Use images to express your home in your heart (Newspeak·Let a good voice become the strongest one)
Photography is the crystallization of technology and art. The innovation of photographic language and form also relies on mining resources from the mountains and rivers and drawing nutrients from the excellent traditional Chinese culture.
The fusion of traditional culture and contemporary images gives photographic creation new connotations of the times.
Photography is a record of the times and can show the style of an era.
Photography should keep pace with the times and focus on reality.
Only by going deep into life, taking root among the people, and being upright and innovative can we create masterpieces that are vivid and lively and popular with the people.
Recently, the "My Home" photography joint exhibition of the Yangtze River Delta Urban Photographers Alliance series of theme activities met with the audience at the Changning District Culture and Art Center in Shanghai.
This film exhibition brings together photography works from 12 Yangtze River Delta cities including Shanghai, Suzhou, Hangzhou, and Chizhou. While showing the spring scenery of the south of the Yangtze River and the charm of Wu Feng Yue, it also allows people to feel the vitality of the integrated high-quality development of the Yangtze River Delta. .
Some viewers said: "The exhibition uses contemporary images to interpret the Jiangnan water towns, and uses traditional painting to express modern images. It is both down-to-earth and fashionable."
China has a vast territory and rich and colorful cultural characteristics, which are precious resources of land and water.
The mountains, rivers, land, social life, traditional context, and regional characteristics endow the Jiangnan water towns with profound heritage, rich connotations, and distinctive characteristics, forming the foundation for the development of its contemporary art.
The Yangtze River Delta region is also an important center for Chinese photography art.
According to statistics from the China Photographers Association, in the National Photography Art Exhibition, the number of selected image works from the Yangtze River Delta region accounts for about 1/3 of the total number of exhibitions. There are nearly 10,000 members of the China Photographers Association in the Yangtze River Delta region.
Life is the source of photographic art creation. The more deeply you go into life and face society, the more you can get creative inspiration and discover creative themes.
At the creative symposium held on the opening day of the "My Home" photography joint exhibition, photographers from the Yangtze River Delta region talked about their creative insights.
A photography creator from Zhejiang said that he traveled from village to village, and later simply lived in the village, mingling with the local villagers, and finally created a picture of "shared wealth" in the Jiangnan water town through the life and production scenes of several farm families. "Picture scroll.
A photography creator from Jiangsu said that in order to show Yancheng's ecological environmental protection and construction achievements, he used his lens to capture vivid scenes during the creation process, showing a beautiful picture of the harmonious coexistence of man and nature.
Photography is the crystallization of technology and art. The innovation of photographic language and form also relies on mining resources from the mountains and rivers and drawing nutrients from the excellent traditional Chinese culture.
The fusion of traditional culture and contemporary images gives photographic creation new connotations of the times.
Nowadays, using images to express the homeland in their hearts and show the new look of Jiangnan culture has become a common pursuit of photographers in the Yangtze River Delta region.
A Shanghai photographer shared that when he photographed high-rise buildings, he used the aesthetic characteristics of white walls and black tiles of Jiangnan architecture, selected hazy moments of mist and rain, and borrowed the freehand techniques of traditional painting to express the unique scenery of modern Jiangnan. flavor.
When talking about the post-production of his works, a photography creator from Anhui said that he would try to use traditional rice paper to print his photography works in the future to give his works a more Jiangnan image quality.
Going deep into life, taking root among the people, and being upright and innovative are the eternal propositions and excellent traditions of Chinese photography.
Practice has proved that only by adhering to the creative method of "going deep into life and taking root among the people", continuing the Chinese cultural context, carrying forward the spirit of the times, and telling Chinese stories well can we show Chinese characteristics, Chinese style, and Chinese style in images, and sing a high-spirited new era. The main theme of the times.
(The author Wang Xiaochuan is a member of the Theoretical Committee of the Chinese Photographers Association and the Chairman of the Zhejiang Photographers Association)
People's Daily