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    Give  Me 1 Minute
    给我一分钟

    Gao & Wang，2019春，北京，选自“给我一分钟”系列
    Gao & Wang, Spring 2019, Beijing, from the Give Me 1 Minute Series


                
           
     Give Me 1 Minute is an ongoing photographic project initiated by Joy Island Lei in 2009. Over more than a decade spent living in Beijing and traveling across different countries, she has continuously photographed over one hundred Chinese urban youth born between 1980 and 2000. Her subjects include supermodels, fashion industry professionals, artists, white-collar workers, freelancers, and the photographer herself. Leaving their hometowns behind, they drift through major cities in pursuit of their ideals. Using a 35mm film camera and direct flash, Joy photographs through a process she describes as “shoot fast, develop slow”: capturing images instinctively and sometimes impulsively in emotionally charged moments, only to rediscover and develop the negatives years later. Supermodels Liu Wen, He Sui, and Ju Xiaowen; actors Yin Fang, Zeng Meihuizi, and Li Manxuan; as well as musicians Momo Wu, Zhu Jingxi, Tian Yuan, and The Big Wave have all appeared in the series.

    The intention behind Give Me 1 Minute is “forgetting.” Joy 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》是欢岛始于2009年、至今仍在持续的摄影项目。在北京生活及各地游历的十余年间，她持续拍摄了超过一百位出生于1980至2000年间的中国城市青年。他们成长于中国社会急剧转型的年代，置身于北京、上海等大都市，在不断变动的社会结构与都市景观中，经历着各自的成长，寻找自我的位置与理想。被摄对象中包括超模、时尚从业者、艺术家、白领、自由职业者以及摄影师本人等。超模刘雯、何穗、雎晓雯，新生代演员尹昉、曾美惠孜、李蔓瑄，音乐人吴莫愁、朱婧汐、田原、大波浪乐队等都曾是她的拍摄对象。

    她使用135 毫米胶片相机及直闪闪光灯拍摄这些个体私密、出神、游离的瞬间，并以“快拍慢冲”的方式延迟影像呈现（在被打动的瞬间按下快门，极快甚至即兴拍摄，数年后才重新冲扫这些底片）。她试图探索时间如何重塑影像与情感记忆，也通过此系列思索影像等瞬间性、无法再复制及    逝去性。超过15年的拍摄形成了一组关于中国城市时尚青年的面孔档案，并折射出女性私人视角下千禧年后尤其北京奥运后经济上行期间中国社会与文化的变迁。《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，在拍摄过程中与被摄者互换一分钟的孤独，是她创作中的共情方式。

    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，并被三影堂摄影艺术中心、直接摄影空间等机构及私人藏家收藏。









    Give Me 1 Minute on view at The 12th Three Shadows Photography Award,
    Three Shadows Photography Art Centre, Beijing, 2020

    “Give Me 1 Minute" Photography Book© JOYISLANDSTUDIO 2019
    Designer: Qunlin Cui
    🛒（Available in Mainland China


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