Judy Zhu

Chinese artist Coca Dai's series "Judy Zhu" began at first as daily snapshots of his girlfriend and developed into a significant intimate narrative on contemporary womanhood. Photographing began 20082, entirely using film cameras, the black and white and color images all share an unadulterated directness. Each image invites us to raise questions about the two humans beings confronting each other separated by a camera.

This ongoing body of work gives us insight into the relationship of the artist and Judy Zhu as they discover one another, experience pregnancy, convert to Catholicism and grow from young lovers into adulthood as parents in contemporary China.