NA YOUNG YI is a photographer, retoucher, and developing creative based in New York and focused in photography in Chicago (School of the Art Institute of Chicago).
Since 2020, she has used photography and self-portraiture to explore herself and her close ones. She invites her close ones into these stories and worlds she builds with them in mind, creating in-person experiences to achieve that.
Photography is a mode for constructing fictional stories for a person to inhabit. The idea of artifice and crafted worlds enhances her experience in studio and post-production, as her lighting, color palette, and retouching consist of striking high contrast to emphasize dramatics.
Nowadays, she has been experimenting and finding a new voice with video projection, sound, and installation, all rooting from a photographic background. Her curation of immersive spaces showcases her goal to bring her “photographs to life.” Seeing through a lens of imitating life, she strives to create work that reminds us of the imaginative part of our minds, reflecting on our personal lives.
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