Zhu Yinghao is a Chinese photographer, artist and travel writer based in Beijing, originally from Jinhua, Zhejiang. He studied Arabic at Beijing Language and Culture University and previously worked in media for many years.
He is a seasoned travel columnist for media such as CBN Weekly and Modern Weekly for more than ten years. His photographic works have been selected for the Three Shadows Photography Award, the Lianzhou International Photo Festival, and the Jinan International Photography Biennale. Zhu’s photographic and written works have been published in Chinese and international journals including China Photography, Financial Times, Life Monthly, Conde Nest Traveller, National Geography, and New Travel. The latest photo book, “Imaging Across the 1868 Strata,” is featured in the anthology The Third Departure, released in 2024 by independent publishing house Dandu(单读).
Whether in the early stages of his career, when he focused on documentary films and humanistic writing depicting the lives of ordinary people caught in the turmoil of war in Syria, Iran, and other regions, as well as the clash between tradition and modernity (he was among the first Chinese creators to witness the Middle East firsthand), or in his later work, the video installation Gauze and Walls, which reflects on how two generations respond to the shaping of individual values by mass media through the lens of family bonds.
Zhu’s work focuses on cross-cultural exchange, travel culture, and the archaeology of food. His latest project, Imaging Across the 1868 Strata, is a deep dive and reinterpretation of a 4-years-long scientific expedition in China by the 19th-century German geographer Ferdinand von Richthofen. Drawing from Richthofen’s travel journals, letters, and maps, the project weaves together text and images to retrace the geological, cultural, and scientific landscapes he encountered. It reflects on the present through the lens of the past, at a critical historical moment of East-West knowledge transmission. Zhu Yinghao’s new works have been exhibited at venues including Guangdong Times Museum, Tank Museum, Fotografiska Shanghai, and Mokanshan Art Museum.
Selected Exhibition
Asking the Way by Throwing Stones，group exhibtion, Moganshan Museum,2025
Photographic Geomancy: Image, Fieldwork, and the Poetics of Geography, group exhibition, Fotografiska Shanghai,2025
Sailors Program: Dive into the Field, Tank Museum, Shanghai,2025
The “Sprouting on Both Shores” Art Education Biennial, Hangzhou, 2025
Photographic Geomancy: Image, Fieldwork, and the Poetics of Geography, group exhibition, Guangdong Times Museum, 2024
“Having Seen the Local Produce” Group Exhibition, Archipelago Bookstore，Shanghai /Jiazazhi Space, Ningbo, 2024
Ten Years Later: Dandu 单读 10th Anniversary Photography Exhibition, One-Way Street Bookstore, Aranya, Qinhuangdao, 2019
Huawei Leica group photography exhibition, London, 2016
Voile & Wall
Three Shadow Photography Award Exhibition, 2015
Jinan Photography Biannual, 2014
No Gap: Manifest & Hidden
Beijing One International Arts of Performance Festival, 2013
Reflective Notes: A poetic walk in Iran
Chamber Gallery, Arles Photographie & Caochangdi PhotoSpring, 2012
The Beveler’s
LianzhouFoto Festival, Lianzhou, China, 2011
Happy 60
Edgar Frei Private Gallery, Bern, Switzerland, 2010
MR Gallery, Beijing, China, 2010
Selected articles and photo essays
Journey Through the Persian Gulf |波斯湾“经行记”
https://mp.weixin.qq.com/s/xYqdvFdIne8wcIZqm6vUig
To those who are struggling: please throw yourself wholeheartedly into your travels
痛苦挣扎的人啊，请全身心投入到旅行中
https://mp.weixin.qq.com/s/rgzucgaw0pJH-i8f92CnpA
The Banished |被放逐的人
https://www.jiemian.com/article/499220.html
Night of Ulan Bator|乌兰巴托的夜
https://mp.weixin.qq.com/s/hfKcU2wjbumjKbCiUp45dQ
27 Dubliners and Their James Joyce |27个都柏林人和他们的乔伊斯
https://www.sohu.com/a/230126611_550958
Selected Bibliography
He spent four years traveling across most of China, all to retrace the “China Road” from 150 years ago
他花四年时间，拍摄大半个中国，只为重走150年前的“中国之路”
https://www.lifeweek.com.cn/h5/article/detail.do?artId=235366
The Middle East Through One Person’s Eyes| 一个人的中东
https://mp.weixin.qq.com/s/MsKKc8_DAq63×5EiFy-I2g
旅行，一场迟来的自我教育
https://mp.weixin.qq.com/s/NRs4_F1MOi2pBCqZDJkReA
Most of us are not successful in communicating with the world, by Luggage
行李｜朱英豪：大部分人跟这个世界都交流不成功
https://mp.weixin.qq.com/s/TaMN2BhYNVZHRNpPiTBfMQ
Awards and Certificates
A recipient of the 2nd “Sailor Project” fellowship, 2019
Top 10 photographer of the year, Photographer of China Magazine, 2011
Finalist of Three Shadow Photography Award, 2015
Excellent exhibition Award of Jinan Photography Biannual, 2014
Working Languages
Chinese, English & Arabic