Cai Dongdong’s creative practice was based on manual intervention and treatment to the “ghost pieces” in photography. The daub, accumulation, tearing, grinding and even add a series of wonders to the finished products and became the expansion of image itself and the lenovo of properties.
Cai Dongdong was born in 1978. He joined the Army in 1996. In 2002, he went to study at Beijing Film Academy.

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