Yolanda Jiaye Li is a finalist in the Blurring the Lines Competition

The finalists of the 2024 edition of Blurring the Lines competition was announced recently. For the 2024 edition, the theme "Picturing Transition" invited photographers to capture pivotal transformations in sustainability, digitalization, and social inclusion, reflecting society’s responses to the urgent demands of ecological preservation, technological progress, and social equity in a world of challenges and opportunities.  

The selection panel for this edition included the winners of the 2023 edition of Blurring the Lines—Natasha Lozinskaya, Vanessa Cowling, Tong Niu, and Ragna Arndt-Maric, winner of the 2020 edition. Vanessa Cowling is a staff member and Alumna of Michaelis.

Out of the 145 projects nominated by 32 schools from 22 countries, the jury selected 3 winners and 15 finalists including Yolanda Li and their work will be published in the online catalogue.  

This project is supported by Urbanautica, European Cultural Centre and Paris College of Art.

Li’s body of work is a screen-based musing on the image Bliss one of the most viewed photographs in the world since it was bought by Microsoft and used as a screensaver. Through searching, constructing, and simulating Bliss the body of work aims to capture a simulated ‘blue-sky-green-grass feeling’, an experience that is ultimately melancholic.