Familiars
"Those on the brink of being forgotten will soon transform into hues and light, ultimately evolving into the fertile ground of imagination."
The publication of this photography album was initiated by the publisher Xu Ning and was released by his art platform "YT Pictures" in early 2018. At that time, I had concluded my 8-year life in New York and returned to Beijing. I began organizing some photos taken between 2010 and 2017. The original intention was to use this photography collection as a means to explore the subtle relationship between the physiological and psychological motivations behind (at least my personal) photographic behavior, as well as the interplay between imagery and my personal memories. The photos in the collection were taken in Beijing, by the sea in Tangshan, Hebei, in the central oil fields of He Nan, the old town of Yu Men in Gan Su, in the cities of Georgia and Pennsylvania in America as well as in the Czech Republic, Poland, Singapore, Pyongyang in North Korea and Havana. The Part One "Wandering Ahead, Wounded" focuses on photos taken in China.
Quentin Shih (a.k.a. Xiaofan Shi) is a Chinese artist/photographer/film director based in Beijing, China.
