Release Me

A new series of double exposure photography I made this time is about the relationship between my hands and me, how ‘I’ controlled my ‘life’ by my ‘hands’.

Perfection is not just about control. It’s also about letting go. 

Irreparable Damage

How can you repair something damaged? Do not escape, as you cannot cover your pain, but you can face the music and fight for your happiness.

Am I right?

Never Unseen

Nothing can cover my eyes and my mind, so can my own hands. I believe every picture tells a story, and I hope my pictures are inspiring that you can always get some messages after ‘reading’ my works.

My pictures are sometimes creepy and illogical… but meaningful.

If I Could Collaborate with…

Who could I like to collaborate with? That is a very good question and I think if I could have ever had a chance to work with, I would definitely choose Dina Goldstein because she has been my all-time favourite visual photographer since the day I have started doing portrait photography, she took a lot of portrait photographs that show some unreal or unusual situations to inspire insight into our human condition.

For example, Princesses from Disney’s stories always have their perfect happy endings. However, her series ‘Fallen Princess’ placed in modern day scenarios, humanized and survived without the happy endings. I found her pictures really meaningful and she did present her ideas beautifully. I like how she put her observation into her works and I am definitely inspired by her amazing ideas and works.

I could actually work with her as a makeup artist for her portrait photography and I am sure it could help me for developing my career aspiration.

For more details about Dina Goldstein please click here.

What is Conceptual Photography?

Conceptual photography is always known and described as different things, such as an artistic movement, a working method or a historical tradition. Everyone has their own definition of conceptual art, for me, conceptual photography is always connected to photoshop. The picture you edited with photoshop will finally be something impossible but real.

Here I found three films on Youtube which are about a number of artists and critics of what they think of conceptual photography, and how they define it. They are Sean O'Hagan, John Roberts, Lucy Soutter, John Hilliard, Suzanne Mooney and Broomberg and Chanarin.

What is Conceptual Photography? (part 1)What is Conceptual Photography? (part 2)
What is Conceptual Photography? (part 3)

Pinhole Photography Testing

After I discovered and knew more about Leicester Lo-Fi Photography which is a photography workshop based in Leicester, I am quite interested in taking pictures with traditional technique like pinhole. I might try something new later too!

I literally made a pinhole filter for my digital camera with two pieces of cardboard only, and pushed a hole into the centre of the cardboard with a very thin needle. Basically I just ‘install’ my handmade filter in front of my lens with marking tape. (It is much much better if you use black tape.) I will definitely try it later to see the differences.

I did some self-portrait and portrait of someone else at the same time. Colours vary from each picture because the light was changing.

Self-portrait:

Portrait:

Which one do you like most? I had so much fun with pinhole photography and I will definitely do more with some other traditional photography too!

Artist Collaborations

Art collaboration is not a new but a great idea for artists to work with different sculptors, painters and photographers. You could never imagine how a collaborated art piece eventually came out and it would always be a surprise. I like how my works might become different after collaborating with other artists and I can always be inspired by different collaborations!

Manuel Vason is a photography and performance artist based in London. He is a founder of Art Collaboration and at the same time he did lots of art collaborations with other artists.

And now I am going to show you two famous artist collaborations that I love so much.

Blinky Palermo, Gerhard Richter, Teflon, 1971. Screenprint and offset lithograph in colors on woven paper.

Jean-Michel Basquiat and Andy Warhol, Paramount, 1984.

I am looking forward to the days that I am doing my first art collaboration with other artists!