Lin Zhipeng of his newly republished photo book,
Flowers and Fruits. Bringing together images from the past 15 years, the book’s simple title belies its compellingly human pages, which document a sprawl of ecstatic, messy, beautiful, and at times lonely moments of the lives of the photographer’s friends.
While Zhipeng is now a profilic photographer, it wasn’t always his ambition in life to become an image-maker. Born in Guangdong, China in 1979, he studied financial English at Guangdong University of Foreign Studies, before going on to pursue his first love of writing as an editor at a media agency, where he stayed for several years. All the while though, Zhipeng was taking photos and posting them on his blog, North Latitude 23.