Ning Ma Photography
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https://www.thetintgallery.com/artists/ning-ma
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Ning Ma, born in Qingdao, China, raised in Vancouver, BC, now a Bay Area resident, is an internationally awarded landscape photographer and mountaineer with footsteps across 30+ countries, across 5 continents.
Ma began her journey exploring the world when she was 17, when she went to volunteer to help build a school in rural Masai Mara, Kenya. Since then, she has gone on to study Arabic in Morocco and Egypt, trek through the jungles of the Amazon rain forests, backpack across the bustling streets of South East Asia, sail down the coast of Patagonia, hot balloon across the red sand dunes of Namibia, cage-dive next to the Great Whites of South Africa, dance under the brilliant Northern Lights in Iceland, and chase-storms in USA's Tornado Alley. Somewhere along the way, she discovered her love for landscape photography.
Ma is currently on a decade-long endeavor to create the first fine-art photography series of documenting the Explorers’ Grand Slam: the summit of the tallest mountain of every continent (Everest, Aconcagua, Denali, Kilimanjaro, Elbrus, Vinson, and Puncak Jaya), and the North and South Pole. Ma has previously exhibited at the Louvre Museum in Paris, the Museum of Flight in Seattle, and the Atlanta International Airport. In between her travels, Ma has been calling the Bay Area home since 2019.
Current & Upcoming
TINT Gallery SF - Into the Beyond - 10/15-12/18
Room & Board SF - ArtSpan SF Open Studios - 11/5-11/6
Awards & Exhibits
Museum of Flight - Spirit of Flight Competition - International Exhibition
APG - Atlanta International Airport - Central Atrium - International Exhibition
APG - The Nature Conservancy - Trailblazing - International Exhibition
Exposure Award - Louvre Museum - International Exhibition
SE Center for Photography - Black, White & Everything in Between - International Exhibition
Glasgow Gallery of Photography - Seascape - International Exhibition
Darkroom Gallery - Natural Realms - International Exhibition
ArtSpan SF - Art In Neighborhoods - Juried Exhibition
MUSA - Juried Exhibition
Shoot The Frame - Affinity International Photography Competition - Finalist (top 0.5%)
Photographer of the Year - Landscape, Night Photography
Fine Art Photography Awards - Photomanipulation, Night Photography
International Photography Awards - Fine Art, Nature
Olympic Photo Circuit - Travel, Open-Monochrome, Open-Color
Moscow International Photo Awards - Aerial
Society of International Travel & Tourism - Epic Journey, Land and Sea
Press
SF/Arts
The Kite Mag
Capteur de Rêve Magazine
The Exposure Award - Nature Edition
Photography Now