Black Dreams by Feng Li (June 10, 2010) 
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Introduction by Three Shadows Photography Art Centre
The 2010 Three Shadows Photography Award is a juried competition that selects artists that display a spirit of individuality and artistic potential from the emerging trends of Chinese photography. Through professional production, criticism, exhibition, and publishing, the award introduces the newest achievements of Chinese contemporary photography to a broad audience. The juried competition is open to photographers of Chinese descent dedicated to the creation of contemporary photography art in China or abroad regardless of age.
On January 22, 2010, the Three Shadows Photography Award committee made their preliminary selections. Twenty artists were chosen as semifinalists out of more than two hundred applicants.
The final results of the competition were announced on April 17, 2010, after the opening of the first Caochangdi PhotoSpring. The Three Shadows Photography Award invited a five-member international jury to China, consisting of Les Rencontres d’Arles Photography Festival Director François Hébel, Museum of Modern Art Photography Curator Eva Respini, art critic Karen Smith, Japanese art critic Kotaro Iizawa, and Three Shadows Photography Art Centre Founder RongRong.
Zhang Xiao received this year’s Three Shadows Photography Award, Wang Huan received the Shiseido Prize and Huang Xiaoliang received the Tierney Fellowship. Feng Li, presented here today, was one of the semifinalists.
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I am afraid of the dark, especially in my dreams, so I must keep the lights on to be able to sleep.
Even so, I often awaken when I am dreaming.
Outside my window the night is as bright as day, performing too many unbelievable things, daring me to doubt all that I have seen.
These pictures are a sort of evidence that record what I saw in my dreams during the long, white night.
A return to a dreamland.
Feng Li was born in 1971 in Chengdu, Sichuan Province. He currently lives and works in Chengdu.
Feng Li (1971) lives and works in Chengdu, China.
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