A brief introduction to the author of a V story

Zhao is a documentary photographer in China, and his photos are almost all black and white. He likes black. He even put a black box behind his name on his business card. Because he said he was lucky, he fell from the fifth floor and didn't die, fell into the sea and didn't drown, and was beaten and didn't die ... He almost met all the dangers that a person might encounter in his life.

At 3 o'clock in the morning of May 16, 2009, Zhao's black box finally arrived. After fighting lung cancer for two years, he was covered with a whole piece of white cloth.

In the middle and late 1990s, Zhao was a man of the hour in the field of documentary photography in China. His works about sex workers caused a great sensation and broke the taboo of mass media reporting on sex workers. He was once called "an indispensable figure in the development of documentary photography in China". However, in the last few years of his life, Zhao lived in poverty, even so poor that he didn't even have the money to go to the hospital for reexamination, so he had to auction photos in exchange for medical expenses.

In 2000, Friends of Photography, an authoritative photography magazine in China, selected the most important photographer in China in 2000, and Zhao was among them. In 2002, he was employed by Tsinghua University Contemporary China Research Center as the director of the imaging room. In 2007, China Photographers Association awarded Zhao the title of "Photographer with Outstanding Contribution since the Founding of the People's Republic of China".