The Works：Photojournalist Steve Raymer, Gallery Exit: Shek O & studio performance: percussionist Ann

Photojournalist, author and educator Steve Raymer is known for his work with the National Geographic Magazine. His subjects have ranged from the global hunger crisis to the construction of the trans-Alaska oil pipeline and the Soviet occupation of Afghanistan’s capital, Kabul. Raymer has also taught media ethics, newsgathering, and how to report and shoot war and terrorism for over two decades at Indiana University, where he still teaches as an emeritus professor. He recently visited Hong Kong to open an exhibition of his work at the Hong Kong Foreign Correspondents’ Club.

Gallery Exit is celebrating its tenth anniversary this year. To mark the occasion, the gallery has organised a series of special programmes for the opening of its latest exhibition, “Shek-O Sublime”. 24 artists were commissioned to create new works, spending time in the village of Shek O, to reflect on and connect with the location.
The exhibition also includes paintings made by the late master Luis Chan in this idyllic place.

Whether in classical music, pop, world music, or jazz, female drummers have traditionally been a rarity. Even in pop, as recently as the 1960s, women percussionists such as Honey Lantree of the Honeycombs or Karen Carpenter of The Carpenters stood out for their gender. Since then though, female percussionists from Evelyn Glennie to Sheila E have provided new inspiration for young women who’d like to enter the field. Anna Fan studied music at Hong Kong Baptist University. She then went on to spend another six years at Berklee College of Music. Although she focuses on jazz, she’s played with bands whose music ranges from jazz to hard rock, African, and other world music. She’s here right now to tell us more.