Members Challenge Gallery: Light

Chen Yuxing is a photographer and visual artist based between London and Shanghai. Her photographic practice is centred around the creation and discussion of decolonisation of cultural differences and identity issues. She received her master's degree in MA Photojournalism and Documentary Photography at the London College of Communication.

Yuxing picked the following images from hundreds of images submitted by members, saying:

"Light is photography’s first condition, its silent collaborator. It’s always there, guiding the eye, shaping the world. In these images, light is not just illumination but encounter: it brushes against surfaces, slips through windows, and pools in corners. A frame touched by amber sun becomes a memory suspended; a lake’s shimmer unknots itself into abstraction; shadows cross a wall like slow, unspoken thoughts.

Each photograph here lets light tell its own story, sometimes factual, sometimes imagined. It records the material world with precision, yet also suggests what lies beneath or beyond it. This is light as witness and as whisper, fact and feeling at once."