Background information
"The Chinese photo artist Yanchu SUN found the photos in the series in antique markets. They were taken in China during the 1970s or 1980s. He used collaging or drawing to destroy or carry forward the stories in the photos, with his imagination or restoration about the social news in recent years. Maybe the original photos recorded real things which happened, but were the new plots through his changes completely fabricated?" (© Jiazazhi, 2016)
Book review
"Collecting anonymous photographs, made in the 1970s and 1980s, from antique markets, Chinese photo artist Yanchu SUN uses collage, drawing and painting to re-interpret them. Born in 1978, Sun has an obsession with these images of family gatherings and travel snapshots that were taken during his childhood and youth. Embedded in that historical period, these photographs contain their own narratives, which are destroyed or concealed by the photographer’s manipulation. Through the use of added color and heavy brushstrokes, Sun places this body of work somewhere between photography and painting. Constructing a new narrative and painting it on top of the old, Sun questions the nature of reality in terms of documentation and fabrication. The use of movement in his painting adds a sense of humor and playfulness to the original photographs. Like a notebook or diary, the book is spiral-bound with golden- edged pages, evoking a sense of reminiscence and nostalgia." (© Quodlib)
About Chinese photographer, Yanchu, SUN (b.1978 in Zhoukou, Henan)
Yanchu SUN lives and works in Zhengzhou. He won MIO Photo Award (Morumura Yasumasa) Special Award in 2010, won Lianzhou International Photo Festival New Photography Award in 2011, won Jinan International Photo Biennale The Best Photographer Award in 2012.
Photo books by Yanchu SUN
- Format
- Spiral bound HC, 18 x 23 x 2 cm., 112 pp., color ills., text language: English, Ltd. to 500 copies