http://zhao-jing.com/cathay daily 1.0 2026-04-14 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/50eccd09e4b0a80fde15a7d1/1764400364613-DD34YD3H23X72IW0TW50/A%2BLETTER.jpg Cathay - The River Merchant's Wife: A Letter 长干行 Diptych, archival pigment print 2011-2012 Cathay(2011-2025) Cathay is a photographic project structured in direct correspondence with Cathay (1915) by Ezra Pound. The series consists of nineteen photographic diptychs, each aligned with one poem from Pound’s book. Produced between 2011 and 2025 across the United States, the work functions as a visual re-translation, weaving a thread through classical Chinese poetry, modernist English, and into contemporary photography. Each diptych pairs color and black-and-white images made across different moments in time, forming a layered structure of memory, duration, and return. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/50eccd09e4b0a80fde15a7d1/1764400364613-DD34YD3H23X72IW0TW50/A%2BLETTER.jpg Cathay - The River Merchant's Wife: A Letter 长干行 Diptych, archival pigment print 2011-2012 Cathay(2011-2025) Cathay is a photographic project structured in direct correspondence with Cathay (1915) by Ezra Pound. The series consists of nineteen photographic diptychs, each aligned with one poem from Pound’s book. Produced between 2011 and 2025 across the United States, the work functions as a visual re-translation, weaving a thread through classical Chinese poetry, modernist English, and into contemporary photography. Each diptych pairs color and black-and-white images made across different moments in time, forming a layered structure of memory, duration, and return. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/50eccd09e4b0a80fde15a7d1/1763844353220-GDHY564HA8F5GM7VH02M/SONG%2BOF%2BTHE%2BBOWMAN%2BOF%2BSHU.jpg Cathay - Song of the Bowmen of Shu 诗经·小雅·采薇 Diptych, archival pigment print 2012 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/50eccd09e4b0a80fde15a7d1/1773973343160-5S81SSH21LCJV38E2ZW7/Zhao_Jing_Cathay_10.jpg Cathay - Taking Leave of a Friend 送友人 Diptych, archival pigment print 2013-2025 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/50eccd09e4b0a80fde15a7d1/1773973362153-SWMERHT1NCVJN3J9KCVG/Zhao_Jing_Cathay_18.jpg Cathay - To-Em-Mei's "The Unmoving Cloud" 停云诗 Diptych, archival pigment print 2013-2025 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/50eccd09e4b0a80fde15a7d1/1763844264721-IK9M4CR17ONFDO1HAND1/image-asset.jpeg Cathay - The River Merchant's Wife: A Letter 长干行 (after Ezra Pound) Diptych, archival pigment print 2011/2012—2012 Cathay is a long-term photographic project created between 2011 and 2025. Structured as nineteen diptychs, the series re-imagines Ezra Pound’s English translations of classical Chinese poems through a method of visual translation. Each diptych pairs a color image with a black-and-white image—two temporalities, two visual languages—brought into a single field of meaning. Many of the images were made more than a decade apart; some were photographed recently. Their coexistence creates a layered sense of time, memory, and return, echoing the way Pound’s translations connected distant histories. Rather than illustrating the poems, Cathay interprets their rhythm, silence, and emotional structure. The work moves between clarity and blur, presence and disappearance, accident and intention—holding the fragility of time as its core material. Across fourteen years of making, the series has grown into an inquiry about image, translation, and the endurance of inner life. It is both a meditation on poetic lineage and a record of how photographs can carry the traces of lived time. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/50eccd09e4b0a80fde15a7d1/1773973380422-YXGBKZNE9R2QHSA4B51G/Zhao_Jing_Cathay_19.jpg Cathay - The River Song I 江上吟 Diptych, archival pigment print 2012-2025 http://zhao-jing.com/under-the-seasons daily 0.75 2026-06-19 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/50eccd09e4b0a80fde15a7d1/1768450043934-SFVM5LFQIU4UPYXTMYA8/IMG_4239.png Under the Seasons - Documentary film still (In post-production) Under the Seasons (Feature documentary film) Under the Seasons is a documentary film following a mother and daughter through a year in North Texas, structured around the twenty-four solar terms of the traditional East Asian calendar. Filmed between the ages of three and four, the child encounters the world through seasons, weather, plants, animals, food, and the rhythms of everyday family life. Spanning the year between one Beginning of Spring and the next, the film follows the ordinary events that shape the passage of a year. Set within an American landscape, a year lived through the twenty-four solar terms, the film records a world shaped by an enduring Chinese experience of time. Credits A film by Zhao Jing Directed, filmed, and edited by Zhao Jing Filmed 2023–2024, Texas Currently in post-production https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/50eccd09e4b0a80fde15a7d1/1768450043934-SFVM5LFQIU4UPYXTMYA8/IMG_4239.png Under the Seasons - Documentary film still (In post-production) Under the Seasons (Feature documentary film) Under the Seasons is a documentary film following a mother and daughter through a year in North Texas, structured around the twenty-four solar terms of the traditional East Asian calendar. Filmed between the ages of three and four, the child encounters the world through seasons, weather, plants, animals, food, and the rhythms of everyday family life. Spanning the year between one Beginning of Spring and the next, the film follows the ordinary events that shape the passage of a year. Set within an American landscape, a year lived through the twenty-four solar terms, the film records a world shaped by an enduring Chinese experience of time. Credits A film by Zhao Jing Directed, filmed, and edited by Zhao Jing Filmed 2023–2024, Texas Currently in post-production https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/50eccd09e4b0a80fde15a7d1/1764894625621-F6B0GBKFNQUDWN130VGI/IMG_3997.png Under the Seasons https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/50eccd09e4b0a80fde15a7d1/1764887601101-UUT695QXD7DO1LKCQSFQ/IMG_4053.png Under the Seasons https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/50eccd09e4b0a80fde15a7d1/1764887796590-BSPZIPN4JWBGELYX63FU/IMG_3997.png Under the Seasons https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/50eccd09e4b0a80fde15a7d1/1764894625592-XNSJZ0RKSGRUZ4PP8THE/IMG_4007.png Under the Seasons https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/50eccd09e4b0a80fde15a7d1/1764894632993-6Y2CSQMVR9EG0CXZ1INO/IMG_4106.png Under the Seasons https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/50eccd09e4b0a80fde15a7d1/1768450100496-ILU9BN31543BYFLQL44T/IMG_3953.png Under the Seasons https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/50eccd09e4b0a80fde15a7d1/1764894646218-EVQ6XGC11XR5UH58HO0S/IMG_4232.png Under the Seasons https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/50eccd09e4b0a80fde15a7d1/1768450078843-WIJ654SVI2DMMAK83NTK/IMG_3900.jpg Under the Seasons https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/50eccd09e4b0a80fde15a7d1/1764887214715-BJ918SBTKOMA4QIAKQRF/IMG_4174.png Under the Seasons https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/50eccd09e4b0a80fde15a7d1/1764887145882-6Z6FEZ09M9FZ2T3MHUX4/image-asset.png Under the Seasons http://zhao-jing.com/seven-days-at-the-epicenter daily 0.75 2026-06-19 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/50eccd09e4b0a80fde15a7d1/1764037945439-YDU6F7G03DC74J6T6OAQ/image-asset.jpeg Seven Days at the Epicenter Seven Days at the Epicenter (In progress) Seven Days at the Epicenter is a work of literary non-fiction based on seven days spent in the aftermath of a major earthquake in a Tibetan region of western China. The book records a world in which faith is inseparable from life and death. Through eyewitness observation and personal reflection, it portrays that world at an extraordinary moment of catastrophe and the people living within it. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/50eccd09e4b0a80fde15a7d1/1764037945439-YDU6F7G03DC74J6T6OAQ/image-asset.jpeg Seven Days at the Epicenter Seven Days at the Epicenter (In progress) Seven Days at the Epicenter is a work of literary non-fiction based on seven days spent in the aftermath of a major earthquake in a Tibetan region of western China. The book records a world in which faith is inseparable from life and death. Through eyewitness observation and personal reflection, it portrays that world at an extraordinary moment of catastrophe and the people living within it. http://zhao-jing.com/the-fallen daily 0.75 2026-06-19 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/50eccd09e4b0a80fde15a7d1/1764038179705-5Q7MBM5ECKO8N4TKH2OR/image-asset.jpeg The Fallen Baltimore, MD, 2012 The Fallen (2012-2025) The Fallen is a completed photographic project developed over more than a decade. The work considers a simple question: how do human beings make a place for death in the world? The work consists of approximately seventy photographs made between 2012 and 2025, together with a short text presented at the end of the series in the form of a dialogue between the artist and her five-year-old daughter. Through photography and text, The Fallen reflects on the ways human beings acknowledge, accommodate, and live alongside death. The work considers how death enters the world of the living and becomes part of human experience. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/50eccd09e4b0a80fde15a7d1/1764038179705-5Q7MBM5ECKO8N4TKH2OR/image-asset.jpeg The Fallen Baltimore, MD, 2012 The Fallen (2012-2025) The Fallen is a completed photographic project developed over more than a decade. The work considers a simple question: how do human beings make a place for death in the world? The work consists of approximately seventy photographs made between 2012 and 2025, together with a short text presented at the end of the series in the form of a dialogue between the artist and her five-year-old daughter. Through photography and text, The Fallen reflects on the ways human beings acknowledge, accommodate, and live alongside death. The work considers how death enters the world of the living and becomes part of human experience. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/50eccd09e4b0a80fde15a7d1/1764038329188-GHY8K9EIJSSIIN7XOH0T/20131113scan06A1s.jpg The Fallen Baltimore, MD, 2012 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/50eccd09e4b0a80fde15a7d1/1764038327959-4ARL3C6HRRLC55QAL9HX/07.jpg The Fallen Shanghai, China, 2012 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/50eccd09e4b0a80fde15a7d1/1764038323418-ULA1K83UGPIM3ES35186/0120009a.jpg The Fallen Shaanxi, China, 2012 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/50eccd09e4b0a80fde15a7d1/1764038325178-PB1X5FHBIQ5AFC37KOIC/Oct0100411.jpg The Fallen Qinghai, China, 2012 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/50eccd09e4b0a80fde15a7d1/1764038324668-UEGHHMD95X9T12AGVF5M/09.jpg The Fallen Heilongjiang, China, 2012 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/50eccd09e4b0a80fde15a7d1/1764038329697-BQDSPTEBGLRG7U62MQ3K/20131017As.jpg The Fallen Mountain Home, AR, 2013 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/50eccd09e4b0a80fde15a7d1/1764038327935-G4NRFZSF9GYGR228E0TP/20131014scan03As.jpg The Fallen Mountain Home, AR, 2013 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/50eccd09e4b0a80fde15a7d1/1764038417877-AMRAL2S3PHPWO0X309TC/2025%E5%A7%A5%E7%88%B7.jpg The Fallen HeiLongjiang, China, 2025 http://zhao-jing.com/monuments daily 0.75 2026-06-19 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/50eccd09e4b0a80fde15a7d1/1764039302137-P5E3P3FKPLLMD80R0KFO/image-asset.jpeg Monuments - Monuments 2010 Monuments (2010) Monuments is a ten-image photographic series made in a Tibetan region in the aftermath of an earthquake. Most houses had been destroyed, yet many doors remained standing. Painted in vivid colors and bearing traces of religious and cultural symbolism, these doors became the central subject of the work. Photographed amid ruins and debris, the doors stand as remnants of everyday life, carrying traces of the people, beliefs, and ways of living that once passed through them. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/50eccd09e4b0a80fde15a7d1/1764039302137-P5E3P3FKPLLMD80R0KFO/image-asset.jpeg Monuments - Monuments 2010 Monuments (2010) Monuments is a ten-image photographic series made in a Tibetan region in the aftermath of an earthquake. Most houses had been destroyed, yet many doors remained standing. Painted in vivid colors and bearing traces of religious and cultural symbolism, these doors became the central subject of the work. Photographed amid ruins and debris, the doors stand as remnants of everyday life, carrying traces of the people, beliefs, and ways of living that once passed through them. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/50eccd09e4b0a80fde15a7d1/1764039545407-TOLICSJ42PQM4HJYNP05/4.jpg Monuments - Monuments 2010 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/50eccd09e4b0a80fde15a7d1/1764039545735-4P8I0UZ99MDNXNANMD6K/2.jpg Monuments - Monuments 2010 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/50eccd09e4b0a80fde15a7d1/1764039544268-8DUCQVID81RW76RC0EPV/10.jpg Monuments - Monuments 2010 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/50eccd09e4b0a80fde15a7d1/1764039544505-VMZSDTF19WW4719CEXG4/6.jpg Monuments - Monuments 2010 http://zhao-jing.com/cv-1 daily 0.75 2026-04-14 http://zhao-jing.com/about daily 0.75 2026-03-09 http://zhao-jing.com/contact daily 0.75 2026-01-15