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Kyushu Sangyo University Graduate School of Fine Arts Photo Exhibition Ambience
- Dates
- Friday, September 23 - Thursday, October 6, 202211:00～18:00
王 思誠 Sichen Wang
Born in 1996. Resident of Shanghai, China. Influenced by his father's interest in photography, started out by learning on his own. In 2015, entered Shanghai University of Engineering Science where he began formal studies. While in college, made a documentary on China's traditional cultures. Became interested in Japanese culture after encountering photographic art from Japan and being drawn to the power of expression therein, which led to his enrolling in Kyushu Sangyo University's Graduate School of Fine Arts in 2021. Using what he has learned in Japan, currently produces works that express human relationships and his own view of life.
崔 子博 Zibo Cui
Born in 1996. Resident of Beijing, China. Has been interested in photography since early childhood, often borrowing his father's camera to photograph scenes around him. When Covid-19 spread and interaction with others decreased, began to think deeply about himself and became particularly interested in analyzing him own state of mind and dreams. That led him to connect his dreams to the external world and to pursue "where he belongs" as a theme that he expresses in his work.
鐘 秋月 Qiuyue Zhong
Born in 1995. Resident of Henan Province, China. The area where she grew up had a wonderfully rich natural environment, so there were many family picnics during her upbringing. But, as she grew, urban development progressed and much of the natural landscape was gradually replaced with high-rises. Since arriving in Japan in 2020, has been interested in how artefacts and the natural world coexist in Fukuoka where she resides. That led her to explore the fusion of human culture and the environment as a theme of expression.
潘 禕晨 Yichen Pan
Born in 1998. Resident of Wuhan, China. Began recording the world around her after buying a camera in elementary school. Eventually photography became part of her life. Enrolled in Kyushu Sangyo University's Graduate School of Fine Arts in 2021 where furthering her knowledge of photography and exploring modes of expression. Is interested in photographing people, which she often did as a child. Also thinks that photographing others opens a window into understanding oneself.
山下 智史 Satoshi Yamashita
Born in 1998. Resident of Kanagawa Prefecture. Was interested in trains as a child because of his father's and grandfather's influence and, because tracks ran nearby has house, trains were always a familiar presence in his early life. Began to seriously photographs trains after acquiring an SLR camera when he was 15, which took him all across Japan. Strongly interested in the trains of Kyushu, which was where he was born, moved to Fukuoka to enroll in college. Ever since has made the effort to travel around Kyushu, photographing not only trains but also their surroundings as a photographic record of railways and the environment.
李 启睿 Qirui Li
Born in 1997. Resident of Dalian, Liaoning Province, China. Visited Japan for the first time on a family trip at age 5, even then demonstrating a curiosity over the differences in architecture, street layouts and urban design between China and Japan. Focused his attention and furthered his interests in Japanese cities on subsequent trips to Japan. After enrolling in the Photography Course at Kyushu Sangyo University's Graduate School of Fine Arts in 2021, has applied his sensibilities and perspective as a foreigner to observing the urban landscapes of Japan's cities and expressing that in his work.
劉 立奇 Liqi Liu
Born in 1995. Resident of Sichuan Province, China. Seeing how other people live, decided to make his own life better and photograph what he saw while in college. After coming to Japan in 2018, realized that Japan had different social issues than China. Nurtured a particular interest in the elderly and enjoys producing works of a pub he frequents that is operated by one such person.
This photo exhibition spotlights seven students from Kyushu Sangyo University who are pursuing photography in the Graduate School of Fine Arts' Doctoral Program in Plastic Expression.
Taking "ambiance" as a common theme, they have each attempted to photographically express what they felt after spending time in a place or situation of their choice, the underlying belief being that, as the world continues to change at what can sometimes seem a delirious pace, all people and things become enveloped in an ambiance all their own.
At the exhibition, you will see how Sichen Wang uses lines and shapes to express the meaning of life as he sees it, Zibo Cui discovering himself through his dreams, inquisitive observations of the relationships between things and environments by Qiuyue Zhong, what solitude is like for Yichen Pan after going through quarantine, sprawling environments that have grown along the railway lines in Kyushu as captured by Satoshi Yamashita, pockets of silence explored within thriving cities by Qirui Li, and Japanese culture seen from Liqi Liu's perspective as a foreigner.
This photo exhibition is an opportunity to see what the students saw and perhaps feel something from the ambiances they have presented.