About
Li Jian
Founder, JOY EXPEDITIONS · Landscape and expedition photographer
Li Jian is a landscape and expedition photographer who works in remote, little-photographed places. He is a contributing photographer to the book “The Eye of God”, a regular contributor to Chinese travel and photography titles including National Geographic Traveler China, Xiamen Air and China National Travel, and his Patagonia series is held by the Argentine Embassy in China.
Twenty years of photographic travel, covering western China and more than seventy countries. The routes he opened — many of them the first of their kind — are now a reference for Chinese photography leaders.
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70+
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First-of-their-kind itineraries
Each of the following was designed and led by Li Jian. Several have since become reference routes for Chinese photography leaders.
- 2007–2009Three consecutive years photographing the Paracel Islands
- 2010Xiaerxili, Xinjiang
- 2011Taklamakan rim and Daliyabuyi, Xinjiang
- 2012Crossing the Lop Nur no-man's-land
- 2013Mount Siguniang, Sichuan
- 2014Everest east face trek, Tibet
- 2015K2 and the Shaksgam valley, Xinjiang
- 2016Iceland winter aurora — 13 editions to date
- 2016Namibia
- 2016West Greenland fjords — 12 editions to date
- 2017Slovenian Alps in winter
- 2017South America and Patagonia — 7 editions
- 2017The Dolomites — 7 editions
- 2017Kamchatka, Russia
- 2017Lofoten and Senja — 8 editions
- 2018The north coast of Spain
- 2018Altun Shan, Xinjiang — 3 editions
- 2018The Portuguese coast
- 2019Scoresby Sund, East Greenland
- 2023Greenland by chartered vessel
- 2023The Azores and Madeira
- 2023Socotra, Yemen — and the camp we built there
- 2024Mangystau, Kazakhstan — 5 editions
- 2024The Altai, eastern Kazakhstan
Twenty years, seventy countries. What is left of that time goes to the places you visit once.
Publications
National Geographic Traveler China, Xiamen Air, Tibet Tourism, China National Travel, This Is China; contributing photographer to “The Eye of God”.
Collections
The Patagonia series is held by the Argentine Embassy in China.
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