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A Photographer’s Record of New Year Celebrations in Northern China

Taking a local, hometown look at the Chinese Spring Festival Shehuo, Zhang Xiao considers how the thousand-year-old tradition has transformed into a tourist-facing enterprise.

How a Young Chinese Photographer Subverts Traditional Gender Roles

Ziyu Wang’s playful portraits parody the social expectations of masculinity and what a “man” should look like.

The Monumental Films of Wang Bing

In his immense documentaries, Wang depicts the lives of Chinese people with intricate and unsparing detail.

Feng Li’s Absurdist Dramas on the Streets of Chinese Cities

The photographer’s latest work delivers a surreal world, where joy and grief, cruelty and fragility are distributed among kindred spirits.

Introducing: Muge

Since 2004, the Chinese photographer has captured the displacement of over a million people caused by the Three Gorges Dam.
223, JinJing on the Couch, 2016

A Visual Record of Queer Experience in China

Lin Zhipeng, the photographer known as 223, looks for beauty, connection, and the impulse of friendship.

2019 Portfolio Prize Runner-Up: Teresa Eng

In her lyrical, dreamlike images, Teresa Eng asks—what does modern China look like to a child of the Chinese diaspora?

2019 Portfolio Prize Runner-Up: Guanyu Xu

Reclaiming domestic space through installations in his parents’ home, Guanyu Xu explores queer identity and censorship across China and the US.

Can a Photography Festival Thrive in Today's China?

In the city of Lianzhou, visions of global power collide with official censorship.

Report from the Shanghai Center of Photography

The newly opened Shanghai Center of Photography promises an ambitious array of photography exhibitions in its inaugural year.

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Aperture presents “Image Worlds to Come: Photography & AI,” a timely and urgent issue that explores how artificial intelligence is quickly transforming the field of photography and our broader culture of images.

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