Born in Hunan, Zhidong Zhang is a photographer based in Boston, MA. Zhang is currently a graduate student at Massachusetts College of Art and Design. His work explores ongoing questions about identity, representation, the role of imagery in contemporary culture, and how visual manifestations of desire codify sexual identities and practices. Driven by his upbringing as the only gay child in a conservative Chinese family, Zhang constructs scenes of desire, trauma, humor, defiance, and violence through the exploration of Asian bodies and cultural language.