Zhang Kechun

Zhang Kechun () born in 1980 in Sichuan province is a Chinese artist and photographer. He is known for his photographs dwelling on the significance of the landscape in modern Chinese national identity. He currently lives and works in Chengdu, China.
Biography.
Zhang's first series "The Yellow River" documents the effects of modernisation along the third longest river in Asia.
His second series, "Between the Mountains and the Water", continued to explore the relationship between the people and land on which they live and work.
Zhang Kechun won the "National Geographic Picks Global Prize" in 2008, the "Daylight Photo Award" and the "Arles Photo Festival Discovery Award" in 2014. He was nominated by the "Three Shadow Photo Award" in 2012, "Sony World Photography Awards" in 2012 and 2013, and by the "Prix HSBC Pour la Photographie" in 2014.
His works have been collected internationally by many other museums and private collectors from the USA, France, Germany, Japan and China such as Chinese Image and Video Archive in Canada, Williams College Museum of Art, USA and the China Central Academy of Fine Arts.
Exhibitions.
2016:
2015:"The Yellow River", La Galerie, Hong-Kong
2014 : Les Rencontres d'Arles, Arles, France
2013 :
2012:
2010