No. 223 (Red version)

Lin Zhipeng
No. 223 (Red version)

Photographs: Lin Zhipeng

Publisher: Revolution-Star Publishing

240 pages

Year: 2013

Price: 250 €

Comments: Softcover with Swiss binding, 27 x 18,5 cm, color photographs, some black and white. Complete with slipcase (red lettering), two booklets and two posters. 2013 Reprint. As new!

Cold in my upper body, me as a living object is exhausting something, when I am exhausting something, I become a powerful something. But I am soft, even the dinosauric penis won’t be able to get hard. What I was thinking about is the morning hangover, didn't know why but I was expressing caressing someone’s short hair. Over the humid dyke, there’s a smear of subtle blue, with old microphones screaming high notes. I stayed within the 3 to 5 hours between late night and dawn, wandering like, respectively, little Mark and old Henry, wandering among a flock of not-quite-familiar and complete strangers. I was aroused, until I was let down.

The boys with smooth skin got drunk, one after another; I almost remember that I was never like myself in another date, another time, where I embraced and kissed deeply one boy after another when they are someone else. Until the birthday song was sung in the wrong key, the pee marks that failed to aim in the toilet and the ambiguous thoughts of the boys with their hairs and skin tangled will never reach the loving-each-other conclusion. All the get-together’s have become good-bye’s.

― Excerpt from No. 223

Lin Zhipeng aka No.223) is born in Guangdong province, China and graduated from Guangdong University of Foreign Studies with major of financial English.

Lin is a photographer and freelance writer based in Beijing. He constructed a blog entitled North Latitude 23 with millions views and posted his personal photographs and words on it. He has contributed to numerous creative and fashion magazines as editor and writer and has produced photo shoots for magazines such as Vice, S magazine, VISION, City Pictorial, iLOOK, etc and brands such as United Nude, Converse, Glaceau Vitamin Water, Bacardi, etc. He also produced video works such as SANSAR, SCENE, Xanthium, etc.

In 2007 he published the independent fashion magazine project TOO and in 2005, 2006 and 2011 published three volumes of photography entitled My Private Broadway. In 2012 he published a personal zine entitled VERSATILE. His photography works were included in 3030:NEW PHOTOGRAPHY IN CHINA, Elephant, Back to Black & White, TELL MUM EVERYTHING IS OK, etc.