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Lu Yu

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Lu Yu is a photographer and visual artist based between Shanghai and London. Her work explores the emotional depth of everyday life through bold color, intimate portraiture, and the visual language of memory and identity. With a background in both science and photography, Lu blends analytical precision with a deeply personal narrative approach. Over the years, she has collaborated with publications such as Vogue, Elle, W magazine, Tatler and Dazed.

Lu Yu is a photographer and visual artist based between Shanghai and London. Her work explores th...

Lu Yu’s practice is grounded in personal experience, examining how patriarchal structures in East Asian culture subtly constrain female autonomy through her observation of family and her parents’ generation. Impacted by ADHD, her perception of time and memory is nonlinear, causing experiences to overlap in her mind and form intense emotional traces. Photography enables her to reconstruct blurred memories in surreal pictures and translate intimate experiences into visual narratives. She notes, “My starting point is my observation of my mother, who embodies both resilience and timidity. This duality profoundly impacted me and my understanding of feminism.”

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  • A woman lifts a white board, atop which sit tiny wooden houses painted blue and red, balancing it carefully with one hand.
  • A woman lifts a white board, atop which sit tiny wooden houses painted blue and red, balancing it carefully with one hand.
  • Portrait photography in an oil painting style combined with AI-generated imagery.

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Lu Yu’s practice is grounded in personal experience, examining how patriarchal structures in East Asian culture subtly constrain female autonomy through her observation of family and her parents’ generation. Impacted by ADHD, her perception of time and memory is nonlinea...

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