leanhsi @leanhsi@mastodon.art

#introduction Architectural #photographer based in #shanghai - #fixedgear #cyclist and #alleycat organizer - #skateboarding when I can - #clubbell and #kettlebell to keep me skating longer - keeper of rescue #cats - future #agroforestry farmer - occasional speaker on #philosophy or #photography.

((funky drummer))

recent project shot for http://www.lukstudiodesign.com/
https://www.instagram.com/p/CgBr8gIu7ck/?igshid=YTMyZTg2ZDg=

new portraits

two contact sheets from yesterday
the first selection was of 16, felt unsure and made a second edit down to 12, of those 1 or 2 I think might work

Latest portraits, from yesterday

A project from 2014 shot for Lukstudio.
This was a small space but had some great details and spatial effects that made it a real pleasure to work with. Sadly the shop itself was quite shortlived.

https://insideinside.org/project/aime-patisserie/

shards of pottery from the gizzard of a chicken I bought for soup today

Also appreciate a good and legitimate work excuse to get out on the bike and ride in the sunshine :)

I really appreciate the impulse to not only record technical aspects of the process, as is normally done, but to add this atypical layer of artistic documentation.

At each stage I have been photographing the various iterations of the system's physical mock-ups/test models as sculptural objects, the images being distributed as beautifully framed prints to those collaborating on the project.

I can't say too much about the work, or reveal the images, as it involves the development of new industrial processes. Hopefully that will be possible once the system under development is eventually launched as a finished project. For now it is strictly private.

Went this morning to sign a very private edition of two prints - one triptych and one individual image - made for a friend's project that I have been working on through several stages, photographing each one

(I suspect this may be a relic of that famous initiative to produce more steel)

quick pick from this morning

first round 171 -> 16
second round 16 -> 3
third round 3 -> 1

Little BTS from this morning's shoot showing the basic lighting set-up

was a quick shot to check exposure, but I like the way it turned out - won't fit the series but does suggest new directions

getting back to the portraits this week after several months of impossible conditions, one today and one tomorrow - also giving some attention to this one from January:

might not last too much longer though, as it seems people have been borrowing bricks from a hole in the wall near the base...

found this old brick chimney in a village this morning. wonder what its original purpose was?

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