Yu Quanxing's personal introduction

Yu Quanxing, 1986, graduated from the Decorative Arts Department of Tianjin Academy of Fine Arts. 1987 worked in a family newspaper as the chief reporter from 2004. In 2004, he taught in the School of Film and Television Art of Tianjin Normal University, and now he is the head of the photography department of the School of Journalism and Communication of Tianjin Normal University. Witness and interpret the real life of civilians with cameras.

On 200 1, photographer Yu Quanxing was entrusted by happiness project to go to the west alone to reflect the donation and living conditions of poor mothers in poor areas in the west with photos. Five years later, he recorded 359 poor mothers with the lens. There is a touching story behind every photo. Yu Quanxing, 43, a well-known documentary photographer, is now the head of the photography department of the School of Journalism and Communication, Tianjin Normal University.

Professor Yu Quanxing's humorous and natural teaching style has won the love of his classmates. The elective course of picture appreciation he taught was full again and again. By chance, Yu Quanxing met happiness project. This was initiated by China Population Welfare Foundation, China Family Planning Association and China People's Daily in 1995. They want to find someone who can witness the project implementation in the form of pictures. Yu Quanxing accepted this task and truly faced those unfortunate mothers.

In the ten years from 200 1, entrusted by happiness project, he went deep into poverty-stricken areas in western China twice, covering 1 1 provinces, autonomous regions and municipalities, visited 64 poverty-stricken counties, 167 townships and 267 villages, and interviewed more than 820 people. While witnessing the implementation of the project, the unimaginable burden of life borne by poor mothers in the west was recorded with pictures, and people were urged to pay attention to and help those poor mothers as much as possible. Some of the mothers in the photo have never left home, and some even live a primitive life, enduring diseases, hunger and natural disasters. Some of these photos are the first in their lives, and some may be the last.

In 2002, Yu Quanxing's "happiness project" photo exhibition was exhibited in Beijing. Happiness project aims to help poor mothers "cure poverty, ignorance and disease". The purpose of this action is to arouse the attention of the whole society to poor mothers in China. Mother is the core of the family. Without the happiness of mother, there is no happiness of family. Helping a poor mother means helping a family and future generations, thus changing the fate of a poor mother, family and children.

The happiness project Organizing Committee distributed 40 photos of Yu Quanxing to the press. Major newspapers and periodicals rushed to publish, attracting people's attention. Yu Quanxing's photos made countless people cry after reading them, making them look at the countryside and think about life. 200 1, 1 1, Yu Quanxing arrived at Yakou Village, Guanzhai Township, Qiubei County, Yunnan Province, which is famous for its karst landform. Outsiders often marvel at these miracles created by nature, but for local people, they only mean two words: poverty. There is drought and water shortage here, so we can only grow corn. Even if the property is 200 kg per mu, it is generally around 100 kg. People have worked hard for a year, but they still lack food for four months and need state relief.

A mother who was carrying her child at home caught Yu Quanxing's attention. Because people here can't speak Mandarin yet, with the help of a local translator, Yu Quanxing started talking to her. The mother's name is Gu Cailian and she is 26 years old. She is the mother of two children. The thatched cottage where she lives is a dangerous building in the city, which is heavily tilted and supported by a big wood. There was no electricity at that time, and the room was dark. Yu Quanxing hit a lighter to see it. There is a pot on the ground, and the so-called bed behind the door is a shelf made of several pieces of wood with a piece of broken cotton wool on it. Gu Cailian said that after giving birth to her second child, her chest has been hurting and she has been coughing. She has no strength at all, and it is difficult to walk, let alone work in the fields. It is such a sick woman who weaves bamboo rafts every day so that her husband can change some change to supplement his family (the annual income is less than 100 yuan) and buy some salt. But she never thought about using the money to see a doctor for herself, and what she was most worried about was that her 6-year-old daughter took on housework too early because of illness and went to work with her father early every day, because she was afraid that young children could not stand it. What makes her sad is that there is no money for her children to study at home, and her daughter is likely to repeat it.

When Gu Cailian told Yu Quanxing about her family, she didn't shed a tear, even so calm. She told other people's stories, but Yu Quanxing's hand holding the camera kept shaking. What he saw was his mother's tenacity, her expectation for the future life, rather than giving in to the poor life. This is the poor mother in western China. He especially noticed that Gu Cailian's two children were not wearing shoes. When I saw a stranger, my face showed a youthful and sincere smile unique to rural children. Gu Cailian wore old cloth shoes with a grin. Because of her chest pain, her eyes showed her longing for a happy life. It is such a state of life, a strong mother, dressed in rags, with no bitterness in her big eyes, but very touching. Yu Quanxing pressed the shutter and took pictures of Gu Cailian. When he left, Yu Quanxing asked Gu Cailian, what's your wish? Gu Cailian said that if someone can help me pay some money to raise a cow, I can pay back the money when the cow gives birth to a calf next year.

This photo, with Gu Cailian's words, was published by many media, during which she donated 30 thousand yuan to her mother to fly. A reader in Zhuhai wrote: "Although I am just an ordinary citizen, I live on my salary, but my economic conditions are better than yours. Because of this, as a person, I have the responsibility to do something morally and help you as much as possible. " A soldier from Zhejiang wrote: "I sent 400 yuan money to help you develop your economy to express my wishes and those of my family. I believe that you and your husband are hardworking and diligent people, and you will definitely get out of poverty through your efforts. "

At noon in 2005, Yu Quanxing went to Gu Cailian's house with CCTV's "Village Agreement" film crew. Along the path where we met vaguely, Gu Cailian came. Yu Quanxing hardly dared to recognize her. She is black and thin. Yu Quanxing quietly asked the village cadres why she was black and thin. The cadre said that she was well, had cattle and sheep, and was busy herding cattle and sheep. When I arrived at Gu Jia, the original thatched cottage was replaced by a tile roof, and sewing machines and bicycles were added to the original empty home. The biggest change is Gu Cailian. She smiled so happily and so heartily that she hoped her children could go to school in the city. Happiness project, a photo, changed the fate of a family and benefited her descendants.