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created on: 16/02/2022
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Alexandra Leese (born in Hong Kong, ca. 1988) is a half-Chinese, half-English photographer.

Born in Hong Kong to a Chinese mother and an English father, she discovered photography during her foundation year at Chelsea College of Art and Design, followed by a BA in fashion photography at the London College of Fashion.

The London-based photographer spent the first 11 years of her life in Hong Kong. Having experienced two different cultures from positions of distance and proximity has given Leese a unique perspective and, through her work, she seeks to break down what she sees as the socially-constructed barriers creating divisions between people.

Depicting the emerging youth culture in Hong Kong and the diversity of masculinity among the city’s young men, her 2018 zine Boys of Hong Kong challenged some of the harmful prejudices she’d encountered about the “homogeneity” of Asian men. The following year, she published Yumi and the Moon, an achingly beautiful series of images inspired by Japanese folklore, in which Leese reimagines the centuries-old Japanese tale of a beautiful girl named Kaguya-Hime by mixing Buddhist teachings with her own, mystical vision of femininity.
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Submitted by : Lo55o (12474)
on : 16/02/2022