{"id":2,"date":"2015-03-17T08:17:34","date_gmt":"2015-03-17T08:17:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.exactlyfoundation.com\/dev\/?page_id=2"},"modified":"2019-02-11T10:57:07","modified_gmt":"2019-02-11T02:57:07","slug":"about","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/www.exactlyfoundation.com\/dev\/about\/","title":{"rendered":"About"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-84 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/www.exactlyfoundation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/EF_Logo-e1428424853754.png\" alt=\"Exactly Foundation\" width=\"320\" height=\"159\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.exactlyfoundation.com\/dev\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/EF_Logo-e1428424853754.png 360w, http:\/\/www.exactlyfoundation.com\/dev\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/EF_Logo-e1428424853754-300x149.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 320px) 100vw, 320px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><b>Trademarked registered (Li Li Chung)<\/b><br \/>\nFounder: Li Li Chung<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h4>Founder&#8217;s Statement<\/h4>\n<p>Exactly Foundation is about thinking. Thinking about what? Life and Living.<\/p>\n<p>The challenge is that things are not so straightforward or obvious; sometimes \u201cwe just couldn\u2019t cope\u201d.<sup>1<\/sup> We all say that it is best to think before we speak but we often act without thinking. Our thinking can be circular: we judge based on what we know such that we just bounce off from where we were. Through photographer-artists\u2019 practices, could they (photographers) \u201c\u2026 signal the future, their photographs informed by some deeper, darker narratives guided by their outsiders\u2019 eyes. From where we are now standing \u2013 and looking \u2013 these are the decisive moments \u2026 \u201d<sup>2<\/sup> ? How then to not miss those moments?<\/p>\n<p>Can we, as people living in a community, change? Exactly Foundation presents opportunities where one man\u2019s iron sharpens another, where a photographer-artist could perhaps suggest a new way of looking. A winning photograph could represent a \u201cturning point\u201d and engage others beyond photographers though it may not seem so initially. It can be just \u201ca daily life moment\u201d and not a stimulus \u201cto go see the exotic.\u201d <sup>3<\/sup><\/p>\n<p>Exactly Foundation\u2019s ideal outcome is when an Exactly guest-viewer says years later: \u201cI remember our chat. I love that photograph. I now have a print of it and every time I look at it, I remember our discussion with the photographer over dinner. I think I see better. I listen better. I speak better. My soul is happy, I\u2019m thinking.\u201d<\/p>\n<h4>Residency<\/h4>\n<p><a title=\"Residency\" href=\"http:\/\/www.exactlyfoundation.com\/dev\/residency\/\">Click here to find out more about our Residency<\/a>.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><sup>1<\/sup> Private conversation with Pakistani art historian Salima Hashmi on the 1947 India-Pakistan Partition. 31st January 2015, Delhi<br \/>\n<sup>2<\/sup> Sean O&#8217;Hagan, \u201cCartier-Bresson&#8217;s classic is back \u2013 but his Decisive Moment has passed\u201d <em>The Guardian<\/em>, 23rd December 2014<br \/>\n<sup>3<\/sup> James Estrin, \u201cA Subtle Moment\u2028Becomes the World\u2028Press Photo of the Year\u201d,<br \/>\n<em>The New York Times<\/em>, 12th February 2015. http:\/\/lens.blogs.nytimes.com\/2015\/02\/12\/a-subtle-moment-becomes-the-world-press-photo-of-the-year\/?_r=0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Trademarked registered (Li Li Chung) Founder: Li Li Chung Founder&#8217;s Statement Exactly Foundation is about thinking. Thinking about what? Life and Living. The challenge is that things are not so straightforward or obvious; sometimes \u201cwe just couldn\u2019t cope\u201d.1 We all say that it is best to think before we speak but we often act without [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"class_list":["post-2","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.exactlyfoundation.com\/dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.exactlyfoundation.com\/dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.exactlyfoundation.com\/dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.exactlyfoundation.com\/dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.exactlyfoundation.com\/dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2"}],"version-history":[{"count":27,"href":"http:\/\/www.exactlyfoundation.com\/dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":631,"href":"http:\/\/www.exactlyfoundation.com\/dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2\/revisions\/631"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.exactlyfoundation.com\/dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}