Xinshi Jiang

MA Photography The Image & Electronic Arts

This series of images were taken during my hotel and home quarantine. It explores a state of self against boredom and anxiety in a completely enclosed environment.

 

My photos are characterised by the use of everyday objects, as well as some parts of my body and plants to form some unusual or even weird scenes, which upsets a certain balance under a calm atmosphere, meanwhile, reflects my contradictory and Struggling emotions. The boundary between calmness and anxiety also seems to be blurred. Moreover, through my photos, I also want to express a state of relative stillness in a fast-paced society. 

About Xinshi

My works explore a state of self against boredom and anxiety in a completely enclosed environment.

 

This series of images were taken during my hotel and home quarantine. This period of time gave me a complex emotion. In this extremely enclosed environment, everything around has been magnified. You have to pay attention to them, because there are few alternatives. Therefore, it also gives me an opportunity to focus more on myself. Self-exploration has always been a topic that I am particularly interested in. 

 

My photos are characterised by the use of everyday objects, as well as some parts of my body and plants to form some unusual or even weird scenes, which upsets a certain balance under a calm atmosphere, meanwhile, reflects my contradictory and Struggling emotions. The boundary between calmness and anxiety also seems to be blurred. Moreover, through my photos, I also want to express a state of relative stillness in a fast-paced society.  

Emily Yo

MA Photography The Image & Electronic Arts

Comeontreetrees, 2021

Emily’s research and visual approach keen on the trees on the street, between survival and artificial trees of investigation on photography. Emily explores the relationship with the people who live around their garden- trees, flowers, and topiary-and about where she goes and what she’s looking for in her personal views. Emily likes people and objects with tales to be told and backgrounds she can get a glimpse of. She would like to create a lovely way of living in the present. Moreover, Her MA at Goldsmith’s studies led her to understand those stories behind images. She involves the thinking process of image-making. Her aim in these images is to discover artificial, artistic trees. How people shape/maintains their trees in the yard. The two neighbors compete with each other. On the other hand, she has been discovering how the trees are in different areas, and species survive in different seasons. She has been looking for the same trees in different seasons. These experiences made her feel like she is a part of these trees’ life, in the meantime, such as parents looking at their children.

About Emily

Since 2020 pandemic has been beginning. She has been thinking about what is essential things for her to approach and where she could go. Nowadays, all these things can be experienced virtually, meet up with family, friends, and pets. She has been trying to be creative; She read, watches movies, and draws a little. These things help her to stay home. 

 

In her works- comeontreetrees, which is the ongoing works of her studying MA photography. This series of works has taken over the past 40 weeks. It explores curiosity, streets and cultures, and how the trees communicate within the walls of the houses on the streets. These experiences have dug deeper into the trees every day, but she also realized that freed from the constraint of lockdown restriction. These trees are her lovely company. They have been through the fall, winter, spring, and now it is summer. She is looking at them as friends.