Zhang Kechun (Chinese: 张克纯) born in 1980 in Sichuan province is a Chinese artist photographer. He is known for his photographs dwelling on the significance of the landscape in modern Chinese national identity. He currently lives and works in Chengdu, China.
Zhang's first series The Yellow River documents the effects of modernisation along the third longest river in Asia. His second series, Between the Mountains and the Water, continued to explore the relationship between the people and land on which they live and work.
Zhang Kechun won the National Geographic Picks Global Prize in 2008, the Daylight Photo Award and the Arles Photo Festival Discovery Award in 2014. He was nominated by the Three Shadow Photo Award in 2012, Sony World Photography Awards in 2012 and 2013, and by the Prix HSBC Pour la Photographie in 2014.
His works have been collected internationally by many other museums and private collectors from the USA, France, Germany, Japan and China such as Chinese Image and Video Archive in Canada, Williams College Museum of Art, USA and the China Central Academy of Fine Arts.
2016:
The Yellow River, Landskrona, Sweden
Between the Mountains and Water, La Galerie, Hong-Kong
Art Souterrain, Montréal, Québec
2015:The Yellow River, La Galerie, Hong-Kong
2014 : Les Rencontres d'Arles, Arles, France
2013 :
The 4th edition of Photoquai world photography biennale, Musée du Quai Branly, Paris, France
The 6th L'Iris d'Or Award Exhibition, Somerset House, London, UK
Collection Exhibition, 1st Beijing Photo Biennial, China Millennium Monument, Beijing, China
Delhi International Photography Festival, Delhi, India
The 5th Dali International Photography Biennale, Dali, China
The 6th Look 3 Festival of the Photograph, Charlottesville, USA
The 3rd Chengdu Multi-dimensional View Photo Exhibition, Fanmate Art Museum, Chengdu, China
Remote Places, Close Spaces, Street Level Photoworks, Glasgow, United Kingdom
The 1st Future Master Exhibition, Winshare Art Museum, Chengdu, China
2012:
Get It Louder, Sanlitun Village, Beijing, China
The Interactions Yixian International Photo Festival, Yixia, China
The 8th Angkor Photography Festival, Siem Reap, Cambodia
There there Photographic Exhibition, Cork City, Ireland
The 4th Jinan International Photography Biennale, Jinan, China
Future Exhibition, China Central Academy of Fine Arts Museum, Beijing, China
The 2013 Three Shadows Photography Award Exhibition, Three Shadows Photography Art Centre, Beijing, China
2010
Right In Front of Your Eyes, Chengdu International Photography Center, Chengdu, China
Southern Documentary Photography Exhibition, Guangdong, China
National Geographic Picks Global Contest (2008)
Sony World Photography Awards, shortlisted (2013)
Discovery Award at Les Rencontres d'Arles for The Yellow River (2014)
Chinese Image and Video Archive, Canada
Williams College Museum of Art, USA
China Central Academy of Fine Arts, China
