Communicating through Photography I Interview with Photographer Rong Rong

Available here: This book presents an expansive selection of striking photographs, together with firstperson accounts from his private diary, which RongRong made between 1993 and 1998 within the artistic community known as Beijing East Villagenow poignantly described as a meteor in the history of contemporary Chinese art. RongRongs acutely composed and richly expressive images captured scenes of daily life among fellow young, aspiring artists, and created now definitive documents of iconic performance works by Zhang Huan and Ma Liuming, among others. Often highly challenging works, their performances and photographs would send an instant shockwave throughout the Chinese avantgarde, and later the global art scene. Revisiting these texts and images anew on the occasion of this publication, RongRong has composed an absorbing personal narrative of an artist coming into his own. RongRongs Diary. Beijing East Village also