Mountain photography works

Shan Xiong Wei's photographic work "American Desperado".

Shan Xiong Wei was born in Zengcheng, Guangdong, China from 65438 to 0929, and lived in Viet Nam for most of his life. As a teenager, Shan Xiong Wei worked as an apprentice in a photo studio, and later became a freelance photographer, focusing on shooting landscapes and traveling around the country. 1979, 50-year-old Shan Xiong Wei arrived in California by boat and worked in a small darkroom in San Francisco's Chinatown. After settling in the United States, he still insisted on returning to China to shoot every few years.

Shan Xiong Wei's works were not accepted by American photography at first, and were not re-valued until he won several international awards. Since then, people have been asking for works in an endless stream, and he has been busy taking pictures of collectors all over the world. Shan has his own unique creative method. He has created a series of China traditional landscape paintings with superb darkroom technology.

The Honor and Experience of Mountain Xiong Wei;

Shan Xiong Wei has won more than 300 medals in various photography salons around the world, and is a member of the American Photographic Society, the Royal Photographic Society and other 13 societies. 1976 was invited to be the judge of several film competitions such as China International Photography Exhibition and Shanghai International Photography Exhibition. This method of combining eastern and western arts originated in Hong Kong in the 1940s. One of its most famous founders is the famous photographer Lang Jingshan. Xiong Wei studied under Lang Jingshan.

This creative method needs to synthesize multiple negatives, and its creative purpose is not to pursue the authenticity of the scene, but to pay more attention to artistic conception and aesthetic feeling. It is said that Shan Xiong Wei once spent two hours in front of Adams to create a photo of the "Moon", which amazed the latter. Shan is one of the last generation photographers who inherited this creative way, and also the most outstanding one. In 2004, Shan Xiong Wei died of a heart attack. When people appreciate his beautiful photographs again, they have to feel sorry for his unexpected death.