Bing Lu (鲁冰) (b. 1999) is a Chinese photographer from Beijing, China. She graduated with a BFA in Photography from Massachusetts College of Art and Design in Boston, and a MFA in Photography, Video, and Related Media from the School of Visual Arts in New York. Her photographic series include unconditional, 2019 - 2022; like this, like that, i’m starting to crack, 2024; what remains after the image, 2026 - present. Working across portraiture, abstraction, and alternative processes, Lu’s photography engages an ongoing inquiry into the assumed objectivity of the image and the construction of meaning, examining how images are produced, mediated, and understood as both a physical object and a cumulative record of collective seeing. Her photographic series have been exhibited at Gallery 60 NYC, Photographic Resource Center, The Curated Fridge, Syosset Library Gallery, Raynham Hall Museum, and PH21 Photography Gallery,. Her photographs have appeared in numerous publications including Art Poetry Journal, Visual Art Journal, Float Photo Magazine, FIGGI Magazine, and Roundcube. Lu currently lives in New York City.

Lu’s photographic practice investigates the emotional residue of domestic spaces, remembered landscapes, and encounters with others. Working primarily with abstract photography and portraiture, she explores loneliness, connection, and the tensions between what is seen and what remains unresolved. She began working with photography in 2018. Her first long-term portrait series Unconditional started with encounters with strangers in Boston during the COVID-19 pandemic and continues in New York City. Through these fleeting encounters, she explores vulnerability, loneliness, and the human desire for connection and understanding.

Since moving to New York City in 2022, Lu has increasingly interested in the coherence and resolution of the photographic image. Through cutting, masking, and recombining, she physically disrupts her photographs, creating works that move between flatness and depth, familiarity and strangeness. These interventions preserve traces of the original image while opening it to fragmentation, imagination, and new possibilities of meaning.

These experiments reflect Lu’s ongoing inquiry into imaginative revision and how abstraction can be manifested in reality. Her work occupies a space between documentary and fiction, reality and illusion, stretching the creative possibilities of the photographic medium while considering the tension between representation and photography’s inherent ambiguity in an age of constant visual exchange.