Zhang Xiao

Zhang Xiao (, born 23 November 1981, in Yantai ) is a Chinese photographer who has published several series of photographs of China in flux.

Life and career Zhang graduated in architecture from Yantai University in 2005.

Zhang has been inspired by the photography of Diane Arbus, Alec Soth and Boris Mikhailov.

Cited by Agnès Sire as showing an intimate and contemporary China without any exoticism, Coastline won 2011, and as a result was widely exhibited and published in book form in Arles by Actes Sud in 2011. Three years later, a different selection was published in Kowloon by Jiazazhi Press, and a smaller selection in Tokyo by Zen Foto Gallery.

Envelopes In China, photojournalists are offered cash for their positive comment on a topic they are covering. Although in his career as a photojournalist Zhang declined such offers of envelopes containing large sums of money where he considered it unconscionable to do so, he accepted those with smaller sums where he considered the topic insignificant. He collected the envelopes, which he has exhibited.

Exhibitions Envelope. Lianzhou International Photography Festival (Guangdong, China), 2009. They. Pingyao International Photography Festival (Pingyao, Shanxi, China), 2009. GIM, Galerie im Medienhaven (Bremen, Germany), 2010. Coastline, Prix HSBC pour la Photographie; Galerie le Réverbère (Lyon), May–July 2011; Galerie Baudoin Lebon (Paris), September 2011; Galerie L'Arsenal (Metz), September–October 2011; (Lille), November 2011. They. Blind Spot Gallery (Wong Chuk Hang, Hong Kong), March–April 2013. Shanxi. Pékin Fine Arts (Aberdeen, Hong Kong), October–December 2013. Pékin Fine Arts (Beijing), October–December 2013. Coastline = . Zen Foto Gallery (Roppongi, Tokyo), September–October 2014. Coastline. Singapore International Photography Festival (Singapore), October–November 2014.

Awards Houdengke Documentary Photography Award, 2009 , 2011. Zhang Xiao 2. Geneva: Boabooks, 2010. . Black and white photographs; no captions, no text; in notepad format. Edition of 40 copies. They = 《他们》. N.p.: Jia Za Zhi Press , 2012. . Book of colour photographs, no captions; text in English and Chinese by Hai Jie . First edition of 500 copies. They. Zine Collection 11. Paris: Éditions Bessard, 2014. . Stapled booklet of colour photographs (no captions), with one small original print and text by Zhang in English. First edition of 250 copies. Shanxi. N.p.: Little Big Man, 2013. Book of colour photographs, no captions. First edition of 300 copies. 《海岸綫》 (《海岸线》) = Coastline. Sham Shui Po, Kowloon: Jiazazhi Press , 2014. . Book of colour photographs, no captions. With a booklet containing texts in both Chinese and English by Yan Changjiang and Gu Zheng , and other material. First edition of 600 copies. = Coastline. Tokyo: Zen Foto Gallery, 2014. Stapled booklet of colour photographs; texts by Zhang and Gu Zheng in Japanese, Chinese and English. First edition of 500 copies.

Publications with contributions by Zhang Unfamiliar Familiarities—Outside Views on Switzerland. Zürich: Lars Müller, 2017. Edited by Peter Pfrunder, Lars Willumeit, and Tatyana Franck. . A six-volume set: one volume by Zhang and the others by Alinka Echeverría, Shane Lavalette, Eva Leitolf, Simon Roberts, plus a text volume in English, German, and French. Published to accompany an exhibition at Musée de l'Élysée, Lausanne, Switzerland.