Regards sur Domaine de Long Dai - 2019

Zhao SUN, born in 1985 in Xi’an, China, lives and works in Paris. He started photography at the age of 16 and studied at the Xi’an Academy of Fine Arts, graduating in 2007. Since then, he moved to France and continued his studies at the National School of Photography in Arles from 2007 to 2008, and then at the Paris School of Fine Arts in the Patrick Faigenbaum / Marc Pataut studio from 2010 to 2014. Zhao SUN is interested in places, cities, urban environments, and territories. He works on the city of Paris in a personal and poetic manner. He prefers analog photography, deeply attached to the artisanal nature and the darkroom process that slowly brings about surprises and revelations.

“Photography, for me, is an instrument of observation par excellence, to know where we live and where we would like to live, an ideal tool to grasp human relationships. When we look at a photographic image, it is not the image itself that we look at, but through the image, what is there, and what is happening in the image. That is to say, events that are analogous to prose poems. Photography becomes interesting when the work is broader than the photograph itself, when there is an additional element. This element, in the case of my images, is undoubtedly a form of poetry. I always try to find a balance and harmony between the event and the environment, between man and his territory.”