Generations Family Tree Millennium Collection

Her international publications include work in View Camera, Photo Technique International, The Polaroid Book, ZOOM, Orion, ViKTOR Mag, New Scientist, and Aperture. In Canada, Ling’s photographs have been exhibited at the Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto and the National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa. These images reflect the resilience and transience of life from generation to generation for nearly a millennium.Įlaine Ling’s photographs are in the permanent collections of numerous museum and private collections, including the Bibliothèque Nationale de France, Paris Museet for Fotokunst, Odense, Denmark Fototeca de Cuba, Havana Lishui Museum of Photography, China Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas Brooklyn Museum, New York and Southeast Museum of Photography, Daytona Beach, Florida. Ling’s Baobab: Tree of Generations captures the role these giants play in the lives of its human neighbors. The trees are deeply connected with the daily existence of those who live in close proximity. Its fruit is a rich source of nutrition and medicine. With a potential lifespan exceeding one thousand years, the miracle of the baobab tree is that it is a renewable source of material for the essentials of human life: textiles, nets, baskets, and roofing. In the arid and infertile regions of Africa, Madagascar, and Australia, the baobab tree grows to a gigantic size-one of the largest living plants in the world. As a seasoned adventurer, Ling feels most at home with her view camera across the great deserts of the world, sleeping under the stars. I love that this hefty tome has no wasted paper.even the margins are narrow Its all. Ling has traveled the world photographing and practicing family medicine among the First Nations people in Canada’s North and Pacific Northwest and among the indigenous people in Abu Dhabi and Nepal. This is a family saga spanning many generations of the one family tree. Hong Kong-born photographer and physician Elaine Ling has lived in Canada since the age of nine.

Generations Family Tree Millennium Collection