My Hometown:Chongqing, China 2006-2020
My Hometown:Chongqing, China 2006-2020
Song Liu/Photography
This set of photographs was taken in Chongqing, China
My Hometown:Chongqing, China 2006-2020
My Hometown:Chongqing, China 2006-2020
Song Liu/Photography
This set of photographs was taken in Chongqing, China from 2006 to 2020. My Hometown: Chongqing, China is located in the southwestern part of China's inland, in the upper reaches of the Yangtze River, and is a municipality directly under the central government of China, an important strategic pivot point for the development of the western part of the country, an important linking point for the Belt and Road and the Yangtze River Economic Belt, as well as an inland open highland. Chongqing is a mountain city, because it is mainly mountain road, up and down the slope is particularly many, here are beautiful mountain city night scenery, lofty cross-river bridge, strange city traffic, and let the old driver can get lost in the magic overpass.
Due to the special geographic environment and special climate, Chongqing also has many aliases, such as the summer heat and named "furnace"; because the city is built on the mountain and named "mountain city"; and winter and spring Chongqing clouds and fog, aka Chongqing is also known as the "Mist City". Chongqing, the topography of this unique city of landscape and humanity, for me as a child growing up in Jiefangbei, eating spicy hot pot, climbing up the slope of the "Chongqing cubs", I have a unique feelings for Chongqing. For this reason, I also combed through the unique topography and human images of Chongqing to show the humanistic Chongqing in my mind.
01: At 16:00 on August 30, 2012, Chaotianmen in Chongqing, China, the old landmarks of the Chaotianmen area, the Chongqing Port Passenger Terminal and the Three Gorges Hotel, were successfully blasted. The future Chaotianmen is an urban complex integrating residences, hotels, shopping malls, offices, service apartments, restaurants and clubs.
02: Soon to be demolished old 18th staircase with skyscrapers in the city on May 16, 2017 in Yuzhong District, Chongqing, China.
03: Jiefangbei Monument, full name "People's Liberation Monument", located in the center of the commercial area of Yuzhong District, Chongqing, China, December 16, 2018, one of the landmark buildings in Chongqing, is a historical witness to the victory of the war of resistance and the liberation of Chongqing, and it is the only national monument commemorating the victory of the war of resistance of the Chinese nation against Japan. It is the only national monument commemorating the victory of the Chinese National Anti-Japanese War.
04: People going home walk on a footbridge on Zuoying Street on May 16, 2017 in Yuzhong District, Chongqing, China. The footbridge is about 40 meters from the ground, with a width of about 2 meters and a length of about 30 meters or so.
05: The Yangtze River Ropeway, a large cross-river passenger ropeway designed and manufactured by China itself, is 1,166 meters long, connecting Chongqing's Yuzhong and Nanan districts, with a speed of 6 meters per second and a running time of 4 minutes on June 25, 2018 in Chongqing, China.
06: People relax and chat in a teahouse on Huangjiaoping Main Street in Jiulongpo, Chongqing, China, on June 9, 2018 This teahouse is the only teahouse in Chongqing that maintains the style of the 1980s.
07: Elderly couple from Yubei District of Chongqing sit snuggly and relaxed on a hanging chair on July 7, 2013 in Huangshui Town of Shizhu, Chongqing, China. The grandfather said they come to Huangshui every summer to escape the heat, and in winter they go to Hainan to spend the winter.
08: Air-raid shelters were used to escape enemy air raids during the war period, and since 2003, Chongqing Municipality has been trying to open up its human defense projects as a summer cooling spot for residents, in Chongqing, China, August 7, 2018.
09: People relax with tea by the river on January 22, 2019 in Chongqing, China.
10: People watch the flood at the Chaotianmen River as flood waters pass through on August 23, 2010 in Chongqing, China.
11: Couples hold hands as they walk along the Chaotianmen River on August 23, 2010 in Chaotianmen, Chongqing, China. Days of rainfall caused the water level of the Yangtze and Jialing Rivers to surge, flooding all the steps of the Chaotianmen Quay and pouring into the doorway of the Chaotianmen.
12: A man holding an umbrella reminds passing vehicles to divert their traffic on Huanglong Road in Yubei, Chongqing, China, July 9, 2010, as torrential rains form a whirlpool and flow into a sewer. On that day, Chongqing was hit by the strongest thunderstorms since the flood.
13: March 15, 2006, Coral Dam, Chongqing, China, people riding horses on the river beach.
14: Citizens have a unique and memorable tea and chat on a raised reef by the river on May 1, 2012, by the Jialing River in Maguikou, Chongqing, China.
15: Citizens jump into the Jialing River from a high platform in a leaping position at Shimen Bridge on June 26, 2020 in Chongqing, China. The platform is a remnant of a former pier, which has now become a "jumping platform" for diving enthusiasts.
16: March 2, 2012, Beibei Tutuo car ferry terminal, Chongqing, China, with more and more cross-river bridges put into use, familiar with the boat to cross the river less and less people, this only one ferry terminal, every day across the river in a few cars, which is the last car ferry in the main city of Chongqing.
17: Cars in the rescue river at Coral Dam on April 10, 2013 in Chongqing, China.
18: Fishermen by the river on October 22, 2016 in Chongqing, China. China's Yangtze River since January 1, 2020, the Yangtze River Basin, the key waters will be classified and phased implementation of the fisheries ban, once fishermen, have embarked on the road of conversion.
19: Women wash clothes by the river on November 18, 2010 in a district of Chongqing, China.
20: Fishermen row a boat under a bridge at Magiqikou on September 19, 2011 in Chongqing, China.
21: September 10, 2018, Jiangbei City Sky Street, Chongqing, China, there is such a group of people in Chongqing, they climbed the slope, carrying a meter-long bamboo stick on their shoulders, wandering along the street to solicit work, they come from the countryside, is a temporary porter on the streets of Chongqing, Chongqing citizens called "Chongqing stick army".
22: People eat small hot pot: spicy hot pot at a street-side restaurant on December 2, 2018 in Chongqing, China.
23: People playing billiards and singing for leisure at night on May 28, 2014 in Chongqing, China.
24: People dancing in a riverside square at night in a district and county in Chongqing, China, June 22, 2017, at night.
25: A couple takes wedding photos by the Jialing River on March 11, 2019 in Chongqing, China, with the bustling downtown of Chongqing on the other side of the river.
26: Motorcycle enthusiasts ride along the Jialing River at night on March 25, 2020 in Chongqing, China.
27: People relax and play on a reef at a river bank during the dry season of the Yangtze River on June 6, 2020 in Chongqing, China.
28: People relax on a reef by the Jialing River with the city lights reflected in the river on April 19, 2020 in Chongqing, China.
29: People relaxing by the Jialing River at night on May 29, 2020 in Chongqing, China.
30: People watch the night view of the city of Chongqing at One Tree Scenic Area in Nanshan on July 15, 2018 in Chongqing, China.
Another eye to evaluate the map with the heart and mind to shoot the human landscape of the City of Landscape
The City of Landscape image collection with its creative exploration, value thinking and individual distinctive characteristics of the new landscape image text to us the impact and enlightenment. His lens language has a unique visual tension and penetrating power of thought analysis. It not only conveys the elements of the times under the rich historical heritage of the city of mountains and waters, but also shows people the reality of contemporary society, environment, ecology and humanities. High urbanization and prosperity and people's spiritual and cultural heritage of the new entanglement, showing a volume of vivid contemporary "Qingming Riverside Drawing", the image to the history of the root veins, to the spirit of the landscape, to the flesh and blood of the characters, and with the creation of practice to prove: documentary and art is not in conflict, can be compatible with each other in the milk of the water.
Thoughtful images are not shallow visual capture of the "decisive moment" of satisfaction, but the "typical combination" of visual composition to realize the depth of expression, directly to the essence of things. He used the professional sensitivity and broad vision of the news, accumulated a sense of life and love of people, curious about nature, emotions, thinking, coupled with innate nature or acquired learning and practiced into the artistic sense of aesthetics, in the complex world intercepted with recognizable and connotative value on behalf of the scene, emotional details, storyline, or period characteristics, or local characteristics, or character traits, with the "from life, above life" satisfaction. The image expression of "coming from life, higher than life" distances the image from reality. Mountain city, river city, fog city, bridge city, fireplace, liberation monument, old teahouse, spicy hot pot, stick army, traffic through the mountain into the building, the personality raised by the landscape, etc., all have non-usual significance of the imprint, constituting a familiar and strange, strange and intimate city of landscape of the floating world. Thousands of mountains, thousands of people, thousands of faces, see heaven and earth, see all beings. In a city of mountains and waters, you can read the world's living beings. Touching different strata, feeling every situation and atmosphere, looking for the harmony or contrast between the old and the new, between history and reality, in the landscapes that have been changed and decorated by human beings. The works thus have multiple aesthetic and semantic interpretations.
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