‘50 Greatest Photographs of National Geographic‘ makes its Southeast Asia debut at Art Science Museum, Marina Bay Sands from 17 August 2013 coinciding with the 125th anniversary of the National Geographic Society. The exhibition will also include a vast array of photography programming like darkroom workshops to guided tours and interactive components within the exhibition, visitors can expect a full range of engaging opportunities that complement the 50 iconic photographs on display.
Expect more than just a display of stunning pictures, visitors will also learn the colourful and insightful details about how they were captured and the perspective of each photographer. Among the images displayed within 50 Greatest Photographs of National Geographic is Joanna Pinneo’s Sub-Saharan Mali. While on an assignment to cover climate change in sub-Saharan Africa, photographer Joanna Pinneo travelled to Mali to see how drought was affecting Tuareg nomads. The trip led to her meeting a local family and the opportunity to capture the intimate moment and iconic image.
There are six ‘Zoom In’ interactive spaces located within ’50 Greatest Photographs of National Geographic’ that explain in depth the different processes utilised in photography through graphics and technical insight, and the themes are Light, Colour, Lens, Composition, Film Process and Digital Process.
Complimentary workshops like Negative to Print and Darkroom Developments, encourages participants to discover the process of developing 35mm film to negatives and from negative to print. Visitors will also have an opportunity to enlarge and develop their own photograph print to take home.
The workshops and guided tours for 50 Greatest Photographs of National Geographic are complimentary and open to exhibition ticket-holders. For more information on ’50 Greatest Photographs of National Geographic’ and its related programming activities as it becomes available, please visit www.marinabaysands.com/
There was a coffee table book that had this picture on the cover years ago. Does anyone know what book it was? It was one of my niece’s favorites and it was lost in a fire a year ago.