Fang Tong is a fine art photographer based in Vancouver Canada. She has been awarded several major international photography awards. She has been published in Canadian and international magazines such as [Yishu],[VOGUE],[The Globe and mail],[The Georgia Straight] and the other...
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Fang Tong is a fine art photographer based in Vancouver
Canada. She has been awarded several
major international photography awards. She has been published in Canadian
and international magazines such as [Yishu],[VOGUE],[The
Globe and mail],[The Georgia Straight] and the
other major domestic and foreign magazines. Fang Tong won the first prize in
the Nikon International Photography Competition in 2015. She had an interview
with Canada Broadcasting Corporation CBC Arts in 2019. Fang Tong had solo and group shows in
different cities, such as Paris, Italy, London, Shanghai, Vancouver.
Fang Tong is a cinematic style photographer, as a spectator
of life. Her works are embedded with an implied narrative, which is left to the
viewer to resolve over time with their own imagination. Reflecting her
background in classical art, the photography is carefully planned to control
the frame and the expression of details, giving her work an ethos of a painter.
As a bystander, Fang Tong captures the potential that photography can embody
pieces with an eternal quality, thereby creating a slightly fictional world
that resembles reality but transcends consciousness. Fang Tong’s passion is for
her work to border on the surreal, yet hold back enough to keep it firmly in
the real world. Her photos provoke audiences to create a narrative out of
cinematic pictures. There may be no clearly defined story behind the scene, but
there is a strong mood and atmosphere throughout the whole image. The imaginary
world is strangely familiar while the narrative arc takes audiences on a
hyper-visual ride through people's subconsciousness. She nurtures the balance
between the real and the surreal that pulls her audiences into the world she created,
but she also allows the audience to discover their own answers.