Luo Dan

Luo Dan was born in 1968 in Chongqing, China, and graduated from Sichuan Fine Art Academy in 1992. He currently lives in Chengdu, China. He was given the Gold Award for Outstanding Artist at the Lianzhou International Photography Festival in 2008 for his body of work “North, South” (2008).

In 2011 Luo Dan was the recipient of Tierney Fellowship, awarded the Hou Dengke documentary photography prize, voted best new photographer at the Dali International Photography Festival and Top20-2011 China Contemporary Photographer, Photo Artist Award of the 7th Art China. His works have been exhibited and collected worldwide.

Luo Dan published “China Route 318” in 2009 and “North, South” in 2010. Luo Dan is a “humanist whose pictures are as white as the fog on Shanghaï". This son of the Maoist China, converted to protestantism by reading the Bible, explain what he saw on his way: “Everything disapears in China, like human beings condemned to disapear. The traditional values are obsolete. The only value that matters today, is the dollar. The joys produced by money are ephemeral. That’s why people are feeling miserable”.