Ma Hongjie > Born in 1963 and grew up in Luoyang, Henan Province, he is from Hui minority nationality. In 1994 he graduated from the Photography Department of Wuhan University.
Human relationships, which function according to “traditional” expressive and behavioral codes, become devoid of their original foundation, thus merely retaining their “formal” aspects, which in turn imbues them with a greater complexity, given that it becomes increasingly difficult to gauge the sincerity and depth of what one says (and of what one is).
In contemporary China, uncertainty about what is “true” and what is “false”, “reality” and “appearance”, extends from the realm of photography to that of existence itself. We often feel that we are confronted with such an illusory, ambiguous, unexpected “reality” as to lead us to doubt not just our perceptions, but our very capacity for interpretation.
Chinese society has rapidly undergone structural transformation since it has initiated the progress of modernization. Grounded on such a transitional era, the photographic
