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 Zeng Wu's works mainly appear on the covers of fashion magazines (such as Dazed, Lofficiel). The style of his work is difficult to define. It can be exaggerated colors and fashionable outfits, or futuristic and mechanical clothing with excessive dermabrasion. Things that often look awkward alone can be cleverly combined with another kind of awkwardness to generate stunning photos. It broke through the rare rules in the field of photography and gave a very strong impression.

 Cindy Sherman is an American photographer who incorporates feminism, performing arts, cultural criticism, and body and identity politics into her provocative works. Sherman is famous because she uses her body when playing roles or roles at work. Her groundbreaking series "Untitled Film Stills" (1977-1980) is particularly important. These black-and-white photos feature the artist himself as a model, wearing various costumes and poses, and depict female stereotypes in movies, TV, and commercials. "The typical idea of pursuing beauty seems boring to me because that is the easiest and most obvious way to see the world. Looking at the other side is more challenging."

  Song Dong is a contemporary Chinese artist, active in sculpture, installation, performance, photography, and video. He has participated in many solo exhibitions and group exhibitions around the world, covering a range of themes and themes, including his relationship with his family and their life experiences in modern China (his widely exhibited installation "Waste Not"), Chinese cities The environment is fickle. In a wide range of practice, Song Dong explored the memory, impermanence, and value expressed by human beings in the rapidly changing social background of China. In 2005, he exhibited Waste Not for the first time. This installation showcased more than 10,000 items accumulated by his late mother, from jars and shoes to toothpaste tubes. A large number of objects that are garbage in nature are designed to show the tiny details of human life and mention the futility of survival, which is a frequent theme in his performances, installations, videos, and paintings. Song

  Shen Wei was born in Shanghai, China. He is known for his intimate portraits with others and himself, as well as for his poetic landscape and still life photography. His work has been exhibited in international exhibitions, including the Museum of the City of New York, the Philadelphia Museum of Art, the Art Power Station in Shanghai, China, the Hasselblad Foundation in Gothenburg, Sweden, the North Carolina Museum of Art, and the Museum of Contemporary Photography in Chicago. His works have been published in The New York Times, The Guardian, The New Yorker, CNN, Aperture, ARTnews, The Paris Review, The Financial Times, Le Figaro, and American Photography. Shen Wei's work is included in the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), Philadelphia Museum of Art, J. Paul Getty Museum, Museum of Contemporary Photography, Library of Congress, Carnegie Museum of Art, Morgan Library and Museum, CAFA Art Museum, and Linlin Museum of Art, etc. His work I miss you already is all composed of self-portra

  Liu Ziqian is a self-portrait photographer in Shanghai. There are two main themes in her work. The first is about the symbiosis between man and nature. To a certain extent, it can be said that human beings are equal to other parts of nature. We live in the same world, breathe the same air, and tolerate each other. In her works, she tries to find a harmonious state between man and nature, because in this symbiosis state, beauty will be most embodied. The second theme is perspective. The things we are familiar with usually remain fixed. She tries to convey different discoveries through her work-looking at the same subject from different angles. In her works, the image in the mirror represents the ideal world she hopes to live in. The fusion with the outside world is only to remind people to respect and recognize the imbalances in the real world, while also insisting on its order and principles. Our hearts.

 Chen Chuanxing is a Chinese photographer, film director, and PhD in Linguistics from the French Higher School of Social Sciences. He interprets the modern aspects of Taiwan on a philosophical basis, and he can implicitly see the influence and unique style of important French philosophy and intellectual traditions. The title of "No Candle then to" comes from "Shao Yi" in "Book of Rites": if there is no candle, those who arrive later will be reported as the present. "" means "being in a dark place, and those who come first tell those who come later to use the dark place." This photography collection contains 119 daily images of Taiwan from the 1970s to the 1980s. It is not intended to emphasize the photographer’s aesthetics or the technique of playing with light and shadow, nor is it to talk about photography as a communication language or tool, and it is not about micro-personal or macro-societal memories, but Forty years after the silv

Wang Ziqian graduated from the Central Academy of Fine Arts and then went to the School of Visual Arts in New York to study fashion photography. The world in Ziqian's lens is free with her sex, just as she herself-her works honestly reflect her-sensitive and straightforward. Ziqian said, "People stop talking when facing the camera. I think this is the most fascinating part of photography. When a person communicates with you without language, what kind of dialogue you are relying on, I have always cared about this. "In an interview, she said, "When I want to make a judgment on something, these things will appear again. Many of my emotions and judgments come from feeling memories again. This does not mean that I am a nostalgic person. On the contrary, I think this is a time and space. I don’t think the past exists only in the past, but the past exists in the future. “She always believes that what happens at this moment is the only thing that will happen. She believes t

Zhang Jiacheng first recognized this photographer because he took photos of zaraCNY. I found more interesting portraits by searching his Instagrams. There are strong fashion elements in his work, which is why some brands ask him to take promotional photos, but these fashions are very interesting fashions. Other elements will be integrated with the photo, such as the female smuggler in the Chongqing Forest film by Wong Kar-wai, the red circular object full of Chinese flavor, special use of light and shadow. While taking into account the fashion, his photos are never boring.   Link to his Instagram https://www.instagram.com/lesliezhang1992/ 

 Todd Hido American contemporary artist and photographer。 The use of light and shadow in his works has inspired young photographers like me. The sense of distance in the photo is very difficult to imitate. This sense of distance makes us feel that the subject in the photo is so similar to us but the distance between us is truly far away. The portrait of the person with his back to the camera arouses my curiosity, and I want to explore the identity of this person. I have also used this method in my own works.

Nan Goldin is an American Photographer, most of her work focus on   LGBT  bodies, moments of intimacy, the HIV crisis , and the opioid   epidemic. Her most famous series is The Ballad of Sexual Dependency. It is a slide show exhibition in 1985, and an artist's book in 1986. It contains photos taken by photographer Nan Goldin between 1979 and 1986. This is an autobiographical biography that involves part of the music and art world of No Wave in New York City, the gay subculture behind the Stonewall in the late 1970s and early 1980s, the heroin subculture in Bowery and Golding’s personal family life and love.

 Zhong Lin--365 days challenge complete Malaysian photographer ZhongLin completed her 365-day challenge on April 22, 2021. This challenge is to take a new photo every day for the past 365 days and post it on Instagram. Her photos include surrealistic portraits with a strong film style "Mise-en-scence" behind the portraits. The control of the subject and the performance of the model in the photo have a strong impact, and the combination of objects and people is perfect. The completion of ZhongLin's challenge means that photographers can continue their work even during the lockdown. The past year has been very difficult. For everyone, the completion of this project is an inspiration to everyone. Link to her instagrams： https://www.instagram.com/zhonglin_/

 Sian Bonnell Talk We welcome the last speaker, Sian Bonnell. Her photography career spans from the 20th to the 21st century, and some of the older cameras she used are rarely found now. Her speech mentioned the European Renaissance in the Middle Ages. Her interest in belief structure and instruction manuals painted are reflected in her works. In the decades when Bonnell took photos, she made her own elements and used them to perform performing experiments on space, object, and subject. During this period, she shared that she used to record the movement of light in a room, which is very similar to my project center this semester, light and shadow. Bonnell also shared her food with object's work and thoughts. In the picture, tin is used to pin food, which is related to her childhood love to pin unpacking food with tin. Through Sian Bonnell’s speech, we can feel the history and inheritance of photography. As young photographers, we have never had something that we can only know by li

 Amak Mahmoodian Talk This time the speaker is Amak Mahmoodian, a female photographer from Iran. She brought us a poem at the beginning of the speech. This poem is like her picture, connecting the forgotten past and the present, "When the memory is erased, we mark it in the form of a photo." There are parts of life, death, and soul mentioned in her photos. Although the culture is different, they are all very attractive. Zanjir, this is a work that she claims to reflect her life, carrying the memories of the pastor, in other words, living in the past. Her work also explored the issue of identity. She asked people nearby to take photos of some people for re-shooting. This is all about performative innocence, identity recovering, and reconnecting past and present.

 Carlotta Cardana Talk This time the speaker Carlotta Cardana is an Italian photographer living in London. Her speech shared with us the development of her career as a photographer and the things that have been very important to her. Cardana started with a large format camera when she was studying photography. After graduation, she worked as a fashion photographer assistant in Milan and also worked as a wedding photographer. This is a very important part that she thinks because the work of a wedding photographer will take several days, which is very good for a photographer's continuous workability. She also worked as an editorial photographer for a period of time. The experience she shared with us is to take all the things before understanding the story of a set of photos, and then read after the shooting, understand the photos, and make the story. Her main project Morden Couples is a very successful example. The main thing she did in filming this project was waiting for people and

 Francis Augusto Talk This time the speaker Francis Augusto shared with us his photographer’s journey and gave us some opinions based on the relationship between him and the photographer. First of all, Augusto mentioned to us his approximate journey. Starting from 2016, he first volunteered in youth club, and then became a worker, adviser, and senior mentor. Then came the researcher, photographer, freelance photographer, and artist. He mentioned to us that when he took photos of his grandmother, it was a basic illustration. There were no special poses, lights, costumes, etc., everything was the most authentic appearance. Augusto has also experienced a step towards film camera. He shared with us the embarrassment and anxiety of the people who are shooting when they are not professional models, and they may be able to present the best photos.

 Rachel Brown Talk We welcome a speaker who has visited before Rachel Brown. In 2019, she shared with us her career experience and opportunities as a photographer. This time, Brown shared with us in more detail her creative experience in New York from 2008 to 2009. That was her first trip to the United States. Brown originally planned to shoot portraits but was attracted by the landscape. In her works, you can see many night scenes in the United States. The atmosphere of the photos is full of psychological shadows. Finally, Brown shared with us some opportunities that can help us progress, such as format festival, which will open in March this year and fast forward. There is no doubt that covid is an objective condition that has a great impact on all photographers. Rachel Brown asked us a question that made me think it is worth thinking about. When people in the future ask us questions about how we spent this time in COVID-19 What kind of time has passed this time, what will our answer

 Jack Latham Talk   In this talk, Jack Latham told us the story of his work, the shooting process, and the mistakes he made before the final version. A Pink Flamingo is a series of works he shot in the United States, based on a historical route called carved roads out of central America in the 17th to 18th centuries. During this period, he lived in a car and lived in a motel, which was exactly like a road trip, which made me very yearning. His second major project is sugar paper theories, which started in 2014 and 2015. After that, he put his interest in "Limitations of Photography", he said that the photo was taken based on reality, but we can add some things that are meaningful to us, it's an inability to do certain things that makes a photograph. When talking about "The silence of photography", he said a paragraph that I think is particularly important. "We kind of decontextualizing recontextualized imagery. We purpose them into kind of linear narrative

 Charlotte Jansen Talk Charlotte Jansen is a culture journalist photographer focus on contemporary art, now more focusing on social practice and visual culture. For this talk, she brings her work "Girl on Girl", which start in 2015 published in 2017. The main content of this talk is about Female Gaze, what is Female Gaze, what it means today. Jansen pointed out in the talk that when we imagine women's bodies, we will be affected by the photos we see every day, such as slim bodies and shiny skin. These will become our expectations of women, and when women fail to meet the requirements, they will be "not good-looking". Female Gaze in history can be traced back to Claude Cohoun, Germaine Krall, who gave a different perspective through the camera. The current Female Gaze started around 2010, and young artists started on emerging social media (Instagrams). At the same time, there is a lack of male photos taken by women, which represents a different way of seeing them