Selected Works

These photos are selected from Li Fan's Silk Road Photos.

Cement Factory

Tieshan Cement Factory is located in Guilin City in south China. The factory was built in 1996 and played an important role in Guilin’s economic development and urban construction. However, beca···

An Alternate Landscape from Western China

This series of photos captures an alternate everyday landscape of non-tourist attraction places across western China, integrating unique local human elements into the environment, and presents i···

Havana: The Decaying World Heritage

This series of photos was taken in Havana, the capital of the Republic of Cuba. The Havana old district was listed as one of the 121 World Heritages by UNESCO in 1982. After decades of colonizat···

Ethnic Yi People in China

The Yi people are an ancient ethnic group in China and they have retained their distinctive ethnic characteristics and culture.

Sports On Cuban Streets

Cuban people engage in various sports activities on streets, alleys and roadside. Their favorite sports include baseball, basket ball, volley ball, boxing, and track and field events. The nation···

Market-goers along the Yangtze River

This series of photos was taken in Yibin, Sichuan province, China, the first city in the Yangtze River Basin. Here, the traditional market culture is still continued, which is held every two day···

Keriyan Dwellings in China

These photos were taken in the Taklimakan Desert. In a place called Daliyabuyi in Uyghur language at the lower reaches of Keriya River, there live a group of aboriginal Uyghur people who call th···

Foggy Winter in the Great Liangshan Mountains

The Great Liangshan Mountains located in the Ethnic Yi Autonomous Prefecture in southwest China’s Sichuan Province is an important passage of central China to the southwest border areas, as well···

People Along the Yunnan-Haiphong Railway

This series of photo depicts the living environment and lives of the people living along the Yunnan section of Yunnan-Haiphong railway.

Tajik Women in Taskurghan

These photos, taken in the Tashkurghan Tajik Autonomous County in China’s Xinjiang Autonomous Region, depict the love of beauty and aspiration of life of Tajik women. Tajiks is an ancient ethnic···

Ethnic Yi women in China

This series of photos has been taken in the Daliangshan (Great Liangshan Mountains) area of Sichuan, China since 2003, documenting the survival and life of ethnic Yi women. The Yi people is an a···

Old Alleys in Metropolitan Shanghai

Nongtang, or the unique architectural form of alley in China’s Shanghai, blends Chinese architectural tradition with western influence. It is one of the most typical features of modern Shanghai ···

Cosmetic Facial Masks-Wearing Tajik Women

These photos, taken in the Tashkurghan Tajik Autonomous County in China’s Xinjiang Autonomous Region, depict the love of beauty and aspiration of life of Tajik women. Tajiks is an ancient ethnic···

New Liangshan Folks

Ethnic Yi people in China leaped from the Slavery Society to the Socialist Society in one giant step after the founding of the People’s Republic of China in 1949. They have retained much of thei···