"Post-90s" Wu Tong is a family documentary photographer in Changchun, Jilin. Since 2022, he has launched a free family photography campaign to record the daily life of family members, and has taken nearly 5000,100 photos so far, leaving precious moments for more than <> families.
Home documentary photography is an emerging form of photography that aims to realistically document content related to family life.
Recently, Wu Tong walked into an urban home to shoot. The reporter followed the interview and saw that he did not design or intervene when taking photos, capturing and recording the moments when the subject was chatting and playing. Pressing the shutter takes less than a second, but the image captured at this moment can sometimes be remembered for a lifetime.
【Contemporaneous】Family documentary photographer Wu Tong
In fact, sometimes, these moments we don't pay attention to, think they are very ordinary moments, but these moments are irretrievable memories.
Wu Tong told reporters that family documentary photographers are now a niche profession. He loves photography and has his own studio, initially out of curiosity to try to do family documentary photography, but he never wanted to do it, he couldn't stop, and persevered with love.
In the early stage of shooting, Wu Tong will make sufficient preparations. Through the questionnaire filled out by the photographed family, we can get to know all family members and their living habits in advance, so as to make better shooting.
More than a hundred families, thousands of photos... More and more people are willing to let photographers record "ordinary life moments" and leave precious memories for themselves and all their families.
In the past year, the most impressive shooting for Wu Tong was in a family of four generations. There are more and more people in the camera, and finally a complete family is included, and the shock at that time is unforgettable to him.
Wu Tong said that in the neglected daily life, there are vivid clips that only happen when you get along with your family day and night, and she hopes to photograph the same family for a long time in the future and record the changes brought by time.
【Contemporaneous】Family documentary photographer Wu Tong
Family photography It is not one photo, two photos can illustrate, stick to a long time will find that these photos can form a child's growth process, including the process of parental companionship.
Zhang Mohan reports from Changchun
Responsible Editor: [Luo Pan]