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Behind the Silhouettes

Xiaoyu Chen

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Xiaoyu Chen is a photographer who explores the subtle poetry embedded in everyday life. Her practice draws on personal memory and observation, combining still life and documentary images to examine how the ordinary holds traces of emotion and meaning. Through soft light, material sensitivity, and a quietly intimate gaze, she reveals the unseen narratives connecting people, objects, and the environment. She creates contemplative images that evoke time, touch, and quiet persistence.

Xiaoyu Chen is a photographer who explores the subtle poetry embedded in everyday life. Her...

This project explores the overlooked process behind fashion design. Through documentary fashion photography, the images capture fragmented scenes, daily work, and emotional traces of people in the industry. Observing their working moments and environments, it frames fashion imagery as a visual narrative and redefines how we see and understand it.

Final work

A stylist and model adjust garment details in the studio.

RANDOM PIECES OF STYLING

A quiet moment between stylist and model during a fitting. The image reveals the unseen labour and tactile process behind fashion design, focus on craft, care, and collaboration.

  • A still life of sewing equipment, including a spool of thread, scissors, pattern paper, and pins, is arranged softly on a pale background.
  • The designer with dummy and fabric in soft studio light
A model and stylist at work in a studio, surrounded by fabric and materials in motion.

IN MOTION

This series captures moments of making and movement within the fashion process. Between stillness and action, the images reveal the emotional and physical labour behind creation.

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Behind the Silhouettes

This project explores the overlooked process behind fashion design. Through documentary fashion photography, the images capture fragmented scenes, daily work, and emotional traces of people in the industry. Observing their working moments and environments, it frames fashion im...

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