About & Contact

Kristin was born in Hong Kong, lived in Europe and North America. She has been on a two-year long project in Italy where she is exploring her sense of belonging through looking at art and photographing artists whose work she empathises with. The meetings have added to her sense of connections and she expresses the rapport with "the other" through a series of portraits with her physical presence juxtaposed directly with "the other". The results, she believes are greater than the sum-of-parts--which is partly what she believes humanity is about.

Her close friends say that she is an alien wherever she is while others might think that she is a world citizen. Maybe both perspectives are right.

She found herself immersed in black & white film photography and in the darkroom as a teenager. Even now, that is an important source of influence to her photography. In addition, she is inspired by multiple disciplines: poetry, film, dance, music, philosophy and painting.

She enjoys the intangibles which are sometimes the most fundamental.

She appreciates beauty and form which are not necessarily definable.

In a world full of information yet filled with unknowns, she intends to carry on asking questions and would hope that the viewers of her work would do the same.

Aboveall, she thinks of herself as still growing up.

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Her first publication "Fragments of Grey Matter" won a book award in Tokyo. Kristin has assisted several prominent photographers before focusing on her own projects currently in Europe. Her second publication "9_9" was published in May 2017 by Skira in Italy and various book presentations have been held and further events have been scheduled from September 2017 onwards.

Kristin ManVisual Artist