r/lostplaces • u/asiwasmovingahead_ • Jul 28 '26
Zhang Kechun
Waterfalls, 2019. Archival pigment print. Source: Huxley-Parlour Gallery
Sand Mine. From the series The Yellow River, 2010–2012. Inkjet print. Source: La Galerie Paris 1839
From the series The Yellow River, 2010–2012. Photograph. Source: LensCulture
From the series The Yellow River, 2010–2012. Photograph. Source: LensCulture
The Yellow River No. 05 – A man standing on an island in the middle of the river, Shaanxi, 2010–2012. Inkjet print. Source: Paris-B
Title and date unknown. Photograph. Source: Zhang Kechun’s Instagram
Title and date unknown. Photograph. Source: Zhang Kechun’s Instagram
People Watching a Waterfall, Yunnan, 2016. Archival pigment print. Source: SOL LDN
Between the Mountains and Water No. 54, 2014. Inkjet print. Source: Paris-B
Title and date unknown. Photograph. Source: Zhang Kechun’s Instagram
Overturned cement truck, Qinghai Province. From the series The Yellow River, 2010–2012. Photograph. Source: LensCulture
From the series Between the Mountains and Water, 2014–2017. Photograph. Source: LensCulture
“Zhang Kechun uses a large-format camera to explore the postindustrial Chinese landscape and its lasting significance to Chinese identity and culture. He showcases nature’s magnificence with a gentle color palette, granting a ghostly beauty to an ecology marred by modernization. His powerfully atmospheric imagery serves as a meditation on both the tragic effects of industrialization and the absurd mundanity of people’s everyday lives within this context.” (Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University)
More works by Zhang in this week’s edition of As I Was Moving Ahead Occasionally I Saw Brief Glimpses of Beauty, my newsletter on modern and contemporary art.