Zhu Mo

Zhu Mo is originally from Changsha, Hunan province and now lives in Beijing. He graduated from Hunan Normal University in 2007, where he studied photography. He is a photo editor at Jiemian. In 2012, he was a nominee for the Three Shadows Photography Award, and he exhibited in the 2013 Beijing Photo Biennial.

‘The Songs of Birds’

Day and night,
I copy the Diamond Sutra
of Prajnaparamita.
My writing looks more and more square.
It proves that I have not gone entirely
insane, but the tree I drew
hasn’t grown a leaf.


—from “I Copy the Scriptures,” in Empty Chairs