The largest dam in the world, the Three Gorges Dam, with a 1.8 million watts power station generating electricity has been built. The discussions about the dam, no matter…
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There is a story. Once upon a time, there were two wells in a small kingdom. The wizard put medicine in the well that belonged to the civilians. All civilians…
"Narratives and narrative forms" is the theme of the eighth Lianzhou International Photo Festival. This city of 400,000 people—mid-sized for China—is 200 kilometers from Canton. The festival has become an…
The most beautiful things, the objects themselves, have an end: to disappear. But what they have given us, like the feelings of beauty of love, will survive. That is what…
Li Yuning came from the armed police, this special circumstance made it possible for him to photograph soldier's lives . It is our stereotype that young…
Murong Slippers’ real name is Yu, not Murong. The pseudonym is a combination of a traditional surname and, well, slippers. It’s a sign that the person behind the name likes…
In the series of Landscape Wall, Ni Weihua had presented a stark social class divide in his images by contrasting sharply the the background of luxurious real estate advertissements in…
The first time I asked Ning Kai where he worked, he answered: “Well, for the government.” Born in 1987, Ning Kai did indeed work at a government agency in charge…
After looking at You Li’s photos of Kashkar, I concluded that the idea behind them was to see the country as something other than an administrative area, a conclusion which…