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 Shawn at the Carwash                                                               ©1994

                                                                                        
                                                                                                       

BEGINNINGS

My breakthrough photograph happened in 1994 when I took a picture of my nephew Shawn at a car wash. He was driving his father’s old Caprice. I was in the back with my Olympus point-and-shoot. Suddenly I noticed the three startling red poppies his dad had stuck to the roof, juxtaposed with two boyish eyes looking at me in the rear-view mirror. Something about my nephew’s youth, together with what these poppies represented, was a story that transcended the image.

The picture had colour, simplicity, metaphor and visual design; elements that came to define what I look for in my work.

So my love affair with photography began. In my twenties, I had published poetry and made lyrical films with a Super-8 camera. I loved storytelling, but photography was a hobby.

I earned my living as a television producer and writer. I seldom took a camera on my travels because I thought it would separate me from "experience." Instead, I kept diaries. Words were my snapshots. On a trip to Rajasthan in the mid-1980s, I had a wonderful driver, Mr.Tak, who called me "Lady Without a Camera." A few years ago, I returned to India and looked up Mr.Tak, who was relieved to see me with several Nikons and a tripod.

Mine is a documentary approach. I am attracted to content, ideas and beauty. Something intrigues me- a scene, a circumstance- I record it. I seldom interfere with what is happening; I place myself there and wait for something to surprise me. Often I break rules. I divide a picture down the middle or crop to the essence in the viewfinder: mother’s smile, baby’s ear.

I am intrigued by windows, reflections, hidden meanings. Windows contain real themes in addition to what is written on their surfaces by light. They offer one thing, reveal another. A shoe display compounded by shards of streetscape, passersby, the interplay of light and shadow gives a window a personality.

I have taken workshops and tours, training with photographers such as Freeman Patterson and Bruce Davidson who have helped me to refine my work and trust my eye.

If asked what photography means in my life, I would say it has shown me worlds I had not seen. If asked why I chose photography as my means of expression, I would say, I didn’t. Photography chose me.

 

Biography/Resumé

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Anne Bayin was born in Dumfries, Scotland, of Burmese and Scottish descent. She moved to Saskatchewan, Canada at the age of 6. She received her degree in English and Psychology at the University of Victoria, British Columbia.

Her broadcast career began as producer and on-air host of the weekly television program CONNECTIONS in Victoria, B.C., an eclectic mix of social issues, current affairs and arts. In the mid-1970's, having directed short films and freelanced for "This Country In The Morning", she moved to Toronto where she spend two decades producing some of Canada's major network radio and television current affairs programs, with hosts Peter Gzowski and Barbara Frum. She pursued a writing career which is ongoing. Extraordinary assignments have taken her from Santa Fe to Dubrovnik; from New York to Bombay. 

From 1995-99, she was Senior Producer of CBC Television’s PAMELA WALLIN LIVE, CBC Newsworld’s top hour-long interview program. She was involved in the making of over 600 programs. PW broadcast in primetime, five nights a week and dealt with current issues and ideas in a provocative and innovative fashion. It profiled top national and international newsmakers in entertainment, politics, science, medicine and sports, from Henry Kissinger to Anne Murray, from Andrea Boccelli to Wayne Gretzky. Based in Toronto, Canada, PW  produced special remotes from Hong Kong, China, London, England and Los Angeles, California.

book cover.jpg (53852 bytes) BOOKS FEATURING BAYIN'S WORK

FAMILY: A Celebration of Humanity (Wm Morrow, 2001) Photography

LOVE: A Celebration of Humanity (Wm Morrow, 2001)  Prologue 

THE COMFORT OF CATS by Pamela Wallin. (Key Porter, 2002) Photography 

REMEMBERING PETER GZOWSKI (McClelland and Stewart, 2002) Contributor

TELEVISION PROJECTS include:

THE PRISONER: AUNG SAN SUU KYI, 1994

½ HOUR TELEVISION DOCUMENTARY FOR "MAN ALIVE" CBC

  • Position: PRODUCER & WRITER

MILLENNIUM:TRIBAL WISDOM AND THE MODERN WORLD, 1992.

A 10 HOUR TELEVISION DOCUMENTARY SERIES EXPLORING WHAT CONTEMPORARY SOCIETY CAN LEARN FROM FAST-DISAPPEARING TRADITIONAL CULTURES AROUND THE WORLD. BROADCASTERS: PBS, GLOBAL, BBC.

  • Position: PRODUCER & WRITER

THE JOURNAL. CBC TELEVISION, 1984-88

CBC TV’S AWARD-WINNING  NEWS AND CURRENT AFFAIRS PROGRAM.

  • Position: PRODUCER

 

PREVIOUS ARTICLES AND PHOTOGRAPHY           

  • PhotoLife, June, 2005. Feature Profile
  • Saturday Night, June, 2005 "The Lake"
  • Horen Und Sehen, April, 2005 "Vietnam"
  • Saturday Night, April, 2005. "Par Par Lay"
  • Reader's Digest, April, 2002 "Joni and Me"
  • GEO, December, 2001
  • The New York Times, July 12, 2001. "Photograph of a Life Restored"
  • Macleans, July 25, 2001
  • Australian Woman's Weekly, April, 2001. "War and Peace"
  • London Evening Standard, March 16, 2001. "Famous Again"
  • Ms. Magazine, November, 2001. "From Hell to Hope"
  • Elm Street, November, 2001. Feature article. "Ten Million Reasons to Smile"
  • PhotoInsider, Feb 2001.  "Last Look"
  • BorderCrossings, Jan, 2001. Poet Al Purdy: A Photo Essay 
  • Elm Street, November, 2000. Cover story "Joni Mitchell: Portrait Of The Artist As A Young Woman"

OTHER PUBLICATIONS:

THE GLOBE AND MAIL, THE TORONTO STAR, THE NATIONAL POST, THE CANADIAN, CHATELAINE, CITY MAGAZINE, DESTINATIONS, HOMEMAKERS MAGAZINE, PRESIDENT’S CHOICE MAGAZINE, SATURDAY NIGHT, WEEKEND.

WEB LINKS

Anne Bayin's photography and essays are featured on the web at  SHELLEY LAMBE FINE ART, GETTY IMAGES, NEW YORK, WPN (WORLD PICTURE NEWS), CBC NEWSWORLD ONLINE.

For additional results  Google: Anne Bayin

http://www.thestar.com/news/insight/article/715822--half-a-world-away-the-struggle-for-freedom-in-burma-continues

http://www.shelleylambefineart.com/Database.php?metode=firstname&metode2=lastname&Artists=Artists&DocTitle=Artists

http://www.more.ca/travel-and-adventure/destinations/back-to-burma/a/54

 http://www.thestar.com/News/article/283849

 http://www.personalityhotels.com/national-post-article-111406.html

 http://www.cbc.ca/news/work/nomore9to5/234.html

http://www.more.ca/travel-and-adventure/destinations/back-to-burma/a/54

 http://www.cbc.ca/news/background/sep11/bayin.html

http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9D04EFDF173BF931A25754C0A9679C8B63&sec=&spon=

 http://www.amazon.ca/Comfort-Cats-Pamela-Wallin/dp/images/1552635260

 http://jonimitchell.com/library/view.cfm?id=529

http://www.macleans.ca/world/global/article.jsp?content=20051024_114012_114012

http://www.truthinjustice.org/canadian_tragedy.html

http://www.readersdigest.ca/mag/2007/09/icrd.php

 

EXHIBITIONS

           

  • The Liberty Project: FCCT Gallery, Bangkok, February, 2011

  • The Liberty Project: Arta Gallery, May, 2010

  • The Liberty Project: Arta Gallery, October, 2009

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  • "PULP"    GIBSONE JESSOP GALLERY, TORONTO, MAY, 2004
  • " M.I.L.K" VIADUCT HARBOUR, AUCKLAND, NEW ZEALAND. Nov. 2002-Jan. 2003
  • "M.I.L.K" LONDON SCIENCE MUSEUM, SOUTH KENSINGTON. Nov-Dec, 2001  
  • "M.I.L.K" VANDERBILT HALL,GRAND CENTRAL STATION, NEW YORK. July-August, 2001.

PREVIOUS  EXHIBITIONS

  • "FIVE BY SEVEN". DESSINEE GALLERY, MAY, 1999.

  • "WORLD VIEWS". DESSINEE GALLERY, MAY, 1998

  • "AUTRES DIRECTIONS; IMAGES OF PROVENCE". DESSINEE GALLERY, NOVEMBER, 1997

  • "INDIAN INSPIRATIONS". CELEBRATION THEATRE, HARBORFRONT CENTER, TORONTO. AUGUST, 1997

  • "OUT OF INDIA". DESSINEE ART GALLERY, CONTACT '97. MAY, 1997.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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