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Showcase: Zhao Renhui
In a two-part post, I would be showcasing Zhao’s winning works and a lengthy interview that I conducted with him over email. His works can be seen at the Institute of Critical Zoologists. Yaohong: Much of your work revolves around the zoological gaze and I believe that the works you submitted to the competition clearly [...]
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Zhao Renhui
Zhao Renhui is a young Singaporean photographer who recently made waves by winning the 29th UOB Painting of the Year award. This is the second consecutive year that the award has been given to a photographer. I would like to introduce some of his older works here before discussing his winning works in a later [...]
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Taisuke Koyama
Taisuke Koyama’s “organic abstract photography” has gained some recognition for its symbolism and portrayal of the changing city. TOP TO BOTTOM, Burnt, Split Fence, Pond from (“entropix) © Taisuke Koyama, 2008 At first glance, the images in his latest series, entropix, appear to be just bright images of shapes and colors, as if they were [...]
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Shigeyoshi Ohi
TOP TO BOTTOM, from (“Dark Lake Series“) © Shigeyoshi Ohi, 2003 Shigeyoshi Ohi describes the experience of standing at the edges of these lakes as an agitating process. Beneath the serene surfaces lie one of mother nature’s greatest force of destruction. Volcano craters fill up rapidly with water when the volcanoes become dormant, resulting in [...]
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Chino Otsuka
Successful self-portraits that do not merely depict a pictorial representation of the artist are few and far apart. Chino Otsuka’s autobiographical series takes place in an abandoned flat in a Tokyo housing estate. The images evoke a sense of displacement, the diptychs further accentuate the emptiness between photographer and environment. TOP TO BOTTOM, from (“Tokyo [...]
Masakuni Murakami
Masakuni Murakami’s landschaft #5 turns landscapes taken in the air into something abstract. TOP TO BOTTOM, from (“landschaft #5“) © Masakuni Murakami, 2007 Human perception is warped and we can’t really decipher what we see. Is it river or a road? It is reminiscent of his earlier work, avant-hier : hier : aujourd’hui : demain, [...]
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Sean Lee
My good friend Sean recently updated his website. He is an extremely talented photographer who seeks to balance his art and cheque books, i.e. fashion shoots. His online portfolio is centered around the latter but in times like this, we all need more work. © Sean Lee Pretty people and artificial lights aside, Sean shoots [...]
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Aniu
Aniu views the world with a unique vision. He depicts the world and the modern Chinese society in a strange fantastical manner. Living and working in Shenzhen, he tries to capture the hidden reality permeating beneath the city. TOP TO BOTTOM, from (“Times of Fantasy“) © Aniu, 2000-2002 He has worked with several magazines and [...]
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Hong Hao
The amount of attention paid to details and effort behind the images by Chinese photographer Hong Hao is daunting. He spent years working on his project, Scriptures, where he rearranged maps based on different criteria. However, he is best known for his series, My Things. In this series of work, he scanned thousands of objects [...]
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Hiroshi Sugimoto: Lightning Fields