Born in Yantai City, Shandong Province, China, Zhang Xiao graduated from the Department of Architecture and Design at Yantai University in 2005. Before becoming a freelance photographer in 2009, he worked as a photographer for Chongqing Morning Post. Zhang Xiao’s images often reveal his unique understanding of today’s China and a sense of surrealism that precisely capture the absurdity in the country due to rampant economic changes. The snapshot aesthetic and adoption of ordinary people from daily settings as protagonists are the common threads through his two iconic series They and Coastline.
Read MoreWith his Coastline series, Zhang received The Photography Talent Awards in 2010 and the Prix HSBC pour la Photographie in 2011. He was also awarded the Three Shadows Photography Award 2010 and the MIO Photo Award 2010 with his other series. Zhang’s work has been widely exhibited in China in recent years and in France in 2011. Zhang currently lives and works in Chengdu City, Sichuan Province, China.
