Wind and the Practitioners
This project looks at practitioners who have long lived among plateau, wind and rock, focusing on the weight a life gains before nature and belief.
Through this body of work I look at practitioners who place themselves for long periods among plateau, wind, rock and silence. Their lives are extremely simple, but that simplicity does not point to lack; it points to a sustained inward order. Caves, stone walls, Buddhist images, prayer flags and temporary shelters are not merely background, but part of the practice itself. For me, these images are not about religious mystique, but about how a person gradually pares back the self before vast nature and belief, allowing life to acquire another density and weight.
9 worksPeople / LandscapePhoto Series
Muxinji
A long-term documentary project recording the growth of two children and the formation of a family, preserving moments of intimacy that cannot be repeated.
This work records not only the growth of two children, but also the gradual formation of a family over time. Birth, nursing, companionship, aging and ordinary daily life are woven together; changes in the body, emotional bonds and the gaze between generations form the most truthful shape of intimacy. Here photography is not meant to beautify family life, but to preserve moments that cannot return. The children are growing up, the parents are learning how to become parents, and love slowly takes shape in these concrete, small moments.
10 worksFamily DocumentaryLong-term Project
Abandoned Realm
Wasteland, empty rooms, woods, night roads and firelight reveal a slower kind of time after human order has withdrawn.
I try to recognize traces of the world's presence in places shaped, occupied and abandoned by people, then exposed again to nature. Earth mounds, ruins, cables, wild grass, water, old rooms, firelight and night roads are no longer only physical scenes; they feel like low voices left by time. Abandonment here is not merely the disuse of a place, but a silent condition left after people, land, order and memory begin to fall away from one another. For me, this work does not look at desolation itself, but at how land and space slowly reveal their own time after human intention withdraws.
57 worksSpatial NarrativeDocumentary Observation
Landscape Photography
A group of landscape works built around natural light, terrain and atmosphere.
This group of landscape photographs is built around natural light, terrain and atmosphere. It distills on-site light, landform relationships and pictorial structure, and serves as a public sample of Liu Xiang's approach to organizing and expressing natural scenery beyond documentary work.
7 worksNatural LandscapeAerial / Landscape
Celebrity and Commercial Portraits
Portrait work for public figures and commercial commissions, balancing recognizability with visual character.
This portrait work serves public figures and commercial commissions, balancing recognizability with visual character. It functions as a sample for commercial collaboration, showing control of persona, on-site execution and communication with clients.
6 worksPortrait PhotographyCommercial Collaboration
Humanistic Photography
A body of work focused on fleeting relationships between streets, people and social scenes, with an emphasis on presence and observation.
This work focuses on fleeting relationships between streets, people and social scenes, emphasizing presence and observation. It is closer to everyday social observation and offers a concise entry point into Liu Xiang's humanistic documentary interests and street-based way of seeing.
6 worksHumanistic DocumentaryStreet Observation
People Beneath the City Wall
Through repeated framing, this project observes how people pause in urban public space, recording unnoticed everyday moments in front of red walls and benches.
Through repeated framing, I observe the way people pause in urban public space. In front of the red walls of the Forbidden City, the space remains almost unchanged while the people continually change; their gestures, distances and relationships give the same place different emotional densities. A bench is a place to rest, a place to wait, a temporary surface on which relationships appear, and a brief shelter offered by the city. For me, this work is not about a wall or a bench, but about the unnoticed moments that make up real everyday life.
10 worksUrban ObservationPeople Series
Between the Silence of Things
A black-and-white search for forms of existence that do not depend on narrative, preserving the possibility of encountering the silence of things.
In these black-and-white scenes, I try to find a form of existence that does not depend on narrative. Trees, birds, water, fog, roads and wasteland occupy time in their own ways, without explaining themselves to us. They are silent but not empty; distant, yet secretly connected to perception. Here photography is not a way to explain the world, but a way to preserve the possibility of encountering existence itself amid the silence of things.
12 worksBlack-and-white ScenesConceptual Expression
Empty-nest Elderly
Through the relationship between people and interiors, this project observes the quiet daily order and weight of time in later life.
Through the relationship between people and interior spaces, I try to understand the parts of old age that are difficult to speak about directly. Beds, chairs, old furniture, pets, toys and window light together form a slow and concrete order of daily life. The emptiness here is not only the absence of family companionship, but also the result of time settling until people and space come to depend on each other. For me, photography here is not speaking on their behalf; it is looking as quietly as possible, allowing life itself to leave its weight.
5 worksSocial DocumentaryAging Society
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