Creating World

Ziran Xu

xuziranjt23@163.com

Creating World is a project where I try to build my own visual system through photography. It starts from a simple rule I discovered by accident: bright areas remain stable, while darker areas begin to break and distort.

Instead of only capturing reality, I use this rule to reshape it. Across different subjects—architecture, animals, human figures, and fireworks—the same rule produces different results. Sometimes it creates structure, sometimes instability, and sometimes a sense of collapse.

For me, this project is less about the image itself, and more about how a “world” can be formed and changed through a set of rules. Each photograph becomes part of this world, not just a single moment.

Through this process, I am not just recording what I see, but slowly constructing a space that exists between the real and the imagined.