ZHAO Yunhan was born in 1992 in Jiangsu, China. He studied International Shipping Management at Shanghai Maritime University as an undergraduate and switched his major to Finance in graduate school and earned a Master of Science in Finance degree from William E. Simon School of Business, University of Rochester. After graduation, he worked in New York for years and is currently working as an investment banker in Hong Kong.
Yunhan is an introspectionist who kept photographing as a habit for over a decade to better know and understand himself. Starting from a personal perspective, he accosts and interacts with the surroundings through camera in the course of shooting. The images thrown back by the surroundings after the interaction help him study himself later on. Camera is a tool for him to eliminate the subjectivity during self-analysis, which is where the cognitive errors usually come from since most people tend to have transcendental bias before starting analyzing themselves. Photography is the most objective art medium among all. The objects being shot respond back at the shooter with perspectives of their own—the objective nature of the objects—through the pure recording of the surroundings even though the shootings are initiated subjectively. To further eliminate the subjectivity, he simply puts the photos aside for a considerably long time, long enough to make him feel strange and even forget about the photos he took himself. At the time he thinks the subjectivity has been fully eliminated, he systematically retrospects the photos of a period and analyzes what factors from that time made him the person at this moment and how. The whole process is like tossing a pebble into a pond full of algae. After the pebble drives away the algae and the ripples die down after a period of waiting, one can see clearly what he/she is really like through the tranquil water. Yunhan’s photography starts from the private individual, interacts with the outside world, and eventually goes back to the private individual.
赵云汉，1992年生于江苏无锡。本科于上海海事大学主修国际航运，后赴美进修金融学，于罗切斯特大学西蒙商学院取得金融硕士学位，毕业后于纽约工作了一段时间，现居香港从事投资银行相关工作。
云汉是一位内省主义者，长期保持拍摄习惯，藉相机为工具，不断探究自我。他从私我的角度出发，向世界搭讪、与之交互，再通过世界反馈回来的图像进行自我探索。相机是他自省过程中消除主观性的工具。多数人在自我研究时，总是不自觉地嵌入先验性观点，而在研究中产生确认性偏差。摄影是所有艺术表达中最为客观的媒介，对世界的纯粹记录即便是主观发出，接收到的反馈也能镀上被摄物的观点，即世界的客观性。为了进一步消除主观性，云汉也经常把照片束之高阁，放置相当长的时间，长到足以让他对自己拍的照片感到陌生，甚至忘怀。等他认为主观性已完全消除时，再系统地整理一个时期的照片，分析自己是如何为彼时的哪些因素所影响，而成为此刻的自己。这整个过程就像把一块岩石扔进布满浮萍的池塘。岩石荡开浮萍，所激起的涟漪也在静待后平息，此时人们方可透过平静的水面清楚地看到自己的真实面目。云汉的摄影始于私我，与世界沟通交互，最终回归私我。