Yu Jie 于 捷
Yu Jie’s 80s’ Girls Series are photographs based on young Chinese women surrounded by telecommunications, internet, online games, and KTV entertainment. These women are the most actively censored for changes in modern life. The healthy youthful bodies on display are associated with complicated, confused yet vivid energy. Despite the subject’s cumbersome and complicated lifestyle, Jie uses a simple but straight visual method to represent the women’s real essence. The slight exposure of nudity evokes a life attitude of the new generation girl.
Yu Jie is currently the Dean of Photography at the Beijing Institute of Fashion Technology. In 2006 he founded the visual internet magazine, Sheer Sky. His photographs have been commissioned by major international publications including TIMEOUT and American National Geographic Channel. Yu Jie was born in Beijing, China in 1970. He lives and works in Beijing, China.
