When you look at one of Feng Li’s photographs – a man smashing his head into a windscreen, an operatic woman swishing on a smoggy rooftop – you don’t feel warmth or belonging. Whatever’s happening in the Chinese-born photographer’s images, it’s not happening for you. That’s what makes his photos so compelling. The camera captures the oddness of what is already there under stark, flattening flash – nothing beautified, nothing explained. Feng Li has spent two decades photographing street scenes in cities like Chengdu, Tokyo and Berlin, creating a body of eccentric work now being shown at the exhibition White Nights in Wonderland at Fotografiska Berlin. To mark its opening, Feng Li will be giving an artist talk with exhibition curator Holly Roussell on 22.08.2025 (starts 19h). Event tickets include entry to the talk, book signing and a first look at the exhibition. Around 150 of Feng Li’s works are on display, including several never before shown in Berlin. Clinical yet theatrical, the photographs expose the strangeness of everyday life. You could stare at them for hours.
Text: Benji Haughton / Photos: Feng Li
Fotografiska Berlin, Oranienburger Str.54, 10117 Berlin–Mitte; map
White Nights in Wonderland (22.08–23.11.2025). Tickets for the artist talk on 22.08 are available on the website.
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