Thank You For Playing With Me

Yolanda Y. Liou (°1990) is a photographer and moving image maker based in London and Brighton, working with analogue film, digital and collage. Her work focuses on connection and to offer a broader spectrum of representation and empower people to embrace their uniqueness. Yolanda’s work has been published in Nowness, Dazed, i-D, Creative Review amongst others. In 2020 she was awarded third prize in the prestigious Taylor Wessing Photographic Portrait Prize. She has exhibited her photography in Shanghai, LA and the National Portrait Gallery, UK and has had film screenings internationally. In 2023, Yolanda shot the high profile Body Stories campaign for ITV’s Loose Women, celebrating body diversity and the importance of representation.
"Her work seeks to create a safe space for women of different body types in a world that seeks to punish them. By flipping the narrative, the photographer artfully and courageously shows that in a culture that engenders self-loathing on the path to ‘perfection’ – nothing tastes as good as radical self-acceptance." - Lydia Figes, i-D