The photographic appointments #27 : Ren Hang (RIP)
Dear Steemians friends,
I created this article series to share my passion of photography through the eyes of those I call my masters. The choice is made day by day through the various sources that I have accumulated since I seriously make the photo (4 years). I draw among the facebook pages that I am (there are many lol), the instagram accounts, the magazines and photo books that I have marked.
It was with sadness that I learned the sad news of the suicide of a young Chinese artist whom I had begun to follow in 2016. It is Ren Heng.
His Life
Ren Hang was born on March 30, 1987 in Nong'an.
He began photography in 2008. Self-taught, he takes pictures of his friends. He admits: "I usually take my friends, because the strangers make me nervous. The raw character of his photographs, as well as the social burden they were given, resulted in Ren Hang being often troubled by the Chinese authorities. He explains that he does not have any particular political intention with his photos, revealing: "I do not really consider my work to be taboo, because I do not think so much in a cultural or political context. I do not push the boundaries intentionally, I just do what I do. "
When he was depressed, he committed suicide on 24 February 2017.
His Art
Ren Hang's photographic work is mainly composed of nude portraits. Various accessories can accompany his subjects. Postures, framing, these accessories serve the omnipresence of desire.
All bodies are thin, flexible and relatively beardless, giving the genitals a more impressive impact. He photographed men as much as women and denied having an aesthetic preference for one or the other: "The genre ... counts for me only when I make love. "
Even if he denies that his photograph has a meaning or a purpose, declaring that he only does it because it makes him happy, he admits: "I do not want others to feel that the Chinese are robots Without cocks or pussies, or that they have genitals but that they hide them as a kind of secret treasures, "he says. I mean that our cocks and pussies are not at all an embarrassment. "
REST IN PEACE REN HANG
The sum of small efforts gives huge results
@siavach, happy steemian, fan of photography and salsa
Such beautiful works .. May he Rest In Peace
why did he commit suicide just because of political or social issues :((
he was doing what make him happy. RIP Ren Hang.
The last line of article sums up 'cocks and pussies are not at all an embarrassment.'