Another of my artist friends

German-Brazilian art photographer Juliana Borinski (who I'd met quite by chance during a holiday in Cambodia a while ago) came up for our end-of-year 'Arts Festival' this past week as an artist-in-residence, generously sponsored by our school's absurdly well-endowed 'Annual Fund'. Our overall Head of Art in the parent school in Hong Kong had invited her to spend the previous week there before joining us here in Hangzhou. Here are some photos of the activities she led for us while she was here.

She showed us a slideshow of some of her work, gave talks on her fascination with the history of photography, and led some workshops in which Art and Film students had an opportunity to play around with some long-exposure contact development processes to create collages. A technique using albumen (egg white), similar to the silver nitrate process used by pioneer photographers in the 1800s, producing sepia-coloured images, was a limited success; problems with 'fixing' the images meant that most of them soon faded and disappeared. These pictures created using cyanotype paper (long used to copy architectural drawings and engineering diagrams - 'blueprints') worked much better.

And she concluded her week with us by leading a small group of volunteers in creating a fun little stop-motion animation.

The music in the first slideshow is Endless Summer (artist uncredited) and in the second Skating (by Vince Guaraldi), both part of the iPhoto music library licensed by Apple for royalty-free use.