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It’s all in the frame at photography exhibit
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A farmer volunteered to compile a dictionary of his dialect, a man repaired bicycles for free every weekend, and a woman saved several lives by donating her rare blood type.
Commoners can indeed do extraordinary things. The photo series “One Hundred Portraits of Hangzhou People” is dedicated to regular people who make the city a better place and is a part of Hangzhou Citizen Photography Week, which ends tomorrow.
“Everybody has a story worth recording,” says Yan Jiajun, one of the photographers of the series. “And one person can somehow represent one generation.” The subjects range from teenagers to seniors in their 80s and agreed to be photographed by four photojournalists from City Express, a local newspaper and one of the photo week’s organizers.
Hangzhou Citizen Photography Week is designed to show the city from the viewpoint of those who know it best and includes pictures taken by both professionals or amateurs. Shanghai Daily speaks with three people who contributed photos to the event.
Yan Jiajun
The young man focuses his lens on his peers — those born in the 1990s. He contributed 20 photos to the exhibition.
The captions record their stories: a boy determined to be an actor gave up his career in a TV station, an 18-year-old student will leave Hangzhou to study in the US, and an animation fan partakes in cosplay at a comic event.
“Young people might be ordinary, but this is also the feature of this generation,” Yan says. “They fall in love, they start college, they look for jobs. My subjects are the epitome of people in their 20s.”
Yan himself is set to graduate from Zhejiang University in two months and is an intern at City Express.
He only started taking photos three years ago, but insists on taking pictures every day.
“Photography is magic,” he says. “The world and life appear different through photography.
Now I pay more attention to ordinary things that I would not have noticed before.”
Zhang Di
Xiaoshan Daily photojournalist Zhang Di works everyday to find a better angle for his photos. This has led him to aerial photography. He says he searched for materials online and bought model airplanes, gradually learning how to assemble a multi-rotor, remote-controlled airplane.
“It’s complicated,” Zhang says. “It includes flight control and image transferring. And it’s hard to assemble a stable aircraft.”
He says it took him months and cost 20,000 yuan (US$3,223) to make his first aerial device. Now he has used it to take hundreds of photos above Xiang Lake, Xiaoshan International Airport, and Meinu Dam — signature scenes in Xiaoshan. He has also established a club for aerial photography fans.
Zhang is clearly fascinated by the photos he produces. “A bird’s eye view of the land turns ordinary things into colorful lines and shapes, which are trails of nature and of human activity,” says the photojournalist. “It’s magical.”
Fu Yongjun
Fu Yongjun is the head photojournalist at City Express and one of the main organizers of the photo week.
He chose to exhibit 16 photos that he took with his iPhones.
“The iPhone camera is good enough for daily life photos,” explains Fu. “Since I used an iPhone, not only my job but my personal life is related to photography.”
The shutterbug says he pulls out his camera phone frequently to capture interesting scenes.
The 16 photos he has selected were whittled down from thousands of pictures.
The photos include a man ascending LED-illuminated stairs, a large withered tree that was split in two by lightning, and a child’s sweater lying on a damp road. “I do not express myself well with words, but my photos represent my mood and thoughts,” he says.
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