Bing Lu (鲁冰) (b.1999) is a Chinese photographer from Beijing, China. She graduated with a BFA in Photography from Massachusetts College of Art and Design in Boston, and a MFA in Photography, Video, and Related Media from the School of Visual Arts in New York. Her photographic series include unconditional, 2019 - 2022; like this, like that, i’m starting to crack, 2024; what remains after the image, 2026 - present.

Lu’s photographic practice began with long-term, documentary-based portrait work developed in Boston. The work explores human connection, solitude, and the ways how we understand one another during and after the Covid-19 pandemic. After moved to New York City in 2022, her work has expanded toward abstract and process-driven photographic practice, incorporating analog techniques and alternative processes. Through fragmentation and revision, Lu’s photographs examine how images are constructed, conducted, and understood within contemporary visual culture.

Lu’s photographs offer a sense of solitude and quietness among the ever-complex digital age. The ambiguity within those images once again raises the question — where do imagery align in the current culture of visual landscape, when much or little the image is able to reveal or conceal.

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