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, SwedenBetween the Mountains and Water, La Galerie, Hong-KongArt Souterrain, Montréal, Québec2015: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, FranceThe 6th L'Iris d'Or Award Exhibition, Somerset House, London, UKCollection Exhibition, 1st Beijing Photo Biennial, China Millennium Monument, Beijing, ChinaDelhi International Photography Festival, Delhi, IndiaThe 5th Dali International Photography Biennale, Dali, ChinaThe 6th Look 3 Festival of the Photograph, Charlottesville, USAThe 3rd Chengdu Multi-dimensional View Photo Exhibition, Fanmate Art Museum, Chengdu, ChinaRemote Places, Close Spaces, Street Level Photoworks, Glasgow, United KingdomThe 1st Future Master Exhibition, Winshare Art Museum, Chengdu, China2012:
Get It Louder, Sanlitun Village, Beijing, ChinaThe Interactions Yixian International Photo Festival, Yixia, ChinaThe 8th Angkor Photography Festival, Siem Reap, CambodiaThere there Photographic Exhibition, Cork City, IrelandThe 4th Jinan International Photography Biennale, Jinan, ChinaFuture Exhibition, China Central Academy of Fine Arts Museum, Beijing, ChinaThe 2013 Three Shadows Photography Award Exhibition, Three Shadows Photography Art Centre, Beijing, China2010
Right In Front of Your Eyes, Chengdu International Photography Center, Chengdu, ChinaSouthern Documentary Photography Exhibition, Guangdong, ChinaNational 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, CanadaWilliams College Museum of Art, USAChina Central Academy of Fine Arts, China