Marc Ressang is a filmmaker and photographer based in Shanghai, driven by a desire to record human stories across the world. In his series “When The Sun Goes Down In The East”, Ressang captured the wild nightlife in Shanghai. "Just after arriving in Shanghai in 2011, he started working as a photographer in the local nightlife circuit. During his four years of working late any given night of the week, there were a countless instinctively captured moments that never saw the light of day. Wrapping up this chapter of his life in Shanghai, he is now working on putting everything together in a book.”
Marc Aziz Ressang is a self-taught Dutch photographer and filmmaker living and working in Asia. His work deals with the fraught histories of places and the impact they have on its inhabitants. He explores the diverse human experience by observing the flux of culture and society. By combining video and stills, his work is characterized by a thoughtful curiosity of people’s surroundings. Framing places and stories through connecting themes, questioning and re-framing popular cultural perceptions.
