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2016, Shaanxi farmer Xie Wan Qing spent much less time in photography than before. At the beginning of the year, his family was identified by the county as a poor family. The assistant cadres in the county said: Lao Xie, you are a celebrity in Longxian. You have to take a good start in eliminating poverty. In November, after planting 20 acres of walnut tree economic forest in accordance with the plan, Xie Wanqing finally took off the hat of "poor households". In the middle of the month of
12, the documentary film "Lao Xie", with his hero as the protagonist, was selected for the 2016 China (Guangzhou) International Documentary Festival. As a special guest, Xie Wanqing, 61 years old, took the first plane ride and enjoyed the "treatment" that he was asked to sign at the scene of the event. When Guangzhou returned, Xie Wanqing hurried back to Longxian: a cow at home was about to give birth to a calf, and her wife was not in good health, so she had to rush back to take care of it.
from Xi'an to Longxian's car, Xie Wanqing said to the Chinese newspaper reporter that he had all his life the Xi'an educated youth to "harm". It is educated youth who has been fascinated by cameras, and has been fascinated for more than thirty years. "You don't know that photography is addictive, like smoking a cigarette."
and educated youth are working with fans on camera
Feng Shan village located in the northern mountainous area of Longxian on the border of Shaanxi and Gansu. The highest elevation is more than 2300 meters, and the annual average temperature is below 12 degrees. In 1955, Xie Wanqing was born in an ordinary farm here. In
1969, Xie Wanqing, who had not yet graduated from junior high school, joined in labor, followed by a group of young reservoirs in the village. The labor force for dam repair comes from all over Longxian, including the educated youth from Xi'an and other cities. Educated youth brought a "red plum" brand 135 single lens reflex camera. After labor, we took pictures of everyone at the construction site. Since then, Xie Wanqing has been fascinated by cameras. Several times he really wanted to touch the camera of educated youth. He took the initiative to work for the educated youth in exchange for a chance to recite the camera for a while.
that camera was about one hundred yuan, and the 14 year old Xie Wanqing, who had been working at a reservoir site for a day, earned only 6 cents. In
1970, Xie Wanqing set her first goal in life: to work hard, earn work points and buy a camera similar to that of educated youth. For this he began to play overtime and overtime. In order to buy a camera from dawn to dusk, many people thought he had a brain problem. In the summer of
1978, Xie Wanqing finally saved up 74 yuan, and bought the first camera of her life from the Longxian department store. He was 23 years old that year.
An Guiqin married Xie Wanqing in 1980. She recalls that soon after she was married, she found that Xie Wanqing was stunned by a person with a camera all day. She was scared at first, and she thought Shewan had a problem with her mind. Later, I realized that Xie Wanqing was worried about not having enough money to buy films, and worried that there was no electricity in the countryside at that time, so he could not make a darkroom.
in the 80s of last century, Xie Wanqing learned to take photos while planting crops. Xi'an educated youth taught him very limited, he walked more than 20 kilometers to the County Cultural Museum for teaching, even take a bus to Baoji, soft and hard grind to a shopping mall in Baoji, a shop assistant to explain his camera knowledge. Later, he bought a book "Introduction to photography". Many of the words did not recognize him, so he went to help primary school teachers.
the red and white of the village, Tama Kosaku of the neighbour, and the various bazaars in Longxian became Xie Wanqing's shooting materials. The money sold by others is often used to buy household appliances, but he buys most of them.
in the 80s and 90s of last century, darkroom was a prerequisite for film photography. At that time, Feng Shan village had not yet been electrified. Xie Wanqing used kerosene lamps as the light source and used urea and vinegar instead of chemical agents to develop photographs. To the surprise of many professionals in the county cultural center, under such conditions, he succeeded, and from time to time, photography was adopted by newspapers and periodicals.