This compelling architectural collage photography print stands as a definitive visual statement within the highly celebrated Her collection by contemporary artist Ying Chen. Relying on digital photomontage and precise paper cutting techniques, the artwork masterfully strips elements from vintage black and white female portraits to combine them with abstract architectural patterns and structural matrices. The raw layout anchors a single vertical portrait framing a mysterious woman whose facial features are fractured through overlapping eye compositions and topped with a clean modernist building geometry that functions as a structural headpiece against a solid black backdrop. This rich graphic environment captures a gentle yet strong female image, making her seem to possess a living movement where every expression is graceful.
This is a photo contemporary collage project based on modern art. Greatly influenced by natural figures and artificial textures. I love to collect black and white photos of female portraits, cutting out the parts and stripping them from the original context, combining them with the abstract design figure, to get a new figurative photography. This project is about 'she', every single piece has a unique female image, and each composition has a different character. Mysterious women are always a very attractive point to me. Ideally, behind every independent female figure, I want the audience to see a gentle but strong female image. Its basic sense is to make her seem to have life, when she smiles or looks up, every move is gentle and beautiful.
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Architectural Collage Photography - Her-Untitled 1, 2018. By Ying Chen
Her-Untitled 1, 2018
From the Her series
Archival Pigment prints
Limited Edition.
Unframed
Ying Chen was born in Tokyo, Japan, to Chinese parents living in Japan. She grew up and spent her early childhood in Japan until the age of seven, then spent her youth in China. Now Chen has graduated from SCAD with her bachelor's degree and is currently enrolled in the SCAD graduate photo department.









