Photo exhibition "Southern Travels" opened in Kunming

A new photo exhibition named "Southern Travels: Yunnan Through the Lens of Xiao Quan" was recently unveiled at the Contemporary Gallery Kunming (CGK) in the downtown of Yunnan's provincial capital.

Born in 1959 in southwest China's Chengdu, Xiao Quan has been widely considered one of the best Chinese portrait photographers of this era. His reputation has been gradually accumulated since the 1980s when he began to shoot one after another faces of both ordinary individuals and young intellectuals by his camera.

In 1970, in order to see his father, Xiao Quan took an old-fashioned green train from Chengdu down to Kunming. Since then, southern travels have become not merely a routine in his life, but an essential source of inspiration. "After the year of 2000, Xiao Quan was either in Yunnan, or on his way to Yunnan," says Nie Rongqing, the curator of CGK.

Over the past two decades or so, Xiao Quan has witnessed and documented some radical transformations in Yunnan's villages, mountains and forests. And has focus has always been on those local residents who keep interacting with the rapidly-changing landscapes surrounded them.

  

  

This time's exhibition shows some of the best works of Xiao Quan of all time about Yunnan.

The exhibition will last until March 25, 2023.

Reporting by Wang Jingzhong; photographs providing by CGK (Yunnan Daily)