Anthony Reed is a British photographer and filmmaker based in Shanghai, China. His practice explores the relationship between the built environment and the psychological experience of those who inhabit it, with a particular focus on cities, modernity and urban transformation.
Reed studied Fine Art at Norwich University of the Arts, graduating in 2007 before moving to China. Drawn to the extraordinary pace and scale of the country’s urban development, he has spent much of the past two decades photographing Shanghai and other Chinese cities as environments in a continual state of construction, erasure and renewal.
Working through sustained observation and wandering, Reed is drawn to both monumental infrastructure and overlooked spaces: elevated highways, demolition sites and dense residential landscapes alongside empty offices, passageways, windows, thresholds and traces of everyday life. His photographs examine the tension between the planned and the lived city, and the ways in which the environments we construct can in turn shape our behaviour, perception and sense of place.
Across his work, transformation is accompanied by quieter psychological themes of solitude, alienation, memory and belonging. Rather than presenting the modern city simply as a symbol of progress or loss, Reed approaches it as an ambiguous space: simultaneously seductive and unsettling, familiar and strange.
EXHIBITIONS
2026 — Traceries, Atelier I-N-D-J, Shanghai, China. Group exhibition featuring Concrete Reflections, A Happy Arrangement (with Phillip Reed), and Analog Past (HALO XL) (with Ian Douglas-Jones).
2024–25 — Shanghai Album: The People's City, “Observing the City,” Culture and the City: The Paper Urban Regeneration Exhibition, Zhangyuan, Shanghai, China — Group Exhibition
2024 — Our City, Our Album, 17th Shanghai International Photography Festival, Shanghai Local Chronicles Museum, Shanghai, China — Group Exhibition
2023 - Solo Show, IN-BETWEEN, Art Why Gallery, M50, Shanghai, China
2021 - Group Show, Portraying The City • Interpretation, Xie Zilong Museum, Changsha, China
2015 - Solo Show, Concrete Reflections, Ooh La Art Gallery, Shanghai, China
2015 - Group Show, Moving Studios, How Art Museum, Wenzhou, China
2014 - Solo Show, Les Villes Invisibles, Fes, Morroco
2014 - Group Show, The Temporary, Centre for Chinese Contemporary Art, Manchester, UK
2014 - Group Show, The Temporary, Article Gallery, Birmingham, UK
2013 - Solo Show, In Between, ONE Gallery, Shanghai, China
2005 - Group Show, Unicorn Vision Gallery, Area 798, Beijing, China
安东尼·里德
安东尼·里德（Anthony Reed）是一位常驻上海的英国摄影师及影像创作者。他的创作主要关注人工建成环境与个体心理体验之间的关系，并持续探索城市、现代性与城市变迁等主题。
里德于2007年毕业于诺维奇艺术大学纯艺术专业，随后来到中国生活与创作。中国城市发展惊人的速度与规模吸引着他。近二十年来，他持续拍摄上海及中国其他城市，将镜头投向这些不断经历建设、消失与更新的城市空间。
行走与持续观察是里德创作的重要方式。他关注宏大的城市基础设施，也被那些容易被忽视的空间所吸引：高架道路、拆迁现场、密集的住宅楼群，以及空置的办公室、走廊、窗户、入口和日常生活留下的痕迹。在他的摄影中，规划中的城市与真实生活中的城市相互交叠，并由此探讨人类所建造的环境如何反过来影响我们的行为、感知以及对于场所的体验。
城市的物理变迁之外，孤独、疏离、记忆与归属感等更为内在的主题也贯穿于他的作品之中。里德并不试图将现代城市简单地描述为进步或消逝的象征，而是将其视为一种充满矛盾的空间：既令人着迷，也令人不安；既熟悉，又陌生。
展览经历
2026 — Traceries，群展，Atelier I-N-D-J，上海，中国。展出《Concrete Reflections》、《A Happy Arrangement》（与 Phillip Reed 合作）及《Analog Past (HALO XL)》（与 Ian Douglas-Jones 合作）
2024–25 — 《上海相册：人民城郭 · 观城》，Culture and the City: The Paper Urban Regeneration Exhibition，张园，上海，中国，群展
2024 — 《我们的城市，我们的相册》，第十七届上海国际摄影节，上海通志展示馆，上海，中国，群展
2023 — IN-BETWEEN，Art Why Gallery，M50，上海，中国，个展
2021 — 《Portraying The City · Interpretation》，谢子龙影像艺术馆，长沙，中国，群展
2015 — Concrete Reflections，Ooh La Art Gallery，上海，中国，个展
2015 — Moving Studios，昊美术馆，温州，中国，群展
2014 — Les Villes Invisibles，非斯，摩洛哥，个展
2014 — The Temporary，华人当代艺术中心，曼彻斯特，英国，群展
2014 — The Temporary，Article Gallery，伯明翰，英国，群展
2013 — In Between，ONE Gallery，上海，中国，个展
2005 — Unicorn Vision Gallery，798艺术区，北京，中国，群展
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email: anthony@reedphotographic.com