WANG Hanlin
WANG Hanlin
A visual artist currently living and working in Shanghai, with a Master's degree in Photographic Art from the Central Academy of Fine Arts. His work consistently focuses on the documentation of the human spirit, exploring themes from personal emotions to collective experiences, while reflecting on the changing environment and the passage of personal history, using images as his primary mode of expression. In recent years, he has explored the relationship between media and imagery, aiming to investigate human ideologies through the study of images and to question the cognitive patterns behind image production.
He has been nominated for the Berlin C/O Talent Award (2024), the Leica Oskar Barnack Award (2022), and the 8th Hou Dengke Documentary Photography Award (2022). He also won Best Domestic Photographer at the Xishuangbanna International Photo Festival (2021), ranked in the 7th China Photography Annual Rankings (2020), received the TOP20 China Contemporary Photography Emerging Talent Award (2019), and the Grand Prize at the inaugural 1839 Photography Awards (2019). His work has been shortlisted for the Sony World Photography Awards (2018) and the 10th Three Shadows Photography Award (2018), among others.
His works and articles have been published in magazines such as China Photography, Chinese Photographer, Digital Photography, Art Weekly, and National Geographic (Chinese Edition). He has also published a photo book, Contemporary Chinese Photography Collection/Wang Hanlin (Zhejiang Photography Publishing House, 2021).
