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La maison de Z Selfiers Sealed with Images
From August to December 1982, five to six years after the downfall of the Gang of Four and the reform and opening-up policy in China, twopen pals who had never met found themselves connected through a photography magazine. Xu Lei, a university professor, and He Bo,military personnel specialized in artistic pursuits at the border, were eagerly practicing the novel photographic technique of self-portrait in the respective contexts of life and work. Ever since then, they started exchanging self-portraits and engaged in genuine discussions about their insights and experiences of self-portraits through letters.From August to December 2016, Xu Lei and He Bo, avid explorers of photography history and culture, recreated some staged group portraits from the 1970s and 1980s. They crudely superimposed their faces on to the faces in the original photographs. These forged images and textual evidence were later presented in exhibitions over the next few years, mostly taking the form of archival docu
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La Maison de Z Left Right
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La maison de Z Carpe Diem
When we talk about Ba ling hou (born after the 1980s) in China, we are actually talking about the first generation born under the one childpolicy and raised during the reform and opening up led by Deng Xiaoping after the Cultural Revolution (1966-1976).This generation grew up together with the Internet and social media, melting into a consumer society that is totally in rupture with the preceding generations. Luo Yang, a photographer born in 1984, is also one of them.In 2007, at the age of 23, Luo started the series Girls, which brought her international recognition. For ten years, Luo Yang followed more than a hundred of women from her generation, recording changes to their bodies and their lives, observing and capturing their delicate transition to adulthood. It's as if the photographer was capturing their (her) emotions as a young woman by holding a mirror up to her own growth and evolution alongside those of her models.Now, Luo Yang is in her late 30s. In the new series Youth that
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