Artist Biography
Jin Shouxian was born in Chongqing; his family was originally from Huzhou, Sichuan. He joined the army in 1961. In 1976, he embarked on his career as a photographer, and began to publish his photographs in 1978.
Since then, Jin’s photographs have received over a hundred gold, silver and bronze medals in exhibitions and contests in China and abroad. More than a thousand of his works have appeared in newspapers, magazines, and books. Jin has also published over fifty photo albums and wall calendars. His works have been widely exhibited in the United States, Japan, Greece, France, Italy, and other countries.
Jin is currently the chief press photographer of Southwest Economic Daily. In 1992, he won the first Sichuan Literary and Art Prize. In 1998, the China Photographers Association conferred on him the title of “Outstanding Member with Noble Character and Superb Skills”.
Jin employs lucid lines, bright colors and simple composition in his photographs to express the eternal theme of the relation between man and man, man and society, and man and nature.