Summary
DoDo Jin Ming's black-and-white photographs of crashing waves and turbulent seas have the ominous beauty of a bad dream, or perhaps a frightening childhood memory of being caught in undertow during a family outing to the beach.
The intense emotional impact of these images is counterbalanced by their beauty as pure patterns of motion, the waves catapulting toward the viewer or up to an equally dramatic sky, spewing foam and spray, hiding depths of gray and black. The danger in these stormy images is real: to capture them, Jin Ming braves slippery cliffs and sea walls along the coasts of Maine, Nova Scotia and Hong Kong. At times, she has tied herself to rocks to avoid being swept away.See the full content of this document
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Swept Away: Seascapes by Dodo Jin Ming
Jin Ming uses a Graflex camera and Polaroid film and prints her pictures by combining separate negatives, one of the sea, the other of the sky. Her work is often c...
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