[Explanation] Recently, 47-year-old Chen Liuping was in the studio with his eyes close to the brass film viewer, carefully checking the details of the film.
With the increasing popularity of digital cameras, the Guangxi "film fan" still maintains his interest in film photography, and the use of film photography has become an integral part of his daily life.
[Explanation] As the carrier of image recording, film was once the common memory of a generation of Chinese families.
In the 21st century, with the rapid popularization of digital cameras, film is gradually dying out.
But in Chen Liuping's view, film photography still has incomparable advantages and characteristics.
[Concurrent period] Film photography enthusiast Chen Liuping
When I graduated in 1990, I still kept the photos I took with film.
At our 30-year (classmates) reunion, it was taken with a digital camera, but the hard drive behind it was broken.
So I feel very deeply that the film can retain (the characteristics).
As for digital (camera), it is a digital storage. I have taken many photos and haven't seen them yet. Some things should be slowed down or slowed down.
[Commentary] Chen Liuping's insistence on film is also deeply influenced by his father.
In 1975, Chen Liuping was born into a working family with three siblings.
His father would take a film photo for them on their birthdays every year. In this unique way of caring, he recorded every moment of the three brothers and sisters growing up. This move deeply touched Chen Liuping.
[Concurrent period] Film photography enthusiast Chen Liuping
Since I was 100 days old (born), my father took a photo of our three brothers and sisters every year. At that time, there was no digital (camera), and it was all film.
I used to take pictures in a photo studio, which gives you a sense of ritual that is different from what you usually take on the street with a mobile phone or a digital camera.
So it was this experience that made me feel different about film.
[Explanation] As a front-line worker who has worked in Liuzhou Iron and Steel Group Co., Ltd. for 28 years, the work scene is his favorite place to shoot with film cameras. He hopes to use the unique material of film to record the positive working face of steel workers. .
[Concurrent period] Film photography enthusiast Chen Liuping
In the course of working at Liugang for decades, there must be feelings.
Films have recorded my work for decades, my colleagues around me, the development of the work around me, and the development of Liugang as a whole. I think it is also a shining point.
At our age, many people have seen a film camera, and he will have a lot of intimacy when he sees it.
[Explanation] Today, Chen Liuping has established his own film photography studio, and has learned and developed a set of techniques for film processing and enlargement. In a small darkroom filled with processing liquids that can only accommodate one person, Chen Liuping is often busy for 2 to 10 minutes. 6 hours.
The "sense of participation" in film photography is something he relishes.
[Concurrent period] Film photography enthusiast Chen Liuping
When taking (film) photos, the whole process of metering, exposure, processing time, the composition of the potion and the magnification calibration of the darkroom is a series, not independent.
(Relying on) One is a human being, and the other is a melon seed in the head, so we need to get involved.
[Explanation] In recent years, due to the retro trend, film photography has regained the attention of young Chinese, and has gradually become a hot search term on the Internet.
Film photography, which was once labeled as "niche", is entering the aesthetic vision of the modern public in a way that no one could imagine before.
Liu Juncong reports from Liuzhou, Guangxi
Responsible editor: [Zhang Xi]