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Yuan Oliver Jin

Yuan Oliver Jin

Yuan Oliver Jin is a photographer from Beijing, China who is currently an undergraduate student in Sarah Lawrence College, New York. Oliver explores and experiments with the photographic medium in all its capacities from shooting polaroid film with large format cameras to making gelatin silver prints on canvases. More than just an experimental photographer, Oliver is keenly aware of and deeply interested in photography’s narrative capacity and uses it to explore societal and cultural questions as well personal ideas around identity, family, and home. Oliver’s work is a mixtape made from affect, form, and deep photographic observations around the peripheries of childhood and home.

Oliver and His Nikon Unearth Racial Violence in the Rocky Mountains’ Past
2000 1125 Yuan Oliver Jin

With Nikon in hand, Oliver seeks out a little-known memorial to five Chinese men illegally hanged in a goldrush-era Rocky Mountain town.

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Nikon PC-Nikkor 35mm f/2.8 – the First 35mm Perspective Control (Shift) Lens
1800 1012 Yuan Oliver Jin

Oliver reviews the Nikon PC-Nikkor 35mm f/2.8, a highly specialized shift lens for landscapes and cityscapes.

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Choosing a DSLR in the Era of the Mirrorless Camera
1800 1013 Yuan Oliver Jin

Oliver chose a DSLR. In the year 2020. According to most, this is madness. But here’s his argument for the DSLR in the era of the mirrorless camera.

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