Lecture Presentation by Gerd Ludwig
“A Great Photograph Touches the Soul and Broadens the Mind”
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Gerd Ludwig’s photography captures beautifully all the complexities of life. Whether documenting children born with severe birth defects or the sweetness of an embrace, his photography resonates with the full scale of human emotion.
On assignment for National Geographic Magazine since the late 1980’s, he has covered diverse locations around the globe — from the ecological disasters of California’s Salton Sea to the origins of the Grimm Brother’s Fairy Tales in rural Germany; from Tasmania’s remote beauty, to Toronto’s multi-ethnic society. He is best known, however, as the magazine’s front man in the Former Soviet Union.
His lecture presentation will span his life’s work, from his art school days in Germany to recently published and unpublished images of Russia’s warp-speed transformation from communism to runaway capitalism — marked by bold aspirations, poignant suffering, and glittering opportunity. Each image adds a new piece to the eternal puzzle called Russia — by turns greedy and generous, stoic and exuberant, suspicious and sympathetic — and it is evident why these stunning, complex, and provocative images have garnered Gerd Ludwig’s distinction as the world’s foremost color photographer documenting this region.
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