Like a seasoned hunter, Feng Yan is acutely precise about what to shoot & how to shoot. His visual world exists with a different order that is somewhat blurry and dangly but enlivened with harmonious tranquility in unity with the past and the future. (skip)

Feng Yan's grandest bewilderment & interest lie in the sense of distance in photography: the reflection on distance, the distance of reality and psychology. Is there distance of reality? How to measure psychological distance? His focus on distance gives his photography a clear sense of conception, making his choice and assessment unique.
----------excerpt form "Speaking Beyond Words" by Ai Wei Wei (Art Director of China Art Archives & Warehouse)

The critical concept of these photos is fully demonstrated in the unique shot of “The VIP Room” which is a subtle lively metaphor of power, lies and spiritual violence crouching around us.
----------excerpt form "Power Implication "" by Huang Du ( Curator of 6th Shanghai Biennale)

Doubtlessly, his pictures have shaken our long established aesthetics & interpreting experiences of “photography” regulated by ideology & salon aesthetics, driving these standardized “photographic concepts” into embarrassment.(skip)" Feng Yan put it this way, "Some commonplace objects and environment would summon me to use destructive measures to save them from the fate of being instantly symbolized (notice here he used the personified term- they)" as to "discover the intact order existing in the object itself." and "the fate of being symbolized" is an excellent summary. I've been gibbering so far just to demonstrate how our notion of photography & viewing experiences have been concealed by the social "symbolization." Actually, Feng Yan's "destructive" measures are meant to "unveil"
----------excerpt form "The Forest of "Meaning"" by Wu Hong

Feng Yan’s photographs compel us to increase our consideration of the seemingly insignificant details that surround us. Through strong minimalist compositions and subtle choice of form and light, and his purified form we notice that in our daily public and private lives exists a range of political to historical meanings we rarely deliberately see.

---------- excerpt form "Dis-stilled Life Photography by Feng Yan" by Michael J. Hatch