Ren Hang
Ren Hang was a Chinese film photographer known for his nude photographic portraits of friends. He uses the human body as props and shapes. His art shows a rather solemn interpretation of sexuality in China. He takes highly stylized photographs with bold colors and shapes. I love that he somehow completely desexualizes the human body in his art. He says that only he can give meaning to his photography. He uses a konica minolta 110 date zoom, a point and shoot film camera. Unlike most photographers, he can use basically any camera and doesn't rely on editing to make a photograph great. He has said that "My pictures politics have nothing to do with China. It's Chinese politics that want to interfere with my art." He killed himself on February 24 2017.