Patrick Wack
Inland
Berlin, Allemagne
French photographer Patrick Wack was born in Cannes in 1979 and grew up in the suburbs of Paris. After a career in sports and studies in economics that took him to the US and Sweden, he left a job in Berlin to pursue in China a passion for photography, and hopes of a less ordinary life. Fully self-taught, he worked from 2006 to 2017 as a Shanghai-based freelance photographer in the fields of editorial and commercial photography. He also focuses on long-term personal projects mixing the traditional documentary approach with a more subjective and contemplative storytelling. He has published in Time magazine, The New York Times, Geo France, The Sunday Times, Courrier International and Vanity fair among others. His work has been exhibited in solo shows in China, Germany, Singapore, France and the US. He’s currently based in Berlin but splitting his time with Paris, Shanghai and Moscow. Among other awards, he was a PDN photo annual winner and French Bourse du Talent laureate in 2018, has received 1st prize at the KL Photo Awards, and is one of the two 2019 laureates of the Albert-Kahn Museum grant.
2019 - Albert-Kahn Museum Prize, 2018 - Bourse du Talent, 2018 - Boutographies Festival - prix du public, 2018 - PDN Photo Annual, 2014 - Kuala Lumpur International Photo awards
- Advertising
- Architecture
- Arts
- Corporate
- Editorial
- Events
- Fashion
- Interior
- Landscape
- Portrait
- Chinese
- German
- French
- English
Out West
Patrick Wack
Borrowing from romanticized notions of the American frontier, synonymous with ideals of exploration and expansion, Patrick Wack captures a visual narrative of China’s westernmost region, Xinjiang. Literally translating to “new frontier” in mandarin, Xinjiang is a land apart from China, which it once connected to Central Asia as the first leg of the Silk Road. For China’s ethnic Han majority, Xinjiang is once again the new frontier, to be awakened for Beijing’s new Silk Road - China’s own manifest destiny.
Out West offers an experience of Xinjiang that highlights its estrangement from contemporary perceptions of the new China.
Out West
Patrick Wack
Borrowing from romanticized notions of the American frontier, synonymous with ideals of exploration and expansion, Patrick Wack captures a visual narrative of China’s westernmost region, Xinjiang. Literally translating to “new frontier” in mandarin, Xinjiang is a land apart from China, which it once connected to Central Asia as the first leg of the Silk Road. For China’s ethnic Han majority, Xinjiang is once again the new frontier, to be awakened for Beijing’s new Silk Road - China’s own manifest destiny.
Out West offers an experience of Xinjiang that highlights its estrangement from contemporary perceptions of the new China.
Out West
Patrick Wack
Borrowing from romanticized notions of the American frontier, synonymous with ideals of exploration and expansion, Patrick Wack captures a visual narrative of China’s westernmost region, Xinjiang. Literally translating to “new frontier” in mandarin, Xinjiang is a land apart from China, which it once connected to Central Asia as the first leg of the Silk Road. For China’s ethnic Han majority, Xinjiang is once again the new frontier, to be awakened for Beijing’s new Silk Road - China’s own manifest destiny.
Out West offers an experience of Xinjiang that highlights its estrangement from contemporary perceptions of the new China.
