“Translation: 2019 the 11thThree Shadows Photography Award” successfully opened on April 6 at the beginning of a beautiful spring in Beijing. The winner of this year’s Three Shadows Photography Award is a duo – Liu Ke and Huang Huang, both from Chengdu, who received an 80,000 RMB prize. Zhang Lanpo won the Media Award, and Wang YingYing took away the TSPA Luo Bonian Award for Outstanding Photographer, which comes with 10,000 RMB.
An organism is reborn from DNA translating genetic information into new proteins. This translation process is also occurring in the creative practices of emerging Chinese artists, who are departing from the basic medium of photography and constantly pushing boundaries. In 2019, the Three Shadows Photography Award received 534 submissions, and the works of 20 artists were selected for the Eleventh Three Shadows Photography Award Exhibition. These artists are not limited by conventional ways of capturing images, they present lively and diverse visual landscapes.