"The images I create often end up fragile and dark; a world that's been with me longer than I can even remember. Already in kindergarten I always sat in the corner drawing by myself, using only dark colors.

This was something that worried the kindergarten teachers and I ended up at a child psychiatrist. But given the nature of my photographs it seems that it didn't help much."

                                                                                                                                                                --Linus Ricard

After studying fashion in Milan, in 2004 Swedish artist Linus Ricard came to Beijing, where he settled down for two years. A famous figure on the artistic scene of 798, his creativity flourished in this ever-rising city and found great inspiration in the ancient and abandoned factories of Dashanzi.

His photographs, influenced by fashion art, stand as a poetical quest in which iconoclastic situations are the keys to his aesthetic sense. Linus Ricard tells us stories of fragility and suffering, tells us about the flight of the models that posed for him — echoes to his own perplexity.

His photographs are snapshots both dark and poetic, loaded with strong emotional power, and linked to one another by a symbolic thread: the feminine model, set at the heart of a very finely-worked photography.

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