Xiao Quan's works
Cover news reporter Chen He
Born in Chengdu, Xiao Quan is known as "China's best portrait photographer." In the past ten years, Xiao Quan has changed from "Our Generation" to "Portrait of Xiao Quan's ▪ Era", and he has gradually shifted his lens from shooting artists to ordinary people, shooting his own portrait for Chinese.
On March 25, 2018, the "Classical Art Masters Forum" held the first lecture of 2018 at the Classic Art Theater, and the keynote speaker was Xiao Quan, a famous Chinese portrait photographer. At the lecture, Xiao Quan shared his photography story and his perception and understanding of photography, and revealed that the upcoming Chengdu Station "Portrait of the Times" project will use the next period of time to photograph 500 ordinary people in Chengdu and record the portraits and memories of Chengdu people today.
A tribute to chengdu people and chengdu life
In 2012, Xiao Quan, Zhou Xun and Du Jiayi did a public welfare shooting project for the United Nations, "The Future We Look Forward to 2032", which photographed more than 200 ordinary people in Beijing, and these pictures were transmitted to more than 170 UN member states, and Ban Ki-moon, then secretary-general of the United Nations, collected this album. Since 2015, Xiao Quan began to continue this shooting plan and named it "Portrait of the Times", from Kunming, Chongqing to Hangzhou, more than 2,000 portraits of people in 8 cities have been photographed, and the pictures have been widely disseminated by various media, as well as exhibitions and publications.
Lecture site
In 2018, Xiao Quan, as a Chengdu native, once again returned to the place where his photography dream began, with his original intention and former touch, to record the ordinary people in Chengdu who pushed the current life forward. Xiao Quan said, "This is a tribute to Chengdu people and Chengdu life in the context of the whole new era. Chengdu has a long history and story context that can be described, and these are the things you want to grasp. “
"I will have in-depth communication with every Chengdu person involved in this project, understand their daily life, joys and sorrows, and try my best to show their most real and memorable side with the language of the lens, just like those people in "Our Generation", they should be remembered by history." Finally, the photographs will be collected into the book Xiao Quan: Portraits of the Times, which are recorded in a larger scope and over a larger time span. Xiao Quan added.
Chengdu is the 9th stop of "Portrait of the Times"
Zhao Ye, the main creator of "XiangYi" magazine, once commented on Xiao Quan: "Bai Hua and Fei Sheng, told me for a long time That Xiao Quan, his talent and easy to move, with the passion and pleasure of discovery. The Xiao Quan I saw was excessively handsome, but simple and transparent, like a flood of clear water, sincerely submitting to various authorities, especially beauty and fame. ”
Xiao Quan's representative work, "Our Generation", includes various influential figures in the literary and art circles, including Zhang Yimou, Chen Kaige, Jiang Wen, BeiDao, Wang Anyi, Shi Tiesheng, Chen Cun, Cui Jian, etc. It can be said that the well-known cultural and artistic circles born in the 50s and 60s have left a mark on the times for China's well-known cultural and artistic circles, their lives, young appearances, lonely figures, tearful eyes... Eternally frozen in the black and white, traditional old scene, this is the best testimony of the times.
"Portrait of the Times" is Xiao Quan's Chinese in paying attention to the China of this era and the present. He said that he hopes that every shooting can truly record the changes of this era and the state of people. The appearance and emotions condensed in the lens form a warm image in the silent passage of time, which is also the eternal care for life.
At the lecture site, Xiao Quan revealed that Chengdu is the 9th stop of "Portrait of the Times". As a Chengdu native, coming to his hometown to shoot, Xiao Quan has a completely different emotion and is full of expectations. Xiao Quan introduced that before, he had taken pictures in Chengdu, including designer Wang Hai, Liu Jiakun, writer Jie Chen, and an old farmer selling hemp sugar on Longquan Yishan, etc., all of which were the contents of the "Portrait of the Times" Chengdu Station.
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