Thank You for Playing With Me - Brossura

Liou, Yolanda Y.

Brossura

ISBN 10: 9464363576 ISBN 13: 9789464363579

Casa editrice: Stockmans, 2025

Riassunto

• An intimate look at female beauty, photographed in a self-loving, powerful and playful gesture, revealing the inner-life and confidence of Enam and Vanessa, two women that Yolanda met thanks to photography and her invitation to portray the two of them over a few years around the UK

• Soft and beautiful colors, with all photographs captured on Kodak Portra film

• Yoland Y. Liou is an upcoming London-based photographer with energy and an incredible hard-working attitude that'll certainly take her far

Shot over three years from 2019 to 2022, Thank You For Playing With Me by Yolanda Y. Liou is an intimate look at two plus-size models, Enam Ewura Adjoa Asiama and Vanessa Russell. Liou first came across Asiama’s Instagram in 2019 and was blown away by her confidence and charisma. It was the type of confidence that Liou struggled to have about her own body due to her upbringing in Taiwan. “Growing up in Taiwan, I was consistently exposed to the relentless beauty standards that prioritised being skinny... This obsession led me to believe that I was never beautiful enough, and consequently, I felt unworthy of love. I constantly sought ways to conform, believing that only then would I be accepted and appreciated.” Liou’s main aim with this photo book is to help people embrace their individuality.

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Informazioni sugli autori

Yolanda Y. Liou (°1990) is a photographer and moving image maker based in London and Brighton, working with analogue film, digital and collage. Her work focuses on connection and to offer a broader spectrum of representation and empower people to embrace their uniqueness. Yolanda’s work has been published in Nowness, Dazed, i-D, Creative Review amongst others. In 2020 she was awarded third prize in the prestigious Taylor Wessing Photographic Portrait Prize. She has exhibited her photography in Shanghai, LA and the National Portrait Gallery, UK and has had film screenings internationally. In 2023, Yolanda shot the high profile Body Stories campaign for ITV’s Loose Women, celebrating body diversity and the importance of representation.
"Her work seeks to create a safe space for women of different body types in a world that seeks to punish them. By flipping the narrative, the photographer artfully and courageously shows that in a culture that engenders self-loathing on the path to ‘perfection’ – nothing tastes as good as radical self-acceptance." - Lydia Figes, i-D

Yolanda Y. Liou (°1990) is a photographer and moving image maker based in London and Brighton, working with analogue film, digital and collage. Her work focuses on connection and to offer a broader spectrum of representation and empower people to embrace their uniqueness. Yolanda's work has been published in Nowness, Dazed, i-D, Creative Review amongst others. In 2020 she was awarded third prize in the prestigious Taylor Wessing Photographic Portrait Prize. She has exhibited her photography in Shanghai, LA and the National Portrait Gallery, UK and has had film screenings internationally. In 2023, Yolanda shot the high profile Body Stories campaign for ITV's Loose Women, celebrating body diversity and the importance of representation. "Her work seeks to create a safe space for women of different body types in a world that seeks to punish them. By flipping the narrative, the photographer artfully and courageously shows that in a culture that engenders self-loathing on the path to ‘perfection' – nothing tastes as good as radical self-acceptance." - Lydia Figes, i-D

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“Thank You For Playing With Me” dives into researching the concept of modern beauty, documenting portraits of Enam Ewura Adjoa Asiama and Vanessa Russell from 2019 to 2022.
This book is a intimate record of that journey.

The expectation of being skinny as the standard is relentless in Asian beauty culture. I’ve experienced the stress of this since a very young age. In 2019, when I was thinking about this body image topic again, I came across Enam’s Instagram profile. I was taken by her confidence and charisma.

Suddenly it clicked; I’m a photographer, I create images. Images don’t create me.

I collaborated with Enam and Vanessa over the next three years, we went on the journey of transformation personally and collectively, finding our own foot in the world, career changes and moving cities, grieving the lost ones and celebrating the new life - sisterhood, womanhood and motherhood.

It's a call for us all to play, to be human, and to celebrate the unique beauty that resides within each of us.

‘Her work seeks to create a safe space for women of different body types in a world that seeks to punish them. By flipping the narrative, the photographer artfully and courageously shows that in a culture that engenders self-loathing on the path to ‘perfection’ – nothing tastes as good as radical self-acceptance.’
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Dettagli dell'edizione

• Editore: Stockmans
• Data di pubblicazione: 2025
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 9464363576
• ISBN 13: 9789464363579
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero edizione: 1
• Numero di pagine: 128
• Contatto del produttore: non disponibile
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