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Shanghai
chaherige@outlook.com
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A sheet of paper changes each time it is folded. Pressure, movement, and time leave marks that remain even after it is unfolded. These traces reorganise the surface, altering how light travels across it and allowing images to emerge from within the structure.
This project uses camera-less photography to explore how folded paper structures can generate images. I work with simple origami forms learned in childhood — cranes, stars, boats — returning in the darkroom to gestures that are familiar yet often overlooked. Between the enlarger and photographic paper, the playful simplicity and geometric order inherent in these forms are re-examined.
The forms are folded and sometimes unfolded back into flat sheets, allowing traces of pressure and gesture to remain visible. Through repeated folds and unfolds, the surface carries a history of movement that becomes a structure influencing how light interacts with photographic paper.
Working with papers of different materials — including variations in transparency, thickness, and surface — I manipulate the path of light and the distribution of colour during exposure. Changes in angle, tension, or distance alter transmission, reflection, and diffusion, producing abstract images that emerge from the interaction between material, gesture, and illumination, where control and unpredictability coexist.
The resulting images reveal rich colour and geometric relationships that retain a sense of lightness and playfulness while simultaneously acquiring a new visual order through the transformation of light and material. Familiar forms are thus re-encountered and re-perceived, where childhood visual experience meets present perception.
Light in the Fold approaches photography as a process of formation rather than representation, where images arise through the transformation of surface, structure, light, and colour.
一张纸在每一次折叠中都会发生变化。压力、运动与时间留下的痕迹，即使在展开之后仍然存在。这些痕迹重新组织表面，改变光在其上的路径，使影像从结构内部生成。
本项目通过无相机摄影探索折叠纸张结构如何生成影像。我使用童年熟悉的简单折纸形式，例如千纸鹤、星星和船等，在暗房中重新回到那些熟悉却常被忽视的手势经验。在放大机与相纸之间，这些形态所具有的单纯童趣与几何秩序得以重新被观察与理解。这些形态被折叠，并在部分作品中重新展开，使压力与手势留下的痕迹得以保留。在不断的折叠与展开过程中，表面承载着运动的历史，并成为影响光线与相纸互动的结构。
在创作过程中，我使用具有不同材质特性的纸张，包括透明度、厚度与表面质地的差异，通过这些材料控制曝光过程中光的路径与颜色分布。角度、张力或距离的细微变化会改变光的透射、反射与散射，从而生成在材料、手势与光线相互作用中出现的抽象影像，呈现出控制与偶然并存的瞬间。
最终生成的图像呈现出丰富的色彩与几何形态，这些元素在保留某种轻盈童趣的同时，也在光与材料的转化中形成新的视觉秩序，使熟悉的形态得以被重新观看与理解。在这些图像中，童年的视觉经验与当下的感知方式相遇。
项目将摄影理解为一种形成过程，而非对对象的再现，影像在表面、结构、光与颜色的转化中产生。