Jinyong Lian
About
News
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Henri Cartier-Bresson Self-Published Photobook Award
Common Ground Festival, Sigg Art Foundation, Riyadh
Selected projects
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Trust Me (Ongoing project)
The naming of a day
Dummys or Mockups
Award
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Shortlisted, Henri Cartier-Bresson Self-Published Photobook Award
Finalists, Women Photographers Grant 2025
Winner, Jeunes Talents 2025 — Les Agents Associés
Winner, 212 Photography Istanbul
Finalists, PhMuseum 2025 Photobook Award
Exhibition
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Common Ground Festival, Sigg Art Foundation, Riyadh
Tianfu Image Art Center, Sichuan
Under water exhibition, 09.10.2025 - 26.10.2025, InCadaqués Photo Festival
« Trust me », solo show, 09.10.2025 - 26.10.2025, InCadaqués Photo Festival
« Trust me », solo show, 11.09.2025 - 26.09.2025, Gallery Madé, Paris
« Sous les paupières closes », group show, 07.07.2025 - 05.09.2025, Fisheye Gallery, Arles
« Une imagination qui ne pardonne pas », group show, Fisheye Les Rencontres d’Arles
Vivere A-Metropolitano x PHmuseum, group show, 2025, Ferrara & Po Delta Park, Italy
Beaux-Arts de Paris, degree exhibition, 2022, Beaux-Arts de Paris
Press
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Süddeutsche Zeitung Magazin
Fiction for Remaking Society, Fisheye Magazine
Un cadavre exquis d’images, L’oeil de la photographie
A Surreal Dream in Arles, Fisheye Magazine
Cour de l’Archevêché, Les Rencontres d’Arles
Publication
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Photo book “Trust Me”
Zine “Chance Pairing”
Commercial Collaboration
Canon × Fisheye
Editorial
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Kaltblut Magazine
Officine Générale
Ice Watch
Email
Instagram
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Trust Me presents a series of semi-fictional portraits of Asian women navigating the delicate balance between trust, doubt, and intimacy. In a visual culture where Asian women are often positioned as passive objects of observation, my work reverses the gaze, portraying them as active experimenters of emotional structures—exploring vulnerability, control, and hesitation as strategies for survival.
The series articulates a state of dérealisation, a subtle psychological dissonance in which perception, self, and environment feel unsettled. This condition encapsulates the tension between control and loss of control, highlighting phenomena such as high-functioning anxiety and emotional masking—modern experiences of women rarely expressed in contemporary photography.
Having lived across China, France, and the United States, I approach these images as emotional translations between cultures, revealing the unseen architectures that shape how care, doubt, and intimacy are expressed.
Trust Me thus occupies a rare social and artistic space: at once a personal psychological study, a cross-cultural exploration, and a meditation on the unspoken emotional labor of Asian women in post-intimacy societies.
