Hanging in there and a dichroic shopper: Photofairs Shanghai 2024 – in pictures

A selection of highlights from the ninth instalment of Photofairs Shanghai, the contemporary art fair for photography

Main image: Ballerina in containers, Le Havre, France, 2021. Photograph: c/o JR and Galleria Continua/Photofairs Shanghai

  • Yamalik Mountain 3, 2005-15

    The series Yamalik Mountain documents the daily life of a now disappeared community near the train station in the city of Urumqi from 2005. Lin used 30,000 black and white negatives, and handwritten diaries, to capture the lives of unregistered residents living on this land. Most of these individuals, coming from various parts of China, faced relocation due to rapid urbanisation and environmental degradation
    Black and white image of people looking out over an urban landscape

  • Kashi Youth, 2023

    Ma Hailun’s latest series, Kashi Youth, focuses on youth culture in China’s westernmost city. Her images explore young people’s daily lives, their unique vitality and wild resilience
    Four young people, two with bicycles, one with a football and one with a skateboard

  • Reinvention, 2022

    Amsterdam’s Mick Galerie showcases three emerging Dutch female photographers: Carlie Consemulder, Lotte Ekkel and Nanda Hagenaars
    A woman's face is partially obscured by a hand held out in front of her

  • Mexican Fragments 2, 2022

    The edge of a shoreline shines orange in the light

  • Sea of Japan, Hokkaido, 1986

    One of the medium’s most celebrated artists, Hiroshi Sugimoto’s images are presented alongside work by Elliott Erwitt, Marc Riboud, William Klein and Terry O’Neil in Shanghai
    Blurry black and white of the sea

  • Daydreamer, 2024

    One of a series of Liz Nielsen’s light paintings
    Blocks of colour against a white background

  • Things from the Heat 3, 2024

    The Singaporean artist Robert Zhao Renhui has a solo show spanning various long-term projects from across his career. He is also representating Singapore at the Venice Biennale 2024
    Washed-out thermal image of animals

  • Amoeba Phase II, 2015

    The Australian duo Honey Long and Prue Stent explore the relationship between femininity and the natural world. This exhibition by Fahey/Klein Gallery is the first collaboration between Photofairs’ editions in Shanghai and New York
    Two people push in opposite directions inside stretchy fabric

  • No Man’s Land 2023 No.2, 2023

    New work by Luo Dan from his recently completed No Man’s Land project explores our relationship with the world surrounding us
    Aerial view of mountainous terrain

  • Plum in the Mountain, 2023

    Taca Sui examines how Chinese traditional culture blends with the surrounding physical landscape
    Grey image showing a twig with flowers

  • Farewell on El Malecon (At Dusk), La Habana, 2023

    Valery Katsuba’s work is exhibited alongside that of Candida Höfer, Flor Garduño, and Yang Yongliang
    Two topless men and a woman in a white dress beside the sea

  • Satoko Arms, 2022

    The International Photography Museum Fotografiska presents the Swedish-based duo Cooper Gorfer’s cross-media collaged portraits of women
    Colourful abstract image of a woman

  • Shanghai, 1990s

    Xu Haifeng documents urban life in China in the second half of the 20th century, and is on display with works by Meng Minsheng
    Black and white image of two people on a street

  • Dichroic Shopper 9.01, 2023

    This image is part of a dual show by the French artists Thomas Devaux and David de Beyter
    Ghostly image of a person holding a bag

  • Breakfast with Stephen Shore (1977), 2018

    One of a number of new works by the American photographer Anastasia Samoylova from an ongoing project that stages imaginary breakfast encounters with luminaries of photography who have inspired her practice
    Fruit sits on a framed image of a woman in a pool

  • Ballerina in containers, Hanging in there, Le Havre, France, 2021

    This image is from a solo show by the French artistJR, known for his large-scale black and white photography installations
    A woman in a tutu hangs by her arm from an open shipping container stacked among other closed containers

  • Amanecer d’après Hopper, 2009
    A seated woman looks out of a window

  • Migration of Silver, 2023

    Green on Red Gallery in Dublin is presenting the works two Irish artists, Alan Butler and Aoife Shanahan. Both interrogate the boundaries of the medium through a scientific approach, the former documenting plant life through cyanotypes and the latter exposing film to bacteria to create abstractions that highlight the unseen presence of bacteria in photography
    Scientific image of bacteria

  • 1M Behind Me, 1988-1989 by Mo Yi

    C14 Gallery, Shanghai, exhibits Mo Yi’s shots of Beijing and Tianjin in the 1980s and 90s
    A face in a crowd
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