Wei Jinchun
Photographic artist · University educator
Born in Guangxi in 1995 · Based in Zhaoqing, Guangdong
Biography
Wei Jinchun is a photographic artist and university educator, born in Guangxi in 1995 and based in Zhaoqing, Guangdong. He uses photography as a way to engage with, observe, and understand reality, and to raise questions. His practice is typically grounded in long-term fieldwork, sustained photographing, image editing, and photobook making, extending into performance, material interventions, and installation as each project requires.
His work unfolds across personal experience, place, memory, and social space. If I Am Guilty draws on domestic violence and his own experience of responding to violence with violence, bringing accusation and self-judgment together. Through repeated visits to the northern Chinese industrial city of Tangshan and the editing of a photobook, Tangshan brings historical memory, people, industry, and contemporary life into a shared framework of viewing. Unfinished Lands uses 4×5 large-format film to observe spaces that have stalled, remain unfinished, or no longer fulfill their intended functions amid urbanization and real estate development in China.
Wei Jinchun’s work has been shown at LensCulture Photo London, Angkor Photo Festival & Workshops, and Chengdu Contemporary Image Museum, among other venues and platforms. His photobook Tangshan was published in 2025 by Snap Collective, Denmark.
Education
2022–2025
Tianjin Academy of Fine Arts
Photography
Research focus: photographic art practice
2014–2018
Hebei Normal University
Journalism
Selected Awards
2025
7th 1839 Photography Award · Excellence Award · Unfinished Lands
2024
LensCulture Critics’ Choice 2024 · Winner · Tangshan
2024
24th Pingyao International Photography Festival · Outstanding Work Award, Academic Section · Tangshan
2024
1st Pixel Photobook Awards · Annual Independent Photobook Award · Shortlisted · Tangshan
2023
5th 1839 Photography Award · Excellence Award · Tangshan
Solo Exhibitions
2024
The Return of the Crevice—A Solo Exhibition by Wei Jinchun
CICADA, Wuxi, China
Selected Exhibitions
2026
Seeing and Being Seen—7th 1839 Photography Award Winners Exhibition
Chengdu Contemporary Image Museum, Chengdu, China
2025
LensCulture Photo London
Somerset House, London, United Kingdom
2025
Festival Projections Programme, Angkor Photo Festival & Workshops
Siem Reap, Cambodia
2025
Identity of Photography, Incheon World University Photography Festival
Incheon, South Korea
2025
Pingyao International Photography Festival
Pingyao, China
2024
Münchner Kammerspiele × Der Greif, Off to Elsewhere
Munich, Germany
2024
2024 FIAP World Photographers Conference
Art Museum of Lishui, Lishui, China
2023
Suspension and Emergence: 11th Exhibition of Outstanding Photography from Art Academies
Luxun Academy of Fine Arts Art Museum, Shenyang, China
Publications
2025
Tangshan
Photobook
Snap Collective Publishing,Denmark
ISBN 978-87-7620-356-6