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Born in 1969 in Hebei Province, Liu Zheng (刘铮) started his career in the 1990s as a photojournalist for the Workers' Daily, one of China's most widely distributed newspapers. As a committed photojournalist, he realized that Chinese people remained anonymous to the outside world in spite of their openness to the camera. This fact prompted him to initiate his series The Chinese.From early 1994, Liu travelled extensively through the country and took photographs of people from every region and social stratum, producing eventually over 10,000 photographs. His aim was to portray Chinese society through an all-encompassing view, ranging from the wealthy to people living on the margins by alternating between choreographed and candid images.
His main subjects include street eccentrics, homeless children, tranvestite performers, provincial drug traffickers, coal miners, Buddhist monks, prison inmates, Taoist priests, waxwork figures in historical museums, and the dead and dying.
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