About the work:
Too much has been said about photography and photography as language;
Han Lei uses “silence” to express his photographic outlook.
These pictures have not been “made,” they have been lived,
and the photographer has honestly photographed his fundamental and profound
life experiences. In fact, he is dying to say something about not only
about humanity but about himself, it is as if he were always asking:
Is this who I am? Han Lei places himself on the dissecting table.
He
is lost in the life of this person named Han Lei, and he tries to control
his complexity, his superficiality, his naivety, his falsehood, and his
pain. Such images are far from casual, they cannot be captured every
day. Regardless, Han Lei values language, an admiration he expresses
by speaking and not speaking. He doesn’t speak perhaps because
of ennui, or maybe because his inner strength prevents him from picking
of a camera, it can also be because he chooses silence in the end.
by Jiang Wei
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