I was born in Singapore, and have lived in Shanghai, Hong Kong and Kuala Lumpur. I support myself financially as a creative/art director and pursue my passion as a photographic artist.
This series is titled “Layering Life”, started back in 2012 and is on-going. It is about the passing of time, memories and life in cities. The process of creating this series requires to shoot and rewind the roll of film and leave it aside. What is inside is forgotten. The same roll is then loaded into the camera and re-shot, resulting in an unexpected layering of images.
I think fundamentally, this project is about life in of modern society or cities. It’s about the perpetual state of rush to progress or develop and about the things or life that are left behind or forgotten and that in turn becomes memories.
I am currently crowd-funding on Indiegogo to publish another of my project, “Frenetic City”. It ends on 11 October 2018, hopefully this article is online before that. I am also trying to finish a series about life in the disappearing Longtang neighbourhoods in Shanghai.
As for the “Layering Life” series, it’s on-going, until I have enough photographs for a book and exhibition. This particular project would take more time, simply because of the process involved. A huge part of it is left to chance, so there are a lot of misses than hits.
Zhou HanShun 周傼順
Born 1975, and raised in Singapore, Zhou HanShun is a Photographic Artist and Art Director.
After graduating from Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts Singapore and RMIT University, he went on to make a living as an art director, and continues to pursue his passion as a visual storyteller and photographer.
He uses photography as a way to explore, investigate and document the culture and people in the cities he lived in.
HanShun has exhibited at the KG+ Kyotographie Satellite Event (2018), Tumbas Cultural Center in Thessaloniki, Greece for Photoeidolo (2017), the Molekyl Gallery in Sweden, for the Malmo Fotobiennal (2017), the Gallery under Theater in Bratislava, Slovakia for The Month of Photography Bratislava(2017), the Czech China Contemporary Museum in Beijing for the SongZhuang International Photo Biennale(2017), the PhotoMetria “Parallel Voices” exhibition in Greece (2016), the Addis FotoFest in Ethiopia (2016), among others.
HanShun was awarded a Special Mention at the Balkan Photo Festival (2016), Shortlisted for the Hariban Award (2018 and 2017) and was a finalist of Photolucida Critical Mass (2016), among others.
