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Carole Romaya, UK - Bojan Salaj, Slovenia - John Spiller, UK - Thomas Stanworth, UK - Magnus Stark, USA<br />

- Jeffrey Stockbridge, USA - Carole Suety, France - John Sunderland, Ireland - Dominik Tarabanski, Poland -<br />

Sabine Thoele, Germany - Prince Thomas, USA - Kurt Tong, UK - Tahir Un, Turkey - Martin Usborne, UK -<br />

Rihards Vitols, Latvia - Manuel Villanueva, Germany / Venezuela - Vincent Goutal & Olivia Leriche, France -<br />

Alec Von Bargen, Mexico – Mirjana, Vrbaski Serbia / Canada - Graeme Webb, UK - Alexandra Wolkowicz,<br />

Gemany / Poland - Jon Wyatt, UK<br />

About the 2011 winners of Galerie Huit Photography Open Salon<br />

and the winning concept on the theme Transience<br />

The winners of the 2011 Galerie Huit Photography Open Salon are Stefen Chow, Malaysia and HY Lin,<br />

Singapore. They won with their concept The Poverty Line and the case study for China. As winners, they<br />

have been awarded a one month artist in residence with the Galerie Huit in Arles where they will further<br />

explore the concept of The Poverty Line and extend the case study to France.<br />

Their study observes and records in a very accurate and pragmatic way the changes in the growing Chinese<br />

economy in recent years and the numerous dramatic adjustments of the Chinese standard of living and its<br />

poverty line. Other case studies in the same series cover Japan, Thailand, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Nepal.<br />

Malaysia and France to follow.<br />

POVERTY LINE BY STEFEN CHOW AND HY LIN WINNERS OF GALERIE HUIT PHOTOGRAPHY OPEN SALON 2011<br />

Artist Statement<br />

The Poverty Line.<br />

This body of work explores a simple question. What does it mean to be poor?<br />

This is not an emotional analysis of what it means to be poor. It is an examination of the choices one would<br />

face being poor. This is an ongoing project, with the first series covering China. The project has since been<br />

expanded to Nepal, Japan, Hong Kong and Thailand. The plan is to cover countries in other continents in<br />

coming months.<br />

The visual representation uses a per-person, per-day rate of a national poverty line, to have a portrayal of<br />

items found in that country that could be bought with that amount. The items are placed against local<br />

newspapers bought on the day’s shoot.<br />

Countries maintain their own definitions to monitor socio-economic conditions and formulate poverty<br />

alleviation policies.<br />

In coming up with the poverty line, developing countries largely use an absolute standard based on<br />

consumption amount, while developed countries use a relative income or expenditure standard.<br />

This is not to compare different countries’ poverty, but rather to have a starting point to understand poverty<br />

within a country’s context.<br />

Everything else is left up to interpretation.

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