Darkness and light, shooting and interviewing.

Black-and-white photography is combined with interviews, and there is a detailed story behind each photo, instead of just writing a short picture description or title.

"Why do you want to write? Actually, I don't want to write, but I don't write so many stories. It's just a picture book, and few people buy it in the bookstore. Because the amount of information in photos is limited after all. So each of my books has hundreds of thousands of words telling people's stories. "

Heiming said that many people think that ordinary people don't buy photo albums because they can't read them. "Twenty years ago, I started taking pictures. At that time, some photography newspapers always promoted that photography does not need words, but should speak with pictures themselves, so many people think that photography without words is art, but I don't think so. A news photo is difficult to explain without words, and the amount of information cannot be explained at all. For example, the educated youth I took, a photo can't reflect the situation of this educated youth, when he went to cut in line, where he cut in line, what he did when he cut in line, and so on. In recent years, I have used words to match images, explained my photos with words, and told the story behind the photos, which has achieved remarkable results. "

As for the amount of information in photography. It is often discussed that many people think that photography is talking with images. "I think photography should be divided into what, some photography can do, and some photography can't. News photography is inseparable from words. After all, the information of photography is limited. It is impossible to reach the amount of information that ordinary readers know. Photography is only a moment in history, and it is difficult to express a detailed historical background. "

Heiming said that taking photos is like making cultural relics, especially documentary photography. Heiming has a classmate who works in Dunhuang Research Institute. He heard from his classmates that there are so many murals in Dunhuang that only one mural has the author's name written on it, so many people want to know about this mural. "Then if there are words on the cultural relics, there is probably no need for archaeology." Li Zhensheng's photography pays great attention to the collection of words. Every photo he took during the Cultural Revolution was recorded in detail, including his name, age, position and so on.