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Long Xi Vlessing (b. 2000) is a photographer, filmmaker and visual artist of Chinese-Dutch background, born in Vancouver, British Columbia. He graduated from Concordia University in Montréal with a Bachelor of Arts in Communication Studies, studying visual media and the moving image. His evolving artistic practice centres the medium of photography in exploring the intimacy of interpersonal relationships, the shared humanity of strangers, the lived-in body, the novel possibility of text, and quotidian scenes as sites of personal transformation. His work often emerges from his intrigue, curiosity, and restlessness regarding the playful and political contours of ordinary images and everyday life. This is reflected in his circadian practice, playing with the photographic medium through a mix of digital, medium-format and phone cameras in the tradition of documentary.
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Long Xi Vlessing (b. 2000) is a photographer, filmmaker and visual artist of Chinese-Dutch background, born in Vancouver, British Columbia. He graduated from Concordia University in Montréal with a Bachelor of Arts in Communication Studies, studying visual media and the moving image. His evolving artistic practice centres the medium of photography in exploring the intimacy of interpersonal relationships, the shared humanity of strangers, the lived-in body, the novel possibility of text, and quotidian scenes as sites of personal transformation. His work often emerges from his intrigue, curiosity, and restlessness regarding the playful and political contours of ordinary images and everyday life. This is reflected in his circadian practice, playing with the photographic medium through a mix of digital, medium-format and phone cameras in the tradition of documentary.
