also updated the travel section of my site, so you can browse through the images there: http://andrewrowat.com/travel/mongolia_polo-all.html
WSJ Outtakes – Philip Johnson’s Dumbarton Oaks Pavilion
April 17th, 2011A couple additional shots that didn’t run from the WSJ piece on Philip Johnson’s Dumbarton Oaks Pavilion in Washington DC.
Wall Street Journal Hong Kong Concierge
February 28th, 2011Take a look at an Insider’s Guide to Hong Kong from our good friends at the Wall Street Journal. You can link to the site itself: http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703555804576102223598816108.html
The insider guide asks four connected and knowledgeable Hong Kong Cognoscenti to give readers the lowdown on their personal Zeitgeist. In this instance you get to experience Hong Kong through the eyes of Alain Ducasse, Alan Lo, Carol Lim, and Daniel Libeskind.
If you haven’t yet been to Hong Kong you need to go – there are direct flights from most major cities in the world and both the food and the frenetic pace are amazing. You can go from having the best dim sum of your life to water skiing around one of the many islands – all before night falls.
Go visit now!
You can also check the PDF out here: Wall Street Journal Hong Kong Concierge – Andrew Rowat
WSJ Magazine – Benesse Art Site, Japan
December 23rd, 2010In the Fall this year I had the opportunity to travel to Japan’s Seto Inland Sea to photograph a series of amazing museums and art installations that are part of the ‘Benesse Art Site’. Darryl Wee (the writer of the piece) describes it as follows:
“The Benesse Art Site, an archipelago of art-sprinkled Japanese islands, is billionaire businessman Soichiro Fukutake’s realized vision of an ecologically enlightened “slow life.” The head of an educational publishing company, Benesse Corporation, Fukutake started this remote haven for contemplating art framed by nature some 20 years ago. Accessible only by ferry, after a three-hour bullet-train ride from Tokyo, the cluster of islands just off the coast of Okayama is located far enough from the hyperactive density of Japanese cities to tune out the urban hum, allowing visitors to truly transport themselves as they walk, muse and view the growing collection of contemporary art and installations on a wide-open-spaces scale.”
You can check out the slideshow of images here:
http://magazine.wsj.com/places-things/the-fine-art-of-escape/tab/slideshow/
For me the highlight were all of the Tadao Ando-designed museums, including the Chichu Art Museum (地中美術館), which unfortunately I was not permitted to photograph. Next time!
One of his museums is the Benesse House Museum, here housing a work by Bruce Nauman: “100 Live and Die”.
Bruce Nauman's work, "100 Live and Die"
Ning Li – CEO & Founder of Made.com for Time Magazine
December 1st, 2010For the last three and a half months I was trapped in Asia. Well, trapped isn’t entirely accurate – the phone wouldn’t stop ringing so I kept changing my plane ticket back to New York.
One of the last shoots that I participated in when I was in Asia was a portrait of Made.com’s CEO Ning Li for Time magazine when Ning was in Shanghai. And that portrait hit stands last week (Nov 29 International Edition for those of you dashing out the door right now).
So I just wanted to share this portrait with you (and link to the full pdf here: Made.com CEO Ning Li)
Made.com uses crowdsourcing to design its furniture – soliciting designs from professional designers and then letting users vote for the best designs. Of those best designs a handful are then put into production. But I digress. I will let you read the article.
Ning Li, CEO of Made.com at his Shanghai offices on Tuesday Nov 09, 2010. Photographed for Time magazine by Andrew Rowat.