Fine Art nominee

When my grandfather passed away that year, I stood beside him. The weeping people had gone, and there were only the two of us. He lay there as if he were asleep, and I stood as if I were in a dream. I was very confused. I wondered why he was lying down and I was standing. I thought of many religious paintings, east or west, that tell non concluant stories almost as if they were history. The living and the dead constitute vertical and horizontal opposition, full of the beauty of confrontation and coexistence.The birth of photography brought the story of death closer and more believable, and it faces death with no scruple. In the well-known historical images, the deaths of those people show very different power in their time, place and political environment. I tried to take some photos to create fake testimonies in the form of virtual history and recreate the so-called truth. The impenetrable wall between these "truths" and the photographic texts, our beliefs today, and our faith in the known world, are the most suspicious mysteries.

ZHOU YULONG
Artist
b. 1978
2000: Worked as Art director of Ogilvy&Mather Co.
2002: Founded DTMPHOTO studio
Based in Beijing & Shanghai