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AAP Magazine #48 Portrait – Winner: In Between Worlds
July 8th, 2025AAP Magazine 48: Portrait Photography Competition Winners Announced
June 30, 2025
AAP Magazine is proud to announce the winners of its 48th issue, dedicated to Portrait Photography. Selected from a wide array of international submissions, the 25 winning photographers have captured the essence of portraiture—revealing powerful stories, raw emotions, and the universal depth of the human experience. Portrait photography remains one of the most compelling genres, offering a window into the soul of its subjects.
Han Yang’s ongoing photographic series In Between Worlds has been selected as one of the winning projects in AAP Magazine #48: Portrait.
The series explores how individuals within the LGBTQ+ community navigate self-expression and identity between personal experience and societal expectation. The featured image, Nonbinary, Holli Xue, portrays a nonbinary individual whose calm, introspective presence contrasts with a vibrant inner world. Through intimate portraiture and subtle visual storytelling, the project highlights the fluid, evolving nature of gender identity and the quiet resilience found in self-acceptance.
Below is a preview of the published spread in AAP Magazine.
Issue #48: Portrait, July 2025.
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Print Editorial Feature in Aesthetica Magazine - April / May 2025
March 29th, 2025Print Editorial Feature in Aesthetica Magazine - April / May 2025
March 29th, 2025
Aesthetica Magazine is a destination for art and culture. In-depth features foreground today’s most innovative practitioners across art, architecture, photography and design. The magazine has national and international distribution and contributes to a total reach of 500,000+, with a significant online presence across the website and social media.
Psychology, femininity, gender, technology and the body. These are key themes at the heart of Han Yang’s research-led photographic practice. The London-based visual artist and creative director combines elements from abstraction, Chinese philosophy, fashion, posthumanism and surrealism to build pictures that are rich in emotional depth. Her close-up portraits use visual metaphors – like broken eggs, or butterfly wings – alongside writings from Buddhist text The Heart Sutra, to explore what it means to be vulnerable, yet resilient, amidst periods of personal and global turmoil. Elsewhere, subjects stand next to withered tree trunks or cherry blossoms in shallow pools; the concept here is to examine the intrinsic connections between people, plants and their environments. All of this is executed through a distinct visual style. Han Yang consistently pushes the boundaries of genre, drawing the viewer in via symbolism, mystery and precise attention to detail. -
Culture Identified 文化定义: Global SinoPhoto Awards 2020-2024
Jan 13, 2025 - Jan 31, 2025Culture Identified 文化定义: Global SinoPhoto Awards 2020-2024
13 January - 31 January 2025
The Global SinoPhoto Awards aims to communicate Chinese culture and values through remarkable imagery taken by photographers from around the globe and to create a dialogue between “East” and “West”. Culture Identified: Global SinoPhoto Awards Revisited 2020 – 2024, features 62 selected images from 32 photographers worldwide who have entered their photographs into the Awards since it launched in 2020.
Christie's is hosting the Global SinoPhoto Awards Exhibition from 13 January - 31 January 2025. The Global SinoPhoto Awards aims to communicate Chinese culture and values through remarkable imagery taken by photographers from around the globe and to create a dialogue between “East” and “West”. Culture Identified: Global SinoPhoto Awards Revisited 2020 – 2024, features 62 selected images from 32 photographers worldwide who have entered their photographs into the Awards since it launched in 2020.
The annual exhibition, sponsored by Raymond Legal, marked the fifth year of GSPA since its foundation in 2020, highlighting 62 selected images from 32 photographers worldwide who have entered their photographs into the Awards from 2020 – 2024, to share their different global perspectives and understanding of Chinese culture. The aim of the Awards is to connect people through an appreciation of Chinese culture and promote photographers internationally. Over the first four years, the Global SinoPhoto Awards has collected thousands of images from hundreds of photographers from more than 40 countries. The exhibition featured past entries that tell a story, whether it’s a personal experience, an ancestral connection, or a fascination with Chinese culture.
The Global SinoPhoto Awards, founded by Yintong Betser and Lynne Bryant, was inspired by the historical exhibition the Family of Man curated by Edward Steichen at the Museum of Modern Art in New York in 1955. It celebrated the universal human experience through powerful photographs from around the world, promoting global unity, empathy, and the shared values that connect all people. As well as the principal sponsor Raymond Legal; Blick Rothenberg, and the Hong Kong Economic and Trade Office also returned this year, continuing their support of the Global SinoPhoto Awards. The gallery space was generously provided by Christie’s London.
Press features 2025:
Arts & Collections，Bastille Post，MutualArt，Ground News
London Business Matters: Jan | Mar，MutualArt，MiS (Made in Shoreditch)
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Awarded in the 7th Annual Women’s Emerging Artist Awards 2024
September 19th, 2024Attended the 7th Annual Women’s Emerging Artist Awards
September 19th, 2024
Empowering Female Voices in Contemporary Art. The Women in Art Prize discovers and elevates emerging female Artists across the UK and overseas. Each year, they select 22 visionaries poised to reshape the art world, with an additional spotlight on one international talent.
At the 7th Annual Women’s Emerging Artist Awards, I was deeply honored that my photography piece “Vulnerability” has won the Eve Arnold Photography First Prize and will be featured in Artter Magazine. This moment fills me with immense gratitude and emotion.
I want to sincerely thank WOMEN IN ART for providing this incredible platform for all female artists to showcase their work and stories. You have given voice to women in art and lit the way for us to dream bigger. Special thanks to the Eve Arnold Estate @evearnoldphotographer for supporting and recognizing my work. This is not just an honor for me but for all women photographers. Huge congratulations to all the brilliant artists, especially @speciesism.wtf and @ella_kowalska. It was a privilege to share this stage with you.
My personal journey has been truly unique. I come from a very small village in China, and I have been chasing and realizing my dream here in London. No one truly understands the challenges I’ve faced, and my identity itself reflects the essence of “Vulnerability.” To be the only Asian woman to receive this honor at the awards ceremony is a milestone in my artistic life. Throughout the past three years of pursuing my PhD, I have endured unimaginable challenges—both physically and mentally. I fell into deep depression and, for a time, couldn’t even leave my room. Photography became my only light in the darkness, guiding me through the hardest times. For those like me, who embody “vulnerability,” we must never give up on that one ray of hope. It is what will lead us to brighter days. Thank you to this organization and platform for making invisible female artists like me visible! This recognition means the world to me. -
“Daisy” exhibited in the ‘NUDE’ photography exhibition at Decode Gallery
August 3rd, 2024Exhibited in the "NUDE"
August 3rd, 2024
Throughout history artists have been inspired by the human form. Nudity can simply be implied or tell a story through the whole human form. We venture to make this our most revealing exhibition to date. Submit today for your chance to be included in this exhibition.
EXHIBITION DATES:
AUGUST 3RD – AUGUST 31ST
Throughout history artists have been inspired by the human form. Nudity can simply be implied or tell a story through the whole human form. We venture to make this our most revealing exhibition to date. Submit today for your chance to be included in this exhibition.
The selected work: https://decodegallery.com/exhibitions/nude-2024/
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The exhibition Revelation of Life: The Artistic Presentation of Worker Poetry
September 12th, 2024The exhibition Revelation of Life: The Artistic Presentation of Worker Poetry
September 13 to September 19, 2024
The Disappearing Train Station poetically captures the vanishing of traditional transportation, amidst the tide of urbanization. The overlooked workers and the gradually disappearing villages stand as shadows in time. Through contrasting the bustling modern city with the fading past, the work evokes a gentle concern for forgotten ways of life and the people who lived them.
Private View Opening Time: September 12, 6:00 PM - 9:00 PM
Location: Goldsmiths St. James's Hatcham Church Hall; SE14 6AD
Exhibition Dates: September 13 to September 19Press Feature: https://www.verse.com.tw/article/blue-collar-poetry-2024
This experienced a cycle: The Disappearing Train Stations is a photographic project that explores the intersection of tradition and modernity through the lens of urban transformation. This body of work delves into the profound impacts of rapid economic development on both physical spaces and the lives of marginalized communities. The project is divided into four interconnected series, each focusing on a different aspect of this transformation: the fading presence of an old train station, the laborers who work in its shadow, the stark contrast between outdated and contemporary urban landscapes, and the pervasive influence of technology on our lives. Together, these images offer a poignant reflection on the costs of modernization, highlighting the tension between progress and the loss of cultural and human diversity. Through this exploration, the project invites viewers to reconsider the narratives of progress and the unseen lives that are shaped by it.
