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Chinese photographer Jiang Jian (b. 1953), a native of Henan Province, focuses on the lower strata of Chinese society and offers an intimate and candid view of this segment of the population, capturing the various hardships and triumphs they experience. He is recognized as both a conceptual artist and a photojournalist.
*Archive on Orphans*, published in 2011, documents the lives of 1,036 orphans from Henan. As part of a support campaign launched by the local charity community and a Buddhist temple, Jiang Jian devised a system to track and record changes in the lives of 12 of these orphans by photographing them every five years. In total, this project resulted in 48 black-and-white portraits and 12 sets of color portraits, taken between 2004 and 2014.
“My photography captures the individual feelings of each orphan as I encounter them. Over the past decade, through my interactions with these orphans and their loved ones, I have seen that love brings hope. Although my photography can help them to some extent, I also recognize that documentary photography is a double-edged sword; it will never be a panacea. I had hoped that my photos wouldn’t bother them too much, and so I decided to finish this project.”
Published by Verlag Kettler, 2017
Boxed set, 8.9 cm 12.1 cm, 200 pages, in very good condition
ISBN
Chinese photographer Jiang Jian (b. 1953), a native of Henan Province, focuses on the lower strata of Chinese society and offers an intimate and candid view of this segment of the population, capturing the various hardships and triumphs they experience. He is recognized as both a conceptual artist and a photojournalist.
*Archive on Orphans*, published in 2011, documents the lives of 1,036 orphans from Henan. As part of a support campaign launched by the local charity community and a Buddhist temple, Jiang Jian devised a system to track and record changes in the lives of 12 of these orphans by photographing them every five years. In total, this project resulted in 48 black-and-white portraits and 12 sets of color portraits, taken between 2004 and 2014.
“My photography captures the individual feelings of each orphan as I encounter them. Over the past decade, through my interactions with these orphans and their loved ones, I have seen that love brings hope. Although my photography can help them to some extent, I also recognize that documentary photography is a double-edged sword; it will never be a panacea. I had hoped that my photos wouldn’t bother them too much, and so I decided to finish this project.”
Published by Verlag Kettler, 2017
Boxed set, 8.9 cm 12.1 cm, 200 pages, in very good condition
ISBN
