Inter Gallery

Founded in April 2007 and located in 798 Art Zone, Beijing, Inter Art Center & Gallery is one of the most important professional institutions dedicated to photography in China. The current venue houses a gallery space, an editorial studio, an image workshop, and the Pixel Bookstore.

Inter Art Center & Gallery has established deep and extensive partnership with many international photographers, artists and photography institutions, organising exhibitions, festivals, prizes and awards, and has accumulated wide influence and authority in China and internationally.

Inter Art Center & Gallery has its own design and publishing team, which has produced many influential publications, including the Pixel Magazine, China's only high-end photography quarterly, launched in April 2009. Since 2015, Inter Art Center & Gallery has founded successively "Country Road: Chinese Ethnic Minority Photography Prize" and "Inter Art Center New Documentaries Prize". In 2019, "Inter Photo Art Fair" was launched. In 2021, Inter Art Center & Gallery founded the "798 Seasonal Photography Exhibition". In 2023, Inter Art Center & Gallery established the "Pixel Photo Book Awards".

Featured Artists: Clare Marie Bailey, Carmen De Vos (卡门·德·沃斯), 任桄林, 刘见, 郎静山, 陈冠宏

Clare Marie Bailey

Clare Marie Bailey is a UK-based photographer and filmmaker born and grew up on the Island of Anglesey in Wales, where she is currently based and works. Clare became interested in world cinema which would later become an enduring influence on her photographic work. Her work has been exhibited internationally in group and solo shows, including Arles, Paris and the Saatchi Gallery LA. It is in a permanent collection in the Polaroid Museum at Bombay Beach, California. Several publications have featured her work, including the book Polaroid Now: The History and Future of Polaroid. Her work has been used for the cover of the Mercury Music award-nominated album Tresor by Gwenno.

Her passion for Polaroid and instant film photography began when she became mesmerised and fell deeply in love with its dynamic and at times mercurial and almost random character; its ability to give an almost perfect imperfection. Clare uses film to work towards creating an alternative and parallel world where she can co-exist with the 'real' world and is fascinated with the idea of 'doubles' and 'doppelgangers' and the concept of reinvention. Clare believes all art is a form of magic and using memory, emotion and imagination to manipulate materials and create imagery is a form of alchemy.

Carmen De Vos

Carmen De Vos is a Belgian photographer working across artistic and editorial contexts. She is known for her distinctive Polaroid work, using expired film and handcrafted filters to create images rich in texture, atmosphere, and emotional presence. Her analogue photographs evoke a sense of timelessness — capturing people with both care and curiosity. Alongside her artistic projects, she is also active as a portrait photographer for the Flemish press, portraying writers, actors, musicians and other cultural figures with her signature cinematic style.

Carmen De Vos is a slow photographer. She registers, depicts and thinks up odd stories. She shoots Polaroids to frame these mental escapades. Her tools and methods — such as film bleaching and deliberate film obstruction — are not precise and are not even geared towards a perfect representation. They often yield results such as colorization, deformation, and unsharpness, which she could never have predicted with any certainty. She loves to create within these limitations, to try to produce the best possible image within the narrow circumstances given.