Yu Jia
(Chinese Mainland)Yu Jia, a native of Sanxingdui in Guanghan, has been committed to the creation of Sanxingdui images for a long time and has formed its own unique style. Since September 2020, as the only contributing photographer of new excavation of six sacrificial pits in Sanxingdui, he has carried out an artistic vision of the archaeological excavation in a new way of shooting, giving the cultural relics a unique way of image, allowing the objects to “speak”.
Sanxingdui Speaks
The history of Sanxingdui is a history book cast in bronze. In this project the photographer has been focusing on the key cultural relics of Sanxingdui and the cultural stories behind it, exploring a new unique image method of Sanxingdui, recording the perfect extraction of broken relics of Sanxingdui one by one, and the wonderful process of the obtaining rebirth, as well as the final complete presentation of the artifacts. He has been try to make a conversation between the modern civilization and the ancient one 3000 years ago. It also presents the ancient Shu civilization to the world and tells the story of Sanxingdui by displaying the unique aesthetic tastes, spiritual concepts and sacrificial rituals of the ancient Shu people.
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