Maria Ying-May Cheung

Maria Ying-May Cheung is an artist based in Hong Kong who primarily works with photography. Her artistic practice centers on preserving, retaining, and exploring the historical perspectives of everyday life, capturing the passage of time. She employs various photographic methods and mediums to express her feelings, emotions, and memories of the people, places, and objects she encounters.

Particularly interested in still life, Maria focuses on objects that connect people with collective memories. She embraces beauty in imperfection, impermanence, and incompleteness, reflecting the erosion of time. Through her works, she aims to engage audiences, evoking their awareness and appreciation of the changing and gradually disappearing eras in time and history.

Maria practices the spirit of simplicity in her photography, utilizing straightforward compositions and structures, clear lines, plain objects, and a confined color palette. Her work encompasses both traditional analog photography and contemporary digital techniques.