Location: Baiyu, Sichuan
Medium: ILFORD Multigrade FB Classic fiber-based paper
Technique: Hand-printed gelatin silver print
Edition: 1/12
Framing: Solid wood frame with acid-free mat
Signature: Signed by the artist (on verso)
This work was photographed at Yaqing Monastery in Baiyu, Sichuan. Yaqing is a Buddhist academy-type monastery, and the river-encircled area is where the nuns reside. From an elevated viewpoint, the artist captures this distinctive spatial structure: the densely clustered dwellings and surrounding waterways together form a visual field marked by strong order and symbolic resonance. Bringing into a single frame the living environment, spiritual framework, and lived reality of Tibetan Buddhist nuns, the work conveys a quiet yet deeply suggestive position of looking.
Zhou Wei, born in 1969, is a freelance photographer based in Changzhou, Jiangsu. Since 2002, he has focused on long-term documentary projects concerning contemporary Chinese society, with particular attention to how history, culture, and belief are reflected in everyday life among different ethnic communities. His major projects include Numunayi, JOMO, and A Gaze into Central China. His works have been exhibited and awarded in China and abroad.