Artist Biography
Mr. JIN Shouxian is Han Chinese. Born in Chongqing, Sichuan in August 1943, he received a college education and joined the army in 1961. In 1970, he changed jobs and started working as a photo-journalist for the Southwest Economic Daily. Mr. Jin has practiced photography for more than 40 years, specializing in depicting humanity, and in documentary and landscape photography. He is now an adviser of Chongqing Photographers Association, a member of China Photographers Association, The Photojournalist Society of China and Professional Photographers of America (PPA), and the Director and Art Director of the Chongqing Xinghai Photography Club.
Since 1972, nearly two hundred of Mr. Jin’s works have been awarded gold, silver and bronze medals in international and local photographic exhibitions and competitions. More than 1,800 of his photographs have been used in newspapers, magazines,and albums. He has photographed more than 80 albums and calendars for regional governments and enterprises in Southwest China. In 1992, his works were displayed in the America tour of “China Photographic Art Exhibition”. In August 2000, his works were exhibited at the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington DC, in conjunction with “Chinese Culture in the United States “, for which he received a commendation from the State Council Information Office of the People’s Republic of China and the China Photographers Association. Another 74 of his works have been exhibited in Japan, Britain, France, Cyprus, Italy, Greece, Hong Kong, Australia and other countries.
In recent years, he mainly engaged in photographic creations as well as the club’s teaching advisor, nurturing more than 40 members of the Chinese Photographers Association.
He has been interviewed by television media such as CCTV and others from Sichuan, Beijing, Greece and Hong Kong as well as newspapers such as the Beijing Wan Bao, the Hong Kong Ta Kung Pao, the Wen Wei Po, and the South China Morning Post.
In terms of photographic style, Jin prefers simple, crisp lines and colors and rustic pictures, together with the understanding of life to illustrate the change of time, people and people, man and society and man and nature – the everlasting theme.