A Season Particular

  Casebound with tip-on112 pages, 88 color plates6.75 x 10 in. / 171 x 254 mm2024ISBN 978-1-942953-70-8 In A Season Particular, Shen Wei invites us into a world where intimacy and spontaneity collide, yielding a series of photographic encounters that are as raw as they are tender. The artist’s work is a delicate and visceral exploration of the human body, captured in soft, explicit close-ups that pulse with immediacy. These images, deliberately printed with a density that mirrors the subjects’ flesh, draw the viewer into a realm of evocative lust and fluidity.  Wei’s approach is not merely about documentation but about immersion. The viewer is invited to participate rather than observe from a distance, breaking away from the traditional voyeuristic lens often associated with nudity in art. Here, the act of looking becomes an act of joining—of stepping into and participating in the space historically reserved for the artist and subject. The images ooze with a gentle sexuality, one that