I am really tired in Beijing. Do you want to go back and see the fields and parents?

Dude, when you walk, you are either covered with dust or leave footprints.

In Beijing, there are hutongs at work every day. I have lived on the edge of the West Fifth Ring Road for more than ten years, and the village in the city is nearby. Used to be vanity. I can't afford to buy a good car without money, but I'm afraid I can't afford to lose that person. There is no money now, and the number can't be shaken. Subway has naturally become the best choice for going to work and going home.

Hutongs, subways and villages in the city are the points and lines of my living geography.

Live a normal life and press the button of your mobile phone at will, which brings you the scenery of spring, summer, autumn and winter.

N years ago, Chen Xiaobo, one of the most famous photo curators in China, was lucky enough to take a commemorative photo in Happy Valley. We talked about how to pose beautifully while joking. Chen Xiaobo stood in the distance. When I asked her if she had started shooting, her confident voice floated: OK, change the scene! Between talking and laughing, a group of natural and fresh photos (haha, you can really pretend to be young at that time) came out. It turns out that commemorative photos can be taken like this!

Later, I met Yushu, who graduated from the photography department of the Film Academy. Photographers who grew up in Beijing took me to visit hutongs. Walking in the front fence, hawkers, tourists, antique watchtowers and dilapidated courtyards were all photographed in his mobile phone during our walk. It turns out that life can be recorded like this.

Yushu once wrote on WeChat: A colleague at work asked me how much a camera costs to learn photography well. Speechless, should I perfunctory him or tell him what photography is? What is photography? It contains every book you have read, every movie you have seen, every music you have heard and every bitch you have loved.

In the interview class of the School of Journalism, a teacher who has been a reporter for many years told a short story: the interviewee who was very addicted to cigarettes politely and kindly handed a cigarette to the reporter who met him for the first time. Do you smoke? Sorry, I don't have that bad habit. The reporter replied. The normal flow of life is rudely blocked or even interrupted by "I don't have that bad habit". The effect of the interview can be imagined.

Street shooting is to record the flowing life. This little story always reminds me that I like street shooting not to intrude and disturb other people's lives. I like the concealment of mobile phone photography. I'm just looking at the scenery I pass by.

alley

Hutong, which is disappearing on the map of Beijing, is the predecessor of modern cities and the back of prosperous cities. The unit is in the remaining hutongs, and there is no habit of taking a lunch break. Besides, being in the same office with two women, it is necessary for a gentleman to make room for a lady. After lunch, most of the time has become a good time to walk around the hutong with a mobile phone.

Swimming around, patting around. The hutong in the mobile phone photo album is like a city. Many old Beijingers have moved away, and many outsiders have come. The secular hutongs are mixed with the atmosphere of distance. It's just the tenacity of hutong, the patience of hutong and the nakedness of hutong. This is the calmest background in Beijing.

subway

The subway is a means of transportation that I rely on. Faced with all kinds of unbearable congestion and noise, the result of years of self-adjustment is to learn to love the subway and like the scenery of the "double era" of Beijing subway.

The subway is really a master of montage, editing the story of human joys and sorrows and showing the ups and downs of life. Other people's days are like their own mirrors. Not every subway goes to spring, but there is always one that takes us from the starting point to the end.

Urban village

After the night shift, take a few bus stops at Jingyuan Road, and you will arrive at the largest village in western Beijing. Most of the floating population in the village take selling vegetables and collecting waste as their occupation. They live a "second-hand city life". In the cramped, rough, shabby and embarrassed background, their faces tell me that "I am fine in Beijing". I'm looking for an answer from a China scholar: the so-called "slums" are just the perspective of urban residents. Because of the gap between urban and rural areas, it really feels more convenient for people from rural areas to live in relatively poor cities than living in rural areas.

Ordinary people live an ordinary life. I often deceive myself like this, treating every time I go out as a trip that I say I will leave. Because you are on the road with your heart, there will naturally be scenery in your eyes.

In fact, when you walk through the hutong, take the subway and walk into the village in the city, you will feel connected with the local flavor of the city, just like eating rice and pasta for every meal, so that you can live more realistically and truly.

Those impetuous in the bustling city, those false hopes in the speed, and those anxious in the madness will all be like rainy nights and early morning after snow, and the dust will settle.

From morning to dusk, from dusk to morning, a lively and happy day is always full of temperature and poetry. Therefore, I believe that there are natural scenery on the road I have traveled; Meeting someone you love must be the season of love; If you live, you have your own life.

Recording the world around us is just a casual look, a look back, a gesture, and a gesture.

Love of photography is a disease. I know I'm very ill.