Chinese celebrity photographer Li Shaobai.[Photo provided to Chinaculture.org]

Born in 1942 in Chongqing, Chinese celebrity photographer Li Shaobai was an editorial board member of magazines such as Popular Photography and Chinese Photography, a visiting professor of Minzu University of China and Nanjing University of Science & Technology, as well as a photographer for magazines, including Chinese National Geography and Civilization.

Li has published a series of photography-related books, such as The Unseen Palace (Foreign Language Press, 2003), The Invisible Great Wall (Foreign Language Press, 2004), The Original Forbidden City (Foreign Language Press, 2005) and Approaching the Great Wall (Foreign Language Press, 2006). He has cooperated with others in a series of books, such as Enjoy Digital Photography (China Photographic Publishing House, 2010) and Ah! The Forbidden City! (Foreign Language Press, 2011).

Li has held several exhibitions including The Mysterious Forbidden City (Beijing, 1992), The Invisible Forbidden City (Beijing, 2007) and The Forbidden City (Shenzhen, 2007). Li’s works on the Great Wall and the Forbidden City have been exhibited in the United States, France, Germany, Estonia, Switzerland and other countries.