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Trapped<\/em>
8″x6″; vintage found photography, polaroid emulsion transfer on paper; 2026<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Jia Hao
San Diego, California, USA<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

STATEMENT<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

These Polaroid emulsion-transfer diptychs carry the story of a love: how gently it began, how close it grew, how it started to ache, how it came apart, and the quiet that followed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The people in these images rarely show their faces. I\u2019ve always cared less about who they were than about what stayed with me: a gesture, the curve of a shoulder, a small moment tender enough to keep and private enough to let go of a name. Each piece brings together two photographs that never belonged together. Alone, they are quiet, but held side by side, something passes between them that neither could say on its own, a longing, a pull, two feelings held gently at once.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I didn\u2019t make this work to explain what happened between us. I made it to keep something I never quite found the words for: wanting someone close while wanting, at the same time, to run. A few images return again and again in different shapes, meaning something new each time, the way a memory softens and changes the longer you carry it. In the end, this isn\u2019t a story about \u201cus.\u201d It\u2019s a story about that pull itself, something that was mine to feel, but that I hope anyone who has loved, and lost, might feel too.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

BIO<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Jia Hao is a photographer and mixed-media artist working across photography, collage, and mixed media, with a particular interest in abstract explorations of the human body and folk-art traditions. She holds a BFA in photography and digital imaging from the University at Albany, SUNY, from 2010 to 2014.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Her work has been exhibited internationally, including a solo exhibition at New Corner Space in Shanghai, group exhibitions at The Glasgow Gallery of Photography in Scotland and Black Box Gallery in Oregon, and an online exhibition with F-Stop Magazine<\/em>. She has participated in international exchange and research projects, including the Kunming-Zurich artist exchange programme and a folk-art documentary project with the Miao minority in Guizhou, China, and attended a workshop with photographer Mary Ellen Mark.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Her photography and collage work has been featured in Addition Magazine<\/em>, BoooooooM, ARTDOC Photography Magazine<\/em>, and AL-TIBA9 Art Magazine<\/em>, along with interviews and profiles in Visualatelier8, Artistweekly, and Artistcloseup. Her honors include honorable mentions from LightSpace Time, Creative Quarterly<\/em>, and TERAVARNA.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

She is currently based in San Diego, California, working between photography and analog collage, using found imagery and Polaroid emulsion transfer to explore memory and emotional experience.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

ARTIST CONTACT<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

EMAIL<\/a> | WEBSITE<\/a> | INSTAGRAM<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

IMAGES<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Yearn<\/em>
8″x6″; vintage found photography, polaroid emulsion transfer on paper; 2026<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Rift<\/em>
8″x6″; vintage found photography, polaroid emulsion transfer on paper; 2026<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Drift<\/em>
8″x6″; vintage found photography, polaroid emulsion transfer on paper; 2026<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Shattered<\/em>
8″x6″; vintage found photography, polaroid emulsion transfer on paper; 2026<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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