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Give Me 1 Minute
Gao & Wang, Spring 2019, Beijing, from Give Me 1 Minute Series
The intention behind Give Me 1 Minute is “forgetting.” Joy Island hopes her subjects can momentarily forget their identities, social roles, and real-world pressures, revealing a more vulnerable, loosened, or authentic side of themselves within that single minute. For her, exchanging one minute of loneliness with her subjects during the act of photographing becomes a form of empathy and connection. Through intimate, trance-like, and drifting moments, she attempts to explore how time reshapes images and emotional memory. Spanning more than fifteen years, the project has evolved into an archive of faces representing Chinese urban fashion youth, reflecting the social and cultural transformations of post-millennial China through a deeply personal perspective.
In 2019, the series was published as the photobook Give Me 1 Minute and presented in a solo exhibition of the same title at White Field in Beijing. In 2020, the project was shortlisted for the Three Shadows Photography Award and the International Festival of Photography in Padova, Italy. It was later selected for the Jimei x Arles International Photo Festival Photobook Exhibition and PHOTOFAIRS Shanghai, and received a self-publishing shortlist award at the Wuhan Art Book Fair. The series has also been featured and covered by Vogue Italia, Jiazazhi, Migratory Bird Space, Beijing Youth Weekly, Marie Claire NOW, MStudio, Guyu Images, WWD, BIE, and other institutions and media outlets.
《给我一分钟》的意图在于“遗忘”：欢岛希望被拍摄者忘记自己的身份、社会角色与现实压力，在那一分钟内显露出更脆弱、松动或真实的一面。对她来说，在拍摄的过程中与被摄者互换一分钟的孤独是她创作的共情方式，她捕捉私密、出神、游离的瞬间，试图探索时间如何重塑影像与情感记忆。超过15年的拍摄最终形成了一组关于中国城市时尚青年的面孔档案，并折射出私人视角下千禧年后中国社会文化的变迁。
2019年欢岛将这一系列集结出版了《给我一分钟》摄影书，并在北京白场举办同名个展，2020年此系列入围三影堂摄影奖以及意大利帕多瓦摄影节，此后又入围集美·阿尔勒国际摄影节摄影书展、影像上海艺术博览会，并获得武汉影像艺术博览会自出版入围奖。此系列曾被Vogue意大利、假杂志、候鸟空间、《北京青年周刊》、嘉人NOW、MStudio、谷雨影像、WWD、别的BIE等机构媒体采访及报道。