Category Archives: Asian photography

Liu Bolin

Liu Bolin paints his body, or that of his subjects, into an illusion of invisibility for his photographs of his native China. This could have ended up being a pretty shallow artifice, but I like the way he puts it to use to create a sense of the invisibility of the individual in contemporary China [...]
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Review: Photoquai 2009

The Quai Branly Museum has just launched the second edition of Photoquai, its photography biennale of “world images”. The mission of the biennale, to “highlight and make known, artists whose work is previously unexhibited or little known in Europe, and to foster exchanges and the exchanging of views on the world,” sounded pretty good to [...]
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Miao Jiaxin

Miao Jiaxin is from Shanghai but is currently living in the United States, completing an MFA at the Art Institute of Chicago. There is a great mix of work on his site, with some radically different approaches. The above image is taken from the 2006 series Times Square, “a juxtaposition of Shanghai and NYC created [...]
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Nguan

Nguan is a photographer based in Singapore, who has been getting quite a bit of attention. His website has four groups of work: I particularly liked his Beijing and Shibuya series. This is the kind of work that convinces me that there is still a lot of interesting things to be done with ‘street photography’.
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Zhang Xiao

Zhang Xiao was born in 1981 in China’s Shandong province. There is some great work on his website, in particular his series on the demolition linked to the infamous Three Gorges Dam.
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