her dresses

from the small years

My ongoing project The Small Years attempts to encapsulate the feeling as our daughter’s childhood slips away, that subtle sadness and nostalgia of watching as each stage ebbs—each fascinating, frustrating, fabulous stage—and knowing that it’s never coming back. Over time as that feeling fades we revisit things we’ve held onto, trinkets and scrawls, photographs and movies, to remember, and realize once again the fragility and ephemerality and beauty of childhood.

Her Dresses, one series within The Small Years project, features small, delicate prints of my daughter’s childhood dresses, rendered in subtle pale tones that are barely there, on thin, translucent Japanese paper that itself will wrinkle and buckle as it is handled, fragile and faded, like lingering ghosts of childhood memories.

Jonas Yip is a photographic artist based in Los Angeles. Born to a poet-writer-professor father and
an art historian mother, he was raised in a creative environment steeped in art, music, design,
architecture, and plenty of travel. Jonas has published two books, Somewhere Between (2017) and Paris:
Dialogues and Meditations (2008), in collaboration with renowned poet and scholar Wai-lim Yip. A
related exhibition, Paris: Dialogue, traveled through Asia and was also exhibited at the San Diego
Museum of Art. Jonas’s work is in the permanent collections of the San Diego Museum of Art, the
National Museum of Chinese Literature in Beijing, and the California Museum of Photography in
Riverside, CA, as well as numerous private collections.
More information and news is available at jonasyip.com

b. 1967, Princeton, NJ. Lives and works in Los Angeles.

solo exhibitions
2016
Somewhere Between, 2/28-3/31, Orange Coast College Fine Arts Gallery, Costa Mesa, CA
2012
Paris: Dialogue, 6/28-7/15, Hong Kong International Literature Festival, Hong Kong
Paris Reverie, 5/17-9/27, UCSD Faculty Club Exhibition Hall, San Diego, CA
2011
Paris: Dialogue, 11/4-11/14, National Museum of Modern Chinese Literature, Beijing, China
Paris: Dialogue, 10/14-10/26, Librairie Avant-Garde, Nanjing, China
Paris: Dialogue Part II, 4/18-7/17, San Diego Museum of Art, San Diego, CA
Paris: Dialogue Part I, 2/21-4/17, San Diego Museum of Art, San Diego, CA
2008
Paris: Dialogue, 11/1-11/15, Eslite Focus, Tainan, Taiwan
Paris: Dialogue, 9/12-9/21, Eslite Forum, Taipei, Taiwan

group exhibitions
2021
Chair, 1/2-2/21, A. Smith Gallery, Johnson City, TX
2020
2020 CPA International Juried Exhibition, 11/14-12/20, Center for Photographic Art, Carmel, CA
2020 Somerville Toy Camera Festival, Oct-Dec, online
6th Annual Photography Show, 3/7-3/28, The Hive Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Krappy Kamera, Juried Group Show, 2/17-3/7, SohoPhoto Gallery, NYC, NY
Susan Spiritus Gallery Selections, 1/31-2/3, Photo LA 2020, Santa Monica, CA
2019
26th Anniversary Gala, Group Benefit Show, 10/1-11/2, Venice Arts, Marina del Rey, CA
Size Matters, 10/19-11/19, Sparks Gallery, San Diego, CA
Made in L.A., 4/26-5/5, Photoville LA at The Annenberg Space for Photography, Los Angeles, CA
6th Annual LACP Members’ Exhibition, 8/10-8/31, dnj Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
Mirror, Mirror, 2/9-5/12, California Museum of Photography, Riverside, CA
Open Show Los Angeles, 1/31-2/3, Photo LA 2019, Santa Monica, CA
2018
Constructs, December 2018, Analog Forever Magazine, Online
Flawed Beings, November 2018, Light Leaked, Online
25th Anniversary Gala, Group Benefit Show, 10/10-11/3, Venice Arts, Venice, CA
Photo Independent, 10/5-10-7, The Reef DTLA, Los Angeles, CA
Fabrik Expo Art Fair, 10/5-10-7, The Reef DTLA, Los Angeles, CA
The Pop Art Photo Show, 9/28-30, Barker Hanger, Santa Monica, CA
1st Annual Silicon Valley Plastic Camera Show, 7/13-10/19, Santa Clara University, Santa Clara, CA
5th Annual Members’ Exhibition, 7/19-9/7, The LA Center for Photography, Los Angeles, CA
CA101 2018, 6/1-6/10, Friends of Redondo Beach Arts, Redondo Beach, CA
Expanding Boundaries, 3rd Annual Fine Art Exhibit, 5/25-6/22, The LA Center for Photography, Los Angeles, CA
Projections in the BoomYard, 4/19, Month of Photography LA, Infinity Room, Los Angeles, CA
The Golden Mean, 4/13-5/4, The Sparrow Gallery, Sacramento, CA

4th Annual Photography Show, 3/4-4/1, The Hive Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2nd Anniversary Show, 1/20-2/17, Gallery 1/1, Seattle, WA
2017
Small Works with Juror Kat Kiernan, 11/17-12/16, Center for Fine Art Photography, Fort Collins, CO
24th Anniversary Gala, Group Benefit Show, 10/9-11/4, Venice Arts, Venice, CA
California Rising, 9/5-10/21, Fabrik Projects Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Summer Salon 2017, 7/20-9/9, Gallery 1/1, Seattle, WA
Krappy Kamera, Juried Group Show, 3/7-4/1, SohoPhoto Gallery, NYC, NY
Naked vs Nude, 3/4-4/1, The Hive Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Plastic Camera Show, Juried Group Show, 3/1 – 4/23, Rayko Photo Center, San Francisco, CA
Artshare LA: Common Threads, 2/9-3/2, Angel City Brewery, Los Angeles, CA
Open Show Los Angeles, 1/12-1/15, Photo LA 2017, Los Angeles, CA
Los Angeles Center of Photography, 1/12-1/15, Photo LA 2017, Los Angeles, CA
2016
23rd Anniversary Gala, Group Benefit Show, 11/5, Venice Arts, Venice, CA
2nd Annual Photography Show, 9/3 – 10/1, The Hive Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
The Seven Seas, Juried Thematic Exhibit, 8/24 – 11/22, Don’t Take Pictures
3rd Annual Juried Members’ Exhibit, 7/30 – 8/27, DNJ Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
Truth is Stranger than Fiction, 4/1 – 4/24, Month of Photography LA, Los Angeles, CA
Seities & Self, 1/7 – 1/31, Darkroom Gallery, Essex Junction, VT
Open Show Los Angeles, 1/21-1/24, Photo LA 2016, Los Angeles, CA
Los Angeles Center of Photography, 1/21-1/24, Photo LA 2016, Los Angeles, CA
2015
Alternative Cameras: Pinholes to Plastic, 12/22/2015-1/15/2016, PhotoPlace Gallery, Middlebury, VT
TPS 28th Annual Members’ Only Show, 12/10 – 3/18, TCC Photo Gallery, Longview, TX
22nd Anniversary Gala, Group Benefit Show, 11/7, Venice Arts, Venice, CA
At Home, Juried Thematic Exhibit, 8/26 – 11/24, Don’t Take Pictures
Somerville Toy Camera Festival, 9/12 – 9/27, Nave Annex, Somerville, MA
Somerville Toy Camera Festival, 9/12 – 9/26, Washington Street Art Center, Somerville, MA
Plastic Camera Show, Juried Group Show, 3/11 – 5/3, Rayko Photo Center, San Francisco, CA
2014
21st Anniversary Gala, Group Benefit Show, 10/16 – 11/1, Venice Arts, Venice, CA
1st Annual Fundraiser, 9/13, LA Center for Photography, Los Angeles, CA
1st Annual Juried Members’ Exhibit, 7/12 – 8/11, LA Center for Photography, Los Angeles, CA
Somerville Toy Camera Festival, 6/7 – 6/29, Nave Annex, Somerville, MA
Somerville Toy Camera Festival, 6/7 – 6/28, Washington Street Art Center, Somerville, MA
Through The Lens, New Photography, 4/25 – 5/23, LA Center of Photography, Los Angeles, CA
Plastic Camera Show, Juried Group Show, 3/5 – 4/29, Rayko Photo Center, San Francisco, CA
2009-2013
20th Anniversary Gala, Group Show, 10/12 – 11/2, 2013, Venice Arts, Venice, CA
19th Anniversary Gala, Group Benefit Auction, 11/3, 2012, Venice Arts, Venice, CA
The Photographic Nude 2012, Juried Group Show, 3/3 – 4/3, 2012, Lightbox, Astoria, OR
Plastic Camera Show, Juried Group Show, 1/18 – 3/6 2012, Rayko Photo Center, San Francisco, CA
Life Support Japan, Group Benefit Auction, 2011, Online, Wallspace Gallery, Santa Barbara, CA
Plastic Camera Show, Juried Group Show, 3/4 – 5/1, 2011, Rayko Photo Center, San Francisco, CA
Floral, Juried Group Show, 2/9 – 3/6, 2010, Online Gallery and Catalogue, PhotoPlace Gallery, Middlebury, VT
Fade Into Me, Local Visions Group Show, 9/12 – 10/1, 2009, Creative Arts Center, Manhattan Beach, CA

publications
Somewhere Between by Jonas Yip and Wai-lim Yip. National Taiwan University Press, 2017. 350pp.
Paris: Dialogues and Meditations, Jonas Yip and Wai-lim Yip. Nanjing University Press, 2008. 150pp.
Taking Time to Savor Provence, Wai-lim Yip, photos by Jonas Yip. National Taiwan University Press, 2003. 242pp.

selected articles
“Wai-lim Yip y Jonas Yip: viñetas parisinas”, Montagne Vide, January 2011
“Wai-lim Yip, from ‘Dialogues,’ after Photos by Jonas Yip”, Poems and Poetics, August 2009
“Paris: Dialogue”, World Journal, October 23, 2008
“Paris: Dialogue” series of three, United Daily News, September 13,18,21, 2008
“Dialogue”, Wen Shun Magazine, September 2008
“Paris: Dialogue” excerpt, The Epoch Poetry Quarterly, September 2008
“Revisiting Paris at the Millenium”, by Wai-lim Yip, photos by Jonas Yip, Unitas Literary Monthly, January 2000