Xiaoxiao Xu moved from China to The Netherlands in 1999 when she was a teenager.
In 2009 she cum laude graduated from the Photo Academy of Amsterdam. Since then she worked on her own projects, balancing in-between documentary and autonomous work.
“My name is Xiaoxiao Xu, and I am a photographer.“
She wants to tell stories from a unique perspective that leaves spaces for the reader to be freely interpreted, stories that evoke people’s imagination, that lure them to look over and over and dream away. In 2020 she won the Jimei X Arles Women Photographers Award with the book Watering my horse by a spring at the foot of the Long Wall.
The most spontaneous thing she ever did? “For the series Aeronautic in the Backyard I got into a self-built plane and flew together with one of the aeronauts.”No wonder her happy space is in the sky!
You can meet Xiaoxiao and many other special people and their stories and image in Storybook.
Do you want to see more of Xiaoxiao’s work?
> Instagram: @xiaoxiao_xu_
> Website: www.xiaoxiaoxu.com
