Zhang Xiao (photographer)

[2] Zhang has been inspired by the photography of Diane Arbus, Alec Soth and Boris Mikhailov.

[2] Zhang has described the coastline as "[China's] first area of impact from external culture and the rapid economic development; the series "records subtle and surreal moments of life by the sea".

[3] Cited by Agnès Sire as showing an intimate and contemporary China without any exoticism, Coastline won Prix HSBC pour la photographie [fr] 2011, and as a result was widely exhibited and published in book form in Arles by Actes Sud in 2011.

[2] Zhang used a Holga again for the square, colour photographs of traditional rituals surrounding the lunar new year in Shaanxi.

The book Shanxi was first published by Little Big Man in the United States; Sean O'Hagan describes it as "a seductive book, a glimpse of a world of pagan custom that somehow endures against the odds, dreamlike and entrancing".