BOOK OF THE YEAR

With the Chinese New year around the corner Photofair Shanghai invited notable voices from within the photography industry - including collectors, curators, researchers, writers and critics - to share their favourite artists, exhibitions and books from 2021.

Astrid Krehan was among those selected and her book ‘Infinity’ was voted Book of the year.

Raffaella Gallo, Collector, Founder of ARTCaffè

Book of the Year
Infinity by Astrid Krehan
Publisher: Shanghai Literature & Art Publishing House
 
In this book, German artist Astrid Krehan shares her journey  into abstract photography, ignited by her passion for the media and nourished by her travels, her life experiences and all the sources of inspiration that brought her to incorporate different techniques into her photographic practice. Among the many reasons as to why I recommend this book, the chapter Entropy, in the section China’s Modern Pulse captures the chaos that broke out in 2020. I can feel the energy we had to put in to react to this new unknown, followed by the feeling of being stuck in a cage. In a nutshell: I loved this book because of its power to express through stunning pictures all the intense feelings I’ve been struggling with, as a foreigner living in China, in the last couple of years.

A big thank you to Raffaella Gallo and Photofairs for the nomination and article.