Hua

• Photographer
  Suxing Zhang

These photographs are selected from the photo series “Hua”. Hua means flower in Chinese, and refers to beautiful and full-blown life in the metaphor. However, beauty is not the only attribute that the two forms have in common. In this project I explore their commonalities and connections in emotional vulnerability and sensitivity, such that emotions such as calm, uncertainty, fear, anxiety, and loneliness, emerge in conceptual and artistic forms.

Suxing Zhang is a Chinese fine-art photographer currently living in Australia. Suxing sees photographs as impressions that involve not only sheer beauty but also a wide range of emotions, and treats facial expressions and postures as the best mediums to deal with complex concepts. Suxing's photographs often involve visual metaphors and metonymies to tell stories and express emotions. Experience with painting as well as charcoal sketching has attributed greatly in his use of lighting, composition, colour, texture, and translates to the overall harmony of his visual layouts.