I am Feng Liu, a Chicago-based documentary photographer. I would like to apply for publishing and entry a contest with your company.
Currently I work for Lifetouch Church Directories and Portraits, Inc. as a photography sales specialist and I am also a consultant (photography) for Taproot Foundation, a nonprofits company at Chicago
In 1999, I moved to Chicago from Shanghai, China, for my job as an engineer. Inspired by Chicago’s vitality and power and fascinated by the new culture, I had a strong urge to express my feelings about this great city. Chicago is America. I started to use my lifelong passion—photography—to document what I saw, what I felt and what I thought.
I started by working for CITY 2000, a prestigious photo project that documented Chicago in the year 2000. My work was exhibited at the Chicago Cultural Center and the Water Tower—and published in the CITY 2000 book and Chicago Tribune.
For the past ten years, I have been documenting many Chicago’s neighborhoods and its people, from cityscapes to city parades and festivals. On a quest to create a lasting record of life in Chicago in the new century, I spent almost every day canvassing the city and chronicling its people, places and personality. I use my photos to create a rich, historic document that will inform those in the future long after it teaches us about ourselves. A city is constantly reborn. It lives, it grows, it dies, and it’s born again.
I have also created several special projects for myself. One is photographing Cubs fans. For four years, I attended most every Cubs game—focusing on the fans instead of the game in an attempt to answer the mystery of why this historically losing team has such a huge following.
