Guo Yingguang: “I’ve never positioned myself as a female photographer per se”
With the series “The Bliss of Conformity”, Guo Yingguang won the 2017 Jimei x Arles-Madame Figaro Women Photographers Award, the first award of its kind in China, which was launched in 2017 by Jimei x Arles photo festival and Madame Figaro China.
Feng Li: “Each of my photos is an independent story”
Winner of the Discovery Award of 2017 Jimei x Arles International Photo Festival, Doors interviewed Feng Li before his solo show at France’s Rencontres d’Arles in summer 2018.
Rong Rong: “We created Three Shadows in 2007 with the hope to break the current status of photography”
Founder of the Three Shadows Photography Art Centre and the Jimei x Arles international Photo Festival, Rong Rong celebrated in 2017 the tenth anniversary of the Three Shadows award.
Nicole Ching & Leigh Tanner: “There are new forms and models coming out of Chinese cultural institutions”
Doors interviewed Nicole Ching and Leigh Tanner, the young founders of Museum 2050, a new platform for investigating key issues about the future of cultural institutions in China and abroad from a local perspective.
Céline Lamée: “In China, things have to be in balance visually”
Céline Lamée, graphic designer and director of Lava Beijing. From urban campaigns to the French Croisements festival, she depicts her numerous projects and the extent to which visual language is different in China.
Liu Wei : “Provocative is a must”
Liu Wei (born 1972 in Beijing) is undoubtedly one of
the most brilliant talents of his generation. The artist,
who graduated from the Oil Painting Department of
China Academy of Fine Arts (Hangzhou) in 1996, now
lives in Beijing.
Using video, installation, drawing, sculpture and pain-
ting, his work is shape-shifting and unclassifiable.
However, a few recurring themes, treated with humor,
mark his path: the contradictions of our times, the
changing urban landscape, a reflection on the world’s
chaos.