Posts Tagged ‘andrew rowat’
Shanghai Photo – Vote for Your Favourite
September 8th, 2011Just looking for a little help from everyone out there on their favourite Shanghai photo of these three. Let me know in the comments which (if any!) you like…..
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- Shangai’s Yu Gardens and Pudong Skyline
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- Shanghai Pudong Panoramic Skyline
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- Shanghai’s Historic Bund
Case da Abitare does Toronto – September 2011 Issue
September 6th, 2011In late May I had the opportunity to wander back to my hometown, Toronto, to shoot a city feature for Italian design magazine Case da Abitare (http://atcasa.corriere.it/Casedaabitare) Check out the website for more stories in the Sept issue, or click here to take a look at the PDF: Case da Abitare Toronto Feature – Photographed by Andrew Rowat
The wonderful thing about this shoot is I hadn’t really lived in Toronto since I left for University when I was 18 – it was a way to re-discover and re-connect with all of the wonderful neighbourhoods and people. And from New York it is a quick hop skip and a jump.
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.
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"
Bloomberg BusinessWeek – Robin Li Baidu CEO Profile
November 16th, 2010Out on newsstands this week you can check out this profile piece on Robin Li, the billionaire CEO of Baidu. Baidu is the reigning king of search in China and my images accompany Brad Stone & Bruce Einhorn’s story here:
http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/10_47/b4204060242597.htm
You can also download the PDF of the whole story here: Robin Li – Baidu – PDF
Baidu CEO Robin Li photographed by Andrew Rowat at Baidu World in Beijing, China.