Feng Li
photographer
Feng Li (simplified Chinese: 冯立; traditional Chinese: 馮立, born 1971) is a Chinese photographer, based in Chengdu. 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 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 Chengdu in Sichuan province, southwestern China. 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.
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