ABOUT Tianyi Zhao

I am an undergraduate student majoring in Photography with a minor in Film. I plan to pursue graduate studies in Graphic Design, where I hope to further investigate the relationship between photography, visual systems, and spatial communication. My work is primarily focused on environmental and urban landscape photography, exploring how built spaces reflect social structures, daily behavior, and collective memory. Through careful observation and image sequencing, I am interested in how cities communicate visually and how environments shape human experience. My background in film has influenced my attention to time, atmosphere, and narrative within still images.