Yuke Xiao is a Chinese-born, London-based visual artist and fine art photographer. With a keen interest in spatial and landscape photography, she began working professionally in 2022. Her photographic work explores how people relate to space emotionally, culturally, and physically, often touching on themes of identity, memory, and displacement. Through bold visual storytelling and a strong sense of atmosphere, she creates images that are both personal and resonant. Working primarily with analog photography, she draws from lived experience and a female gaze to present a visual language that is full of both warmth and strength.
Project Statement
Project Title: The Han River Never Sleeps. When summer night falls in Xiangyang, a small city in central China, life doesn’t slow down — it simply shifts. Along the banks of the Han River, people dance, fish, work, eat, and rest under neon lights and twilight skies. This series explores how night becomes a shared space — not an ending, but a continuation of daily life. The Han River, known as Xiangyang’s mother river, is where the city breathes most vividly after sunset. In these photographs, night is full of warmth, rhythm, and quiet beauty. It’s not just a backdrop, but a living presence.
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