A Hong Kong based photographer, Chiu uses a rare, gigantic Polaroid camera that weighs about 500 pounds and shoots on a 20 x 24 inch negative. The large picture plane allows her to shoot images at an extreme resolution with the richness of film, resulting in works that are as painterly as they are photographic.

Recalling the wunderkammer, or "wonder rooms" and curiosity cabinets that served as the European precursor of museums, her photographs "collect" objects representing the material culture of traditional China, including Bonsai, scholar's rocks, flowers, bronze statues and artworks depicting the animal zodiac. In Polaroids as Ink Painting, her images of goldfish suggest the brushstrokes of traditional Chinese ink painting and the sweeping abstract shapes of Chinese writing.

Cambodian-born artist Leang Seckon will talk with Sara Raza, London-based independent curator and London desk editor of ArtAsiaPacific on the occasion of his first European solo show: "Heavy Skirt."

Arguably Cambodia's foremost contemporary artist, Leang Seckon has created a highly autobiographical body of work for this exhibition including paintings, collages and an installation based around the theme of his mother's skirt: the wrap-around dress she wore during her pregnancy and the artist's early years. The works are an elegiac reflection on the history of his troubled country and the tribulations it has encountered. Yet from this damaged past and a present beset by uncertainty and change, comes an affirmation of the human spirit and the continuing beauty of life.

Sara Raza, a former curator of public programmes at Tate Modern, has arranged and chaired events on photography, performance and architecture. She has published extensively and lectured, curated exhibitions and organised public programmes internationally. She will be exploring themes of autobiography, memory and cultural preservation against the backdrop of the artist's memories of the American bombing of Vietnam and Cambodia and the brutalities of the Khmer Rouge that ensued.

This event is free to the public but reservations are required. Please RSVP to assistant@rossirossi.com with "artist talk" in the subject box.

Over the course of the past two years she has been engaged in documenting Manora, a peninsula close to bustling Karachi that divides the city's port from the Arabian Sea. Historically a crucial vantage point, it was once subsumed by the Ottoman and British Empire, though few traces of this history now remain. In her visits Khan has observed a new sort of conquest, as the buildings of a humble seaside retreat are left to crumble or are demolished while tenuous plans are made to build high-rise tourist hotels around them. The resulting body of work, much of it created in the past few months, explores the particular spirit of the place, and the life of its inhabitants and visitors in this period of uncertain change.

Full colour 56 page catalogue available.

For this exhibition he has produced a highly autobiographical body of work including paintings, collages and an installation based around the theme of his mother's skirt: the wrap-around dress which she wore whilst pregnant and during the artist's early years in the politically turbulent 1970s. The works are an elegiac reflection on the history of his troubled country and the tribulations it has encountered. Yet from this damaged past, and a present beset by uncertainty and change, comes an affirmation of the human spirit and the continual beauty of life.

The exhibition is accompanied by a full colour 60-page catalogue.