Jiang Rong

Rong Jiang has earned a master’s degree in political science from the City University of New York, and studied at ICP School in New York. He has published books entitled “The Power of Photography” and “My Journey into Photography” and translated Stephen Shore’s “The Nature of Photographs” and David Campany’s “On Photographs” into Chinese. He has been a contributing writer for the Chinese Photography magazine and Photo World magazine in China. He has held solo photo exhibitions in many venues both in the US and in China. In 2007, he organized a high-level international forum on photography for the Pingyao International Photography Festival. In 2009, he won the Golden Figure Award for Best Photographic Critic in China. In 2011, he served as a curator of the Lianzhou Foto Festival and a member of Nomination Committee for Kessel Fotobook Award. Since 2017, he has been the Chief Editor of “A Breakthrough Monograph Series of the World Contemporary Photographers” published by Zhejiang Photographic Press. In 2018, he was part of the curatorial team of the exhibition “The Art of Mountains” held at the China Institute in New York. Since 2018, he has been a jury member of the International Photographic Award of the Lucie Foundation in the United States. In 2022, he was a portfolio reviewer of graduates from ICP Documentary Practice and Visual Journalism Program. In 2023, he curated Stephen Shore’s retrospective entitled “Enduring Presence” and the exhibition toured to three cities in China in 2024.