Word: sheng
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...Sheng believes the themes of his show, beauty and fantasy, will give the show mass appeal despite its esoteric nature. “The show references a lot of photo discourse and theory, but it isn’t so postmodern that it’s difficult to understand,” he says. Sheng describes his photography, shot in locations from Barcelona to Wyoming, as “anti-grunge,” referring to the grunge movement that he says has “been the dominant force in fashion for 10 years. [In the early...
...Jeff Sheng ’02 got his start in photography picking out pictures of beautiful people for his high school yearbook. Four years later his subject—beauty—is the same, but his outlet is a little more high class. These days Sheng is a bona fide artist whose first professional photography exhibition opened last Friday at Jamaica Plain’s Gallery at Green Street. His journey from high school to Green Street has included both an introductory community college course and the most theory-heavy offerings of the Department of Visual and Environmental Studies?...
...Angeles native, Sheng has taken photography courses at Harvard since his first year and is a VES concentrator. In high school, he was photo editor of his yearbook. He describes the L.A. suburb where he lived, Thousand Oaks, as being “like the movie Clueless. The yearbook was aesthetically pleasing, and [choosing pictures for layout] was a lesson in beauty.” Later, he decided he wanted to take pictures rather than merely select them and he enrolled in an “amazing” community college course that helped prepare him for photo classes...
...somebody tell you something that’s near and dear to them.”(In fact, the subject of all of Sheng’s photos is Glen R. Curry ’03, a psychology concentrator who lives in Mather House and is currently dating Sheng.) Hull noticed that by arranging his photographs in a careful sequence, Sheng kept the viewer wondering about the identity of the model. “I liked the way that a third of the way [into the sequence of photographs] we realize it’s all the same person...
Konglish words, spoken in Korea, are recognizable to native English speakers, though the meanings can be confusing: "Apart" is apartment; "interior" refers to interior design. Sheng, a youth-culture language spoken in Kenya, is a hybrid with Swahili. It is cool and cosmopolitan, so it is popular in the city. A typical exchange...