“Pre-Olympic Post-Rock” Multimedia

On tour around China in July 2008 with “Wang Wen”, one of China’s biggest post-rock bands, who were promoting their fourth album, this year in Europe as well as China. The documentary provides a glimpse into China’s evolving musical subculture and youth styles in this historic year. Full screen slideshow also available, click the box on the bottom right. Screened at Dalian’s SmileCity Cultural Festival, Dec 2008.


About

Graeme Nicol is a photographer from Scotland, living in China since 2004 and currently based in Shanghai. He specialises in investigative documentary and photojournalism and is available for editorial assignments around China. He is also available for commercial work on either film or digital e.g architectural, events, interiors, portraiture, post-processing, multimedia editing. Graeme is fluent in everyday Chinese.

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Career & Project Timeline
11/2007 - Portfolio accepted to study an MA in Photojournalism and Documentary Photography at University of Bolton, UK, based @ Dalian College of Image Art, China
07/2008 - WANGWEN multimedia project shooting
10-11/2008 - TRADE WINDS project shooting
03/2009 - Signed contract with Shanghai-based agency Imagine China (IC) to distribute future work.
06/2009 - Successful graduation with MA in Photojournalism and Documentary Photography
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Publications
07/2008 - ONZE WERELD magazine (Netherlands): Photo included as part of their award-winning pre-Olympic “China Special” edition
05/2009 - NANFANG DAILY newspaper (Guangzhou) publishes TRADE WINDS project as 5-page special pullout photo-essay
07/2009 - SOUTH CHINA MORNING POST (Hong Kong), and NANFANG DAILY (Guangzhou): Editorial use of photos from TRADE WINDS.
11/2009 - LE FIGARO newspaper (France): Editorial use of photo from TRADE WINDS.
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Exhibitions
07/2008 - TOPS Shenyang International Photojournalism Festival: part of Group Exhibition
12/2008 - SmileCity Cultural Festival, Dalian: WANGWEN multimedia screening
08/2009 - DALI International Photo Festival, Yunnan, China: TRADE WINDS project
09/2009 - PINGYAO International Photo Festival, Shanxi, China: TRADE WINDS project
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Commercial
03/2008 - SCRIPTED REALITY (Germany): TV studio graphic
08/2008 - SELA PUBLISHING (Israel): book cover
11/2009 - RED DESIGN (UK): music promo sleeve

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