In Conversation with Li Zhensheng

14 September 2012
Frobisher Auditorium 2
Tickets:
£8 online/ £10 on the door

Time:
7.00pm



subject to availability
 sold out



Join Chinese photographer Li Zhensheng as he discusses with Robert Pledge, co-founder of Contact Press Images, the legacy of his unparalleled photographic project that reveals the stark realities of life during the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution (1966-76).







Image credit: Li Zhensheng in his office at the Heilongjiang Daily dons a Red Guard armband that he borrowed from the newspaper’s printing shop (photographed with a self-timer), Harbin, Heilongjiang province, 6 July 1966. © Li Zhensheng (Courtesy Contact Press Images)

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