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Zihao Yan

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His creative practice centres on the visual expression of emotion and body language, exploring the manifestation of subconscious feelings through exaggerated and surreal bodily postures. Through photography, he establishes a visual dialogue between the physical, emotional, and psychological realms.

He is due to graduate from London College of Communication in 2025 with a Master of Arts in Photography, having previously completed a Bachelor of Arts in Photography at the University of Hertfordshire in 2024.

His creative practice centres on the visual expression of emotion and body language, exploring th...

This project revolves around the relationship between emotional photography and body language, focusing on how body movements and gestures present underlying emotional expressions in images. By photographically documenting the natural responses of people in specific situations, this work seeks to analyse the psychological meaning behind these non-verbal messages. The project focuses on the role of photography as a tool for observation and documentation, to help us understand the connection between emotions and the body more intuitively. At the same time, it combines the perspectives of psychology and communication to construct an interactive relationship between image-body- emotion in an interdisciplinary context.

Final work

The photograph was created by capturing multiple movements of a person through the technique of stacking, resulting in a single composite image.

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The figure in the photograph appears to be suspended above the floor in a reclining position.

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The person in the centre of the photograph has their hand clasped around the arm of the individual behind them; none of the subjects' faces are visibl

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In the centre of the photograph are a pair of hands bound with red string.

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This project revolves around the relationship between emotional photography and body language, focusing on how body movements and gestures present underlying emotional expressions in images. By photographically documenting the natural responses of people in specific situations...

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