Bing Lu
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Bing Lu is a Chinese photographer from Beijing, based in New York. She studied photography at Massachusetts College of Art and Design and did her MFA at the School of Visual Arts. She shoots on a medium-format camera, prints the images, and then cuts, folds and reassembles them.
She started with portraits in Boston. After moving to New York she found that clean, finished photographs did not hold what she was trying to say, so she began tearing them apart and putting them back together differently. She is influenced by Stieglitz's idea of the Equivalent, photography as orientation rather than representation.
Her current series, what remains after the image, uses archival photographs exchanged between her and a significant other during a period of separation. She reworks the prints by hand until they belong to no particular moment anymore. She says photography for her is slow, resists instant gratification, and keeps the trace of the hand that made it.
