杨星堃 Xingkun Yang
杨星堃，摄影师。
本科毕业于伦敦艺术大学，获新闻摄影与纪实摄影学士学位；后于伦敦大学金史密斯学院取得视觉人类学硕士学位。在西交利物浦大学中国研究系攻读博士期间，他以青海玉树的“你看摄影助学计划”为研究个案，考察青海地区儿童自主拍摄影像的生产，以及这些影像如何在中国主流视觉体系与数字平台中被筛选、展览和传播。
颇具讽刺意味的是，由于研究涉及藏族社群，他的第二导师要求他放弃这一研究课题，否则滚蛋。他选择了后者。
他的艺术实践聚焦于不同社会群体。代表作《不可见者》记录了伦敦三十余名无家可归者的生活境况。其作品曾发表于《卫报》，并获 BBC 报道，同时入围并获得多项国际奖项。
Yang Xingkun, photographer.
He received his BA in Photojournalism and Documentary Photography from the University of the Arts London, and an MA in Visual Anthropology from Goldsmiths, University of London. During his doctoral study in the Department of China Studies at Xi’an Jiaotong–Liverpool University, his research took the “You Look” Photography Education Plan in Yushu, Qinghai as his research case, examining the production of children’s self-captured photographs in Qinghai areas and the mechanisms through which these images are selected, exhibited, and circulated within China’s mainstream visual and digital platform systems. Ironically, he was asked by his second supervisor to abandon his research topic—because it concerned Tibetan communities—or to withdraw from the programme. He chose the latter.
His artistic practice centres on different social groups. His representative project, The Invisible, documents the lived conditions of more than 30 people experiencing homelessness in London. His work has been published by media outlets including the BBC and The Guardian, and has been shortlisted for and recognised by several international awards.
