Re:, a 61 year old farmer who has been obsessed with photography for more than 30 years, has been accused of not being honest.
"that can't be called photography"
2016, one of the most happy things is that, with the help of friends such as Xi'an documentary producer Song Manzhao, he held his own photography exhibition in the Xi'an. The
Film Festival was held during the spring ploughing gap in April, located in the Seoul Lake Park. 150 photographs of the folk culture and rural changes in the rural areas for more than 40 years have been displayed on display. The theme is Xie Wanqing himself, called "my father and father." The film exhibition was very successful. At the festival, someone asked Xie Wanqing: why do you have to hold a photo exhibition as a farmer? Xie Wanqing's answer is very simple, he said, I think that taking pictures is actually telling stories, telling the rural stories that your city people miss and don't know. In
2016, Xie Wanqing still had one thing in mind: his son, Xie Zilong, was 26 years old, and he had to find someone. Xie Zilong is now a chef at a hotel in Baoji. In three different ways, Xie Wanqing always calls his son to ask how things are. Whenever he heard that his son was talking, he would be happy to have cigarettes. But before long, when he heard that his son had broken up on the phone, Lao Xie would be very disappointed. He lost not only his son but not his son. What's more, he felt that he had no ability to give his son money for the bride price. Because in today's Longxian area, the highest number of folk betrothal gifts has reached 150 thousand yuan.
several times, Xie Wanqing, who won't surf the Internet, and without WeChat, called his friends. He said he had more than 20000 documentary photographs taken over the years to see if anyone or organization would like to buy it. Because he heard people say these things are very valuable. But unfortunately, the phone played several laps, and none of the buyers.
2016 December, in the middle of December, the song man Dynasty followed Xie Wanqing's two years documentary film "old thanks" to 2016 China (Guangzhou) International Documentary Festival, Xie Wanqing was invited to attend the guest. Out of the importance of this activity, Song Dynasty sent Lao Xie a camouflage costume as a "outfit". Lao Xie's "military uniform" attracted the attention of many journalists at home and abroad. A reporter asked Lao Xie whether he had been a soldier or not. He laughed at the old Shaanxi Gansu mixed accent Lao he. He answered that he had been a militia and a company commander. After answering this question, Lao Xie suddenly felt blocked in his heart. He felt that he was neither a mere photographer nor a real peasant.
from Xi'an back to the village in the afternoon, there are villagers in the nearby village to find old Xie, said his father is old, afraid to stay up this winter, looking for old Xie to take a picture of his father, to do the future.
after the villagers left, Xie Wanqing smoked a few cigarettes in a row and remained silent. Later, he told reporters that he had been entangling with a film machine or a digital computer to photograph the elderly. The nine thousand multivariate digital camera was the most expensive camera used by Lao Xie over thirty years, and some of the CPPCC members in Longxian made up in 2014 to buy the same people as members of the CPPCC. But Lao Xie is very unaccustomed to the new machine. He always tells others that it is playing computer, and can not be called photography.
in the view of recorder Song Manzhao, Lao Xie is a very real person, very sincere, and the farmer's character has not been lost at all. From the perspective of photography, Chen Hao, chairman of the Longxian Photographers Association, said to Xie Wanqing, "Lao Xie belongs to the martyrs of photography circles."