Miss Wan Studies Hard, 2011, Chen Man
C-Print Photograph, 130cm x 200cm
Provenance: Monash Gallery of Art, Melbourne.
Contemporary Chinese fashion photographer Chen Man lives and works in her hometown of Beijing. Chen came to major attention in 2003, when she photographed a series of covers for Vision, a design and art magazine based in China. Her formal art, and magazine work, including for publications Vogue China, Cosmopolitan, Elle, Marie Claire, and i-D Magazine. uses 3-D rendering software extensively.
“I consider myself a sort of bridge between Western and Eastern cultures. The Chinese culture is almost like the software, and the Western culture like the hardware,” she has explained. In her piece, Miss Han Studies Hard, a beautiful women bicycles between China’s past and the future (1).