Xu Xiaroran
Looking For A Way Out
I completed my Project entitled Looking for A Way Out. For this project I used overlapping photography to discuss the connection between Chinese painting and British landscape and seeking for personal identify and expression of the homesickness. My overlapping approach transforms the English landscape into something mysterious and magical where what seem like trees loom out of misty skies and layers of green overlap one another like a slowed time lapse movie. Then I am trying to make audiences concern on the mystery and imagine how English landscape can make like Chinese painting. It is how I think about England landscape and using my way to close to this culture. As in my opinion, landscape photographs should be a personal vision, personal thought, personal feeling. I am an outsider in an unfamiliar culture. I try to use landscape photography to make my works as a way I can express through my vision. My overlap images are trying to make audiences concern on the mystery and imagine how English landscape can make like Chinese painting. It is how I think about England landscape and using my way to close to this culture.
Ying Gao • Ally Robinson • Amanda Whittle • Xu Xiaroran •
University of Brighton
MA Photography
Manchester Metropolitan University
MA/MFA Photography
Plymouth College of Art
MA Photography
Royal College of Art
MA Photography
University of South Wales
MA Documentary Photography
Ulster University
MFA Photography
University of Westminster
MA Photography Arts
University of Westminster
MA Documentary Photography and Photojournalism