ArtAsiaPacific No.13, 1997

Commentary

22 PHOTOGRAPHY ALIVE! Photography at the 10th Sydney Biennale and the MCA – Catherine de Lorenzo

25 NOVEL EXPOSURES A major exhibition of contemporary Korean photography – Roe Jae-ryung

28 PICTURING PARADISE Colonial photography of Samoa – Karen Stevenson

30 CITY OF HELL Thai photographer Manit Sriwanichpoom’s images of Bangkok – Khetsirin Knithichan

32 SURABAYA ART FESTIVAL – Dwi Marianto

34 CHINESE WHISPERS Recent exhibitions in Hong Kong – Oscar Ho

36 MINDING THE MODERN Recent exhibitions in Manila – Patrick D. Flores

38 IT’S ABOUT TIME Artist-run galleries and spaces in Taipei – Rachel Kent

40 RAPPORT A touring exhibition of Australian and Singaporean art – Wahyuni Hadi

Essays

42 SNAPSHOT Yasumasa Morimura interviewed – Judy Annear

48 SHOOTING FROM THE HIP New-gen girl photographers in Japan – Chie Kaihotsu

54 THE HUMAN REALM AND THE WAY OF NATURE Photography in China – Susan Dewar

61 TRUE LIES New reportage photography in China – Dao Zi

66 MARKED MEN Tattooing and the photographs of Greg Semu and Mark Adams – Nicholas Thomas

74 EDUARDO MASFERRE Photographs of the Philippine Cordillera – Ana P. Labrador

80 ROTIGRAPHY India street photography – Satish Sharma

86 HOME/NATION Photography in the installations of Rummana Hussain – Kamala Kapoor

92 PEEPING TOM Rozalind Drummond: The female photographer as sleuth – Natalie King

Art Directory

101 EXHIBITION REVIEWS Wendy Vaigro on Mika; Roe Jae-ryung on Ik-Joong Kang; Yu Yeon Kim on Jung Hyang Kim; Ben Curnow on John Young.