Alternative Life: The Real World Through the Eyes of a Photographer

Author: Zhao Tielin
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Publish Date: 2000-10-01
Features: Four hundred documentary photographs and one hundred fifty thousand sincere words record the photographer Zhao Tielin's eight-year drift-like wandering life, an eight-year arduous and meticulous follow-up investigation. Four hundred documentary photographs and one hundred fifty thousand sincere words record the photographer Zhao Tielin's eight-year drift-like wandering life, an eight-year arduous and meticulous follow-up investigation. He brings to us the small figures who are part of our lives but have never entered our vision, telling us how many people still live in the countryside and towns, as well as between them; how the changes in the social economy have affected their ways of making a living, their daily lives, and their family relationships; their thoughts, pursuits, possible and existing destinations; among them and in the spaces they inhabit, which traditional concepts have broken down, and which old customs have returned. It is hoped that these stories can encourage more people to show greater care and dedication to social issues.