Photographers Ning Kai (1987, China) and Sabrina Scarpa (1991, the Netherlands) started collaborative works in 2015. Partners in work and in life, their artistic mission has become to portray the land between them.
From east to west, they seek places that bring them closer to nature, to capture and convey the organic poetry and harmony that they witness therein. Imbued with a deep sense of simplicity and quietness, their photographs almost speak for themselves. They immortalize their journey across the world without indications of location; instead they are exploring a dreamlike aesthetic perception of global wilderness. The works that they dropped along their wanderings mark their footsteps towards paradise, which allow them to blur boundaries between space, culture and time so as to find moments of revelation, intimacy and clarity within the natural world.
Kai and Scarpa’s works have been featured in publications such as Monthly Photography Magazine, American Chordata, Photography Is Art, and on numerous websites such as GUP, Fisheye Magazine, METAL Magazine, Der Greif, Phases Magazine, IGNANT, among others. They previously collaborated with RIMOWA. Recently, they won the Barcelona International Photography Award 2019.
In 2018, Ning Kai and Sabrina Scarpa established CHROME Photographic Arts Space in Zhengzhou, China; a platform dedicated to the practice, understanding and celebration of photography.
From east to west, they seek places that bring them closer to nature, to capture and convey the organic poetry and harmony that they witness therein. Imbued with a deep sense of simplicity and quietness, their photographs almost speak for themselves. They immortalize their journey across the world without indications of location; instead they are exploring a dreamlike aesthetic perception of global wilderness. The works that they dropped along their wanderings mark their footsteps towards paradise, which allow them to blur boundaries between space, culture and time so as to find moments of revelation, intimacy and clarity within the natural world.
Kai and Scarpa’s works have been featured in publications such as Monthly Photography Magazine, American Chordata, Photography Is Art, and on numerous websites such as GUP, Fisheye Magazine, METAL Magazine, Der Greif, Phases Magazine, IGNANT, among others. They previously collaborated with RIMOWA. Recently, they won the Barcelona International Photography Award 2019.
In 2018, Ning Kai and Sabrina Scarpa established CHROME Photographic Arts Space in Zhengzhou, China; a platform dedicated to the practice, understanding and celebration of photography.