“Give Me 1 Minute” is my ongoing project that started in 2019. In more than a decade, I have worked and lived in Beijing and travelled around the world. I photographed a considerable number of different individuals (families, friends, supermodels, artists, celebrities, strangers, and myself).

I used a strong flashlight to capture the private, absent-minded, and trance-like moments. My ‘personal photography’ aesthetics and individual experience that I applied in fashion photography have become my long-term core of this project.



I have always believed that hands have more secret emotions and stories, so I also included various hand photos taken with mobile phones in this series, and communicated my most delicate and direct feelings
about photography through the links on the exhibition and typeset.

In 2019, I published the homonymous photobook after organizing the images based on the project. For me, an exchange of a minute of loneliness in the process of shooting is my method of empathizing. Until 2024, I have shot more than 100 individuals of the post-80s and post-00s generations, hoping to present a context of collective portraits for the Chinese youth in the post-pop art era. This project is ongoing indefinitely.

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