Yan Cong

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Ivory Carving

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Location: Beijing

Nationality: China

Biography: Yan Cong (b.1991) is a researcher and independent photographer based in Amsterdam. Her current research interests are platform, datafication, ethical AI, culture production and labor. Yan is the co-founder of Far & Near , a newsletter... MORE

Ivory carving artist Li Chunke&...ng, China on December 10, 2017.

Ivory carving artist Li Chunke's workstation at his ivory workshop in Beijing, China on December 10, 2017.

Ivory carving artist Li Chunke ... 1964 when he was 15 years old.

Ivory carving artist Li Chunke works on an ivory Gautama Buddha statue in his ivory workshop in Beijing, China on December 10, 2017. Li has worked as an ivory carving artist since 1964 when he was 15 years old.

Ivory dust flies as Zhang Yong ...ng, China on December 10, 2017.

Ivory dust flies as Zhang Yong blows it away during carving at Li Chunke's ivory carving workshop in Beijing, China on December 10, 2017.

Pan Xingjie (Left) and Zhang Yo...rentices, work at the workshop.

Pan Xingjie (Left) and Zhang Yong (Right) work at their workstations at Li Chunke's ivory carving workshop in Beijing, China on December 10, 2017. Besides Li Chunke, four ivory carving artists, all of whom used to be Li's students or apprentices, work at the workshop.

Ivory carving artist Li Chunke comments on the unfinished ivory statue made by Pan Xingjie, a former student who now works at Li's workshop, and offers advice at his ivory workshop in Beijing, China on December 10, 2017.

He Na, 27, works on an ivory st...ng, China on December 10, 2017.

He Na, 27, works on an ivory statue at her workstation at Li Chunke's ivory carving workshop in Beijing, China on December 10, 2017.

BEIJING, CHINA - DECEMBER 10: I...ng, China on December 10, 2017.

BEIJING, CHINA - DECEMBER 10: Ivory dust covers He Na's hand and forearm as she works on an ivory statue at her workstation at Li Chunke's ivory carving workshop in Beijing, China on December 10, 2017.

An unfinished ivory statue of T...ng, China on December 10, 2017.

An unfinished ivory statue of Taoist goddess Magu, who represents longevity. Ivory carving artist Pan Xingjie has spent about a month working on this statue at Li Chunke's ivory carving workshop in Beijing, China on December 10, 2017.