Yong's technical intervention between camera and lens produces blurry, hazy images of his family and his home, evocative of the nostalgic past
For his series 18% Gray (2009) and My Friends (2020), photographer Xu Yong (born 1954) constructed a metal ring placed between camera and lens, thus creating blurred and haunting images of his close friends and important places from his memories.
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Published by Kerber Verlag. Text by Patricia Eichenbaum Karetzky.
Yong's technical intervention between camera and lens produces blurry, hazy images of his family and his home, evocative of the nostalgic past
For his series 18% Gray (2009) and My Friends (2020), photographer Xu Yong (born 1954) constructed a metal ring placed between camera and lens, thus creating blurred and haunting images of his close friends and important places from his memories.
