Studio HAZE is an image studio initiated by Shansheng Cui and composed of several artists. It mainly operates artists' works and derivatives, as well as exhibition planning, photobook design, film and darkroom development and printing.
Country: China
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Business Name: Studio_HAZE
Address: Room 2902, Building 3, Yulan Court, Cuihu Xiangshan, Xiangzhou, Zhuhai, Guangdong, China
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Publication/Work:
Tokyo Phantom
Introducing co-artists Cui Shansheng’s book, TOKYO PANTOM.
Quote from the artist:
This photo book was taken by a Chinese photographer during his first trip to Tokyo and nearby in 2019.
As Cui has been influenced deeply by Japanese culture since childhood, he carries the “perfect imagination” to Japan, but his illusions are soon shattered. Just like Yukio Mishima's "The Temple of the Golden Pavilion", the protagonist was also disillusioned with the beauty of the Golden Pavilion after seeing it. In the rainy spring, the photographer used low-sensitivity film, wandering the streets with the camera, constantly experiencing the "life" and "death" of the fantasies.
Just like the Japanese have Paris Syndrome (パリ症候群), the photographer shares the same feeling towards Japan in this book. This mood exists not only in this journey but also in countless moments in life when expectations are shattered. Just like “Tokyo Phantom” is full of great expectations, it is as fragile as bubbles.
In this book, the author uses the form of a music album to edit the photos into 7 chapters, each chapter is accompanied by a simple poem. The first chapter is like a prelude that leads the viewer into a melancholy atmosphere and then reveals the loneliness in the modern city. Suddenly, it turns to the relaxed and bright nature, followed by cloudy days. The flickering emotions are intertwined all the time and return to a feeling of sadness at the end of this book.
The reversal films have a light blue tone and is moist and melancholy. Each chapter has an insert printed on thin and translucent paper. The content are icons that influenced the photographer, including photography, games, music, animation and literature. As you read the entire picture album, there is a flow from sadness to brightness in terms of tone and mood.
Author: Cui Shansheng
Dimensions: 250mm*176mm
Binding: thread sewing
Air Crash in Eastern Europe
Introducing co-artists Cui Shansheng’s book, AIR CRASH IN EASTERN EUROPE.
Quote from the artist:
"Air Crash in Eastern Europe" comes from a constructive fantasy. The focus is not on specific objects such as birds, factories, streets, and means of transportation, but emphasizes a literary imagery between poetry and novels.
The work was shot in the winter of 2017. The author has just stepped out of the trough of his life and traveled along the Baltic Sea at the invitation of his friends (Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia, Finland, Sweden). The tradition of taking Aeroflot is to applaud and celebrate safety when the plane arrives at the airport. However, at the security check in Moscow, a bag full of film was forcibly thrown into the X-ray machine due to unsuccessful communication with the Russian staff. Therefore, "air crash" does not refer to personal experiences, but to works.
The author uses high-contrast film to shoot scenes with low-density light in winter, which adds thickness to the off-white images, and creates an atmosphere through rough tones filled with large areas of dark gray. The combination of images presents a poetic jump Sex, and the X-ray scan also strengthened the gloomy and melancholy atmosphere of Central and Eastern Europe in the picture.
In a region with the highest suicide rate in Europe, there is always sadness in the camera. The god overlooks the earth mistyly, and the people circle and disperse like a flock of birds.
Author: Cui Shansheng
Dimensions: 210mm*140mm
Binding: thread sewing
Murder in the City -Vietnam
Introducing co-artist Cui Shansheng’s book, MUDER IN THE CITY.
Quote from the artist:
"Murder in the City" is inspired by Cui's real experience of being robbed while traveling in Vietnam. After his camera was robbed, his Vietnamese landlord took him to the local black market to search for stolen goods. In the process, he witnessed many transactions of robbed items. Since then, the author has fallen into deep doubts. After peeling away the strong filter of the tourism industry, some real malice about history, economic development, and human nature comes to light.
The photographic works are edited in paper movie style and intentionally presented in the form of criminal files. This crime newspaper not only contains photos taken by photographers on the streets of Vietnam and novels he wrote based on personal experiences of being robbed, but Cui also translated some real Vietnamese crime incidents into various languages, implying that many other places are shrouded in danger. This pieced together a murder case in Vietnam that is difficult to identify its authenticity.
"Murder" here does not refer to a direct threat to life literally but includes the implicit or explicit persecution of ideals, cognition, love, etc. Under the author's arrangement, the hateful eyes of people in the photos, capitalist symbols, shaky and unsettling lenses, and the text of confirmed criminal incidents together constitute "Murder in the City - Vietnam".
Author : Cui Shansheng
Dimensions:420*297mm
Binding:joint binding
The cover and inner pages of the handmade book "Tacit Blue" use the Cyanotype technique and are bound by hand. On some specific pages, you can also see traces of intentional burning and embroidery by the creator.
Intimacy is a natural human need. However, people often cannot help themselves in relationships and subconsciously interfere, manipulate, and kidnap each other to satisfy their selfish desires. As a result, a relationship that is supposed to be sweet becomes toxic and suffocating at certain points. But even so, we still choose to live in groups because we are afraid of being alone. This book focuses on this morbid psychology and chooses a calm and neutral word to describe the sutured mutant relationship, that is, "co-dependency".
A large amount of blue creates an atmosphere of drowning and depression and contains a semiotic double meaning: the eternity of love and the mood of melancholy. The embracing jellyfish, entangled vines, clusters of deformed tomatoes, and human bodies supporting each other... These ghostly objects soaked in mysterious blue have become metaphors for codependency.
谜雾舍Studio_HAZE
Studio HAZE is an image studio initiated by Shansheng Cui and composed of several artists. It mainly operates artists' works and derivatives, as well as exhibition planning, photobook design, film and darkroom development and printing.
Tokyo Phantom
Introducing co-artists Cui Shansheng’s book, TOKYO PANTOM.
Quote from the artist:
This photo book was taken by a Chinese photographer during his first trip to Tokyo and nearby in 2019.
As Cui has been influenced deeply by Japanese culture since childhood, he carries the “perfect imagination” to Japan, but his illusions are soon shattered. Just like Yukio Mishima's "The Temple of the Golden Pavilion", the protagonist was also disillusioned with the beauty of the Golden Pavilion after seeing it. In the rainy spring, the photographer used low-sensitivity film, wandering the streets with the camera, constantly experiencing the "life" and "death" of the fantasies.
Just like the Japanese have Paris Syndrome (パリ症候群), the photographer shares the same feeling towards Japan in this book. This mood exists not only in this journey but also in countless moments in life when expectations are shattered. Just like “Tokyo Phantom” is full of great expectations, it is as fragile as bubbles.
In this book, the author uses the form of a music album to edit the photos into 7 chapters, each chapter is accompanied by a simple poem. The first chapter is like a prelude that leads the viewer into a melancholy atmosphere and then reveals the loneliness in the modern city. Suddenly, it turns to the relaxed and bright nature, followed by cloudy days. The flickering emotions are intertwined all the time and return to a feeling of sadness at the end of this book.
The reversal films have a light blue tone and is moist and melancholy. Each chapter has an insert printed on thin and translucent paper. The content are icons that influenced the photographer, including photography, games, music, animation and literature. As you read the entire picture album, there is a flow from sadness to brightness in terms of tone and mood.
Author: Cui Shansheng
Dimensions: 250mm*176mm
Binding: thread sewing
Air Crash in Eastern Europe
Introducing co-artists Cui Shansheng’s book, AIR CRASH IN EASTERN EUROPE.
Quote from the artist:
"Air Crash in Eastern Europe" comes from a constructive fantasy. The focus is not on specific objects such as birds, factories, streets, and means of transportation, but emphasizes a literary imagery between poetry and novels.
The work was shot in the winter of 2017. The author has just stepped out of the trough of his life and traveled along the Baltic Sea at the invitation of his friends (Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia, Finland, Sweden). The tradition of taking Aeroflot is to applaud and celebrate safety when the plane arrives at the airport. However, at the security check in Moscow, a bag full of film was forcibly thrown into the X-ray machine due to unsuccessful communication with the Russian staff. Therefore, "air crash" does not refer to personal experiences, but to works.
The author uses high-contrast film to shoot scenes with low-density light in winter, which adds thickness to the off-white images, and creates an atmosphere through rough tones filled with large areas of dark gray. The combination of images presents a poetic jump Sex, and the X-ray scan also strengthened the gloomy and melancholy atmosphere of Central and Eastern Europe in the picture.
In a region with the highest suicide rate in Europe, there is always sadness in the camera. The god overlooks the earth mistyly, and the people circle and disperse like a flock of birds.
Author: Cui Shansheng
Dimensions: 210mm*140mm
Binding: thread sewing
Murder in the City -Vietnam
Introducing co-artist Cui Shansheng’s book, MUDER IN THE CITY.
Quote from the artist:
"Murder in the City" is inspired by Cui's real experience of being robbed while traveling in Vietnam. After his camera was robbed, his Vietnamese landlord took him to the local black market to search for stolen goods. In the process, he witnessed many transactions of robbed items. Since then, the author has fallen into deep doubts. After peeling away the strong filter of the tourism industry, some real malice about history, economic development, and human nature comes to light.
The photographic works are edited in paper movie style and intentionally presented in the form of criminal files. This crime newspaper not only contains photos taken by photographers on the streets of Vietnam and novels he wrote based on personal experiences of being robbed, but Cui also translated some real Vietnamese crime incidents into various languages, implying that many other places are shrouded in danger. This pieced together a murder case in Vietnam that is difficult to identify its authenticity.
"Murder" here does not refer to a direct threat to life literally but includes the implicit or explicit persecution of ideals, cognition, love, etc. Under the author's arrangement, the hateful eyes of people in the photos, capitalist symbols, shaky and unsettling lenses, and the text of confirmed criminal incidents together constitute "Murder in the City - Vietnam".
Author : Cui Shansheng
Dimensions:420*297mm
Binding:joint binding
Tacit Blue
Introducing co-artist Huang Zichun's book, TACIT BLUE.
Quote from the artist:
The cover and inner pages of the handmade book "Tacit Blue" use the Cyanotype technique and are bound by hand. On some specific pages, you can also see traces of intentional burning and embroidery by the creator.
Intimacy is a natural human need. However, people often cannot help themselves in relationships and subconsciously interfere, manipulate, and kidnap each other to satisfy their selfish desires. As a result, a relationship that is supposed to be sweet becomes toxic and suffocating at certain points. But even so, we still choose to live in groups because we are afraid of being alone. This book focuses on this morbid psychology and chooses a calm and neutral word to describe the sutured mutant relationship, that is, "co-dependency".
A large amount of blue creates an atmosphere of drowning and depression and contains a semiotic double meaning: the eternity of love and the mood of melancholy. The embracing jellyfish, entangled vines, clusters of deformed tomatoes, and human bodies supporting each other... These ghostly objects soaked in mysterious blue have become metaphors for codependency.
Author: Huang Zichun
Size: 19cm*19cm
Binding: handmade binding