Chou Ching-hui (Chinese: 周慶輝; born 1965) is a Taiwanese artist and photographer.

Biography

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Chou was born in 1965 in Taiwan and graduated from the World College of Journalism in Taiwan.

Chou's interest in photography started in 1988. After completing military service, he has been a photojournalist in Capital Morning News, The Journalist magazine and China Times Weekly in Taiwan. Over these years, he received Taiwan’s annual Top Award in Photojournalism, Silver Medal in the Reportage category. A year later, Chou embarked on his first long-term photography project, "Frozen in Time – Images of a Leper Colony" which was exhibited at Taipei Fine Arts Museum in 1995. The following year, the exhibition was shown at the Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography, and was recorded in Taiwan Photographers.

Every project that Chou created is fully related to social issues. He has received Independence Post Group Annual Taiwan News Award in Graphic Stories category, Golden Cauldron Prize, etc.

Chou's works have been exhibited at Taipei Fine Arts Museum (1995), the Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography (1996), the Pingyao International Photography Festival, Pingyao, China (2002), the Guangdong Provincial Museum (2003), the Shanghai Art Museum (2003), the Guangzhou Photo Biennial (2008, 2009); and the Taiwan Biennial (2008).

Chou's Wild Aspirations – The Yellow Sheep River Project, a picture book series composed of computer images of children of the Yellow Sheep River Area, won the Red Dot Design Award in 2010 and the iF Communication Design Award 2011.[1]

Solo exhibitions

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  • 1995 : Frozen in Time – Chronicle of a Leper Colony, Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Taipei, Taïwan
  • 1997 : Frozen in Time – Chronicle of a Leper Colony, National Ching-Hua University Arts Center, Hsinchu, Taïwan
  • 2002 :
    • Vanishing Breed – Workers Chronicle, Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Taipei, Taïwan
    • Vanishing Breed – Workers Chronicle, The 2nd Pingyao International Photography Festival, Pingyao, Shanxi, China
  • 2004 :
    • Vanishing Breed – Workers Chronicle, Quanta Building Hall, Taipei, Taïwan
    • Vanishing Breed – Workers Chronicle, Immersing in Art, Quanta Campus Tour Exhibition, Taipei, Taïwan
  • 2009 : Wild Aspirations – The Yellow Sheep River Project, Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Taipei, Taïwan
  • 2010 : Wild Aspirations – The Yellow Sheep River Project, Istituto degli Innocenti, Florence, Italy
  • 2015 :
    • Animal Farm, MoCA Taipei, Taipei, Taiwan
    • Animal Farm, ElsaArt Gallery, Taipei, Taiwan

Group exhibitions

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Publications

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  • 1989 : Juan Yi-chung Darkroom Studio – Image Notebook, Jen Chien Publishing
  • 1995 : Modern Taiwanese Photographers – Focus on Chou Ching-hui, Ascending Cultural Enterprises Publishing
  • 1996 : Frozen in Time – Chronicle of a Leper Colony collected in Vibrant Asia photography volume, Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography
  • 1998 : Executive director, Seeing the Native Son – Chronicle of Taiwanese Hakka in Shadow and Light photography volume, Taipei Civil Affairs Bureau
  • 2001 : Executive director, New Taipei City Yingge Ceramics Museum pictorial notebook project
  • 2002 : Vanishing Breed – Workers Chronicle exhibition catalogue, Photographers International
  • 2004 : Out of the Shadows photo album (limited edition), Evermore International Publishing Corporation
  • 2009 : Wild Aspirations – The Yellow Sheep River Project photo album (limited edition), Taipei Fine Arts Museum[4]

Collections

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See also

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References

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