Shen Li is a young Chinese architect and photographer from Lianyungang in Jiangsu province. For Li, photography is not a tool to earn money, but rather is a way for him to document objects and moments to look at again in the future.
来自江苏连云港的谌利目前在上海工作、生活。他是一位建筑师、摄影师。摄影对他来说并不是挣钱的工具，拍下一个瞬间，或者一个东西，是为了日后可以再看。
The way Li sees his photography is very straightforward and closely tied to his everyday life. “I am a photographer who is curious about photography. My style probably falls somewhere between documenting and arranging.”
谌利形容自己的作品是很直接、很贴近生活的。“我是那种会对摄影保持好奇心的摄影师。要说我的摄影风格的话那就是介于记录和摆布之间吧。”
Looking at Li’s photography, it is perhaps this dichotomy between wanting to document the world as it is, but also arranging objects into a scene that is most intriguing. Certain images blur the line between these two styles of photography, until the subjects of the photos take on a nature of their own.
谌利的作品透着一种记录生活和摆拍中间的平衡感，而这一点是最吸引人的。他的某些作品使这两种摄影风格的界限变得非常模糊，你甚至分不清照片中的物体是一种自然状态还是摆拍。
According to Shen Li, the relationship between photography and everyday life is like “a simplified version of the relationship between oneself and everything else outside of that.” In essence, Li’s art is all about documenting, capturing, saving and observing life as it is.
说起摄影和生活的关系，谌利说这种关系像是与自己之外的所有对象相处模式的简化版。记录、抓拍、存档以及观察生活，这就是谌利的摄影作品的全部意义。
