Because you don’t know what you’re going to end up with visually, and that sense of unknown fascinates me. It was very cold and I was freezing, but I was willing to stand in the street and keep shooting. It was Christmas night in Budapest and I was trying to photograph trees in a different way. I never had a fixed way to create my work and no theme that I always followed.įrom the beginning, I was curious about what my subjects would look like if I moved the camera while I was shooting. Can you explain how you create art right now? Is there a specific process behind it? Then, I started studying photography systematically and became who I am now.Ĥ. So, I wanted to cherish this opportunity and applied to university. Secondly, in China, if you have not studied painting, or if you do not have some background in painting, you cannot study photography at university. As a result of having access to a camera since childhood, over time photography has become an indispensable part of life. Although I did not learn photography systematically since I was a child, I was always interested in photography.
My grandfather was a photographer, which gave me the opportunity to be in touch with photography from an early age. I think the question of how a person becomes what he is today is inseparable from two factors: His family and the environment he lives in. How did you become the person you are right now? My colleague Cila translated theĮnglish questions into Chinese and we talked about how he became what he is today, after his surprisingĪward by the international jury, chaired by the German photo artist Hans Georg Berger. You can tell that the situation feels a bit unusual for the young photo artist. The play of colours in Li Zhang’s images leads viewers to look at the photographs as if they were a kaleidoscope, transporting them to other realities and inviting them to take an inner journey into the artist’s childhood. People, objects and buildings are stretched, shortened, bent and rotated. Through multiple scans and superimpositions, the original images are gradually blurred, creating new and surprising visual effects. With the project When I was a child, the photo artist proposes an introspective investigation into his own family, re-elaborating old shots taken by his grandfather, who was also a photographer. After moving to Germany, where he still lives, he decided to embrace photography, training at the “ Hochschule der Bildenden Künste in Essen“. My blue tooth headphones don’t connect right away, but with a satisfying chime, I’m in – on our last-minute WeChat call with “photo artist” Li Zhang, one of the winners of the UP21 global open call competition for young photographers, supported by MUSEC and the Lugano culture and museum foundation.īorn in Tongling, Anhui Province, China in 1991, Li Zhang (张郦) first began studying biotechnology.
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