Named "Photographer of the Year " by Chinese MagazineEsquire
Hasselblad Masters Awards
Danforth Museum of Art, Worcester Art Museum in Massachusetts, Museum of Modern Art in Moscow, LACMA of Los Angeles, Mint Museum in South Carolina, and Centre for Contemporary Art in Beijing. Selected by Christian Dior in 2008 as one of the twenty Chinese contemporary artists to participate in their exhibition “Dior with Chinese Contemporary Artists” at the Ullens Centre for Contemporary Art in Beijing. Since then, close collaboration with Dior, Quentin Shih featuring the new couture collections of the brand through his artworks.
“Through photography, we can tell a story. We can paint with light. I like my photography to be dramatic, but to also have a narrative.” - Quentin Shih.
Shi Xiaofan, as known as Quentin Shih, is a Chinese self-taught photographer who lives and works between New York and Beijing. Quentin Shih is well recognized for his individual style, which combines a cinematic, almost oneiric approach, and documentary details. Composition and light, two aspects inspired by Edward Hopper, give to his expression a singularity and enigmatic atmosphere. The vast sets, elaborately staged, dramatically lit, with a particular attention to colours, the sharps contours, the large format; all of that
engages in emotional narratives. In those elaborate stages, we enter into imaginary settings that reveal the loneliness of people in a surrealistic way. “If there is an art movement that inspired me, that’s Surrealism. » Quentin Shih claims. In looking at
his photographs, we experience a form of dream, a world where reality and fantastic confront each other.
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