Patrick draws on this fifty year+ profound interest in Art History to influence his photography. He is noted for his use of vintage cameras and film and approaches photography as an artist. He has completed numerous private commissions and has been commissioned to provide his photographs on a grand scale for permanent exhibitions at, for example, the Hong Kong International Arbitration Centre, Exchange Square Tower 2, Central, Hong Kong (examples of the elements Earth and Fire, attached), and the United Services Recreation Club, (se the PDF 'Me & Norma Ackroyd' attached) as well as a pop-up exhibition drawing from his 800+ unique archive of black and white street photography of Beijing and Datong using a Rolleiflex-type camera from the summer and autumn of 1986. Please find link below:
"A journey to regain sight' - for the charity Lifeline Express, music by Matthew Seligman, narration by Tom Leander, camera and production Graham Uden, photography and production Patrick Dransfield - filmed in Qinghai, China in 2010.
Track of Time: Moments’ of Transition
available from January 20, 2021
A trove of lost photographs shows China on the cusp of change. “Track of Time” includes a foreword by Rana Mitter, essays and descriptions by Patrick Dransfield, and over 60 black and white pictures, taken by Patrick in Beijing and Datong in 1986.
The “Track of Time” collection recently featured in the Financial Times “How to Spend It” magazine (October 17, 2020) and the exhibition of the same name, curated by Carsten Schael, at the Hong Kong Foreign Correspondents’ Club.
Track of Time' China Photo Archive Pop-Up Exhibition
“The 1980s were a prelude to the China we know now. That perspective gives an immense poignancy to Patrick M Dransfield’s outstanding collection of photographs from China in 1986… We are all the luckier for seeing them through the deeply empathetic lens that Patrick brought to Beijing in 1986.”
Rana Mitter OBE FBA, US-Asia Relations Chair at Harvard Kennedy School, USA.
“Patrick Dransfield is an active participant as well as a recorder of the modernization of China. We Chinese should thank Patrick for what he recorded for posterity in 1986, and remember who we were, and are.”
Xiao (Robert) Chen, partner of DeHeng law firm, resident in Beijing.
A 'Pop-Up' exhibition of Patrick's 'Track of Time - Moments of Transition' China 1986 photographs is possible to commission - please contact Patrick directly.
“We are all the luckier for seeing these pictures through the deeply empathetic lens that Patrick Dransfield brought to Beijing in 1986.”
Rana Mitter OBE FBA, Professor of the History & Politics of Modern China, Oxford University
Offer Details
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All prices are exclusive of Post and Packaging (“P&P”). Please indicate your preferred delivery option in the booking form below.
All donations stated under each edition will be donated to Oregon-based Children’s Cancer Research Charity.
A handcrafted slip case is included with both editions A & B. (See images on the right)
Standard Edition
A copy of “Track of Time”.
Price: HK$300 plus P&P
HK$20 for each book sold will be donated to charity.
Special Deluxe Limited Edition A (Artist’s Selection)
A signed copy of “Track of Time” with 4 original prints reproduced and presented in a hand-crafted slip case: signed and chopped by the author and hand reproduced by internationally renowned Chao Studios on museum quality Hahnemuhle paper.
Datong Kids, Children Under Mao, First Love, Pensioner Couple
Price: HK$10,999 plus P&P (strictly limited edition of 20)
HK$900 for each Edition A will be donated to charity,
Sample Copy
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Special Deluxe Edition B
As in Edition A, plus your own selection from the “Track of Time” Archive.
Price: HK$12,999 plus P&P
HK$900 for each Edition A will be donated to charity,
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