Juxtapoz Magazine – Enchantment and Suffocation in Zhang Kechun’s “The Yellow River”

Best known for large format photographs of the post-industrial Chinese landscape, Zhang Kechun produces epic vistas that extol and underscore the significance of landscape in modern Chinese national identity. For this project, Kechun embarked on a journey along one of the country’s longest  and most celebrated waterways, the Yellow River, considered the cradle of Chinese civilization, which has undergone drastic, and often destructive, transformation in the last hundred years. Initially Kechun envisioned his trip on the historic river as an experience to “find the root of my soul.”