gems Wang

A Year

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A construction worker works on lights illuminating an artificial painted sky.
A boy sits on a couch in the middle of a large, shiny indoor mall, holding an incongruous umbrella low over his eyes.
A large security guard confronts two college boys in a nightclub, one of whom is smoking a cigarette.
A wall of three empty hotel phonebooths sits empty, except for a single telephone. It sits on the glass shelf of the center booth, casting a long shadow down onto the wall and floor.
A sculpture of a woman sitting head-down in the fetal position sits in a sculpture garden. Behind it, a group of four people walk across a parking lot, next to a tangled artwork of pipe and cable.
A woman yells at her boyfriend, amid a chaotic crowd in a nightclub.
A boy sits in the back seat of a car, looking out the window to a foggy hillside. The window holds the remnants of a handprint formed from condensation.
The sun rises against a backdrop of clouds, over a barren, ominous hill.
A boy sits alone among a row of lawn chairs in an abandoned shopping plaza. He is wearing full graduation regalia and a surgical face mask.
Through a foggy window, an exhausted man quietly sits with his backpack on the porch outside.

A Year

Evidence of a forgotten year

These photos were taken just before and during the first few months of the COVID-19 Pandemic. The only thing I remember from this time period is how little I remember… a coping response perhaps, leaving no evidence except for these images, soaked in melancholy.

A construction worker works on lights illuminating an artificial painted sky.
A boy sits on a couch in the middle of a large, shiny indoor mall, holding an incongruous umbrella low over his eyes.
A large security guard confronts two college boys in a nightclub, one of whom is smoking a cigarette.
A wall of three empty hotel phonebooths sits empty, except for a single telephone. It sits on the glass shelf of the center booth, casting a long shadow down onto the wall and floor.
A sculpture of a woman sitting head-down in the fetal position sits in a sculpture garden. Behind it, a group of four people walk across a parking lot, next to a tangled artwork of pipe and cable.
A woman yells at her boyfriend, amid a chaotic crowd in a nightclub.
A boy sits in the back seat of a car, looking out the window to a foggy hillside. The window holds the remnants of a handprint formed from condensation.
The sun rises against a backdrop of clouds, over a barren, ominous hill.
A boy sits alone among a row of lawn chairs in an abandoned shopping plaza. He is wearing full graduation regalia and a surgical face mask.
Through a foggy window, an exhausted man quietly sits with his backpack on the porch outside.

More Projects

t4t

A site-specific sculptural video work consisting of a monitor hanging face-down from a network of steel cables, low enough to conceal a 36-minute durational film featuring the growing intimacy of three trans strangers from passers-by.

Pang

Reinterpretation of half a decade of coming-of-age and escaping from generational trauma

Everybody's Dead!

Fan music video directed by me and improvised on-the-spot by the cast and crew
An abstract background with the text "The Silver List: 2021".

The Silver List

Annual list of 47 of the most exciting emerging photographers, as chosen by hundreds of curators, educators, scholars, and critics
A black-and-white photograph of an elementary school playground, featuring a spiral slide.

Realities

Documentation of places of trauma with a large-format field camera
An abstract photograph of clouds against a blue sky.

Approximate Equivalents

Abstract photographs of the sky taken by a machine learning model from Google Street View panoramas, in the style of Alfred Stieglitz
A historic salted paper print photograph of a Parisian boulevard.

More Than Met the Eye

Novel deep learning embedding-clustering analysis of The Metropolitan Museum of Art's photography collection
Two hands use a onyx chef's knife to cut a large pink-red rose in half.

Earlier Work

Photography from before 2019