Photographer Yue Sun joins Michael Chovan-Dalton from the 2026 Chico Review to discuss

His work from Inner Mongolia and the transition of his hometown from coal mining to tourism.

https://www.yuesunphoto.com

https://www.instagram.com/__4le_/

b. 1998, Wuhai, Inner Mongolia, China

Based in Shanghai, China

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Yue Sun is a self-taught Chinese photographer, currently working as a freelance-architect in Shanghai.

BA Architecture(ARB/RIBA Part I), Architecture Association School of Architecture

Group Exhibitions

2026 - Gui Qu Lai Xi, FujiFilm X-Space, Hangzhou, China

2025 - 6th Lanzhou International Image Biennale

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Photographer Klaus Ruckgaber joins Michael Chovan-Dalton from the 2026 Chico Review to discuss

Sehnsucht, the German word for a kind of longing, and how he uses that in his work.

https://fleischkleidung.com

https://www.instagram.com/fleischkleidung/

I was born March 7th 2002 in Mexico City.

I am attracted by the manifestation of feeling, the existential and the ungraspable.

I am an individual who believes that there are no absolutes, there is no absolute beauty or an absolute truth or meaning. My work is focused on that idea. Our flaws, we are our own unreliable narrator in our existence and we shouldn't hide this but instead to carry it with tenderness and acceptance. The way we see the world is unique, splendor can be found in the unconventional, the “dregs” of life can also be beautiful.

In decay flowers bloom, in the lesions there are lessons and without loss, love has no consequence.

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Sipke Visser is a photographer and speaks about how he collaborates through photography at the 2026 Chico Review

https://www.sipkevisser.nl

https://www.instagram.com/sipkevisser/

https://www.chicoreview.com

After being born I spent the first 19 years of my life in Leeuwarden, a small town in the North of the Netherlands. In 2005 I moved to London for love and to pursue a life in photography. While making a living as a retoucher I have consistently been working on making art with photography as the main medium. While by very proficient with photoshop I never alter any of my own work, apart from grading.

My projects usually involve people. I love involving them with a project asking them to participate somehow, usually by adding text or drawings to a portrait or image. In 2005, for Return to Sender, I sent 500 hand written letters with an image to random people all across the UK, asking for a response. For the HAIR project I asked people to have all their hair cut off and to then reflect on that. In the pandemic I photographed the neighbours in black and white to then revisit them 2 years later inside their houses, shooting them in colour now. For Take a Look at Yourself I photographed 150 people with a large plate camera over a period of 8 years. I then asked them to have a really long good look at the image, and reflect.

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