LIU XIANG / PHOTOGRAPHER
General Manager, Visual China 500px | Guest Lecturer, Beijing Film Academy | 2M followers
Long-term projects on family, belief, time, and the places people inhabit.
Jury member for major photography and imaging competitions organized by institutions and brands including National Youth Photography Exhibition, National Geographic, Chinese National Geography, Global Youth Image 100, BYD, Huawei, Canon, Weibo and China CITIC Bank.
Guest lecturer and industry mentor at Beijing Film Academy, with more than 200,000 learners across online and in-person courses for universities, institutions, brands, public programs and photography communities.
EIZO ColorEdge ambassador, Phase One contracted photographer and Huawei contracted photographer, with long-term work across imaging, technology, media and cultural institutions.
Three long-term projects on growth, belief, and experiences that resist fixed language.
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Beginning with the birth of his two daughters, this project follows more than a decade in the life of one family. It keeps illness, conflict, attachment, loss and return alongside tenderness. As the children grow, the father also learns again how to see.
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Moving between highlands, caves and monasteries, the project observes how belief enters the body and how small human traces remain within vast landscapes.
View Wind and the Practitioners →The camera stays with light, plants, bodies and chance encounters before explanation fixes them into a single meaning.
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Liu Xiang is a photographer and photography educator, currently serving as General Manager of Visual China 500px. Formerly an editor and photographer for National Geographic and Chinese National Geography, he works across long-term photographic practice, education, forum hosting, jury work and imaging-community operations.
Courses, public talks, forum hosting, jury work, commissioned projects and cultural collaboration.
Six recent interviews on image-making, professional judgment, photography education and industry practice in the age of AI.
Why a body of work, method and integrated professional value matter more than isolated technical skill.
Read interview →A conversation about aesthetics, narrative and the professional value required to build trust.
Read interview →Why creative practice, teaching, judgment and industry knowledge must work together.
Read interview →Why lived experience, aesthetic judgment and responsible expression remain the basis of trust.
Read interview →How photography, education, platform operations and jury work form a coherent public practice.
Read interview →From a seaside childhood in Qingdao to a long path through photography, education and the imaging industry.
Read interview →For commissioned photography, courses, talks, forum hosting, jury work, brand projects and cultural collaboration.