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Mimi Kuo-Deemer is a photographer who works throughout Asia, Europe and the USA. She has worked for Agence-France Press and Reuters News Agency before becoming a freelance editorial photographer in 1995.
Mimi's portraits and documentary photography explore the intersections
of gender, culture, spirituality and social and economic change. Her
work includes essays chronicling the conditions of women
in literacy and education, migration and labor, religion, and drug
addiction.
She has been a regular contributor to the New York Times since
1995, and also works frequently with the United Nations family. Her
assignments have taken her to Azerbaijan, Bhutan, Britain, China, Cambodia,
India, Italy, Malaysia, the Maldives, Sri Lanka, Tibet, the United
States and Uzbekistan.
Originally from Tucson, Arizona, she has lived in the San Francisco Bay
Area, Los Angeles, New York City, and Beijing.
She attended Stanford University and also studied documentary
photography at the International Center for Photography in New York City.
She now lives in London with her husband, Aaron
Deemer, also a photographer, and teaches Yoga as well as continues
freelancing.
Editorial photography (published work):
Asiaweek
Businessweek
Departures Magazine (American Express Travel Magazine)
Fortune
International Herald Tribune
Junior Scholastic
Knight Ridder News Service
MSNBC
Newsweek
That’s magazines (Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou)
The Boston Globe
The Insider’s Guide to Beijing
The Los Angeles Times
The New York Times
The South China Morning Post
The Wall Street Journal
Time (US, Taiwan and Asia editions)
Vogue CHINA
Washington Post
Corporate, social, and non-government organization (NGO) clients:
All China Women’s Federation (Rural Women Knowing All)
China Association for Non-Government Organizations (CANGO)
Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (CAAS)
Clinique (Japan)
Coca-Cola China, Ltd.
Gulliver's Travels Assoc.
HWH Enterprises/Visionary Vehicles
Stanford University Press
Tibet Poverty Alleviation Fund
Tibet Women's Federation of China
Torana Arts
United Nations Development Program (UNDP) Tibet, Bhutan
United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO)
Group Exhibitions:
"Womb
Economics" -- part of Economica— Women
and the Global Economy .
International Museum of Women, San Francisco. April 2006 (upcoming). www.economica.imow.org
Imagining Ourselves — A Global Generation of Women.
International Museum of Women, San Francisco. April 2006 (upcoming). www.imaginingourselves.org
Portraits of Tibetan Women Weavers. Tibet Women’s Federation,
Lhasa, 2004.
Re-oriented: Asian American Women Artists. Berkeley, CA., January 1998.
Solo Exhibitions:
Women in Pursuit of Spiritual Enlightenment: Portraits of Bhutan's Nuns. The Esplanade Tunnel, Singapore, April 2 - May 10, 2009. www.esplanade.com
Samadhi: Devotion along the Ganges. The Esplanade Community Wall, Singapore, April 2 - May 10, 2009. www.esplanade.com
Beyond the Land of the Thunder Dragon: Metamorphosis of Bhutanese Textiles, Espanade Theaters on the Bay, Singapore Fringe Festival and United Nations Development Program, (UNDP) Bhutan, February 2006.
From
Our Living Hands: Portraits of Tibetan Weavers and Their Works. Dropenling
Craft Emporium, Lhasa, Tibet, June 2005. Torana Galleries, Beijing and Shanghai,
September 2005. www.torana.com
A Woman’s World and Other Visions: Portraits of Contemporary Chinese
Women’s Lives. The
Esplanade, Huayi Festival of the Arts, Singapore, Jan-Feb 2005. www.esplanade.com
Portraits of Tibetan Women Weavers and Their Works.
Five Colors Earth, Beijing, China, September 2004.
exhibition photo from Esplanade, A Woman's World
In the Press:
The Screen Turns to Chinese Women (pdf file)
Other Links:
www.yogayard.com
www.women.societydirectory.org