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    Give Me 1 Minute is my ongoing project, which began in 2019. Over the past decade, I have worked and lived in Beijing and traveled 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 for 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, exchanging a minute of loneliness during the shooting process is my method of empathizing. Until 2024, I have photographed more than 100 individuals from the post-80s and post-00s generations, aiming to present a context of collective portraits for the Chinese youth in the post-pop art era. This project is ongoing indefinitely.

    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）

    All images on this site copyright©JOY ISlAND,2025

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