Patrick Wack

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July 2019. Dolzhanskaya spit, Krasnodar Krai, Russia. On the Sea of Azov
July 2019. Dolzhanskaya spit, Krasnodar Krai, Russia. On the Sea of Azov
July 2019. Dolzhanskaya spit, Krasnodar Krai, Russia. On the Sea of Azov
December 2016. Xinjiang province, China. Communist monument in Xinjiang on the road G312 to Hami (also called Kumul) driving from Gansu province. Xinjiang is the westernmost province in all China, located at the border of Central Asian countries, R
December 2016. Xinjiang province, China. Senior technician from a Chinese state-owned oil company taking a cigarette break after lunch near one of the team's vehicle. He is part of an oil exploration team from a Chinese state-owned company operatin
December 2016. Xinjiang province, China. Half constructed and decaying palace hotel in the new development zone of the city of Turpan in Xinjiang.
June 2016. Xinjiang province, China. A Han Chinese migrant worker fishing in a small lake in the outskirts of Turpan. In the background, a typical item of China's fast developping West, a half-built half-decaying palace or government building.
May 2016. Xinjiang province, China. Travellers getting on and off the train to Hotan at the Kashgar railway station. This is the only railway linking the oasis towns south of the Taklamakan desert where most of Xinjiang's Uighur community in Xinjian
May 2017. Xinjiang province, China. Han Chinese migrant worker from the East of China making a call overlooking new constructions in Altay, a county-level city in Ili Kazakh Autonomous Prefecture, in far northern Xinjiang, China. It is the administr
May 2012. Tibet province, China. Portrait of Zhaxi Dorje, 20 years old, Tibetan caterpillard fungus picker near the Shola Pass basecamp at 4470m high.
Chongqing, China. 2013. Yi Jia Lin, professional player of Shakuhachi, playing his instrument somewhere in the Nan'An district of Chongqing. Chongqing is a major city in the Southwest of China and one of the five national central cities in the PRC.
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French photographer Patrick Wack (b. 1979) grew up in the suburbs of Paris. After a career in sports and studies in economics and foreign languages in France, the US and Sweden, he left a job in Berlin to start again as a photographer in China. Fully self-taught, he was based in Shanghai from 2006 to 2017, Berlin from 2017 to 2021 and Moscow from 2021 to 2023 as one of the very few Western journalists remaining in a country at war. Wack works freelance for international publications and commercial clients but he is most passionately dedicated to long-term documentary projects mixing geopolitical and social topics with a subjective and contemplative storytelling. His work has addressed topics such as the repression of minorities, urban mutations, war-time Russia, the emergence of China and post-conflict reconstruction and has been featured in publications such as TIME, The New York Times, National Geographic, The Sunday Times, The Financial Times, The Wall Street Journal, Le Monde, M, der Spiegel, Stern among many others. His first monograph "Dust" about the forced Sinicization of the Uyghur region was released early October 2021 with André Frère Editions and was shortlisted for the Paris Photo-Aperture award 2022. His project "Azov Horizons" will be part of the official program of the Rencontres d'Arles 2025 during which the book will be launched. Now based in Paris, he's also the cofounder of the Inland cooperative gathering 14 international documentary photographers.


Based in: Paris, France
Website: www.patrick-wack.com
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Books: Une Nouvelle Célébration / DUST

 

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