Secret Garden by Fenqiang Liu

These images are from my ongoing project, Secret Garden, which aims to capture the exquisite moments of Great Egrets in their natural Florida habitat, showcasing their beauty in all its splendor. I want to share my subjective view of reality through my work. My love and admiration for nature and wildlife are evident from how I idealize every scene I shoot, transforming realistic pictures into images of an ideal fictional and dreamy world that could exist only in imagination. I tried to paint pictures of a fairy tale or mystery with photography and creativity.

How I visualized the concept relates to my excitement and desire to share my experience. As an exciting live experience is always superior to its portrayal, the only way to transmit it visually is to create an equally exciting visual experience for the viewer. By using carefully composed images, the treatment of light, and some digital post-process, I want to challenge the boundary of traditional photography and create an ideal paradise beyond realism and inspire viewers with a fantasy world in my imagination. The Great Egret has a pure, ethereal figure that suits a paradise bird.

Secret Garden © Fenqiang Liu

Love Language © Fenqiang Liu

Wings of Peace © Fenqiang Liu

Color of the Wings © Fenqiang Liu

Morning's Glory © Fenqiang Liu

Paradise © Fenqiang Liu

Vibrant Universe © Fenqiang Liu

Wings of Confidence © Fenqiang Liu

Fenqiang Liu
Fenqiang Liu is a fine art nature photographer based in Orlando, known for his ability to capture the enchanting essence of natural Florida and transform it into a paradise within his imagination. Fenqiang's passion for visual art was sparked during his middle school years in China, where he began studying drawing. During college, he discovered his interest in photography and pursued it after completing his BA in Chinese literature. Fenqiang's photography journey continued when he worked as a cameraman for geographic educational videos, where he refined his skills in videography and photography. Then, seeking further education, Fenqiang ventured to the United States to earn his MFA in Cinema and Photography at Southern Illinois University. After graduation, he worked as a motion graphic designer before starting a business with his wife, providing behavior analysis services for children with autism.

Despite his diverse professional background, Fenqiang has always remained dedicated to his passion for photography. In recent years, he has focused on nature and wildlife photography, capturing breathtaking moments that inspire and captivate his audience. Drawing from his unique blend of cultural influences from both the East and West, as well as his artistic background and photography mastery, Fenqiang expresses his thoughts and emotions through his work in a truly distinct and meaningful way. He has won multiple awards from international photo contests. His photography reflects his passion, creativity, and dedication to the art form.

Wings of Life © Fenqiang Liu

Wings of Courage © Fenqiang Liu

Moonlight © Fenqiang Liu

Grace © Fenqiang Liu

Wings of Light © Fenqiang Liu

Invitation © Fenqiang Liu

Peace, Love, and Joy © Fenqiang Liu

Cedric Roux: Before Rebirth

By Cedric Roux

Publisher : ODYSSEE

2024 | 96 pages

Empty storefronts dot the downtown, while massive brick tobacco warehouses stretch the length of city blocks—abandoned and awaiting creative reuse. Wilson, North Carolina, feels frozen in the 1970s. Invited by the Eye on Main Street festival, photographer Cedric Roux made several trips to this enigmatic town. For a photographer used to capturing the vibrant energy of New York City streets—his first book, My Wonderland (now sold out), vividly chronicled the bustling metropolis—his initial encounter with Wilson was a profound shock.

Expecting a town in the midst of a vibrant renaissance, Roux wandered Wilson daily, exploring its diverse areas: downtown, affluent suburbs, and struggling neighborhoods. On either side of the railroad tracks that symbolically and socially divide the city, he sought a light that might suggest an emerging revival..

In his latest book, Before Rebirth, Roux captures this sense of disconnection, using his lens to explore a promise not yet realized. With a population of just 47,000, Wilson is a far cry from Manhattan’s 1.5 million. Used to the dense human energy that fuels his photographic style, Roux found himself reimagining his approach. His work took on a more stripped-down, documentary aesthetic, yet it remains deeply rooted in place and retains the distinctive palette and framing that define his vision..

In collaboration with artistic director Jean-Matthieu Gautier, Roux drew from his imagination and visual archives to craft a narrative that stays true to his photographic roots while stepping far beyond his usual realm.

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John Divola: San Fernando Valley

By John Divola

Publisher : Nazraeli Press

2024 | 60 pages

From the publisher: San Fernando Valley is where John Divola was born and raised, and it served as both backdrop and subject for his earliest, serious photographic explorations, made during the early 1970s. This previously unpublished body of work shows “the Valley” through the eyes of a young photographer who would soon become an internationally-recognized artist with the exhibition and publication of his much more conceptual “Zuma” series. The black and white photographs in “San Fernando Valley” comprise a series of subject groupings which, pulled together, show early manifestations of the deadpan humor and the ability to capture everyday scenes wrapped in loneliness, for which Divola is now well-known. The book is also, and not incidentally, a fascinating record of a quintessentially 1970s Los Angeles culture. John Divola’s work is the subject of numerous books and catalogues. Widely exhibited and collected throughout the United States, Europe, Japan and Australia, Divola’s photographs are included in the permanent collections of many public and private institutions, including those of The Museum of Modern Art, New York; Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; Getty Museum, Los Angeles; and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.

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Cig Harvey: Emerald Drifters

By Cig Harvey

Publisher : The Monacelli Press

2025 | 224 pages

Following her celebrated monograph Blue Violet (Monacelli, 2021), photographer Cig Harvey continues her personal study of sensory experience, focusing on the ephemeral nature of light, pigment, and vision. Her latest photographs are lush tableaux of her signature subjects – flora, cakes, domestic interiors, and the human figure in landscape – accompanied by prose vignettes on the science and art of color, written in her vibrant, intimate style. Featuring an afterword by award-winning novelist and poet Ocean Vuong, Emerald Drifters is a catalogue of pleasures and heartbreaks, and ‘an urgent call to live.’

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Helmut Newton. Berlin, Berlin

By Helmut Newton

Publisher : Taschen

2025 | 244 pages

Born in Berlin in 1920, Helmut Newton trained as a teenager with legendary photographer Yva, following her lead into the enticing pastures of fashion, portraiture and nudes. Forced to flee the Nazis aged only 18, Newton never left Berlin behind. After his career exploded in Paris in the 1960s, he returned regularly to shoot for magazines like Constanze, Adam, Vogue, Condé Nast's Traveler, ZEITmagazin, Männer Vogue, Max and the Süddeutsche Zeitung Magazin as well as his own magazine Helmut Newton’s Illustrated. In 1979, the newly relaunched German Vogue commissioned him to retrace the footsteps of his youth to capture the fashion moment. The resulting portfolio, Berlin, Berlin!, inspired the title of the exhibition which celebrates 20 years of the Helmut Newton Foundation. This collection includes Newton’s most iconic Berlin images, as well as many unknown shots from the 1930s to the 2000s: nightcrawlers in uber-cool clubs and restaurants, nude portraits in the boarding houses he knew from his youth, and the Berlin film scene, featuring Hanna Schygulla and Wim Wenders at the Berlin Wall, John Malkovich and David Bowie. In October 2003, only months before his death, Newton moved large parts of his archive to his new foundation, housed in the Museum of Photography beside the Zoologischer Garten station―the very station from which he fled Berlin in the winter of 1938. This publication thus closes a circle in the story of his extraordinary life and work.

Secret Garden by Fenqiang Liu

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