CANDIAN DREAMS
2024
This project examines a decentralized approach to photography as a response to the dominance of centralized composition and linear narration in commercial and traditional documentary practices. By weakening hierarchical structures within the image, the work allows multiple visual centers and coexisting details to emerge, shifting the production of meaning from the moment of capture to the act of viewing. In this framework, the viewer assumes an active role in navigating the image, while the photographer relinquishes control over fixed emphasis and predetermined narratives. The project argues that photographic meaning is shaped not by compositional technique alone, but by the underlying conceptual structure that governs image flow, rhythm, and juxtaposition within a body of work.
LOST IN BALTIMORE
2019-2024(Editing)
LOST IN BALTIMORE unfolds from five years of living and studying in Baltimore, tracing a period marked by movement, distance, and unresolved belonging. Divided into three chapters—FREE, MORE, and HOPE—the Project gathers fragments of encounters, urban landscapes, and quiet moments of suspension. Rather than advancing a singular narrative, the images drift through repetition and interruption, mirroring the instability of identity shaped by migration and time. Meaning arises gradually, not through declaration but through accumulation, as the work reflects on freedom, isolation, and the fragile space between departure and return.
CHINESE POWER PLANT WORKERS
Chinese Power Plant Workers is a long-term photographic project developed from the author’s experience working on construction sites at thermal power plants in China. Positioned simultaneously as a laborer and an observer, the project records the everyday lives of workers operating within large-scale industrial systems. Rather than focusing on heroic narratives or overt critique, the images attend to fragments of labor, environment, and bodily presence, allowing multiple centers of meaning to coexist. Through a decentralized visual structure, the work examines how individual experience unfolds within infrastructural, economic, and political frameworks, and how silence, endurance, and routine shape contemporary forms of work and existence.
2025- (Unfinished)