Brought up in New York City, Jenny Krasner has worked with welded steel sculptures, digital photographic composites, mixed media assemblage and performance art employing innovative conceptual, visual and technological styles. Photographing throughout America, Europe and Asia, Krasner brings a diverse global and stylistic perspective as an educator and creator. In 2005, 2008, and 2012, she visited a great numbers of places across China - Beijing, Guangzhou, Guilin, Chongqing, Hong Kong, Shanghai, Xi’an, the Yangtze River – and kept on following her hunger for collecting images and objects.
Although proceeding from a spontaneous desire to document without preconceived ideas, her photographs disclose an in depth observation to China’s contemporary circumstances, its colors, its popular activities and objects, its urban and rural contrasts among other multiple contradictions. Her photographs pay a great deal of attention to details, composition, texture, and are frequently accompanied by her personal writings. These images ultimately become her own sensibility, her own story. Above is a panorama of her insightful visual comments on China taken throughout her three journeys.
