Feng Li is a Chinese photographer from Chengdu. He is known as a street photographer, and more recently has worked in the fashion industry. He also practices photography as a civil servant for the Sichuan province. His work about his country, and about the spectacle of its fast-paced march towards an emphatic modernity, oscillates between official imagery and a personal point of view.
White Night, Feng Li's first book (published by Jiazazhi) was shortlisted for the Aperture / Paris Photo « First Book Award 2017 ».
In 2022, Jizazhi Released Li's second book "Good Night", of black & white photography this time.
© Self-portrait of the artist taken from the Rencontres d'Arles festival website, where Feng Li exhibited his series "White Night" in 2018.
Presentation by Jiazazhi: " In 2017, when we made photobook White Night for Feng Li for the first time, he brought plenty of photographs to our studio. We were immediately shocked by his color photos. As a result, the black-and-white photos were put aside at that time. But he told us that the black-and-white was the starting point of White Night. From...
Presentation by Jiazazhi: "This is photographer Feng Li (generally known as “free pig” in China) ’s first monograph, with a selection of his color works shot from 2005 to 2015. The title comes from a sentence in Holy Bible, « By day they meet with darkness, and grope at noon as in the night. ». « I don't know whether they are photographic works, but they...