Pacifica Ningyi Zhang is a London-based fine art photographer whose work explores power dynamics, intimacy, and the body as a site of experience and being. With a background in anthropology, she remains curious and attentive to the larger, more abstract questions fundamental to human experience, approaching them by engaging closely with people and positioning herself as both observer and participant.
In her photographic practice, Zhang adopts a filmmaking sensibility: each work carries her private way of understanding the world, unfolding as a quiet act of dreaming - an attempt to give form to what she has (not) seen. Through an attentive orchestration of light, distance, and lens, she constructs intimate realities within her images, allowing perception, emotion, and presence to surface.
Her current practice investigates the subtleties of human experience—such as waiting, migrating, and existing in liminal spaces—through explorations of time, space, and embodiment. Zhang’s work centers the human beings, and seeks to illuminate the often invisible relationships that shape daily life, revealing how power, vulnerability, and connection are negotiated within personal and social contexts.