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Elaine Ling - Mongolia: Land Of The Deer Stone
Nomadic Mongolia by Elaine Ling. This GE print is selected for the promotion of her newly released book Mongolia: Land Of The Deer Stone. The same image is used as cover of this monograph. The publication includes 116 images from her Nomadic Mongolia series. “Elaine Ling’s black-and-white photographs of nomadic Mongolia are an extraordinary creative journey through a Texas-sized nation with a long and proud history. Her contrasting visual narratives of traditional nomadic culture are beautiful photographs of family life, interiors, ancient stones, and the natural landscape.” (Ricardo Viera, Director, Lehigh University Art Galleries, Bethlehem, Pennsylvania)
Born in Hong Kong, Elaine Ling has lived in Canada since the age of nine. Upon arrival in Canada, Elaine was exhilarated by the freedom of space and began her attraction to Stone and places of Nature. Seeking the solitude of deserts and abandoned architectures of ancient cultures, Elaine Ling has explored the shifting equilibrium between nature and the man-made across four continents. Photographing in the deserts of Mongolia, Namibia, North Africa, India, South America, Australia, American Southwest and the citadels of Persepolis, Petra, Cappadocia, Machu Picchu, Angkor Wat, Great Zimbabwe, she has captured that dialogue.
Ling has exhibited extensively in North and South America and Europe. Her recent solo exhibitions include Houston Fotofest, Fototeca Bienal Cuba, Griffin Museum of Photography USA, Foto Arte, Brasilia and FotoRio, Rio de Janeiro Brazil; Britanico, Lima Peru; Encuentros Abiertos, Buenos Aires Argentina; Bratislava Photofest, Slovakia; Fototage, Mannheim Germany; Museo Antioquia, Medellin Columbia; Houston Center of Photography; Musee de la Photo a Charleroi Belgium; and Prague house of Photography.
Her photographs are in the permanent collections of the Museum of Fine Arts Houston, Texas, the Henry Buhl Foundation in NYC, the Brooklyn Museum, the Musee de la Photographie in Charleroi, Belgium, the Bibliothèque Nationale de France, the Museet for Fotokunst in Odense, Denmark. Based in Toronto, in Canada she is collected by the Royal Ontario Museum, Ryerson University, Windsor Art Gallery, and the Canadian Museum of Contemporary Photography in Ottawa.
