Bio
Zhao Tielin, ethnically Manchu , was born in Liaoning province, China. When he graduated from senior high school, the Cultural Revolution engulfed his family: his mother war forced to commit suicide, his father was sent to jail and he had no home to return to.
From 1968 to 1977, He became a factory worker. In 1978, he entered Beijing Air College, studying industrial automation. In 1982, he became a Party member and a teacher in the same college.
He was then transferred to the Beijing Research Institute of Computer Technology where he won an award for developing computer applications for publications in 1987.
In 1994, he left the Institute and began to do freelance work in photography and literature.
From 1998 onward, his photo essays and stories on the 'bottom strata' of the population have been widely published, triggering serious discussions nationally and internationally. From 2002 to present, he is a adjunct professor at the department of Sociology of Tsinghua University
Taught “the Bottom Class in Transitional China.”
Publications
They (Shaanxi Normal University Press, 2006)
The Invisible City (Shaanxi Normal University Press, 2005)
The Invisible Men (Shaanxi Normal University Press, 2005)
The Lens of Society (Shandong People?'s Press, 2004)
Songzhuang in Black and White (Hainan Press, 2003)
The Fading Memory (Hainan Press, 2003)
Focused Existence: Photographic Notes on Zhao Tielin's? Alternative Life (Zhejing Photography Press, 2002)
Alternative Life: The Real World in the Eyes of a Photographer (Social Science and Documentary Press, 2000)
Focused Existence: Drifting Girls in the Margins of the Cities (1999)
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