ZHANG JIACHENG, his photographs has a very strong personal style, I can recognise it easily every time when I see his works, his works are always rich of colour and bright, the overall tone is more like oil painting feeling of film.

This picture feel like was taken in a theatre, the background and pose of model gave me of this idea.

Leslie explained this picture is from the collection was reminiscent of a dying circus, the members of the group performed last performance before disbanding, a mood of uneasy is accentuated by photographs of the gloomy, bleak landscape.

He think Chinese fashion photography is too westernised, and did not do very well on the premise of this. Compared to this, Japanese photography is very stylised.

He used more nature light in his shooting, in the real light and shadow, the depth and darkness of the object being photographed is reflected.

Most of the scenes and still lives he shot were pieced together from his ordinary life, which was more or less the aesthetic characteristic of  “sorrow of things” in Japanese tradition. I can see that he retain the original personal characteristics of the model, instead of same beauty.

It can be seeing the most of the work are photographed girls with slender eyebrows, the mood they revealed looked a bit of sadness and wild, a sense of oriental aesthetics.

He said he doesn’t like when people bring in too much of their own personality in his shooting, and it’s boring because it is what they are supposed to be, he wants everyone he photograph to be him.