23rd Annual Smithsonian Magazine Photo Contest Artistic
CORAL, MON AMOUR (Wind of Yarlung Tsangpo), No. 10

I and my beloved wife have initialised a lifetime's project, "Coral, Mon Amour (Coral, My Love)," since 2016. I try to dress my wife with different costumes/clothes and set her into every possible place we can ever visit, then we take the photos as proofs and after-artworks. Till now, I have shot for more than 160,000 photos. This chronicle-like project will be a challenging and interesting artwork-complex in the end. Though the whole body of the project will be huge and enormous, I have divided the whole project into a lot of small sub-series: before we shoot, we will go to the place in advance to survey and study, then I will write down the plot and prepare the dress and all the related, required items or props. As a result, every sub-series will have its own story and concept, all the photos in the sub-series will serve as key frames of a film or movie, with my wife acting as protagonist inside the scenes.

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Date Uploaded: 12.2025
Photo Location: China
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