"Narratives and narrative forms" is the theme of the eighth Lianzhou International Photo Festival. This city of 400,000 people—mid-sized for China—is 200 kilometers from Canton. The festival has become an important event for Chinese photography. More than a h...

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Li Yuning came from the armed police, this special circumstance made it possible for him to photograph soldier's lives . It is our stereotype that young girls come to the barrack driven by their dreams and pushed by the pressure of life. His lens aimed directly at thes...

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After looking at You Li’s photos of Kashkar, I concluded that the idea behind them was to see the country as something other than an administrative area, a conclusion which she later confirmed. This Kashkar is not a specific geographical area, but “You Li’s Kashkar,” and for on...

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Murong Slippers’ real name is Yu, not Murong. The pseudonym is a combination of a traditional surname and, well, slippers. It’s a sign that the person behind the name likes to joke around and present different facets of himself. He’s the type to understand that life is both wonderful an...

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There is a story. Once upon a time, there were two wells in a small kingdom. The wizard put medicine in the well that belonged to the civilians. All civilians became mad after drinking the water from the well. The King was all right because he didn't drink the water from that well. The whol...

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The most beautiful things, the objects themselves, have an end: to disappear. But what they have given us, like the feelings of beauty of love, will survive. That is what I am trying to express. This series of photographs is a collection of love letters. Beauty, sorrow, transience and eterni...

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In the series of Landscape Wall, Ni Weihua had presented a stark social class divide in his images by contrasting sharply the the background of luxurious real estate advertissements in Shanghai or others cities in China, in costalcities in particular, and the worker...

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The first time I asked Ning Kai where he worked, he answered: “Well, for the government.” 
Born in 1987, Ning Kai did indeed work at a government agency in charge of photography, but since then his life has changed direction. This romantic and tortured young man faced every c...

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The Xishuangbanna Photography Festival was held this year on the far side of China, south of Yunnan, along the banks of the Mekong River. This year’s theme was rivers. I was the head of the jury, which awarded a photo series by Suthep Kritsanavarin on fishermen in the Mekong rapid...

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Every September to November is the Mekong Delta flood season. The city is full of water over the road, and the landscape become very unusual. Many markets on the water are established, most of them selling articles of everyday use. Many traditional festival and activity start, it ...

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The jury only awarded a consolation prize to this work of reportage, but I had voted for it to win third prize. I like the sepia tones used to show children on the Burmese border, as the rest of the country develops around them. These people of the Bulang Mountains were photographed by...

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The Mekong, the “Mother of Rivers” is a vast ecosystem stemming from the source river towards tributaries, streams, swamps, flood plains, and deltas. Much of this bionetwork functions as rearing and spawning areas or migration corridors between these critical zones. Among the...

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The largest dam in the world, the Three Gorges Dam, with a 1.8 million watts power station generating electricity has been built. The discussions about the dam, no matter wether positive or negative, have never stopped in the last 20 years. Xiao Xuanan, who is a ph...

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