In everyday life
You've noticed
Dinghai Subdistrict
Century-old houses, industrial sites
and neighborhood view?
There is a "post-80s" girl Jiang Zhiying in the Dinghai Lane 3061 community, who took 20,000 photos with her mobile phone to record the Dinghai in her eyes. The photographs were also made into photo albums and exhibited at the Dinghai Transitional Museum. Elderly people from the community who came to see the exhibition said that the scene in the photo evoked their youthful memories.
Jiang Zhiying has a deep affection for the old house. "Living in the alley since childhood, after school, there will be small friends in the alley to ask me to play together, whoever encounters difficulties, the neighbors will help take care of ..."
After attending college, Jiang Zhiying began to try to record the community scenery with his mobile phone, "I think Dinghai has many unique places, many buildings and industrial sites have a long history, and the scenery that changes throughout the year is also very beautiful, and I want to record the small beauty around me." ”
Even after going to work, Jiang Zhiying will still go to photograph the scenery of the neighborhood in her spare time, "in fact, it is to record the things around me, and every day on the way to and from work, I will use my mobile phone to take a picture when I see a good look." Last year, I learned that there was an exhibition in the Transitional Museum in our community, and with the mentality of sharing, I took photos to exhibit. ”
What Jiang Zhiying did not expect was that her casual record evoked the memories of the aunts and uncles who came to visit when they were young, "They introduced me a lot about the different roads and buildings that used to look like, and I can truly feel the changes of the times." "One photo after another, stringing together memories at that moment made Jiang Zhiying feel the power of recording.
Through the exhibition of the Transitional Museum, Jiang Zhiying gradually became acquainted with the elderly in the community, and also became a "yearless friend" with Lin Yuefeng, a calligrapher in the community. "At the time of the exhibition, my uncle gave a professional evaluation of my photos."
Lin Yuefeng also specially gave the annual album issued by the Photographers Association to Jiang Zhiying, which made her very moved, "In fact, the elderly in the community are really communicating with us, they never ask us to pay, and always want to do something for our young people, just like relatives, chatting with them is very happy." ”
The various activities carried out by the Fourth Good Neighbor center have brought Jiang Zhiying back to the atmosphere of the "big family" in her childhood, "Now as long as I have time, I will participate in volunteer activities." Jiang Zhiying, who is busy at work, uses the rest time to provide services for the elderly in the community, "I think it is not a service, in fact, it is 'play', you can do handicrafts and communication with the elderly and volunteers." "In various activities, the elderly in the community also feel the vitality and love of the younger generation.
Jiang Zhiying said that filming and recording the old house is already an inseparable part of his life, and he will continue to shoot in the future. "The same is true of volunteering, for me, giving love to the elderly is not one-way, but a two-way interaction that benefits each other."
Text/Image: Ding Hai
Editor: Wu Baixin