April 28, 2007 - July 07, 2007
Opening Reception: April 28, 7:00 PM - 9:00 PM
UC Riverside/California Museum of Photography
3824 Main St, Riverside, CA 92501
For more information please visit http://www.cmp.ucr.edu/
Li Zhensheng was born in 1940 in Dalian, Liaoning Province, China. After early studies as a cinematographer, he began working as a photographer for the Heilongjiang Daily in northeastern China, where he stayed for over nineteen years before beginning a teaching career at the International Political Science Institute of the University of Beijing. In 2003 his chronicle of the turmoil of the Cultural Revolution (1966-1976) was published as Red-Color News Soldier: A Chinese Photographer's Odyssey Through the Cultural Revolution (Phaidon 2003). His photographic collection http://red-colornewssoldier.com/ has been represented worldwide by Contact Press Images since 1999. He is based in Beijing and New York.