18/11/2025
🖼️ Featured Artist | Featured Artist: Li Weijun 俊
📍 Exhibition “Description of Type • Likeness” is exhibited at Lanna Photo Gallery (Chiang Mai House of Photography), Chiang Mai.
🇬🇧 Featured Artist – Li Weijun
Chiang Mai House of Photography proudly presents Li Weijun,�the ninth and final artist featured in the exhibition “Description of Type • Likeness.”
Born in 1962, Li Weijun is a photographer from Yunnan Province, China.�He is a member of the China Photographers Association,�member of the Yunnan Photographers Association,�and Vice Chairman of the Xishuangbanna Photographers Association.
Li Weijun’s works focus on documenting ethnic cultures, rituals, and daily life in southern Yunnan,�particularly among the Blang (Bulang) people in the mountainous regions.�His images are deeply rooted in authenticity, combining emotional warmth with a poetic visual sense of place.
His photographs have been exhibited widely, including:
* Pingyao International Photography Festival (2009)
* Lishui International Photography Festival (2009)
* Dali International Photo Festival (2010–2011)
* Lancang–Mekong Cultural Arts Festival (2011–2014)
Selected works:�📸 “The Blang Men”�📸 “Manchunman Monastery”�📸 “Tranquil Land”�📸 “Flying Hope”
Awards:�🏆 Bronze Medal – Jirui Cup Photography Competition (2008)�🏆 Five Golden Flowers Grand Prize – China Photographers Association (2009)�🏆 Excellent Work Award – Yangtze River Photography Competition (2010)�🏆 Second Prize – Spring Rain Project: Love along the Yangtze (2012)
Publications:�His works have been featured in Popular Photography, China National Photography, People and Nature, Scenery Line,�and internationally on Le Journal de la Photographie (France).
✨ Experience the heartfelt and documentary vision of Li Weijun,�the ninth and final featured artist in “Description of Type • Likeness,”�at Chiang Mai House of Photography, Chiang Mai.