Artist profile

Hin Chua

Born in Malaysia before migrating to Australia, Hin studied computer science and first picked up a camera a few years ago in an attempt to get over a girl. It worked, and things just seemed to progress from there.

Hin tells us that his approach is “to pick a spot on a map that could be considered ‘the middle of nowhere’, get there and walk around for several hours photographing what I find”. While this has led him to shoot the project in locations throughout the world (USA, Australia, UK, China, Japan & Europe) he has nevertheless found most of the sites “completely interchangeable” – his work pointing out that, regardless of culture or landscape, the dialogue between man and nature is fairly ubiquitous. Glaring industrial structures impose themselves on pastoral scenes, yet there appears to be a reciprocal reaction taking place in which the man-made imitates the natural and the natural imitates the man-made. The two elements surprisingly seem to have a seamless bond as Hin examines the complexity of this ever-transforming relationship.

Hin is a member of the London photography collective Photodebut and has recently been selected as a winner of the Magenta Flash Forward Emerging Photographer 2009 award. Hin has been exhibited internationally, most recently in an exhibition ‘Sala do Veado’ at the
Museum of Natural History, Lisbon. Other shows include “Pause to Begin” at Booksmart Studio, Rochester, New York; “Photodebut – Photosocial”, 2008 at the Photographers Gallery, London; “New Exposure”, 2008 at the Candid Arts Trust in London and a Group Show at the Humble Arts Foundation in 2007. His work is soon to be featured in the exhibition ‘You can’t always get what you want’ for Day Four Magazine at The Print Space in London.

Hin also runs, together with a group of friends, insig.ht, an online collaborative project.

www.hinius.net

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