Bingyang Wu and Leon Syfrit decided to make black and white street photographs. Bingyang’s pictures were created in Chicago Illinois, and Leon’s images were composed in Las Vegas, Nevada. The artists held periodic FaceTime meetings to review and discuss their project. The idea was to go out and make pictures, and let the images direct the story. In the end, the narrative that the artists were hoping to express was superseded by the vision of the creative process; confirming the axiom that sometimes art reflects our inner state, rather than our conscious mind.

Bingyang Wu (1987, Taiwan) is a self-taught documentary photographer based in Chicago, IL, USA. His main focus of work are human/race relations, cultural diversity, and material consumption in the modern world.

Leon Syfrit was born in 1968, and grew up in Wilmington, Delaware. His mother made art and his father was a chef, so the visual and culinary arts were influential from an early age. Leon’s work uses found objects to make still-life and portrait photographs. He also enjoys documentary photography, and alternative photographic processes. Leon taught photography at The Delaware College of Art and Design, in Wilmington, Delaware, and he was a studio arts teacher at The Somerset Academy in Las Vegas, Nevada. Leon holds a BFA from The University of the Arts, and an AFA from The Delaware College of Art and Design.

Bingyang Wu - www.wubingyang.com
Leon Syfrit- leonsyfrit.com