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Carpe Diem by Luo Yang

1. Chen Xi, 2018

2. & 3. Girls

Photography by Luo Yang

Through her first photo series, Girls, Chinese photographer Luo Yang proved herself a rising star through intimate portraits of over a hundred women as they grew into adulthood. This year, the series was published in her book Carpe Diem alongside Youth, her second major series documenting China’s bold and brave Generation Z and the ways in which individual and collective identities are quietly resisting societal norms and conventional values. “I hope the photos are able to connect and speak to their audience, make them feel touched, comforted and encouraged that we all share something in common,” she says.

2024年8月14日

【新入荷・新本】

Luo Yang Carpe Diem, La Maison de Z, 2022

Limited edition of 800 copies. Softcover with embossing and foil stamping. The book contains 4 booklets sewed on Papersense™ wood pulp washable paper. 19 x 24 cm, 96 pages.

価格：8,800円（税込）

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一人っ子政策の下で生まれ、文化大革命（1966-1976）後の鄧小平による改革開放の中で育った第一世代、80后（バーリンホウ、1980年代以降生まれ）に属する1984年生まれの写真家、ルオ・ヤン（罗洋、Luo Yang）による作品集。

2007年、23歳のときに発表し、同世代の100人以上の女性を追い続け、彼女たちの身体と生活の変化を記録したシリーズ「Girls」、2019年にスタートし、1990年代後半から2000年代前半に生まれた若い世代に焦点を移す新シリーズ「Youth」など、変化する現代中国のさまざまな若者の群像を捉えています。

When we talk about “Ba ling hou” (born after the 1980s) in China, we are actually talking about the first generation born under the one-child policy and raised during the reform and opening up led by Deng Xiaoping after the Cultural Revolution (1966-1976).

This generation grew up together with the Internet and social media, melting into a consumer society that is totally in rupture with the preceding generations. Luo Yang, a photographer born in 1984, is also one of them.

In 2007, at the age of 23, Luo started the series Girls, which brought her international recognition. For ten years, Luo Yang followed more than a hundred of women from her generation, recording changes to their bodies and their lives, observing and capturing their delicate transition to adulthood. It's as if the photographer was capturing their (her) emotions as a young woman by holding a mirror up to her own growth and evolution alongside those of her models.

Now, Luo Yang is in her late 30s. In the new series Youth that she started in 2019, Luo shifts her focus to a younger generation born in the late 1990s and early 2000s. She continues to explore through Generation Z the changes of contemporary China now globalized and reached on a new scale and tries to preserve a photographic trace of these “atypical characters” in a social context.