Photographer: FEIYI HUANG

Styling: FEIYI HUANG, SYRAIN LI

Model: SYRAIN LI

Edit:FEIYI HUANG

These mood boards came out after I did research about these 24 solar terms, the research including basic information, some poem, customs and culture.

“I would photograph an idea rather than an object, a dream rather than an idea.”

-Man Ray

Glass tears (Les Larmes), 1932

His works are sometimes more like art than photography. This work gave me a lot of thinking and imagination, first because of the big round teardrop, second because of the close up view, there’s no more element to tell people what happened behind it. For me, there are two ways to explain this tear, the first one which is the one I prefer, she was too sad and condensed the glass tear, but what happened to her to shed such tears? It;s more beautiful than a real tear, but also never goes away because of the sadness. The second is that although her eyes were sad, but perhaps just lament, these are his tears for her.

Yesterday, Today, Tomorrow. 1924

I can clearly see the tittle meaning from the picture, he made it in a very direct way to express what he was talking about. The picture gave me feeling that, in the same place, same person, same position, the exposure means the left side is yesterday, middle is today dan right is tomorrow, but in the end the three become one, expressing whatever yesterday, today or tomorrow, but all are current/now.

Silver bowl for almost 20 years…

First shooting:

Second shooting:

taking all contact away……

Third shooting:

photographing subjects in their usual context……

I prefer the second one compared to others, it looks much stronger and black white give a sense of story telling,

These works are inspired by Ishiuchi Miyako.

Photographer: Feiyi Huang

Pearl Necklace

Pyjamas

Chopping board

Lines

I’m thinking to do 2 – 3 still life shoots in 24 Solar terms, show the theme in a different way.

I did some research about Olivier Richon and Wolfgang Tillmans, they have very different styles, and I thought it might help me with my next shoot idea.

Olivier Richan

Olivier Richon. Portrait of a tortoise in motion, 2008. C – type. 90 x 74 cm

Acedia, 2013


Madeleine Penitente, 1991, Analog photography. 67 x 83cm

Les Exercices Spirituels, 1991, Analog photography. 83 x 67cm

Kani, Tokyo, 2016, Color Photography, silver print. 117.5 x 95.3 cm

Wolfgang Tillmans

“astro crusto, a,” 2012

Pear, passion fruit & lychee, 2000

Marie Claire December 2018, I didn’t know 24 solar terms before I saw these images, this is the key inspiration. These images contain lots of Chinese element, such as stone lion in Start of Autumn.