Poster Design for “China, A Photographic Journey 2017 International Photography Exhibition”
https://www.behance.net/gallery/58219281/CPJ-2017-Exhibition-Poster
Graphic Design: Ping Xu
Photography: Ping Xu
Image Design & Manipulation: Ping Xu
China, A Photographic Journey 2017 International Photography Exhibition in China
November 3 – November 12, 2017
Visual Art Gallery of College of Fine Arts / Hengyang Normal University, China
Label Information: http://pxstudio.us/pdf/cpj-2017_label-info_hynu.pdf
This exhibition samples student and faculty work from Study Abroad China, 2017. Students visited Beijing, Hunan Province and Shanghai. The group photographed the Great Wall at sun set and sun rise in a secluded rural setting. They photographed professional models in the lighting studio at Hengyang Normal University. They traveled from mountain preserves, to ancient communities, to city centers with populations so dense that it strains the imagination.
The exhibition also contains photographs from the “English Camp Program” in Taiwan. In this program students taught conversational English and American culture to Taiwanese grade and junior high school students. They lived with host families during their stay, becoming fully immersed in the culture.
Some of the photographs in this exhibition have been worked in Photoshop to reflect the dream like qualities that one may experience while traveling the different visual and cultural environments, of the country as vast as China. The mystery and pleasure of travel is realizing the strangeness, and at the same time the sameness of foreign environments, as it relates to our home country.
Photo credit: 
Hengyang Normal University – University Press
Faculty Work: Ping Xu | Exhibition photo from China (HYNU university press)
Faculty Work: Ping Xu | Exhibition photo from China (HYNU university press)
Faculty Work: Ping Xu | Exhibition photo from China (HYNU university press)
Faculty Work: Ping Xu | Exhibition photo from China | (HYNU university press)
Faculty Entries for Participating the “China, A Photographic Journey 2017 International Photography Exhibition” in Hengyang, China
Faculty Work: “Alley” (18″ X 28″) | Ping Xu / June 1, 2017
Scene From: Fenghuang, Hunan Province, China
https://www.behance.net/gallery/58342855/Alley
Faculty Work: “Wait” (18″ X 28″) | Ping Xu / June 1, 2017
Scene From: Fenghuang, Hunan Province, China
https://www.behance.net/gallery/58359277/_
Faculty Work: “Wait” (18″ X 28″) | Ping Xu / June 8, 2017
Scene From: Hefang Street, Hangzhou, China
https://www.behance.net/gallery/58222047/Riverside-at-Night
Faculty Work: “Sound” (13″ X 29″) | Ping Xu / June 1, 2017
Scene From: Fenghuang, China
https://www.behance.net/gallery/58222125/Sound
Faculty Work: “Fenghuang at Night” (28″ X 16″) | Ping Xu / June 1, 2017
Scene From: Fenghuang, China
https://www.behance.net/gallery/58341549/Fenghuang-at-Night
Student Entries for Joining the “China, A Photographic Journey 2017 Int’l Exhibition” in Hengyang, China
HYNU’s College of Fine Arts’ Gallery
Judy Garcia
Arael Meza
“China, A Photographic Journey 2017 Exhibition” – School of Art Local Exhibition
October 18 – November 16, 2017 (Visual Art Building / Annex)
Seventeen UTRGV students used their camera lenses to record and feature China’s cultural and historic treasures in Beijing, Hunan Province, and Shanghai for their ARTS-4337 digital photography and ARTS-4388 Visual travel Journal in the Study Abroad Trip China from May 15 to June 12, 2017, was under the direction of UTRGV art professors Robert Gilbert and Ping Xu.
All of the excursions were good sources for the students to practice their photography skills and complete their assigned projects. Each student completed two projects for the ARTS-4337 Digital Photography class and a booklet project for the ARTS-4388 Visual travel Journal class.
Student Entries & Work from ARTS-4337 Digital Photography (Summer I / SAI 2017)
Project-A1: Surreal Landscape
Michelle Mata
Student Work from ARTS-4388 Visual Travel Journal (Summer I / SAI 2017)
Student Work from ARTS-4337 Digital Photography (Summer I / SAI 2017)
Project-A2: Landscape Dreams
Ariadny Balderas
Student Work from ARTS-4337 Digital Photography (Summer I / SAI 2017)
Project-B1: Surreal Portrait (or Multiple You)
Eufemia Mata
Ariadny Balderas
Student Work from ARTS-4337 Digital Photography (Summer I / SAI 2017)
Project-B2: Lighting Studio Portrait 
Aleena Romy
Student Work from 2017 Taiwan Trip
China Study Abroad Trip 2018
The upcoming UTRGV’s Study Abroad China trip will be five-week long with a competitive cost. For more information about the China trip 2018, please check the webpage at http://pxstudio.us/blog/?p=29413, or contact one of the China program faculty members and the Office of International Programs & Partnerships (IPP) directly.
Prof. Ping Xu / ARTS-4337 Digital Photography ping.xu@utrgv.edu
Lizette Leal / IPP Study Abroad Specialist & Gilman Scholarship Program Coordinator
ipp@utrgv.edu