Ren Hang: Bodies Without Redemption
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2017
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Chen, Shuxia
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Australian Centre on China in the World, ANU
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On 24 February 2017, photographer Ren Hang
leapt to his death from a twenty-eight-floor
building in Beijing. He had not yet turned thirty,
but his work had already attracted considerable
international attention. This essay retraces the
path of Ren’s life, contextualising it within the
rapidly developing field of Chinese photography.
Beginning with the emergence of ‘private
photography’ in China in the early 2000s, the
article describes how a cultural industry made
up of independent-publishing and photo fairs
has blossomed in contemporary China.
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Made in China
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