Introducing the Gallery

A gallery that showcases works of photography, curated and organized by stories.

Socially Organic Photography

To me, photography is like honoring human civilization in the irreversible passing of time. It is not about creating an beautiful picture, but showcasing a relatively authentic, undisturbed, unprocessed story.

In this type of photography, the subject does not communicate with the audience; photographer does not communicate with the audience; and photographer does not communicate with the subject. Nothing is intentionally conveyed, leaving stories to evolve themselves in the unexpectable mechanism of time.

Let’s say there is a woman feeding a baby, observed or not, destined to happen before and upon the photographer’s arrival. To capture an socially organic photo in a easy way, the photographer would need to replicate, condense, and present the vibe and emotions within the event in a rectangular frame without letting his/her presence affect the ongoing story.

Photographer would spiritually turn into a natural sculpture that embraces the environment and combines his/her presence with the atmosphere.

Finally, this frozen piece of time in the rectangle stays relatively organic and objective. The photographer, without influencing what was happening, became the observer of the ongoing time of the universe, together with the audience.

Series One | Masked City

I was going to name my first series “Post-Pandemic China”, yet the re-emergence of domestic cases in Guangzhou by the end of May 2021 was unexpected. It surely warned that the pandemic is far from over even in a highly secured country like China.

In the series of “Masked City”, presents the unfiltered, authentic stories of the citizens in China under the pandemic. Non of the photo was named and captioned, leaving the audience to individually process pure, objective information.

The name “Masked City” illustrates not only a society contemporarily characterized by people with masks, but also insinuates a society so poorly recognized by the rest of the world. My ultimate wish for this series is to let more people outside of China understand that, under the “mask”, Chinese people are also human, living the same free life.

If we could put down our obsession in ideologies, our dispute in interests, our prejudice in races for just one minute, and look at the smiles on the couple’s faces, the curiosity in the child’s eyes, wouldn’t it make peace in our mind even in the slightest bit? Please enjoy the very first series in the gallery.