Zaccheo Zhang, a young photographer who uses photographic subjects to highlight philosophical ideas. Her first work was a group photo taken for her parents on her 5th birthday, and at the age of 18 she entered the Department of Photography at the School of Art, Film, Television and Drama of Communication University of China to study Xi Xi, and went on to study for a master's degree at SCAD and SVA. He is currently the creative director of a jewelry company in New York and runs his own studio. Her works have been exhibited in New York, Japan, Savannah, France, London, California, Italy, Spain, and the United Arab Emirates.
The foundation of art photography is to construct a "bridge of colors" in science and expression
Science embodies objectivity and discovers the unknown, while photography records objectivity and explores true knowledge. Starting from the basic cognition of photography, this young artist has brought more possibilities to photography in the exploration of photographic materials. She is convinced that the characteristics of photographic materials are the key to the diversity and rejuvenation of photography. Her creative and experimental approach has brought photography back into its intimate relationship with and reborn from science as a unique form of artistic expression. Zhang Bingqin transferred part of the creative rights of color control to photographic materials.
Zhang Bingqin believes that in the same time and space, scenes that cannot be observed by the human eye are stored in photographic materials through energy conversion, and will be released through energy conversion. Therefore, Zhang Bingqin proposed the concept of photography as a "container", that is, the photographic material has the identity of some authors, and also plays the role of a container. Through the control of photographic materials, in the expression of skilled science and artistic flow, pure art photography works are like flowers growing in the dark, exploring the boundaries and essence of photography with experimental creative techniques, full of philosophical thinking. In 2022, she participated in SVA's "Other Vision" Outstanding Student Works Exhibition, and her work "A Touch" series was selected and received high reviews. "I Don't Remember" has also earned her international fame as a short film that gives voice to women.
The externalization of the inner world connects the "thoughts of growth" between history and reality
Zhang Bingqin's style of art photography is mysterious, characterized by quiet and elegant, but it focuses on the key points very well, and there is "white space" throughout. Between the layout of the plot, you can see the freehand skills everywhere, and the "light" and "dark" of color, and the "quiet" and "moving" of vision present the inner world in a three-dimensional way. So that those who have no involvement in the art of photography can still feel the "inner rhythm" embodied in the works.
Focusing on the echo between the inner and outer worlds, and presenting his own experiences and emotions through visual language and metaphors" is Zhang Bingqin's photographic thinking. She grew up in the old building of Bagong in the former Russian Concession in Wuhan, and when she was a child, her mother went to work and she followed her, wandering in museums, cultural relics and artwork exhibition and exchange places, and hearing and seeing the stories of cultural relics and history and culture, which played a decisive role in her artistic aesthetics and innovative creative style.
History witnesses the times, and cultural relics reflect humanity. Behind each cultural relic is the crystallization of human thinking, which seems to tell the spiritual temperament of an era. In this environment, Zhang Bingqin has cultivated the instinct of "seeing the connotation through the appearance", and cultivated the "sense of refuge" to go to "visual expression", which also gives his art photography a unique oriental taste. (The works "He**en Tombstone" series exhibited in the 2022 Venice Biennale Theme Exhibition were selected as excellent works of art).
The integration of photography style, in the technique and feeling to taste the "wonder of life".
Based on his love for visual expression, Zhang Bingqin was admitted to the Communication University of China with a major in photography, and studied fashion photography at the School of Visual Arts in New York for a master's degree. After long-term professional training, she has achieved perfect expression of art in a visual way, and this artistic expression also has a good integration power, just like water, "a gentleman is not a weapon", and can be integrated into everything.
Zhang Bingqin said, "Whether it is art or fashion photography, it needs to be completed with creative thinking, and art is used to serve reality." There is a sentence in Roland Barthes's "The Bright Room", "Photography is like an adventure", Zhang Bingqin likes this sentence very much, and she also regards every photography as an adventure in life to expand the breadth of her life. In Zhang Bingqin's perception, when she picks up the camera, she communicates with the object, empathizing with her and externalizing it into the form, and the "aesthetics" of realism has the "study of the mind".
Zhang Bingqin's artistic expression is open, she uses the perception of body and mind to explore the expression of things, just as Wang Yangming of the Ming Dynasty said, "The master of the body is the heart, the heart is the mind, the essence of the mind is the knowledge, and the place of the mind is the object." ”
The expression of fashion photography practices the "road of the times" in keeping the shape and casting the soul
After 2021, Zhang Bingqin began to transform into a fashion photographer, integrating his unique aesthetics, experimental techniques and insights into his works, so that fashion works gave birth to the rhythm of expression.
As an "expert" in art photography, she integrates artistic techniques into fashion photography, taking "art" as the soul and "fashion" as the body, so that fashion products have artistic beauty, and are full of humanistic expression, so as to blend into the world without being vulgar, reflecting the times without blindly following the times. It is precisely the external expression of the inner world that grasps the infectiousness of the inner world, and this kind of work with the characteristics of infecting and leading people, makes art a "mouthpiece" connecting the heart and the world, and it is precisely because of this that Zhang Bingqin's "photographic language" is also more proficient, and fashion photography works are more artistic.
Fashion is easier to integrate into the public, and art can lead the times. Nowadays, Zhang Bingqin's fashion photography works, with their thinking tension and artistic expression, have embarked on a "road of the times" that no one has walked before, and has also achieved that art and fashion learn from each other, integrate with each other, and develop each other. It has always maintained a high level of fashion expression, withstood the polishing of time, and received a good response in New York, and launched a "brand of art and fashion blend".
In the palace of the world of photography, Zhang Bingqin is using the fusion of traditional Chinese thinking and Western photography techniques to excavate the rich connotation of visual expression and present a unique fashion photography style. Zhang Bingqin believes that this is her profession and her mission, and she will take on the important task of promoting the traditional culture of the motherland, let the world feel the "Orient", and let the beauty of tradition and humanistic thinking influence the world in visual expression.
Let fashion infiltrate culture, and let art convey ideas.
From December 8, 2023 to January 31, 2024, Zhang Bingqin was invited to participate in the Lianzhou International Photography Exhibition. At that time, she will be exhibited together with the works of outstanding alumni of the Department of Photography of Communication University of China.