MOKO

STATEMENT

From China to Canada, from words to pictures, I never stop trying to find and express myself. Sometimes there's so much to express; the past, the dream, the passion; and sometimes it ends before I can find a single word or image to tell properly who I am.
So I give up.

Photography to me is a method of discovering or concealing reality, enlarging or reducing truth, realizing or destroying imagination.

After achieving my bachelor degree of economics, which has had no connection with my career ever since, I finally learned that illusion is also a kind of real existence, and that there are always some things left behind, like dregs in a coffee cup. That's all I have ever wanted to keep as the sediment of life. So I began to look at this world through my lens. Image is such a perfect language for recording and recurrence, and besides, it communicates more than any language.

I'd hoped to show an objective world around me and wished to be a child who has no opinion, no preconception, and no habit while shooting. But eventually I understood that the real pleasure of being a photographer is to find the reflection of my own feelings in angle, color and composition. In this way, I see me, I see my heart.

In a word, I'm a freelance writer and photographer from China. Editor of magazine was long the title for my position. At 25, I escaped from my country for love and will have to miss the land forever, the rest of my life.

BIO

Moko Chen

Born in Mianyang, Sichuan, China, Nov. 28, 1979
Immigrated to Vancouver, Canada in December, 2004

Freelance writer and photographer. Articles and pictures were published on BAZAAR, GRACE, LOVE, CITYGIRL, TRENDS HEALTH and so on in China.


Education
Bachelor's degree of Economics, Sichuan Normal University, China,
July 2002

Work

Executive editor of SCAL magazine in China, March 2003 to October 2004
Editor of GRACE magazine, March 2002 to December 2002

Group Exhibition
" The very Pictures of 100 Breasts", Beijing, China, November 2004
" Convergence", the arts center, St.Petersburg, Florida, U.S, March 2005

Project
Collaborated with other 4 foreign photographers on a postcard which was published in Belgium, December 2004