Lei Jianyou
TOP TO BOTTOM, from (“??/Looking Afar“)
© Lei Jianyou
Lei is a young photographer from Zhejiang, China. A self-taught photographer with a short history behind him, his works carry a certain heaviness. He infuses elements of melancholy romanticism in his pictures of abandoned objects, often resulting in works that are both beautiful and painful to look at.
This series was produced during a winter period when he traveled to the north of China. The coldness of the weather, coupled with longing for a lost love and the warmth of friends resulted in this set of images. He projected his feelings onto a dejected landscape, as a form of mediation between a conflicted inner landscape and the serene world outside.
For more of his works, visit his portfolio here (in Chinese only, links are on the right of the images).
nice site, great to see these photos, especially as I am in West Virginia, USA…
Very nice. Like the shot of the Chinese characters on the tree.
I find all these pictures to be visually stunning. I especially enjoy the image of the bus remains in what looks like a hibernating cornfield. There is something about how you see the city in this image that I also find captivating; in most of the countryside I have seen, which is in the U.S. and some in Canada, I have never seen crop fields so close to a metropolitan area! It also creates a shock value to me which draws me in, which could be odd to people that live in China.
Nice shots reflecting views outside the metropolis or city. Making them black and white added more emphasis on the loneliness of the places. It’s just the right strategy, because if the pictures were in colors the pictures will not show what the photographer wanted to tell about them.
great photos. i really like the visual flow of each