Sheung Yiu

Hong Kong photographer based in Helsinki

Personal website:
http://sheungyiu.com
Photoblog:
http://juxtaposter.tumblr.com
IG:
www.instagram.com/sheungyiuphoto
Flickr:
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29/07/2026

Time to start a new chapter: Data relief VS Ancient relief

22/06/2026

The shadow is creeping, something’s coming up.
📸👤
From physiognomic silhouette to shadow tracing, from a qing dynasty diplomat that witnessed photography for the first time to shadow spirits, what if we consider photography not as light drawings but as an act of seizing shadows?

16/06/2026

Hyperimage: Photography Beyond the Human Scale is my doctoral thesis. I consider the realism/ aesthetic politics of a new genre of images, hyperimage, blending photography and large-scale statistical modelling.

I worked with the multitalented graphic designer on the print thesis and the great web designer and artist .exec on the online database Hyperimage Atlas.

The full list of contributors can be found on the “About” page and includes:
Arieh Frosh, Sam Mercer, Paolo Cirio, Gabriele de Seta, Andrew Fisher, Tomi Slotte Dufva, Morry Kolman, Pok Yin Lam, Lukáš Likavčan, Geert Lovink, Max Pinckers, Gaia Tedone, Ivy Woo, Zi Yin Chen, Natasha Chuk, Carloalberto Treccani, Bruno Moreschi, Frédéric Eyl, Richard The, Tuomo Rainio, and Asker Bryld Staunæs.

The project is funded by

10/06/2026

Today is the last day of (Inter)Faces of Predictions at . It’s been a wild ride with my theorist , my curator .epple, my exhibition manager and book designer

Thank you .epple and the jury for selecting this project.

and .in.e.a reviewed the exhibition.

Every time someone tags me and shows me they visited the exhibition, it brings me so much joy.

And it all begins from a dot on my face.

07/06/2026

Call me Doctor Yiu. 🙆🏻 I defended my thesis this past Friday. It’s true it takes a village to raise a kid, and it takes a whole community to raise a Doctor of Art. I am grateful to have people that build me up and wants me to succeed. I have a supervisor Harri Laakso who trust me and support my work at Aalto University. I have an insightful and kind opponent Seán Cubitt. My advisor Jussi Parikka helped me straighten up my research writing. I remembered to look at every one of my friends, my colleagues, and my mentors who came to my defence. Each pair of eyes gave me strength during my lecture and turned my nerve into excitement. And I cherished the time you spent to listen intently to my thoughts on contemporary photography and the future of visual culture in the age of AI - how we must insist the humanity of it all. Images are, first and foremost, our ways to create meaning.

That’s one chapter completed of my journey , and . Thank you and for supporting this project.

02/06/2026

Thank and congrats to my fellow winners. 🙌🏼

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Today, we are excited to announce the winners of the RestART Reality Open Call

Over 60 days, we received 652 submissions from 514 artists around the world.

The winning works explore artificial intelligence, synthetic identities, speculative futures, digital memory, facial recognition systems, censorship, and the unstable realities produced by contemporary technologies.

Selected by our international jury are works by George Drivas , Maren Dagny Juell , Mihai Grecu , Yushien .index , and Sheung Yiu . We also celebrate an Audience Award, presented to SALAWAKI and chosen by the CIFRA community.

Thank you to every artist who submitted, every viewer who voted, and everyone who followed the open call and perhaps discovered a new artist along the way.
Explore the winners and stay close — the RestART Reality season is still unfolding, with projects ahead.

01/06/2026

Two events done! Thank you Berlin and thank you everyone who came to my artist talk/ screening/ desktop performative lecture at .hongkong and . Glad that you spent time with me and listened to my digital fable of facial prediction.

💖 .ansmann .epple and the teams that make it happen :)

And good to see .hongkong becoming an outpost for Hong Kong artists in Europe.

📸 Veronika Epple and the audience

27/05/2026

Jumpscare at the end of the video. It’s surreal to find myself on the bookshelves in .

Also event announcements:
27.5.2026 (TODAY!), 1900-2030hongkong with and .ansmann

29.5.2026 (Friday), 1800-1900

More info on my profile, check my last three posts 🙆🏻
See you there!

14/05/2026

Researcher mode📑
Hyperimage atlas is online (link in bio, optimised for desktop)! One of the core aims of the atlas is to cognitively map the visuality of the hyperimage through perspectives from different disciplines, in order to more holistically understand how large-scale computation shapes visual culture.
I want to thank all the contributors who put trust in me on this project and .exec for developing the website in these three years.

You can explore the atlas by navigating freely: dragging and clicking through entries. Your browsing path is recorded in the history bar at the top, and entries can also be downloaded as a PDF

The full list of contributors can be found on the “About” page and includes:
Arieh Frosh, Sam Mercer, Paolo Cirio, Gabriele de Seta, Andrew Fisher, Tomi Slotte Dufva, Morry Kolman, Pok Yin Lam, Lukáš Likavčan, Geert Lovink, Max Pinckers, Gaia Tedone, Ivy Woo, Zi Yin Chen, Natasha Chuk, Carloalberto Treccani, Bruno Moreschi, Frédéric Eyl, Richard The, Tuomo Rainio, and Asker Bryld Staunæs.

The project is kindly supported by

05/05/2026

I wrote about shadow and the naming of photography in China on ’s research platform Permanent Beta for the upcoming exhibition Shadow Creatures curated by 🗣️⭐️ What if we consider photography as the seizing of shadow rather than the imprint of light?

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