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Dai Xiang’s representative works

New Qingming Festival Along the River

The art project "New Qingming Festival Along the River", also known as "Qingming Festival · 2013", was created in 2014. It took him nearly three years to " The 25-meter-long video work "self-portrait, self-direction and group acting" was first shown at the 10th Lianzhou International Photography Festival in Guangdong on November 21, 2014. Once it was exhibited, it became an internet sensation, triggering the rise of photography. It has attracted strong attention from circles, cultural critics and even the general public. The public opinion was quite controversial. At the awards ceremony, Dai Xiang finally won the grand finale "New Photography Annual Award" with this work. The communication effect generated by this work became one of the cultural events that attracted media attention in 2014.

New Lei Feng Stories

The 2008 "New Lei Feng Stories" series has been published in "Aperture" and "Photograph" in the United States, "The Sunday Times" in the United Kingdom, and "le Monde2" in France. Art Actuel" and other magazines, this series of works was included in the large-scale album "Chinese Contemporary Photography Art" edited by the famous image critic Gu Zheng. In 2014, it was included in the elective course textbook of Leiden University in the Netherlands.