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Yicheng Feng

Photography

Saturday, 14 October 2023

Apex

Apex is a fine art landscape photography series that examines the organic forms and textures of a mountain peak. The images were captured at the summit of the Jade Dragon Snow Mountain in Yunnan Province, China, at an altitude of 4280 meters. The rock formations create a contrast between ordered complexity and simplicity, offering a different perspective on natural beauty. The photographs were taken handheld with one digital camera and a single prime lens, then processed and retouched digitally. Apex is intended as a serene and meditative medium for viewers.

Chris Slabber

Exhibition Series

Friday, 13 October 2023

I am Nesia

I am Nesia is a photography series about the effects of the 2020 lockdown on the human spirit. Each image was made by turning the lens focus in the wrong direction, so that landscapes became soft fields of colour that resemble watercolour paintings. A dark figure was then added to each scene as a metaphor for fear and anxiety, and a grain texture completes the compositions. The series is produced as large format light boxes of 1200 by 2000 millimetres. The intent is to record a period of uncertainty and to show that people can adapt and prevail.

Simone Hutsch

Architecture Photography

Thursday, 12 October 2023

Nght

A series about the beauty of sunsets, moonrises, and reflections. Due to the different light conditions during the day the same building can look different each time you look at it. During the retouching process, the buildings get isolated from their environment to bring out the uniqueness of the buildings and to be able to edit the sky. In some cases, they are also manipulated to give it a more surreal touch.

Giuseppe Persia

Art Photography

Wednesday, 11 October 2023

Talking Peppers

Talking Peppers is a black and white art photograph from the series Nus Nous. The image shows peppers recorded in close-up, yet many viewers see human bodies or parts of them. When the print is rotated, the imagined forms disappear and other shapes may be seen instead. The photograph is taken with a large format optical bench camera and microscope optics at very small apertures, which gives a shallow depth of field. The negative is printed by hand on cotton-backed paper and toned with selenium for long durability.

Jiaqing Wu

Exhibition Space

Tuesday, 10 October 2023

Zhangyan Country Living Festival

Zhangyan Country Living Festival is an exhibition space created for a rural event in Shanghai. The layout is formed from old shipping containers that are staggered, stacked, interlaced and rotated to shape varied thematic areas. One group of containers encloses an area for forums, while another group defines an area for a marketplace. Local discarded resources such as wood, straw and reeds are also used. The visual identity follows the Memphis style and abstracts local motifs of mountain, water, fish and bridge. The activity space covers 5000 square meters.

Hao Li

Animation

Monday, 9 October 2023

Promising Ideas

Promising Ideas Innovation is a short animation created for Unicef to explain how more young people, especially girls in remote areas, have been connected to the internet. The animation compares the number of men and women who access the internet in developed and less developed regions. It then shows the problems that limited access creates for women in those regions. Complex data is turned into a simple story about one girl and the millions who face the same situation. The animation was produced entirely by computer.