Art Beatus will present a selection of photography works of Feng Xuemin in its November exhibition named Mother Earth.Feng, who now works and lives in Tokyo, will show viewers glimpses of his motherland. In focus are places such as Jingdezhen (home of China’s porcelain wares), Shaoxing (noted for its wine, creeks and waterways), Changbai Mountains (ginseng country and snow bound mountains), Yunnan (terraced paddy fields on hill slopes and Lijiang), Guizhou (lively colours of China’s minorities) and Tibet (Mount Everest and the mysterious landscape).Feng was given the name of “imagery poet” by the Japanese mass media for his captivating works. In 1999, he won the “Sun Award”, the highest photography honour in Japan, and it was the first time that such award was presented to a non-Japanese in its history of 36 years. His works have been shown in various exhibitions around the world.Born in Shanghai in 1953, Feng was sent to Yunnan to work for several years at the end of the Cultural Revolution in mid 1970’s. He fell deeply in love with that mountainous province. Feng went over to Japan to study photography in 1985 and stayed, but he repeated revisited Yunnan dozens of times thereafter. Yunnan, thus, becomes his most favourite shooting spot.