In 1985, Xie Jing was born in Hawaii, usa, her mother Xie Lili was from Hong Kong, and her father was from South Korea. From the time Xie Jing remembered, in front of her friends, what made her proud was her father. Every holiday, her father would ride a bicycle and take her to a long distance to see the scenery, many very ordinary people and scenes, after his father photographed it, it made Xie Jing look novel. Her father often told her: Life, you must continue to try! This sentence was deeply imprinted in Xie Jing's mind.
In 1991, when Xie Jing was more than 5 years old, the family changed, and her parents divorced due to emotional discord. When her father left home, Xie Jing cried and shouted for her father, and her mother said dismissively: "Father doesn't want us anymore, what do you want him to do?" It was only after her father left that she found herself under the pillow, and he had quietly stuffed her with a large bag of candy.
The departure of his father, the life of the mother and daughter, the meager income from washing dishes in the mother's restaurant, was difficult to maintain, so they had to return to the rented house, borrow it to live in a relative's house, and live a life under the fence. Since then, Xie Jing has changed from love to hate for her father. When Xie Jing was 8 years old, the mother and daughter could not stay in Hawaii anymore, so they returned to Hong Kong, but life was still stretched. Because of the discrimination she suffered from her classmates at school, and because her father never came to see her after her parents divorced, she added to her resentment towards her father.
When Xie Jing was 10 years old, her mother and cousin decided to open a dry cleaning shop in the United States, and Xie Jing followed her mother back to Hawaii. Opening a dry cleaner was not all smooth sailing, and at its toughest times, the mother and daughter even slept in the park. With the hard work of my mother and cousin, the dry cleaner gradually improved, and the life of the mother and daughter slowly improved.
In 2003, Xie Jing was admitted to the University of Hawaii with a major in economics. Because of her love of photography, she organized and founded a photography association. Because of her personal experience of a difficult life, she focused the lens on the wanderers at the bottom of life, from different angles, to record their lives, and insisted on it for 4 years. Before graduating from college, she held a large photography exhibition at the school, "Wanderer", which caused a sensation. Soon, she was admitted as a photographer by a well-known magazine.
After Xie Jing entered the magazine, after several years of hard work and her keenness to observe society, she became a well-known photographer. At the age of 24, she harvested love, her husband was an American, and she gave birth to a son and a daughter. The mother never remarried and lived with them.
One summer day in 2012, Xie Jing was on her way to work and parked her car in Honolulu where beggars gathered. Unlike in the past, she found an old beggar with a sluggish eye, and his backpack was printed with the words of a photographer. So she quietly took more than 80 photos of the old beggar. Two days later, Xie Jing unexpectedly bumped into him in front of a café, and she took a lot of pictures of him.
Xie Jing followed the old beggar to take pictures for 3 months, and when he began to sort out the photos, he found that the old beggar's open backpack sometimes revealed several photographic posters, and she realized that he should be a person with a story, so she had the desire to help him. She named the old beggar "The Photographer" and made him the soundtrack slide "Wanderer".
On this day, Xie Jing took the slides home and wanted her mother to give her opinions. As the slideshow unfolded one by one, my mother's eyes widened and she suddenly shouted, "Oh my God! This beggar is your father! Xie Jing was stunned when she heard it, and suddenly had mixed feelings, and the resentment against her father for nearly 20 years instantly turned into pity. She wiped away her tears and said, "I can't leave him alone, I want to get him back!" But the mother was silent.
The next day, Xie Jing drove to the place where the "old beggar" used to stay, and she felt a pang of sadness when she saw that he was still shrinking there. She hurried up to him, lowered her head and whispered, "Daddy, I'm your daughter!" To Xie Jing's surprise, the "old beggar" changed the quiet of the past, got up like a madman and ran, and Xie Jing did not catch up. This situation lasted for a month, which made Xie Jing feel anxious inside.
Xie Jing thought that she was in a hurry and should approach him first. On this day, she bought some food, slowly placed it in front of her, and nodded and smiled at him, this time the "old beggar" did not run. In this way, every time he did not speak, he was able to approach him. One day two months later, Xie Jing held up a camera in front of him to take a picture, and the "old beggar" suddenly said, "You dim the aperture like this, it's not right." And took her camera and expertly adjusted it. Finally able to communicate, Xie Jing was very surprised.
One day in early October 2014, Xie Jing came to see the "old beggar" again, but she didn't find anything, and when she inquired, she learned that the "old beggar" had a heart attack at night and was sent to the hospital. He hurried to the hospital. Explaining the identity to the doctor, the doctor looked at her with a strange look and said: Your father has a stable heart disease, but he has severe schizophrenia, and it is expensive to treat. Xie Jing did not hesitate to accept the treatment. Since then, Xie Jing has taken the time she can to accompany and take care of her father. In order to evoke her father's memory, she told him every day about the scene of the father and daughter who used to be together. On this day, when she was speaking, her father sat up violently from the bed and called her name in his mouth, and she immediately clasped his father's hand and responded: "Daddy, it's me, your daughter!" The father and daughter finally recognized each other, and their eyes were filled with tears of joy.
At the beginning of 2015, my father's condition improved greatly. Xie Jing still decided to take her father home. Although she did the work, her mother still did not want to see her father, and she had to agree to her mother's temporary stay at her cousin's house. After the father returned home, because there were grandchildren and granddaughters around every day, he was happy like a child, and his mental condition gradually returned to normal. With her encouragement, my father went to a restaurant and got a job.
In order to make her mother accept her father, Xie Jing bought a smart phone for her father, and added her mother as a friend, so that her father could send photos and videos taken outside the home to his mother every day. On the first day, the mother did not hear back. The next day, the third day, still no reply, the fourth day, the mother finally couldn't bear it, called, crying and losing her voice. The family finally broke the mirror and returned to the circle.
In July 2015, Xie Jing compiled the photos of her father into a collection of works " My Father " , which caused a sensation in the Chinese circle.
