TITLE: Under The Bridge

The bridge is an important transportation hub with high daily utilization rate in the city, through which people and vehicles can easily get to another place. Because of bridges, cities can develop better and faster, and people can increase the frequency of communication. The bridge divides a city into two spaces, and there are totally different social scenes on and under the bridge. People only rush past the bridge but can hardly stop to observe it. People build the bridge but also ignore the bridge, which makes the bridge establish its own contradiction in the city.

The space under the bridge has its own unique life and visual language. Accompanied by the noisy sound of traffic, the scene under the bridge establishes interesting relationship with the space under the bridge, which allows one to quietly establish a new reflection on a city. Although the landscape under the bridge is inconspicuous, it contains the sense of the times, and it is a carrier of the visual culture of the city.

In the rapid development of the city today, whether we have begun to gradually forget the deeply observation and experience of things. My works are some spaces under the bridges in Beijing, aiming to draw the viewer's attention to those neglected urban spaces and establish a reflection.

AUTHOR: Fan Xia (China)

1988 born in Beijing, China.
I am used to using images to record the development of cities and the changes of society, and build the connection between landscape and people through visual language.

Exhibitions
“Walking•Found”, TIMES MUSEUM,Beijing, 2013
“Walking•Found”, The China Millennium Monument,Beijing, 2014
Wenlan Wang and the students of Beijing Film Academy,Beijing, 2014
“A visual presentation of China's industrial culture heritage in the Ma Wei shipyard, Pingyao International Photography Festival,Ping Yao, 2015
“A visual presentation of China's industrial culture heritage in the Ma Wei shipyard, PhotoBeijing, Beijing, 2015
"Chinese Young's Songs of Innocence and Experience"Round2, Pingyao International Photography Festival,Ping Yao, 2015
Sino-Serbia Youth Photography Festival,Belgrade, Serbia,2017

EDUCATION
Communication University of China, Nanjing 2007-2011
Beijing Film Academy(MFA), China 2012-2015
Emily Carr University of Art + Design(Communication), Canada 2015