Photographer, Artist, Designer

My name is Pai Yu Hsuan, known as Bai Pai. I am from Taiwan and I have been a resident in New York and London. I am a creator who likes to capture the moment, along with my design and art practicing together in everyday life.

I use various forms to make my art, photography is one of the mediums, one of the raw materials to document the moment that inspires me. I am particularly craving the relationship between element to element, where I am always in the process of defining and reframing my visual language. The most recent is focus on observing the space between human and object with the places they inhabit.

I have always been passionate about creativity since my childhood, where I mostly drew something unknown. I fell into photography after I borrowed my dad’s camera from time to time until I got a small digital one in my high school. I took almost everything in the early days, both digital and film, sometimes irrelevant, sometimes for document, sometimes for practice, or just the moment I thought it’s interesting to me.

In 2003 summer, I took a workshop in conceptual photography where I learned to use several images to tell stories. After that, I started making a series of images and sometimes it can be part of my art, some other times it can be independent just it be. There were a few years I turned into the film from digital during university, I enjoy the textures that came with the different style lens. I was thinking a lot about the subject matter. At some point I back to digital, and I started moving around the composition more with the software while I studied at the digital images. But I am not trying to refine or perfect an image in beauty. More and more, I couldn’t tell the differences between my philosophy of photography and art.

I continually push my point of view to the edges. There was a time I focus on architecture, I admire the geometric, the line, the shape and the dots that surround us. I used to took the photos for the commercial exteriors but found out I am not into the square but being outside of the box.

One thing I keep doing is that I have always roaming in the streets, in between buildings, the rural areas, an enclosure place, wild landscape to discover the interesting space to document. Sometimes it can be a corner in my home, a random activity during the day, or just stopping by the structure pattern that presenting in front of me.

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