Chua Chye Teck
Chua Chye Teck earns a living as a props-maker for advertising photography. Incidentally, he makes wonderful photography as an artist/photographer. His work revolves around common everyday objects found in living spaces. Chye Teck “has been exploring the theme of housing…
Miwako Iga
Miwako Iga’s Madame Cucumber uses toy dolls as models to depict various scenes of society and family. The dolls in Iga’s works are cheap, colorful, and emotionless. However, they are in a situation which represents serious and antagonizing aspect of…
Yeondoo Jung
Yeondoo Jung’s Wonderland series transforms children’s crayon drawings into photographs that are part make-believe, part reality. For four months, Jung oversaw art classes in four kindergartens in Seoul and collected 1,200 drawings by children between the ages of five and…
Jhinryung Oh
Dream of a Spider Women by Korean Jhinryung Oh is unsettling. Set against Nature as a backdrop, the mysterious masked figures frightens and bewilders the viewer at the same time. [all images from Dream of the Spider Women (2003-2006), ©…
No. 223/Lin Zhi Peng
In a vein of work similar to Ryan McGinley, Lin Zhi Peng/No. 223′s photographs his friends, showcasing the lives of China’s youth. He is often cited as China’s answer to Terry Richardson, capturing tense moments with overarching themes on sexuality. According to this interview by…
Liyu and Liu Bo
Liyu and Liu Bo’s 13 Months in the Year of the Dog turned news snippets into tongue-in-cheek recreations. They are working on a similar series for 2007 and as the year draws to a close, one sees China through a…
Chan Chao
The recent unfolding of events in Myanmar has dominated the news in recent weeks. I feel an obligation to say/do something about it, even though I try not to use the blog as a political tool. Living in a neighboring…
Feng Yan
Feng Yan’s minimalistic images are simply arresting and starkingly beautiful to behold. Images of seemingly ordinary places and corners are imbued with a sense of oppression and tension. The pictures seem to contain more than they show and the viewer…
Kim Joon
In Kim Joon’s works, the human body becomes the canvas. Tattooing is a social taboo in Korea, where it is preconceived to be carried only by criminals and prisoners. However, tattooing is fast becoming popular as the younger generation craves…
Miao Xiaochun
Miao Xiaochun has claimed international acclaim over the years. He is currently teaching at the Central Academy of Fine Arts in Beijing. It is not hard to draw parallels with his work and Chi Peng’s, who happens to be Miao’s…
Chi Peng
Chi Peng creates a different reality in his work, fusing a variety of subjects into different environments, creating new fantastical worlds. In his latest works, he created an alter ego of himself based on a character from the Chinese mythology…
Xing Danwen
This week I seem to have taken on an interest in the replication and distortion of reality in contemporary photography. Xing Danwen’s ongoing series, Urban Fiction, depicts characters against architectural models. On first sight, I thought it was one of…
Go Watanabe
I’m not sure if you can consider this photography (purists should stop reading now) but Go Watanabe’s Face is an example of how photography may progress in the future. He first photographs the models, digitally manipulates them, and models them…
Ni Haifeng
China-born Ni Haifeng has been living and working in Amsterdam since 1994. He works in photography, video and installation art. The interviews on his site has some interesting questions and answers about his work, identity and motivation. He appears to…
Yee I-Lann
Yee I-Lann’s Sulu Stories series has traveled quite a fair bit around the world. Yee I-Lann was born in Kota Kinabalu, Sabah, East Malaysia in 1971 to a New Zealand mother and Sino-Kadazan [2] father. She identifies strongly as being…
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