[2] He received the backing of the Chinese artist Ai Weiwei, who included Ren in his 2013 Netherlands show, Fuck Off 2 The Sequel, and curated the photographer's 2014 exhibition in Paris, France.

[6] Ren's erotic, playful and casual yet provocative expression gained him worldwide fame and recognition.

[3] In 2007, in order to relieve the boredom of studying advertising at college, he bought a point-and-shoot camera and began photographing his friends.

He posted a series of diary entries titled "My depression" on his blog, recording the fear, anxiety and internal conflicts he experienced.

[3][9][10] Ren first began taking pictures of his roommates and friends in 2007, shooting them in the nude as all were close and seeking excitement.

He said there were no preferred places for him to work, as he believed anywhere was beautiful and worthy to be shot, including sparse studios, parks, forests, and atop buildings.

Ren's photos employ nude groups and solo portraits of men and women often contorted into highly performative positions.

[2] For example, hands reach down milky thighs, a limp penis flops onto a watermelon and a series of backsides imitate a mountain range.

The British Journal of Photography quoted him as once saying: "I don't want others having the impression that Chinese people are robots... Or they do have sexual genitals but always keep them as some secret treasures.

[citation needed] Ren's work is included in Frank Ocean's magazine Boys Don't Cry.

The emotional erotic poetry usually comprises a handful of short lines, the tone ranging from humorous to sensual to dark.

it seems sent to a wrong person[17]Ren Hang is noted to be greatly influenced by Chinese and Asian contemporary art and in particular, Japanese photographer and contemporary artist Nobuyoshi Araki,[18] as well as the Japanese poet, film director, and photographer Shuji Terayama.

This, along with the fact all bodies were slim, lithe and relatively hairless, made the impact of his photographs more impressive.

concluded it was this contemporary form of poeticism in a visual context in which Ren Hang expressed themes of identity, the body, love, loss and death.

[citation needed]He said he was not trying to liberate nudity and sexuality since he believed that the Chinese young generation was open-minded and less affected by the old-fashioned cultures.

When Ren Hang talked about the question whether the topic of sexuality was still a taboo in China, he said: I don't think it's related to our times, these are individual cases.