From June 22nd to 25th, the inaugural Beijing Photographic Art Fair ("JINGPHOTO") will be held at the Enjoy Art Museum and the Chinese Contemporary Art Archive in Beijing's 798 Art District. As the first art fair in Beijing focusing on contemporary Photography, JINGPHOTO, which emerged in 2023, not only fills up the blank in the regional market but also joins hands with nearly 50 exhibitors and hundreds of artists to launch a new wave of photographic art collection, starting from Beijing.

Important foreign photographers: Bernard Faucon, Daido Moriyama, Edward Weston, Joseph Cash, Jerry Uelsmann, Lucien Clergue, David Douglas Duncan, etc.

Important Chinese photographers: Huang Xiaoliang, Wang Bing, Cong Feng, Li Shun, Luo Bonian, Zhang Zuo, Wang Zhi, Shao Dalang, Ye Wenlong, Luo Dan, Lin Shu, Chen Zhuo, No. 223, Shi Yangkun, Li Anqi, Liu Guoqiang, Liu Silin, Sun Haitian, Tang Yi, Zhang Wei, Tang Jing, Qu Yang Yi, Li Gang, etc.

The first JINGPHOTO has four sections: "Gallery Section," "Special Invitation Exhibition," "Forum Section," and "Publication Section." "This international photography season not only aims to benefit the public and bring a feast of photographic art to the public and art lovers for half a month but also creates the science and academic value behind Photography, based in Beijing, filling the blank of the photographic art fair in Beijing and North China.

The "Gallery Section" was set up at the Enjoy Art Museum in the 798 Art District, where 24 galleries and institutions from Paris, Tokyo, Shanghai, Shenzhen, Hangzhou, and other cities at home and abroad gathered in Beijing, many of them making their debut at the fair. As a special exhibition partner and chief sponsor of the fair, Sungari International Auction Co., Ltd. will present the exhibition "Dawn: The Light Society and Her Photography Era" during the fair.

The "Special Invitation" section of the exhibition "The Audience," curated by Feng xi, will be hosted at the Enjoy Art Museum with over 12 galleries, institutions, and 8 invited artists, jointly presenting the latest artworks of representative artists.

The first JINGPHOTO sticks to the balance of business and academics, setting up an academic committee and receiving academic support from the Archives of Contemporary Art in China and ArtPro as the exclusive strategic partner art platform. The "Forum Section" covers the four themed discussions on practice, collection, publication, and education, which will be held onsite at the Chinese Contemporary Art Archive in the 798 Art District and streaming online, exploring the infinite possibilities and diversified future of the development of Photography from multiple perspectives.

As an essential medium of photographic art, the publication of Photography has witnessed and driven the development of photographic art. This year's "Publication Section" focuses on domestic and international photographic art publishers and will showcase books and limited-edition albums.

During the JINGPHOTO Art Fair, cooperated institutes in Beijing will launch their new exhibition at the same time. Based in Beijing, JINGPHOTO and her collaborated institutes aim to explore a feast of Photography beginning in north China and spreading nationwide. On August 22nd, 2022, JINGPHOTO and Red Cave Digital Collection will offer limited edition, collectible digital tickets from four collaborating artists - Gao Yutao, Hu Weiyi, Huang Xiaoliang, and Ying Jingjing. The artists' special artwork will be on display at the fair.

List of Academic Committee:

Chairperson:

Wang Qingsong (Contemporary artist)

Members (in alphabetical order):

Cai Meng (Director of Image Art Center, CAFA Art Museum), Chen Baoyang (Contemporary artist), Chen Wei (Contemporary artist), Dong Jun (Artist, Deputy Head of Photography, Film and Television Animation Faculty of Xi'an Academy of Fine Arts), Michael Guo (Collector, Curator), Hai Jie (Curator, Critic of Photography), Li Xindi (Curator, M WOODS), Liu Ding (Curator, Artist), Niu Jie (Supervisor of Photography, Sungari International Auction Co.,Ltd.), Shen Chen (Curator, White Space), Shi Ruo (Artist), Song Tao (Artist, Founder of YUAN MUSEUM), Su Wenxiang (Curator, Taikang Space), Tan Wei (Deputy Director, Chinese Modern Art Archive), Wang Jun (Collector, Founder of Light Society), Yan Yu (Founder of JIAZAZHI), Yang Xi (Doctor of Art History, Curator), You Yang (Deputy Director, UCCA Center for Contemporary Art)

List of Forums:

Seminar Theme 1: Practice in the Art of Photography

• Topic 1 “From Brush to Camera: The Autonomy and Transition of Images”
• Topic 2 “Emergence and Breakthrough: New Observations on Chinese Video Art”

Seminar Theme 2: Art Collection of Photography and Video Art

• Topic 1: Collection and Positioning: Collectors and Photographic Art
• Topic 2: Development and Future: The Market Environment of Chinese Video Art
• Topic 3 “Constructing Academics: Photography Exhibitions, Research and Collections in Art Museums”

Seminar Theme 3: Writing and Publishing in Photography Art

• Topic 1: "Challenges and Opportunities: The Current Situation and Future of Photographic Publishing"
• Topic 2: Rethinking Photography: Research on Local Photography and Writing Photographic History"

Seminar Theme 4: Education in Photographic Art

• Topic 1: "Techniques and Ideas: Photography Education in the New Media Age"

40 Years of Chinese Photography Forum
Dawn: The Light Society and her Photography Era

"40 Years of Chinese Photography" brings together more than 400 classic works of photography by nearly 40 of the most representative photographers in China.

Taking "40 Years of Chinese Photography" as a microcosm, the exhibition gazes at the turbulent years of China's reform and opening up, reminisces the simple faces of each hard-working life in the past forty years, reviews and reveals the impact of "photography" on art, on China, on the world and on all mankind.

The project originated from the academic discussion on "30 Years of Chinese Video Art" at the 2017 Annual Conference of Chinese Art Critics, and later commissioned the Chinese Modern Art Archives (CMAA) of Peking University along with the Department of Photography Art of Tianjin Academy of Fine Arts to comb through Chinese photography archives by conducting academic research for five years and tracking down 1,000 Chinese photographers. The Academic Committee of the Annual Conference of Chinese Art Critics invites a wide range of thoughtful and academic experts from the photography field to form a selection committee. Based on the principle of rigorous selection and academic community, 40 photographers in the past 40 years have been selected for this "40 Years of Chinese Photography" inter-year exhibition.