Jin Zhu

Utata Member

Bio

I am mostly self-taught. I learned by trawling the internet late at night for an alarming number of hours and by rubbing my eyeballs all over photos by Leonard Freed, Jeff Wall and Tierney Gearon, to name a few.

Of all the project ideas that bump about in my head, two are dearest to me. I'm drawn to shop windows in the nighttime - there's a senseless eerieness to a bunch of stuff arranged just so and lying around waiting for daybreak, for our eyes. And I want to document mundane details of suburban car culture and tract-housing life in a visually interesting and perhaps fond way. So far this problem has been too thorny for my abilities.

I live near San Francisco, land of tasty photos. I'm a student, of photography, and of biology. I've got a lot more to learn.