Feng Li (, born 1971) is a Chinese photographer, based in

Chengdu Chengdu (, ; Simplified Chinese characters, simplified Chinese: 成都; pinyin: ''Chéngdū''; Sichuanese dialects, Sichuanese pronunciation: , Standard Chinese pronunciation: ), Chinese postal romanization, alternatively Romanization of Chi ...

. He is a street photographer and (more recently) a fashion photographer, as well as working a day job as a photographer for the Sichuan provincial department of communication. Feng's long-term ongoing series of street photography, ''White Night,'' has been published in a book and shown in solo exhibitions at

Nanjing University of the Arts The Nanjing University of the Arts (NUA; ), also known as the Nanjing Arts Institute, is a university offering undergraduate and graduate degrees in fine arts, design, and related subjects. The institutional history begins in 1912, with the found ...

Museum in Nanjing, China, Galerie Oberkampf in Paris, and at Rencontres d'Arles in Arles, France. It has won him the Best Photographer Prize at Jinan International Photo Biennale, the Grand Jury Prize at Lianzhou Photo Festival, and the Discovery Award at the Jimei x Arles International Photography Festival, all in China.

Life and work

Feng was born and raised in the city of

in Sichuan province, southwestern

China China, officially the People's Republic of China (PRC), is a country in East Asia. It is the world's most populous country, with a population exceeding 1.4 billion, slightly ahead of India. China spans the equivalent of five time zones and ...

. He studied traditional Chinese medicine. He took up photography in 1996, then got a civil service job working as a photographer for the Sichuan provincial department of communication. The job involves "photographing technological hubs, high tech factories, and CEOs". Feng's long-term ongoing series of flash-lit colour photographs, mostly of people, is titled ''White Night.'' It comprises mostly candid street photography but also photos of people he knows. Work made for the series in Chengdu between 2005 and 2015 was published as a book in 2017. In 2018 he also did some

fashion photography Fashion photography is a genre of photography which is devoted to displaying clothing and other fashion items, sometimes haute couture. It typically consists of a fashion photographer taking a picture of a dressed model in a photographic studio o ...

Publications

*白夜 = ''White Night''. Ningbo, China: Jiazazhi, 2017. Edition of 1000 copies. . **Second edition. Ningbo, China: Jiazazhi, 2018. Edition of 1000 copies. "This second edition is slightly smaller in size and features higher-quality paper as well as higher-quality printing." *''White Night in Paris''. Self-published, 2018. Twenty-four 15×10 cm prints of photographs of Paris. Edition of 80 copies. *''White Night in Berlin''. Self-published, 2019. Twenty-four 15×10 cm prints of photographs of Berlin. Edition of 80 copies. *''Pig''. Self-published, 2020. Twenty-four 15×10 cm prints of photographs of pigs. Edition of 80 copies. *''Good Night''. Ningbo, China: Jiazazhi, 2022. .

Solo exhibitions

*''White Night,''

Museum, Nanjing, China, 2016 *''White Night,'' Galerie Oberkampf, Paris, 2017 * Rencontres d'Arles, Arles, France, 2018

Awards

*2012: Best Photographer Prize, Jinan International Photo Biennale, Jinan, China *2012: Grand Jury Prize, Lianzhou Photo Festival, Lianzhou, China *2017: Jimei x Arles Discovery Award, Jimei x Arles International Photography Festival, Jimei district, Xiamen, China

References

External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Feng, Li Street photographers Chinese photographers Artists from Chengdu Living people 1971 births