gems Wang

Earlier Work

Photography from before 2019

A small trashcan filled with yellow garbage sits on a beige carpet against a blue wall, next to a whitee door.
Dark concrete steps of varying width climb up the image, casting sharp, triangular shadows.
The beige metal and glass rafters of a modern pavilion jut violently into the frame, against a pitch-black sky.
A silhouetted figure holds up a large zipper bag, which holds nothing except for drops of pink fluid.
White, amber, and red lights bounce off of pitch-black water.
A closeup of the corner of a transparent glass sculpture. Streams of blood-red dye flow throughout the otherwise transparent glass.
Two hands use a onyx chef's knife to cut a large pink-red rose in half.
Blobs of shadow cast down upon a grey wall.
The image peeks down a hallway diagonally, through a few doors. The wall is bathed in soft, comforting light.
An out-of-focus yellow-and-blue bedsheet leads up to a window, which casts blobs of soft light downward.
A woman faces away from the camera, engulfed in a vast landscape of rice paddies.

More Projects

Everybody's Dead!

Music video directed by me and improvised on-the-spot by the cast and crew.
An abstract background with the text "The Silver List: 2021".

The Silver List

A prestigious list of 47 emerging photographers, chosen by hundreds of curators, educators, scholars, and critics
A black-and-white photograph of an elementary school playground, featuring a spiral slide.

Realities

Grappling with separation, comparing realities
An abstract photograph of clouds against a blue sky.

Approximate Equivalents

Abstract photographs of the sky taken by a machine learning model from Google Street View panoramas, in the style of Alfred Stieglitz
A historic salted paper print photograph of a Parisian boulevard.

More Than Met the Eye

A novel deep learning embedding-clustering analysis of The Metropolitan Museum of Art's photography collection
A boy sits in the back seat of a car, looking out the window to a foggy hillside. The window holds the remnants of a handprint formed from condensation.

A Year

Evidence of a forgotten year

Shame

What if I don't need to apologize for my existence?
Two hands use a onyx chef's knife to cut a large pink-red rose in half.

Earlier Work

Photography from before 2019
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A small trashcan filled with yellow garbage sits on a beige carpet against a blue wall, next to a whitee door.
Dark concrete steps of varying width climb up the image, casting sharp, triangular shadows.
The beige metal and glass rafters of a modern pavilion jut violently into the frame, against a pitch-black sky.
A silhouetted figure holds up a large zipper bag, which holds nothing except for drops of pink fluid.
White, amber, and red lights bounce off of pitch-black water.
A closeup of the corner of a transparent glass sculpture. Streams of blood-red dye flow throughout the otherwise transparent glass.
Two hands use a onyx chef's knife to cut a large pink-red rose in half.
Blobs of shadow cast down upon a grey wall.
The image peeks down a hallway diagonally, through a few doors. The wall is bathed in soft, comforting light.
An out-of-focus yellow-and-blue bedsheet leads up to a window, which casts blobs of soft light downward.
A woman faces away from the camera, engulfed in a vast landscape of rice paddies.