Hanging in there and a dichroic shopper: Photofairs Shanghai 2024 – in pictures

Yamalik Mountain 3, 2005-15

The series Yamalik Mountain documents the daily life of a now disappeared community near the train station in the city of Urumqi from 2005. Lin used 30,000 black and white negatives, and handwritten diaries, to capture the lives of unregistered residents living on this land. Most of these individuals, coming from various parts of China, faced relocation due to rapid urbanisation and environmental degradation

Kashi Youth, 2023

Ma Hailun’s latest series, Kashi Youth, focuses on youth culture in China’s westernmost city. Her images explore young people’s daily lives, their unique vitality and wild resilience

Reinvention, 2022

Amsterdam’s Mick Galerie showcases three emerging Dutch female photographers: Carlie Consemulder, Lotte Ekkel and Nanda Hagenaars

Sea of Japan, Hokkaido, 1986

One of the medium’s most celebrated artists, Hiroshi Sugimoto’s images are presented alongside work by Elliott Erwitt, Marc Riboud, William Klein and Terry O’Neil in Shanghai

Daydreamer, 2024

One of a series of Liz Nielsen’s light paintings

Things from the Heat 3, 2024

The Singaporean artist Robert Zhao Renhui has a solo show spanning various long-term projects from across his career. He is also representating Singapore at the Venice Biennale 2024

Amoeba Phase II, 2015

The Australian duo Honey Long and Prue Stent explore the relationship between femininity and the natural world. This exhibition by Fahey/Klein Gallery is the first collaboration between Photofairs’ editions in Shanghai and New York

No Man’s Land 2023 No.2, 2023

New work by Luo Dan from his recently completed No Man’s Land project explores our relationship with the world surrounding us

Plum in the Mountain, 2023

Taca Sui examines how Chinese traditional culture blends with the surrounding physical landscape

Farewell on El Malecon (At Dusk), La Habana, 2023

Valery Katsuba’s work is exhibited alongside that of Candida Höfer, Flor Garduño, and Yang Yongliang

Satoko Arms, 2022

The International Photography Museum Fotografiska presents the Swedish-based duo Cooper Gorfer’s cross-media collaged portraits of women

Shanghai, 1990s

Xu Haifeng documents urban life in China in the second half of the 20th century, and is on display with works by Meng Minsheng

Dichroic Shopper 9.01, 2023

This image is part of a dual show by the French artists Thomas Devaux and David de Beyter

Breakfast with Stephen Shore (1977), 2018

One of a number of new works by the American photographer Anastasia Samoylova from an ongoing project that stages imaginary breakfast encounters with luminaries of photography who have inspired her practice

Ballerina in containers, Hanging in there, Le Havre, France, 2021

This image is from a solo show by the French artistJR, known for his large-scale black and white photography installations

Amanecer d’après Hopper, 2009

Migration of Silver, 2023

Green on Red Gallery in Dublin is presenting the works two Irish artists, Alan Butler and Aoife Shanahan. Both interrogate the boundaries of the medium through a scientific approach, the former documenting plant life through cyanotypes and the latter exposing film to bacteria to create abstractions that highlight the unseen presence of bacteria in photography

1M Behind Me, 1988-1989 by Mo Yi

C14 Gallery, Shanghai, exhibits Mo Yi’s shots of Beijing and Tianjin in the 1980s and 90s