Zeng nian's resume

Zeng was born in Jiangsu province in the south of China in 1954. My father is a teacher and an artist, and my mother is a pharmacist. Zeng nian was influenced by the cultural revolution that began in 1966. Due to the instability of the country, Zeng Nian never received a formal education. As a teenager, Zeng Nian gradually mastered the technology of developing negatives and darkroom from old photographic paper. Soon he became interested in the photography technology of taking photos in front of the Nanjing City Monument.

In p>1971, Zeng Nian was sent to Nanjing Engineering Headquarters to become a sailor on the Yangtze River, and soon attracted attention for his photography skills. Often ordered to record the diary of his work department in this way-recording weddings, funerals and celebration ceremonies of model workers, etc.-he mastered the skill of using old chemicals together with Kodak D76 developer last year. He also studied painting.

In the summer of p>1979 and 198, Zeng Nian took advantage of his vacation to go to Hangzhou and Shanghai by bike. The next year, inspired by the last two experiences, he forced his work department to allow him to leave his job for a long time, and went to the west of China, as far as Tibet. After this trip, Zeng Nian held several photo exhibitions with the theme of "Journey to the West" and achieved great success. Zeng Nian also reported on TV and newspaper headlines.

In p>1982, Zeng Nian ended his career as a sailor and came to Beijing.

in p>1985, Zeng visited France for the first time.

A photo of rock star Cui Jian was used as the cover of the album Rock on the New Long March.

In p>1989, a photo of rock star Cui Jian was used as the cover of the album Rock on the New Long March.

from 199 to 1993, his photographs about Beijing were exhibited in many places in France, Germany, Spain and the United States.

since the summer of 1994, he has been working with the Paris office of Contact Press Images. He took many photos, including the gold diggers in Tibet, China and the Catholic residential areas there. (Both of them were published in Le Figaro magazine and The Independent Magazine) He also took photos showing a disabled acrobatic troupe in China.

Zeng Nian is still doing long-term filming of the Three Gorges Project, which will be completed in China in 29. His own photos have also appeared in The New York Times Magazine in America, Geo and Eureka in France, The Independent on Sunday review in Britain, La Vanguardia and Blanco Y Negro in Spain. In 1997, Geo magazine sent him back to China to work for several months, and published three issues in succession.

In p>1998, Zeng Nian participated in two French National Television reports on the Three Gorges Dam Project and the Yangtze River. At the same time, he specially photographed the Three Gorges Dam project for Geo magazine in Germany. He started a long-term research work on traditional houses and buildings in China. In 1999, the traditional Chinese medicine reported in Zeng was published in Eureka magazine. He also participated in Time Magazine's report on three China stories. He also took photos of Shanghai for Marie-Claire magazine, and published stories about the criminal behavior of French people in China in VSD magazine. In 2, he took photos for Paris Match magazine about the first emperor's tomb discovered near Xi 'an, China. He stopped the agreement with Contact Press Images and started the cooperation with Gamma.

In p>21, he published two photo stories in Figaro Magazine, one about the archaeology of the Han Dynasty, and the other about China's transsexual dancer Venus. He also cooperated with Paris Match's series of books and introduced many stories about China. The July issue of Geo magazine in Germany published 15 pages of his works about the tomb of the first emperor in Xi 'an. Geo Russia and geocore are also published at the same time.

In p>22, his story about a billionaire in China was published in Paris Match magazine, and New York Times Magazine published another picture of an American businessman.