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Mengfan Yang<\/b><\/span> (born 1994 in Huzhou, Zhejiang, China) is a self-taught analog photographer currently based in Berlin, Germany. Working primarily with medium format photography, darkroom printing, and alternative development techniques, her practice moves between poetic documentary and quiet observation. She explores themes of stillness, urban transition, memory, and the invisible layers of daily life\u2014often focusing on spaces and structures that sit in between use and abandonment, presence and disappearance.<\/p>\n

Her images have been described as restrained and intimate, marked by a delicate attention to light, silence, and non-human presence. \u201cI\u2019m drawn to places and objects that feel like they\u2019re waiting\u2014left behind, overlooked, still quietly present,\u201d she writes. \u201cPhotography, for me, is a way of acknowledging them without explanation.\u201d<\/p>\n

With a background in product design and operations, Mengfan approaches photography as both a contemplative and hands-on process. She co-runs Berlin Photo Studio<\/b><\/span>, an analog photography space where she teaches darkroom workshops and experiments with silver gelatin, albumen, and Van Dyke printing.<\/p>\n

Her upcoming solo exhibition, \u9759\u6b62 \/ The Silence<\/i> (2025), presents a body of work photographed across China between 2020 and 2024. The exhibition will be accompanied by a bilingual photo-zine exploring themes of time, domesticity, and spatial ambiguity.<\/p>\n

Mengfan\u2019s work has been featured in Playbook Magazine<\/b><\/span> (2025, Hidden in Plain Sight<\/i> issue), and she regularly publishes limited-edition zines in both China and Germany. Her artistic influences include Rinko Kawauchi, Lieko Shiga, and the quiet narrative spaces in the films of Chantal Akerman.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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