Wandering Lens - Xinjiang Portrait Archive (Photography Volume)

Author: Shen Qiao, Nan Zi / Country: Mainland China
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Publish Date: 2006-05-01
Features: When it comes to Xinjiang, who can say anything vivid and weighty to summarize her? At least, in my opinion, it is a very difficult task. I have lived here for 37 years, and I am the kind of person who has lived here for so long that the novelist Zhu Sujin thought it was "rare for someone to be able to watch over a place for so long and remain fresh." But after 37 years have passed, I still cannot summarize her. Xinjiang also creates and shapes a unique beauty. Her beauty inherently includes the tolerance of strikingly contrasting things. Because her beauty is not singular or sequentially changing, her beauty is also indescribable. She embraces and nurtures the peak of ice peaks with its sublime height, the complete collapse of the fire basin, the charming and beautiful grasslands, the rugged and open Gobi, the mysterious and inaccessible desert, the naturally pleasant rural scenery of the oases, the abundance and desolation of fruit orchards, the clear and gentle lakes and the hard mountains, the classical Kashgar and the romantic Ili, their opposition, contradiction, and extremity, all under her own body, forming a unique and healthy beauty. This beauty exists only in Xinjiang. P11