Elena Yang

Elena Yang

PhotographerLondon, United Kingdom
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Elena Yang

Elena Yang

PhotographerLondon, United Kingdom
Projects
  • Stomach Event
    Stomach EventSTOMACH is an artist led project that support networks of emerging art and offers the opportunity for artists to make connections. Stomach is unique in its aim to link artists across London and all over the world through art collaborations. The project wants to develop further the critical network that is growing throughout East London, while focusing on the long-term goals of cultural and critical dialogue between different artists of different disciplines and the public. Therefore Stomach aims to be a potential for engaging new audience and for sharing networks in order to give chance to really talented people to share in a more expansive way their art works. The show is involving an Italian aperitif with free food, what we are looking for is to stimulate our artists and our visitors, as a proper Italian aperitif does with food, we want to arouse it with art and food in the same time.
  • Intimate Collaboration with a Stranger
    Intimate Collaboration with a StrangerIntimate collaboration with a stranger This body of work is the progression from a project that I started last year in London. Using photography as a means of social-expression, I make pictures about the society, to identify with hidden aspects of their character, to understand someone’s reality and also to express my interpretation of the society around me. This project is a collaboration between two strangers, the model and me: is a collaboration where the models accept to undress and let me invade their space in the most intimate way but in the same time in the most diffident and distant way: there is no connections, relations or contact between us and most of the time there is no a second encounter. Within this collaboration I am also able to explore a city, in this case La Rochelle, and its population in a non-touristic way, which is something I wouldn’t be able to do without this project. What is shown in the picture is not only my relation with the models, but is also my observation on how the identity of the model appears affected from a voyeuristic observation of an unknown other, and the desire of the him/her to be subject of this voyeuristic gaze. There is always this awkward space where intimacy, privacy, distance and collaboration float confusedly in the photography practice. And this space is the result of my intimate collaboration with the strangers.
Work history
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    Photographer
Skills
  • Events
  • Marketing PR
  • Art Direction
  • Printing
  • Photoshop
  • Printing Photography
Education
    BA Fine ART Photography
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    Ba Fine Art photography
    Language and Translation BA
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    Language and Translation