Wei Jinchun

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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

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