Yue Qin

Most likely to become famous

Yue Qin, a senior student in the University of Washington, who was born in Shenzhen, a coastal city in southeast China. Photography for her is the simplest and most intuitive way to record and express. She didn’t know how to describe a couple embrace at the sunrise their attachment. But her camera can record these all. It can freeze the soft eyes between them of that moment. The pleasure of photography is the accurate feedback of the beauty of reality and heart. It expressed her views on beauty and dealt with the world in its unique language.

City Memory, 2022, Photographs

Yue, while you may be quiet and reserved in classes, your work speaks for itself. You have an admirable sensitivity to the emotional and temporal, showing how the flow of one’s mind and the world around them intermingle. You have the ability to both capture the emotion of a single moment, as well as being able to effectively communicate the feeling of the passage of time. While your work ranges from the personal level to the global, you provide insights into both equally effectively. It’s been a pleasure to get a chance to see your perspective of the world.

Untitled, 2023, Video

Personal connections and nostalgia are what I find at the forefront of Yue’s work. I always find myself reflecting on past experiences and memories that I wouldn’t have thought about otherwise. My imagination takes me to times when I forgot events existed or appreciated moments that I didn’t before. Yue’s work is a poetic representation of herself and her memories which alludes to the feeling of nostalgia. The themes of time and the human experience are often things I associate with her work and are translated from project to project. I am usually left questioning the reason she chose specific memories to share with the audience, why these moments hold so much significance, and how we as audience members can take a look into our own lives to achieve that feeling of nostalgia.