Central Saint Martins graphic design student Guan Wang translates a quiet winter in Antibes into a series of duotone Risograph prints that use limited colour and grain to preserve a moment of stillness that might otherwise pass unnoticed.
January in Antibes. The sea wind cold, the landscapes empty, the rhythm of ordinary life somewhere else entirely. Guan Wang spent a winter period there in 2026 and found in its particular atmosphere something worth trying to hold: the sensation of time briefly slowing, of stepping outside the noise and into an undisturbed space where thinking becomes possible again.
The photographs she took during that period became the source material for Undisturbed, a series of duotone Risograph prints made not to reproduce those images accurately but to translate their emotional register. The limited colour palette and grain structure of Riso create a soft distance from the original photographs, reinforcing the sense of quietness and detachment rather than documenting the landscape itself.
“These photographs were taken during this quiet winter in Antibes, where the world felt briefly paused,” Wang says. “The prints try to hold that moment of stillness.”
The unpredictability of the Risograph process is part of the point. Each print is shaped by chance as much as intention, becoming a unique physical object rather than a perfect reproduction. That quality of singularity is appropriate to a project about a particular moment in a particular place: the stilled world of a winter coast, experienced once and then gone.
Guan Wang is a graphic communication design student at Central Saint Martins, based in London. Her practice focuses on how images can build a quiet but direct connection between the image and the audience, rooted in personal experience and visual exploration.
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Undisturbed, 2026. Duotone Risograph prints. Photographed in Antibes, South of France, January 2026. Photographs and prints: Guan Wang.
