Zhijie Chang

Photographer
Battle
Location: san francisco,ca, usa
Nationality: china
Biography:        Early in my education after 18 years of basic painting and drawing studying, and 1 year of graphic design studying in Tsinghua university, Beijing, China; I made a decision to change my major to photography and study... MORE
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Battle
Copyright Zhijie Chang 2024
Updated Dec 2013
Topics Abstract, America, Battle, California, dancer, documentray, documentrayphotography, Dreams/Subconscious, Emotion, Energy, Events, hiphop, Hope, Photography, San Francisco, Street, streetdance

“Battle” is a series of documentary photography about San Francisco’s local hip-hop dancers. Photographs focused on the freedom performance of hip-hop dance and the excited sentiment of dancers. In my hometown, Beijing, China, hip-hop survives in an awkward position. Hip-hop art is experienced by Chinese young people, mostly as a recreational activity in small groups. Chinese parents prefer to push their children to engage in finical work, so youth tend to suppress their true interests. When I came to America, the birthplace of street hip-hop dance, the vitality and enthusiasm of the hip-hop dance infected me. I began to go to all kinds of hip-hop dance studios, club and dance battle. This activity uses dancers’ body movement to show enthusiastic, energetic and unrestrained sentiment and feeling. Hip-hop dance is a kind of language; each limbs movement and different facial expressions represent the excited, freedom, sentiment and meaning.

 

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