Furthermore and running counter to his intuitive approach to shooting, Hang’s photographs also embrace a certain kind of formalism, expressed most markedly in their compositional symmetry, which along with the expressionless models, both contrast and complement their sexually-charged exhibitionism. No matter how bizarre the concept is or how contorted their posture becomes and despite their nakedness, they retain a stoic countenance giving viewers the freedom to interpret what they see as they please. And experiment he does, constructing surreal landscapes and sensual sculptures out of naked bodies, limbs, plants and animals.Ĭuriously, the people in Hang’s photos never show any emotions. This also explains why most of the models Hang uses are his friends, with whom he can be more spontaneous and relaxed and with whom he has more leeway to experiment at his leisure. What the viewer might assume as provocation or lewdness is in other words the unadulterated self-expression of an artist. Nudity as a subject matter came to him naturally, “ I didn’t even think about it” he confesses, which explains his complete disregard of boundaries and decorum.