Zixuan Mai
Where light breaks in
This series is a practice on light. In nature, light generates growth and rhythm; in photography, it becomes both medium and subject. Through double exposure and light leaks, these photographs seek to dissolve linear time and fixed boundaries, creating layered visual fields rather than singular moments. Captured in spring, the flora act as nature’s skin, sensing light and wind, absorbing time’s warmth, and leaving subtle traces. In the darkroom, light was manipulated to evoke impressions rather than depict exact scenes. Photographic paper became another kind of skin, tactile and responsive. Photography, in this work, becomes a resonance, an embodied exchange between human and natural sensibilities.
Yung-Hsiang Chou • Ellé Hill • Zixuan Mai • Natalie Marum • Simon Roth • Masoud Teimory •
University of Brighton
MA Photography
Falmouth University
MA Photography
Glasgow School of Art
Masters of Design in Photography
University of Portsmouth
MA Photography
Royal College of Art
MA Photography
Ulster University
MFA Photography