One can capture the traces of painting and photography at the same time in ‘Developer Paintings’. Sun Yanchu fuses the energy of both, which create a new context and aesthetic. This is a new experience like no other. Sun Yanchu uses the medium of photography as a raw material to create his chemical paintings and darkroom prints. But the making process is done without using a lens or camera but rather with chemistry, photographic paper, and brushes. One thing to do is to control the chemicals, temperature, lighting, and development process to reveal the unique effects in his developed works.

He says that the process of creation and the result of development - the layers of black ink and gradations of color - are extremely like traditional Chinese painting and calligraphy which he has been exposed to since childhood. Developer Paintings by Sun Yanchu combines his passion for traditional Chinese painting with the creation of modern Western photography.

About the artist:

Sun Yanchu was born in 1978 in Zhoukou, Henan Province. He now lives and works in Zhengzhou. He won MIO Photo Award (Morumura Yasumasa) Special Award in 2010, won Lianzhou International Photo Festival New Photography Award in 2011, won Jinan International Photo Biennale The Best Photographer Award in 2012.

在《顯影繪》中，你能同時捕捉到繪畫和攝影兩種藝術形式的痕跡，孫彥初融合了二者的能量，誕生出一種全新的語境和美學感受，一次絕無僅有的嶄新體驗。孫彥初以攝影媒介為原料創作了他的化學繪畫和暗房沖印。他的攝影植根於傳統攝影，創作方式實際上不是用鏡頭和相機拍攝，而是用化學、相紙和畫筆作為攝影創作。

在經過此種技術的幾次實驗後，孫彥初用畫筆和經驗直覺來控制化學物質、溫度、光照和顯影過程，從而展現出他的顯影作品中獨特的效果。他說，這種創作的過程和顯影后的結果——黑墨的層次和顏色的漸變效果——非常像中國傳統的繪畫和書法，他本身從小就接觸這些。孫彥初的“顯影繪”作品融合了他對中國傳統繪畫和西方現代攝影創造的熱情。

關於藝術家：孫彥初

1978年出生在河南周口，現工作居住於河南鄭州。孫彥初的影像結合了他個人生活經驗與他對攝影、繪畫、圖像編輯的多方面理解的綜合，一方面他依舊自主拍攝那些蒼勁孤獨的畫面，另一方面他也竭力尋找歷史中的廢棄影像，通過塗抹、編輯使它們在當下有著全新的呈現，這一對影像的解構使其作品散發著獨特的魅力。
孫彥初參與眾多國內外展覽，出版攝影圖本，作品被藝術機構和個人收藏。曾獲2015穀倉攝影樣書：馬丁·帕爾評審獎大獎、2011連州國際攝影年度新攝影獎及2010日本MIO 攝影獎評審員（森村泰昌）特別獎。