In this public lecture, world-renowned photographer and photojournalist Liu Heung Shing will present highlights from his illustrious fifty-year career, sharing stories behind historic moments he has captured with his camera He will discuss how his photographs illuminate China’s path of reform and opening up in the late 1970s to the One Belt One Road Initiative today. Born in Hong Kong and raised in Fuzhou, Liu studied at Hunter College in New York. He was the first Time magazine photojournalist posted in Beijing in 1978. After joining the Associated Press in 1982, he covered significant events in major cities worldwide. Liu has received numerous awards, including the 1992 Pulitzer Prize for Spot News Photography. Liu’s work has profoundly documented changes in Chinese society, with many images becoming iconic representations of contemporary China. In 2023, his major retrospective, ‘Liu Heung Shing: Lens · Era · People’, opened in Shanghai and drew more than 400,000 visitors. In 2024, he started an ambitious project of photographing developments related to the One Belt One Road Initiative. 在這場公開講座中，世界著名攝影師和新聞攝影記者劉香成將介紹半世紀以來的攝影生涯，回顧作品所紀錄的歷史瞬間。他並將探討如何由他的照片講述從改革開放到「一帶一路」的當代中國故事。 劉香成在香港出生，在福州渡過早期童年，後赴紐約在亨特學院學習。他是1978年之後第一位派駐北京的美國《時代》雜誌攝影記者，後於1982年加入美聯社，報導過世界各大城市的重大事件。劉香成曾獲得多項榮譽，包括1992年的普立茲現場新聞攝影獎。 劉香成以高度敏感細膩的鏡頭捕捉中國社會的發展，紀錄了中國從改革開放至今波瀾壯闊的變遷，拍下無數珍貴的歷史場景。2023年，《劉香成·鏡頭·時代·人》—攝影家的首個大型回顧展於上海浦東美術館舉行，吸引了四十多萬人次參觀。2024年，他開始了他雄心勃勃的「一帶一路」拍攝計劃。 Date 日期 9.10.2024 ｜ Time 時間 4:30pm-6:00pm｜ Venue 地點 Lau Chor Tak Lecture Theatre (LT1), G/F, Yasumoto International Academic Park, CUHK 香港中文大學 康本國際學術園地下 劉佐德演講廳 (LT1) The lecture will be conducted in English. 此講座將以英語進行。
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