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.
Ziyu Wang’s playful portraits parody the social expectations of masculinity and what a “man” should look like.
In his immense documentaries, Wang depicts the lives of Chinese people with intricate and unsparing detail.
The photographer’s latest work delivers a surreal world, where joy and grief, cruelty and fragility are distributed among kindred spirits.
Since 2004, the Chinese photographer has captured the displacement of over a million people caused by the Three Gorges Dam.
Lin Zhipeng, the photographer known as 223, looks for beauty, connection, and the impulse of friendship.
In her lyrical, dreamlike images, Teresa Eng asks—what does modern China look like to a child of the Chinese diaspora?
Reclaiming domestic space through installations in his parents’ home, Guanyu Xu explores queer identity and censorship across China and the US.
In the city of Lianzhou, visions of global power collide with official censorship.
The newly opened Shanghai Center of Photography promises an ambitious array of photography exhibitions in its inaugural year.
Aperture’s fall issue, “Arrhythmic Mythic Ra,” refracts themes of family, social history, and the astrophysical through the eyes of guest editor Deana Lawson, one of the most compelling photographers working today.
