Photographer Lahem scoops Jimei x Arles Discovery Award

In Lahem's best-known series Luo Fuping, which was compiled into a critically-acclaimed eponymous book in 2019, he was dressed in a black suit but barefooted, posing at different corners of his home village. This series explores the artist's fractured identities and his attempt to come to terms with them.

"I felt at ease with myself after the project. I no longer resist my past, and accept who I am and what the village is now. I try to make myself whole," he told Sixth Tone.