TOP TO BOTTOM, from (“Floating Rainbow“) © Xiong Wenyun, 1999-2009 Starting the year off with some images by Chinese photographer, Xiong Wenyun. Better known for her Moving Rainbow series, she added dashes of color into typical Tibetan landscapes and trucks – creating a metaphorical rainbow that links the individual and the social environment. Works here, [...]
TOP TO BOTTOM © Xiao Not much information on the photographer, Xiao, but he tells me that he was originally from Tian Jin, China. Spent a year in Japan halfway through his studies to “experience life” and he’s in the States now completing a economics degree. Sometimes, the less you say, the more evocative the [...]
TOP, Three Elderly Entertainers, Beijing © Liu Zheng, 1995 Talk about East meeting West. Sanatorium, a gallery in Turkey, is showing an exhibition on Chinese contemporary photographers, Passing China, from March 25 to April 24. This is in collaboration with Eli Klein Gallery from New York. A look at the list of artists reveal some [...]
TOP TO BOTTOM, from (“??/Looking Afar“) © Lei Jianyou Lei is a young photographer from Zhejiang, China. A self-taught photographer with a short history behind him, his works carry a certain heaviness. He infuses elements of melancholy romanticism in his pictures of abandoned objects, often resulting in works that are both beautiful and painful to [...]
TOP TO BOTTOM, from (“Qi Lihe“) © Stephen Kelly, 2009 Stephen JB Kelly documented the lives of ethnic Muslim minorities living in Lanzhou, a city in China’s north west. The government’s treatment of the Uighurs have dominated the news in recent months. Stephen’s series comes at a right time, shedding light onto a world previously [...]
© Liu Ke © Chen Chunlin Eight Chinese photographers are having an exhibition from Nov 19 to Dec 31 at the interesting-looking Redstar 35 building in Chengdu. The participating photographers are: Adou, Chen Chunlin, Feng Li, Li Jun, Luo Dan, Liu Ke, Muge and Yang Yi. The group’s images focus on a slice of life [...]
The Tao Gallery in Hong Kong is looking for new/young Chinese photographers working primarily in black and white along contemporary themes. Interested parties can send a pdf portfolio to Scott Minick via email. Good luck to everyone who’s applying!
TOP TO BOTTOM, from (“Dali Island“) © Madi Ju Madi Ju is a freelance photographer based in Beijing. Her images are steeped in the style of the snapshot aesthetic; loosely framed, usually shot on a compact camera and often an extension of the photographer’s life. She was once the other half of online photo-phenomenon My [...]
Shanghai’s m97 Gallery will be showcasing the works of three Chinese photographers from Sep 11 to Oct 25, 2009. TOP, from (“Impermanent Instant“) © Li Jun, 2008 Li Jun’s Impermanent Instant draws inspiration from Buddhism’s concept of impermanence, where all existence is in constant flux and time itself, an eternally changing instance. Dust, in this [...]
Mrs Deane has been unearthing Japanese photographers on their blog. © Yamamoto Masao Yamamoto Masao has some of the most poetic images I have seen in a while. © Hiromi Tsuchida Hiromi Tsuchida’s Festival series contains some very interesting characters. © Luo Yang Feature Shoot ehrm, featured Chinese photographer Luo Yang, whose work revolves mainly [...]
