{"id":2205,"date":"2017-03-21T08:39:40","date_gmt":"2017-03-21T08:39:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/artsinstitute\/?p=2205"},"modified":"2017-03-14T12:05:27","modified_gmt":"2017-03-14T12:05:27","slug":"plymouth-university-phd-candidate-wins-syngenta-photography-award-2017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/artsinstitute\/2017\/03\/21\/plymouth-university-phd-candidate-wins-syngenta-photography-award-2017\/","title":{"rendered":"Plymouth University PhD candidate wins Syngenta Photography Award 2017"},"content":{"rendered":"

Yan Wang Preston<\/a>, who is a PhD candidate in Photography at the University of Plymouth, is the winner of the prestigious\u00a0Syngenta Photography Award 2017<\/a>\u00a0in the ‘Professional Commission’ category. The prize focuses on photography that explores global challenges.<\/p>\n

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Yan Preston, ‘Forest 7’ (2013)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Yan is a British-Chinese artist primarily interested in how landscape photography can challenge myths and reveal hidden complexities behind the surface of physical landscapes. Her previous work has won several international awards including the Shiseido Photographer Prize at the Three Shadows Photography Annual Award in Beijing, China (2015) and the Reviewer\u2019s Choice Award at the FORMAT Portfolio Review in Derby (2014).<\/p>\n

In an interview with The Guardian<\/em><\/a>, Yan notes that her main influences as a photographer are\u00a0Joel Sternfeld and her PhD supervisor, Prof Jem Southam<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Yan’s\u00a0work has been shown at the Photographers Gallery, Dublin; Dubai Photo; the 56th Venice Biennale; Three Gorges Museum, Chongqing, China; Wuhan Art Museum, Hubei, China; and the Swatch Art Peace Hotel in Shanghai. It\u00a0is collected by the Wuhan Art Museum and is represented by the Three Shadows +3 Gallery in Beijing.<\/p>\n

Yan’s prize winning photographs can be seen in an exhibition of the Syngenta entrants at Somerset House<\/a>, London, until 28 March.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Yan Wang Preston, who is a PhD candidate in Photography at the University of Plymouth, is the winner of the prestigious\u00a0Syngenta Photography Award 2017\u00a0in the ‘Professional Commission’ category. The prize focuses on photography that explores global challenges. Yan is a British-Chinese artist primarily interested in how landscape photography can challenge myths and reveal hidden complexities… Continue reading Plymouth University PhD candidate wins Syngenta Photography Award 2017<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2208,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,5],"tags":[17,166,432,31,152,52,719,728],"class_list":["post-2205","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-public-events-all-welcome","tag-artistic-research","tag-exhibition","tag-jem-southam","tag-landwater","tag-phd","tag-photography","tag-prize","tag-yan-wang-preston","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/artsinstitute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2205","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/artsinstitute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/artsinstitute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/artsinstitute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/artsinstitute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2205"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/artsinstitute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2205\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2210,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/artsinstitute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2205\/revisions\/2210"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/artsinstitute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2208"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/artsinstitute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2205"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/artsinstitute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2205"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/artsinstitute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2205"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}