Photographer's Profile
Haochen He
China
I am an architectural designer and visual artist working at the intersection of design, space, and image. Trained in architecture, I approach photography not as a separate discipline, but as an extension of architectural thinking—a way to explore form, material, and atmosphere beyond the limits of physical construction. Much of my photographic work reflects a deep interest in spatial tension: between presence and absence, structure and erosion, the artificial and the organic. I’m drawn to edge conditions—where boundaries blur, and systems begin to break down or reveal themselves. Whether I’m photographing infrastructure suspended in fog or a handmade model sliced by light, I’m always searching for the quiet intersections where clarity dissolves and ambiguity speaks. Photography, for me, is not only a medium of observation but of projection. It allows me to compress time, space, and material into a single frame—to design with shadow, with emptiness, with silence. My architectural background informs how I compose, but it also shapes how I read: I look for how weight settles, how geometry hesitates, how the built environment holds memory, conflict, or resilience. In both my buildings and my images, I’m interested in how we inhabit what is unfinished—how we live within the fragile, the temporary, the unresolved. I see photography as a way to reimagine architecture, not as fixed object, but as atmosphere, tension, and unfolding narrative.
