Xiao Quan (pronounced Shiao Chou’an) born in 1959 in Chengdu, is reputed in Chinese photographic circle as the best portraitist in China. I have been thinking harder but could not…
Author Jean Loh
Xiao Quan’s body of 54 selected new works struck us for its never-seen-before freshness and energy, while the field of portrait masters appears to be crowded enough with the likes…
Marc Riboud loved China, a world traveler as he was, China is the only country he has visited from 1957 to 2010 twenty-two times, during a career that spans more…
When we tried to translate the title of Patrick Zachmann’s exhibition into Chinese, we realized the different possible meanings it implied, so we asked him what he really sought to…
Yann Layma, a photographer of Chinese landscapes since 1985, twenty-five years ago stumbled on a tiny black-and-white photo of the terraced rice fields of Yuanyang County in a magazine and…
On the banks of the Pu River that flows through this 25 million-people megacity Shanghai and cuts it into Puxi (West of Pu) and Pudong (East of Pu), the local…
When I saw Yang Fudong recently at the twin fairs in Shanghai, West Bund Art and Photo Shanghai, he was in great shape after having lost weight. He seemed to…
In the world today dominated by digital photography, few have the notion of “negatives”, therefore when we are confronted with a negative photograph, printed as such in a book, or…
Pronounced with a slight British accent, Deauville’s boardwalk, Wang Lin’s working title “Double Entendre” – produced in residence before summer, takes on an extra […]…