Ruben Lundgren: “Great idea! What’s the budget?”

Ruben Lundgren, photographer and curator, born in 1983 in Netherlands, he currently works and lives in Beijing. He graduated from the China Central Academy of Fine Arts with a master’s degree in photography. He gained prominence as part of the conceptual photography duo WassinkLundgren, publishing award-winning works such as “Empty Bottles” and “Tokyo Tokyo”. Currently, he is a newspaper photographer in the Netherlands and an independent curator of Chinese photography.

He co-curated “China Photobook” with Martin Parr, which was exhibited at the Ullens Center for Contemporary Art (UCCA) and a book of the same name was published. As a guest curator for BredaPhoto, he curated “Imagining China,” which displayed contemporary photography projects from China. He edited “Ellen Thorbecke from Beijing to Paris,” a book that presents Ellen’s life and work in the places she lived and worked, capturing daily life in Beijing, Shanghai, Hong Kong, Paris, and the Middle East during the 1930s and 1940s. He also published his own photography collection, “Real Dreams,” which features his news photography works taken across China.