​ Qingjun Huang A freelancer artist, photographer. He was born in 1971 in China. He has been engaged in photographic art creation for 30 years, currently lives and works in Peoria, IL USA. Qingjun's representative works are Steam Locomotive from 1992 to 2002 and Family Stuff from 2003 to present. Online Shopping Family Stuff and Homeless People’s Family Stuff are two special sub-series. Recent new sub-series are: China Intangible Cultural Heritage Inheritor’s Belongings, and The Stuffs of Live Streamers. Various international media, such as the New York Times, Bloomberg, and Wired, have also covered these works. BBC interviewed Huang and his works four times. His works have also appeared in magazines and albums such as Architecture Boston, Business Insider, GEO, Chinese National Geography, Discovery Cultural Geographic Monthly, Guardian Weekend, China Daily, Chinese Photography Magazine, Grazia France, Dutch Weekly Magazine, Vrij Nederland, Dutch Financial Daily, Family Photography Now etc. Some of his works appeared in textbooks published by Oxford University Press, and National Geographyic learning. Huang’s works was published on Harvard Business Review in Sept-Oct.2021. BBC latest report link: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-china-60473524 Upcoming exhibition: Human.Kind. Oct.18 2023-April 2024 International Museum of the Red Cross and Red Crescent, Geneva, Switzerland. Awards： Fujifilm 2022 GFX Grant Challenge Winner 2021 11.17 Lishui Photography Festival ／Special Collection Award 2021 No.28th China National Photographic Art Exhibition, Judges recommended award， (First Place of Art category single photo) 2020 London International Creation Competition (LICC shortlist) 2020 10th Annual International Photography Competition, Florida Museum of Photography Arts USA (Second place) 2020 Tokyo International Foto Award (TIFA),(Gold) 2017 London International Creation Competition (LICC Honorable Mention) 2016 MIFA Moscow International Foto Awards(Honorable Mention) 2015 China International Press Photo Contest, (Bronze) 2015 London International Creation Competition (LICC Finallist) 1998 China Photography Kodak Cup Reverse Film Competition, Top 10 Excellent Professional Photographers 1994－1995 United Nations Environment Programme Photographic Competition on the Enviroment (Honorary Mention) Selected Group Exhibitions: 05/2022 Riverbridge Art Center, Chicago USA 11/2021 Head On Photo Festival, Australia 11/2021 Lishui Photography Festival, China 03/2021 Resonance, A Tribute to Robert Frank, Three Shadows Photography Art Center, Beijing, China 03/2021 Aggregation, National Large Format Photography Exhibition, Ying Photo Gallery, Beijing, China 12/2020 Resonance, A Tribute to Robert Frank, Three Shadows Photography Art Center, Xiamen, China 11/2020 Global Localized Chinese Contemporary Art, Hunan Art Museum 09/2020 Helsinki Photo Festival, Finland 12/2019 All We Love, Yachang Art Center, Shenzhen, China 10/2019 All We Love, 798 Art Factory, Beijing,China 09/2019 Autumn Vibe in the Mountains, Sichuan, China 11/2017 3rd Western China International Art Biennale, Neimenggu Art Museum, Huhehaote, China 04/2017 2nd Chongqing Changjiang International Image Biennial， Changjiang Museum of Contemporary Art, Chongqing, China 11/2016 Chinese Contemporary Photography Group show in Milan, Italy 09/2016 Benchmark Large Format Photography in China, Pingyao, Shanxi province, China 06/2016 Constellation.s Habiter le Monde, Centre d’architecture Bordeaux, France 06/2015 798 Photo Gallery at 13 06/2015 Athens Photo Festival 2015, Benaki Museum, Athens 04/2015 1st Chongqing Changjiang International Image Biennial 03/2015 The Transformations of a Thread, Xi’an Art Museum 10/2014 4th edition SIPF Singapore International Photography Festival. Singapore. 11/2013 China KEEP BACK image Exhibition, Fujian, China 09/2013 Photoquai Photography Biennial, Paris 11/2012 Lianzhou FOTO 03/2012 AIPAD New York, USA 11/2010 PHOTO Exhibition, Paris 11/2009 PHOTO Exhibition, Paris 08/2007 Floating-The New Generation of Art in China organized by China Art Gallery Selected Solo Exhibitions: 11/2022 Housed/Unhoused. Contemporary Art Center, Peoria IL USA 02/2022 FUJIFILM X Space, Shanghai, Family Stuff of Streamers. 11/2017 Huang Qingjun Pleasure Ground, 798 Photo Gallery, Beijing 05/2015 Huang Qingjun From Faraway Steam Locomotive Solo Show, Terminal 2 Pudong International Airport. 03/2015 Huang Qingjun Family Stuff New Works Show. Meimen Gallery, Beijing 02/2015 Huang Qingjun Online Shopping Family Stuff, Alibaba Group Headquater, Hangzhou, China 09/2014 “Family Stuff” solo show in WM Gallery, Amsterdam 09/2013 “Family Stuff” works 10 years anniversary exhibition in 798 Photo Gallery, Beijing China 12/2007 798 Photo Gallery, Beijing, China. 10/2007 Dresden Transport Museum, Dresden, Germany 12/2006 DB Museum, Nuremberg Germany