Ke Peng’s Salt Ponds highlights the rapid modernisation and urbanisation in China. Captured over a five-year period, Peng focuses on shapes and forms that are universally present in contemporary Chinese cities.

“The Salt Pond is more like an ecosystem that may be slightly out of balance due to being involved, where the situation of the pond and the fish will eventually refer to people who are trapped in the city but also dependent on the excitement and security it brings.” (from the publisher’s statement)

About the Artist

Ke Peng is a photographer and writer who was born in Hunan Province and grew up in Shenzhen in China. Her work often encapsulates the change and evolution of the urban fabric of China. Peng Ke’s primary concern is with the relationships between the human condition of urban spaces and the collective experiences of the people there. In her photographs, the tasteful colours, charming forms, strange outlines and popping textures in the indoor and outdoor daily scenes of China among other places in Asia, are vividly and incisively displayed in their very original forms.

Peng Ke graduated in 2015 from the Rhode Island School of Design (RISD) with a BFA in Photography. She received the Magnum Foundation and ChinaFile's Abigail Cohen fellowship in the following year. She published her photography book “Salt Ponds” in 2018 and was given the New Talent Award at PHOTOFAIRS Shanghai.