CHEN MAN is China’s most influential and consistently original photographer whose high-gloss, digitally enhanced images have defined the look of New China chic.

This highly anticipated book, the most up-to-date overview of Chen’s career, brings together more than 150 of the photographer’s most extraordinary works and underlines her position as a pioneer of China’s creative landscape.

Beginning in 2003, while still a student at the Central Academy of Fine Arts in Beijing, Chen Man emerged at the vanguard of a new generation of young artists seeking a fresh idea of Chinese creative identity.

Over the following years she honed her own distinctive brand of eclectic internationalism, drawing on a vast store of visual material supplied by pop culture, high fashion, street style and Chinese culture and history. To this she added an instinctive flair for spectacle and grand performance.

Today she is one of the world’s most in-demand photographers, described in 2013 by CNN Style as China’s answer to Annie Leibovitz. Her photo shoots appear regularly in the pages of the country’s high-fashion glossies and she is the creator of acclaimed campaigns for numerous international brands and fashion houses including Louis Vuitton, Dior, Dolce and Gabbana and Chanel.

This stunning publication presents the culmination of Chen Man’s creative career to date and confirms her position as one of the most important photographers of the early 21st century and an artist at the forefront of creative innovation in China.