For more than 10 years, Feng Li has been working on his unique serie «White Night». At the same time artist and independent photographer for the communication department of his province (Sichuan, China), he has a daily practice of street photography that approaches more marathon than sprint. For having seen him at work in Arles where he was invited to exhibit and continue his serie during the opening week of the Rencontres festival, it is a very bodily report that I have seen, a gesture that precedes the event. Feng Li has a hallucinating ability to «feel» that something will happen in terms of images, and shoots almost blindly. His photography, direct, very close to his subjects (often strangers) with a flash that crushes the ambient light to give an impression of night in daylight contrasts with his character, soon fiftieth and rather discreet. He practices it in the manner as an athlete who prepares for the Olympic Games, with rigor and discipline, which creates a contrast with what happens in his pictures, the joyous strangeness of everyday life, the organized chaos where he manages to capture intense moments. With his approach of subjective street photography, he manages to bring a breath of fresh air and establish himself as one of the most important contemporary Chinese photographers.