Zhongting Sun
ba Photography
London College of Communication UAL
Specialisms: Photography / Digital Arts / Printmaking
Location: London, United Kingdom
Zhongting Sun
First Name: Zhongting
Last Name: Sun
Specialisms: Photography / Digital Arts / Printmaking
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My Location: London, United Kingdom
University / College: London College of Communication UAL
Course / Program Title: ba Photography
About
Sun Zhongting (b. 2001) is a Chinese artist and photographer based between London and Dalian. He serves as Vice Chairman of the Young Photographers Division and Director at the Dalian Photographers Association. He graduated from BA Photography University of the Arts London (London College of Communication) and MA Photography Royal College of Art.
Sun’s artistic practice centres around Eastern philosophy, religious culture, and global social issues, often drawing upon personal narratives. Working primarily with contemporary art photography, he addresses themes such as cultural loss, cultural diversity, and the philosophical reflections found in everyday life. His multidisciplinary approach—spanning photography, experimental video, artist books, and installation—allows him to explore and express complex ideas with depth and subtlety.
Sun’s artistic practice centres around Eastern philosophy, religious culture, and global social issues, often drawing upon personal narratives. Working primarily with contemporary art photography, he addresses themes such as cultural loss, cultural diversity, and the philosophical reflections found in everyday life. His multidisciplinary approach—spanning photography, experimental video, artist books, and installation—allows him to explore and express complex ideas with depth and subtlety.
In a socialist country that advocates atheism, the influence of religion in China has declined amid rapid modernization. Buddhism, the nation’s most prominent faith, now bears the marks of consumerism—its sacredness intertwined with commercialization and secularization. In this project, I visited factories producing Buddha statues and discovered many abandoned outdoors, weathered by time. Others lay unfinished or stacked carelessly, revealing the transformation of the divine into industrial products. These mass-produced Buddhas, stripped of their sanctity, symbolize the fading of spiritual meaning within a commodified society, where devotion and profit intertwine in the quiet decay of forgotten faith.