Isabel Su Qi Photography

26/08/2023

recently I've been enjoying...
watching the sunflowers grow from seed with the quick passing of the days
the way the leaves on the trees shake n shiver, flutter about with the soft breeze
the grass on my barefeet as I walk through beautiful dunes and forest landscapes with a rowdy clan of wonderful people 
watching such a beautiful friendship in front of me as they goofy dance and laugh and smile SO hard together in the sand
long-term borrowing a racing bike and zipping through the city, such ease, such breeze cooling me down and counteracting the heat
the way that an old letter made a lasting imprint on the new table that I took for me and my housemate. we wanted a table on the balcony for so long, and it's heavenly to work outside, read outside, eat outside.

21/08/2023

The perpetuation of a moment technically now passed,
yet still alive in my memory, and in this old photograph

important to distinguish the two

06/11/2020

A proper workflow is so important! This event was the first time I tried to edit in black and white (with manual flash), and it's taken me a long while to adjust for consistent tones. Looking forward to showing you how I've progressed since then :)

22/03/2020

Breakdance amazes me. It's not a genre of dance I normally would've experienced/watched if I hadn't of met Rob, but now I want to watch more! He's not conventional in his choice of breakdance music (as far as I know), and I love that, it stands out. Here's a picture of Rob, who often dances to ambient music with spoken word.

21/12/2019

I promise you those photos aren't actually pure black (see video)

21/12/2019

21/12/2019

21/12/2019

Remake to Reminisce invites the viewer to use their individual context to connect with the creator’s personal snapshots.

How do you perceive an image that is not yours, when you’ve never fully seen it, and most likely have never lived it? Perhaps you have, but in another way.

To expose the photos in their full form, to anyone but the people who have been documented, would be to lose value. Visual context is removed and reconstructed, and therefore the viewer is invited to delve deeper in several ways.

At Het Nieuwe Instituut & Willem de Kooning Academy I hung up x4 A2 matte prints of collages with only the background of the images (people removed). I also made 4 audio clips associated with each print.

I experimented with collecting people’s memories from our shared moments (before they had seen my images, in order not to contaminate their memory with my photos), and also asked another person to see what memories she could associate with my photos. Audio of friends recounting their memories, without seeing any of the photos, plus recordings from the original memories themselves.

I also made a personal video (phone footage) from some of the memories shown, for showing to friends.

21/09/2019