Yuhan Cheng’s photograph diary reinvents belonging

The fleeting but visceral recollections Yuhan shared with individuals they met and the locations they got here to root in are captured within the dusky, softly fading tones of Kodak Portra 400 and Ultramax. When night time fell, Yuhan would flip their room right into a darkroom by blocking the 2 home windows by the mattress. For this photobook, they processed and enlarged the whole lot from the scans of their self-portraits, destroyed prints, their tablecloth, palms, pocket book, and the previous keys to their first residence. The eclectic mixture of black-and-white and color pictures right here take the viewer on a journey by means of alien worlds, skewed angles and heat interiors. From severed wings to ethereal waterfalls cascading into darkness, intimate narratives of disembodiment, spirituality and acceptance are created by means of hanging symbology.

Moving apart apparent comparisons to Wong Kar-Wai’s beautiful photos, we will see Cheng Yuhan is in a league of their very own, with not simply inspirations starting from Nan Goldin to manga, however the extra summary ideas of smallness in such a big world. The photobook is simply one other room Yuhan has constructed for themselves—solely this room holds onto the recollections slightly longer. In this house, Yuhan not feels the necessity to depart. Here, they’ll revisit, keep, and relive the moments. “The memories that are trapped in the room got trapped in the images too,” Yuhan says. “I store them in this room that are no longer temporary. In the images, the book of mine. A room of my own, that I built.”