Angel Li
A Home You'll Never Know
A man feeds fire to the night beside a towering villa — living in the shadow of comfort, never meant to step inside it.
This image echoes my own memory of watching China build skyward — where workers slept beneath what they built. It reflects the tension between luxury and exclusion, light and dispossession.
2025
30x40 cm
Gelatin Silver Prints
Built To Dissapear
A wall slices through the island like a wound — on one side, men pour sweat into cement; on the other, a curated life promised to outsiders.
Inspired by Mitch Epstein’s photo of Juhu Beach, Mumbai 1983, this image captures the absurd closeness between labour and leisure, and asks, what must be hidden for paradise to appear whole?
2025
30x40 cm
Gelatin Silver Prints
Clothes hanging from rebar — fragments of the men who sleep beside the walls they raise, unseen by the residents they will never meet.
Shot on a construction site behind a luxury villa in Bali, this image explores the intimacy of human presence that’s often erased in the pursuit of paradise.
Lifeline
2025
20.3 x 25.4 cm
Gelatin Silver Prints
ART NOT FOR SALE
Angel Li is a Chinese-Irish filmmaker and visual artist working across documentary and experimental photography. Known for her films with the BBC, PBS, and international platforms, her work is shaped by a life lived between cultures and realities. She is drawn to stories left in the margins — of labour, inequality, memory, and survival. Her black-and-white photographs are fragments of truth, captured with a filmmaker’s instinct: raw, intimate, and quietly defiant. She searches for beauty in imperfection, and in the quiet moments often overlooked.