Nightlife 2001

The setting sun often awakens a new landscape of wild life activity, one that is carefully watched by the eyes of predator, scavenger and prey... My latest work "Nightlife" is a contemporary portrayal of the intrinsic animal interactions between people in today’s urban environment.

The centerpiece is a mural depicting the diversity found within a street side cafe. There are ten additional portraits that segregate the scene into smaller habitats.

All models were photographed with strobe lighting in front of seamless paper using a Lite Phase digital camera back on a Hasselblad camera. Thanks to digital technology, I was able to photograph each model separately in my studio. I digitally arranged the furniture and incorporated a Soho restaurant as the background.

- Daniel Lee

SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS

• 2019
  “Return to the Sea” at Taitung Art Museum, Taitung, Taiwan
• 2016
  “Looking Glass/Daniel Lee Retrospective” at Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Taipei, Taiwan
• 2014
  “Daniel Lee/Metamorphing” at OCT Art Center, Shanghai, China
• 2012
  “Trace to the Origin: Daniel Lee Retrospective” at Luoca Art Center, Xiamen, China
• 2011
  “Animal Instinct / Photographs of Daniel Lee” at San Antonio Museum of Art, San Antonio, Texas, USA
• 2008
  “Daniel Lee 1993-2007 Retrospective” at Tsing Hua University, Beijing, China
• 2001
  “Nightlife” at O.K. Harris Works of Art, New York, USA

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

• 2012
  “Petersburg Photo Vernissage 2012” at CEH Manege, St. Petersburg, Russia
• 2008
  “Art of Taiwan” at National Moravian Gallery, Czech Republic
• 2004
  “ArTaipei 04/Featured Artist” at Art Taipei, Taipei, Taiwan