Shen Wei Chinese Painter Photographer Film Director Portrait Postcard

POAP18* This is a specialist modern postcard by Shen Wei of his own self portrait with a girl wearing Christian Dior (as per reverse) and was the photo he used for victory at the London Photographers Charity Awards with details on reverse unused and mint.

Born and raised in Shanghai, China, Shen Wei is based in New York City. He holds an MFA in photography, video, and related media from the School of Visual Arts, New York; and a BFA in photography from Minneapolis College of Art and Design.

Shen Wei is known for his intimate portraits of others and himself, as well as his poetic landscape and still-life photography.  He also works on video, performance, and mixed-media art. Weis attention to the interactions of darkness and light, and negative or void spaces gives these hidden forces tangible form, drawing from the philosophical treatment of emptiness as solid space often found in Chinese painting. The interplay of positive and negative elements also articulates oppositional emotional states of fear, attraction, joy, loneliness and absence. Responding to his conservative upbringing in Shanghai, Weis self-portraits, nudes and sensuous landscape photographs explore notions of identity, memory and sexuality.