Hong Lei (Chinese: 洪磊; pinyin: Hóng Lěi; born 1960) is one of the leading artists in the era of China's New Photography movement in the 1990s.
In 1992, he went to the China Central Academy of Fine Arts to pursue advanced studies in printmaking.
[3] Hong's renowned works include Autumn in the Forbidden City (1997), Chinese Landscape (1998), After Liang Kai's (Song Dynasty) Masterpiece Sakyamuni Coming Out of Retirement (1998), I Dreamt that I was Hung Upside Down to Listen to Huizong Play the Zither with Chairman Mao (2004) and Nothing to Hide (2008), among others.
Apart from his success in digital photos, he started to photograph black and white Shan shui landscapes as an ongoing experimental project since 2000 to rethink Chinese traditional aesthetics.
[3] In recent years, he has also explored the various boundaries and possibilities of photography by painting his own photos on silk, as well as video & installation works.