Self-Justification tries to reach the goal of enriching the present photo language through discussing multiple ways of photo expression. The three artists' featured brings us visual feelings directly through different visual languages. This diversification of the photos truly reflects the reality of photo art during this period.
The "New Old Brand" by photo artist Wang Duo expresses her concern and thinking of the present consumer society by way of old calendars. The figures in these photos are all performed by herself. This symbolization of faces endows the work with a deeper meaning. Inspired by the scientific and informationalized society, "A Bird's Eye View" by photo artist Zhang Bing's restores a hypothetical world by massively using digital technology. The attack to the environment by high technology happens around us every day, invading human being's living space, which is a silent destruction. Zhang Bing opposes in visual conflict with his pictures and his very behavior of producing the pictures, posing the warning to human being's existence question in an aesthetic way.
Photo artist Yi Hui's works are tinted by light emotions like a leisurely and slightly sentimental prose, showing us beauty and the sickness of youth that comes along with it in her self-expression. It should be pointed out that the concealedness of Yi Hui's expression is absent in many other photographers' cases.
As photography develops, it can be said that we have come to a time of self-justification. Be it documentary photography or concept photography, everyone who wants to create with photo language is choosing their most suitable method to express and to subjectively present their own feelings by visual language. We are happy to live in the current time because every day there are so many photos for us to try to understand; We are also in danger to live in the current time, because when you have similar feelings with the photographer and try to understand a picture, you must bear what is behind the photograph carefully designed by this photo-creator.
Image: © Yi Hui, 798 Photo Gallery
