Personal Belongings
Self-publishing
2020
Photography / Editing: Li Aixiao
Book Cover Design / Typesetting: Liu Yan
253pp., Hardcover
100 b/w photographs
Copies: 500
Language: Chinese and English
Format: 21 x 28.5x 3 (cm)
Edition: 1st Edition (June 2020)
Be naked and let your precaution down. A story about a part of life. An important personal belonging. In the present era of rapid economic development, the relationship between humans and objects is even more complicated. Although this project discusses the relationship between humans and objects, it expounds on the relationship between humans, and the relationship between human beings and innermost beings. 100 people aged between 18 and 89 who come from all walks of life, different genders, and different nationalities in China. They told life stories about dreams, romances, kinship, disease, disability, and self-search.
AWARDS
"Jury Choice Award for Self-publishing" of the 2nd Wuhan Photo Art Fair
Publications
THIRTY SIX FACES: Post-1985 Profiles of Chinese Young Photographers
Guangxi Normal University Press
2024
Author: Cui Bo
Binding Design: Mo Guangping
Publishing and Distribution: Guangxi Normal University Press
Language: Chinese
Format: 889mmx1194mm 1/24, hardcover
Word Count: 670,000
Edition: 1st edition (August 2024)
ISBN 978-7-5598-7232-6
THIRTY SIX FACES is a record of curator Cui Bo's interviews with 36 young Chinese photographers born after 1985. It brings together the stories and works of 36 young photographers full of vitality and innovative spirit. Among them are media practitioners engaged in news and photo photography and independent photographers and curators. They return to the essence of photography art, starting from the technical level, using the camera medium to deeply explore the subtle connection between photographers and themselves, their hometowns, and the world around them. They use photography as a unique way to analyze their inner world and observe the vast world. Their works reflect the current situation of Chinese photography art creation and the direction of future exploration to a certain extent.
AWARDS
"Most Beautiful Book" in China, 2024
OF COVID: Collective Trauma
KGP and Humble Arts Foundation
2024
Author: various artists
Publishing and Distribution: KGP and Humble Arts Foundation
Language: English
Edition: 1st edition (May 2024)
ISBN 978-1-954877-08-5
In 2020, COVID forever altered how we work, learn, communicate, collaborate, and perceive the value of life. Like so many major world events and catastrophes, it transformed how photographers record individual and collective traumas. You could say that all photography made since the outbreak was tangential to it. From imagery of masked protesters and doctors responding to a deluge of sick and dying patients to meditative images made on walks, it seemed like every photograph was made in conversation with the pandemic.
Three years later, as fallout continues to dust our lives, this book is a shared and global photographic response. The images are footnotes to our experience of both collective trauma and interconnectivity. They show artists using photography to mend, salve, process, and understand – to keep going...
COLLECTIONS
Coastal Carolina University
Museum of Modern Art
Southern Oregon University