Born and raised in China, Jialuo Wu is trained as a cinematographer. Recently, he received an MFA in Photography from the San Francisco Art Institute. During his entire experience as a photographer, he reached far away to photograph the experience of strangers, hoping to understand something about himself by witnessing those special moments of people that he did not know. In his projects Transforming China and 7 o'clock on Geary Street, he explores different people on the street with a sensational mood.
In 2012, Jialuo met his wife and began photographing this experience quite organically. It never occurred to him that the pictures he was making had anything to do with his "work.” Then all of a sudden, the non-stop fighting, cold-war and escaping came to make sense to him. Jialuo struggled and photographed. He was struck by the fact that what he was experiencing was completely unique and universal at the same time. He began to recognize that everything he had photographed before in his life was just a preparation for those frustrated moments. These photographs are not about documentation or story telling. They are his declarations of love.
An intimate work that probes the complex depths of marriage and the self, as well as the idea that the (romantic) Other can somehow provide us with fulfilment, support and undying love.
