Junxian Pan

Junxian Pan, is a photographer specializing in visual storytelling. Her work explores the boundary between reality and illusion, searching for cracks where fantasy seeps into everyday life. By blending urban aesthetics with surreal elements, she constructs narratives that hover between dream and reality. Through the interplay of light, color, and composition, she captures overlooked emotional moments, evoking an uncanny sense of familiarity in familiar settings.

Her inspiration draws from urban spaces, body awareness, emotional memory, and social identity. She is particularly interested in how images serve as a bridge between individuals and the world, reshaping perceptions of reality. Beyond documenting the visible, her work delves into the hidden emotions, stories, and symbols that lie beneath the surface of visual representation.

In recent years, her works have been exhibited at London and Europe. Her photography has also been featured in PAP Magazine, earning attention from the art community. Continuously pushing the boundaries of image-making, she actively collaborates across disciplines, working with artists, designers, and creatives in technology to explore the future of visual art.

Currently based in London, she continues to expand the possibilities of photographic narratives, exploring the fluid nature of identity, memory, and reality through her lens.

IS SEEING BELIVING? 

2022

29.7CM x42.0CM

Paper

Stories Inspired by Urban Legends. How do we judge reality and fiction? Is it as the old saying goes, seeing is believing? However, in the realm of urban legends, the boundaries between reality and fiction seem infinitely blurred, and even in the events we experience, it seems difficult to discern their authenticity. Based on three urban legends which are classics or personally experienced by the author and friends, this work uses photography and digital processing as the medium to present a series of stories that are both real and fiction, in order to explore the boundary between reality and fiction in human consciousness. What makes us believe stories and legends, and why do we often have fears of stories that are obviously false? As an important part of modern urban civilization, how do urban legends that are difficult to distinguish between reality and faction affect our cognition of the real world?