Ren Hang

Ren Hang

Country

China

Birth - Death

1987 - 2017

Occupation

Photographer, Poet

Description

Portrait photographer who took colour blasted, abstract images of young naked Chinese men and women. The graphic sexual content lead to him being arrested on several occasions. Poet. His early self-published photo books are collector's items and his work was published globally, in an all-new retrospective monograph by Taschen (2016). Committed suicide.

See Also

• LGBTQ Photographers
• Prominent LGBTQ Deaths in 2017
• The Great LGBTQ Surrealist and Abstract Artists

Further Reading/Research

• http://www.renhang.org/
• http://www.cnn.com/2017/02/13/arts/chinese-photographer-ren-hang/
• http://www.gaystarnews.com/article/queer-chinese-photographer-ren-hang-dies-age-29/#gs.1wLCHGc

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