After graduating with a university degree in finance, she started working in a bank. In 1997 she began studying photography on her own, and in 2004 she quit her job at the bank to earn a B.A. in photography from the Photographic Institute at the Beijing Film Academy. Her works have been exhibited at the Pingyao International Photo Festival, Siegen Gallery in Germany, Peer Gallery in New York, the Australian Centre for Photography in Sydney, the Lianzhou International Photo Festival in China’s Guangdong Province, and in Photography from China 1934–2008 (2008), FotoFest 2008 Biennial, Houston. Liu Lijie was born in Shenyang, China. She is interested in taking pictures that show relationships between people and their inner, psychological states of mind.