B&W magazine, a prominent fine art photography publication, just released 2011's portfolio collection on  bandwmag.com. Take a look at some of my pieces featured in the annual photo contest gallery. See more of Salgal here on my website under Photo Essays/Salgal.

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it is with great pleasure to welcome you to this years ARTrails experience. In the past year I have been busy behind the camera, out in the field, and in the studio creating some of the most inspiring and defining imagery for our wildly changing times. I take you to today's Yunnan province of China where local culture has witnessed severe changes and challengs in a global economic transition, a transformation from an ancient lifestyle to a new modern norm. My photos capture what is left of this ancient way of life and seeks to recognize a vanishing beauty. I welcome you to take a stroll through the photographers eye in an enchanted land.

When: Saturdays & Sundays October 15-16 & 22-23 10am - 5pm

Where: Jane Baron's Home & Art Studio: 2657 Knob Hill Dr. Santa Rosa, CA 95404

For maps and directions please visit: SonomaArts.com/ARTrails

Chinese: Yúnnán Shěng

"Photographers deal in things which are continually vanishing and when they have vanished there is no contrivance on earth which can make them come back again."

~ Henri Cartier-Bresson

This was the quote that captured my heart and inspired me to travel to the Middle Kingdom of China in February on a photographic journey.  It has been written that photography is the art of both recognizing and honoring life in a single moment.The photographs I have included on this website are a sampling of capturing the life and land of this old and beautiful culture as it faces an uncertain future.  China is rapidly changing with the influx of international commerce and national wealth; a new and modern China is visible everywhere.  The health and vitality of these ethnic villages is uncertain yet as I traveled I saw a way of life that has not changed in centuries.

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