Song Chao

For the very first time in a book, the reader can discover or rediscover Song Chao’s world famous series of Coal miner’s portraits. Song Chao was nineteen when he arrived at the coal mine. Three years later he discovered photography. After a year of study, he completed his very first deeply moving series that gained him international recognition. This series took him out of the mine in Shandong province to the global art stage. Seen by many as the Chinese “Avedon” his works reconnect with the greatests masters of photography. Filled with a deep humanity, Song Chao&rsq uo;s photographs go far beyond the documentary to open the theatre of human emotions. Considered one of the 50 photographers of tomorrow, Song Chao is the portraitist of Time Magazine and the NY times in China, his works are also published by many publications around the world.
 

96 pages
Text by Enoia Ballade
$12,90

Chen Jiagang 

This Chen Jiagang monograph offers a complete overview of the main works of the artist. Chen Jiagang has taken the former industrial compounds built in central cities of China during the sixties (The Third Front) as the subject matter of his first bodies of work. Trying to capture the specters of industry that still reside there, his pictures tell the sad story of these cities, which in their time were the incarnation of the social ideal, the glory of the country but which have since become useless industrial cemeteries and endless wastelands… Making use of a distorted wide-angle lens, a neutral color palate and at times a deliberately bland yet stunningly detailed compositions afforded by the use of an extremely large format camera, Chen Jiagang is fully engaged in a realist but narrative documentation of abandoned and desolate landscapes and the scars left by time and neglect on such re gions.
 

96 pages
Text by Jeremie Thircuir
$12,90