Dinu Li

In his series of fourteen portraits Press The Star, Then Say Hello (2006) [7] Li photographed customers of high-street internet booths in Manchester as they phoned 'home' abroad, their bodies in one space and their minds elsewhere.

[10] In his photographic series Secret Shadows (2002) Li created 'portraits' of illegal migrants working in London's Chinese restaurant trade, through images of their possessions and living quarters.

[11] In We Write Our Own History (2017) he collaborated with political activists unable to safely reveal their identities, who restaged their unofficial, alternative memories of the 2014 Umbrella protests by arranging everyday items on table tops.

[4] Li sourced a 1950s cartoon story book about a heroic Communist boy who intercepted enemy soldiers, creating an altered narrative overlaid with children chanting the song Pure Imagination from the film Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory in Mandarin.

[17] His work has been exhibited internationally, including at the Venice Biennale, Italy, 2009[17] the 3rd Bucharest Biennale, Romania;[17] Contact FotoFest 05, Canada;[17] The Map: Navigating the Present[18], Bildmuseet, Sweden, 2008;[17] Contemporary Chinese Photography, Oldenburger Kunstverein, Germany, 2010;[4] PhotoIreland, Irish Museum of Modern Art, Ireland, 2012;[4] Family Stories, White Space 798, China, 2004;[17] The Mother of All Journeys, Victoria and Albert Museum, UK, 2009;[17] The Map: Navigating the Present, Konsthall C, Sweden, 2009;[4] The Problem of Asia, Para/Site Art Space HK at Chalk Horse, Australia, 2010;[4] Liminal Britain, San Antonio Art Gallery, USA, 2006;[17] Tashkent Biennale 2007, Uzbekistan;[17] and the Dong Gang International Photography Festival, Korea, 2015.