The Blue Book

• Photographer
  Elsie Yi SHEN, China
• Website
  http://www.shen-yi.com

This is a series of images realized with a holga camera and Kodak Tungsten slide film. It is a body of work dealing with memories and emotions of common places. I purposely left the places anonymous allowing every viewer a unique experience with the image. I decided to obtain this rich blue to have a more intimate closeness to the subject.

SHEN Yi Elsie (b.Jiangxi, China) received a BA in liberal arts from Wesleyan University in Illinois and worked many years as an translator. Only in recent year she uncovered her passion with visual arts and have been producing work in photography and video related media. Selected solo exhibitions include Overstep, Siemens Art Space(2011) Expired Landscape, French Cultural Center, Beijing, (2008-2009) and The Blue Book, Pingyao International Photo Festival, Shanxi, China (2008). Selected exhibitions include DongXi-Things Contemporary Chinese Art Show, Kunstverein Baden Art Center, Austria (2010); Share and Remixed- Creative Commons Art Exhibition, Ying Gallery, 798 Art Zone, Beijing, China (2009); Revealing Common Territories, Palacio Consistorial, Cartegena, Spain, (2008); and Dreamscape, Ofoto Gallery, Shanghai, (2008).

SHEN Yi Elsie lives and works in Beijing.