Category Archives: China
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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Yijun Liao/Pixy
Born in Shanghai, Yijun Liao obtained an MFA in Memphis and now resides in Brooklyn. Her latest series, Stills from Unseen Films, is a tribute to films that she has not seen. She pretends that the images are from real films, characters lost in thought and acting in roles that exist only in her mind. [...]
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Muge
Muge from Chengdu, China has some amazing portraits of strangers taken in the streets in his series, Silent. Set against the background of rapidly growing China, most of the images possess a melancholic feel; individuals lost in their seas of thoughts, trying to understand an absurd world. While the subjects’ contemplation seem to reach some [...]
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Chen Wei
I came upon Chen Wei’s jaw-dropping images while stumbling through a forum. His images bear the cinematic quality that seems to be garnering some popularity of late. In Chamber, I enjoyed the dark humor found in the well-lit and elaborate sets. While I’m starting to get tired of this style (think Crewdson), I can’t help [...]
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Huang Xi
Huang Xi/Haeesoo is a freelance photographer from Fuzhou, China. His series, Fang Fang Cyclopedia, focuses on the life and fantasy of a single subject – Fang Fang. It’s an act of documenting the meaningless activities of our lives to uncover hidden (and sometimes surprising) truths. The elements which built up the works have affinity to [...]
Zhu Hao
TOP TO BOTTOM, © Zhu Hao Zhu Hao’s images of the city are focused on the objects that we often walk pass unnoticed. As an acute and sensitive photographer, Zhu Hao is immersed in the so-called “intoxication evoked by the object being shot” (Jean Baudillard). With the help of photography, he has gone deeper and [...]
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Liu Tong
Liu Tong has some interesting work up on his site. His series, Dream/Life, is a surreal collection of black and white images. TOP TO BOTTOM, from (“Dream/Life“) © Liu Tong Unfortunately, the links on his site are not functioning now. However, images for the series can still be viewed via the directory listing.
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Germinators
Got this in my mail today for a visual art exhibition in New York. Unfortunately, I’m halfway across the globe! ChinaSquare Gallery New York is pleased to present Germinators, a group featuring Cao Jingping, Chen Wei, Li Jikai, Liao Yibai, Ma’chunfu, Qu Jiehen, Unmask, Wang Haiyang, Wang Tiantian, Wang Yaqiang, and Zhang Peng. Germinators includes [...]
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Good Night, New York © Miao Jiaxin 4: Photo Group Show, features works by four Chinese-born, New York-based photographers – Zhang Wu, Miao Jiaxin, Zheng Yaohua and Wang Yiqun (whom I featured earlier in the week). The accompanying exhibition statement, Discomforting Anxieties, is a good read to find out more about the photographers and their [...]
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Li Wei