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Jingwen Zhong

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Jingwen Zhong (b. 2001) is a photographer and fashion image-maker based between London and Shanghai, working across both digital and analog formats. She is currently pursuing an MA in Commercial Photography at London College of Communication, UAL. 

Her creative practice blends refined fashion aesthetics with contemporary visual expression. Rooted in research on her hometown’s cultural heritage, she explores the reinterpretation and translation of folk traditions within a contemporary context. Through the use of light, color, and symbolic elements, she constructs a visual space suspended between reality and imagination.  

Expanding from cultural narratives to emotional ones, she interweaves personal memory with collective experience. Through a sensitive capture of light, spatial atmosphere, and subtle emotions, she presents fleeting moments in which people engage with their inner worlds, exploring the nuanced relationships between memory, space, and emotion. To her, photography is not merely a means of documentation, but a narrative tool that evokes emotional resonance.  

She creates impactful imagery for brands that not only showcases the external beauty of fashion, but also conveys its deeper emotional and cultural connections. Her clients include TASAKI, Zeiss, Armani, Defected, TUPLUS, Tube Showroom. Her work has been featured in PhotoVogue and exhibited at Fujifilm X-SPACE Shanghai.

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Sites of Slow Flow investigates how people seek spiritual refuge – spaces of tranquillity that offer imaginative escape. Using a gentle and emotional visual language, she constructs scenes that both reflect reality and mirror inner longings, allowing time to flow quietly and gracefully. Her work invites viewers to pause and rediscover their inner stillness amidst the urban flow.

Final work

  • A woman walking on tree branches, surrounded by greenery, with a pond behind her.
  • Cover of the book Sites of Slow Flow.
  • Splash and ripples created by a small stone thrown into the water.
  • Lower half of a woman in yoga attire, holding a mat, squatting on a wooden stump.
  • The back of a woman wearing yoga clothes.
  • Meadow, woods, and wooden structure in the park.
  • Some darkroom printing equipment on the countertop.
  • A person sitting in the bathtub with a melancholic expression.
  • Hands recording data on a darkroom test strip.
  • Two swans in the nighttime.
  • Back of the book Sites of Slow Flow.

Research and process

Questions for the Subjects

• Do you have a place here where you feel most comfortable, that gives you a sense of calm or escape?

• Do you have habits or routines that help you find peace or comfort in this city?

• Are there any textures, colors, or objects in your surroundings that bring you a sense of peace?

• How do you experience the passage of time in your ‘spiritual refuge’? Is it slow, fast, or something else?

  • Image Selection and Sequencing
  • Book Making
  • Exhibition Concept

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Sites of Slow Flow

Sites of Slow Flow investigates how people seek spiritual refuge – spaces of tranquillity that offer imaginative escape. Using a gentle and emotional visual language, she constructs scenes that both reflect reality and mirror inner longings, allowing time to flow quie...

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