Zhang Yu’s character style

Zhang Yu is an optimistic photographer. His style can be fully understood from the writings of Chen Fu, a reporter who interviewed him at that time. Now, "Zhang Yu's Righteousness and Smiling at Life" written by the reporter 》The excerpt of the article is reproduced as follows:

In common thought, I thought that a figure like Zhang Yu, who is a leading figure in the photography world and even the cultural world, should have more honors in the industry. However, I never thought that in his resume, all I could read was a neat list of work history and some changing official titles. However, it is in this unreasonable development that we can clearly see the righteous spirit of an artist abandoning himself for the development of the industry. Zhang Yu has loved art since childhood. At the age of 19, he relied on his talent to draw a huge portrait of Mao Zedong. What satisfied him most was the 15 years he spent as an art editor at the "Frontline News" of the Political Department of the Fuzhou Military Region in 1971. He said: "That It was a complete period of time when I was truly in contact with art and photography.” However, strictly speaking, Zhang Yu only truly studied the art of photography systematically for 50 days during his time at "Frontline". Due to work needs of the Political Department, he was selected to participate in the 20-day Army Color Photography Learning Workshop in 1974; in 1981, he was once again lucky enough to get the opportunity to study in the second 30-day national photography workshop. Guo Moruo once said: "The decisive factor in forming a genius should be diligence." It is precisely because of diligence that although Zhang Yu experienced a short period of professional study, in 1982, four of his works were selected for the National Youth Film Festival, among which "Water and Fire" won the Third Prize at the Film Festival.

In 1985, Zhang Yu was appointed as the Secretary-General of the Fujian Photographers Association and took on the administrative work of the Fujian photography industry. On the surface, this seems to be a good thing, but for an artist, what is lost will be his own art that cannot be saved. "Actually, I am where I am today because of the organization's training and the hope of my comrades. Since the organization has given me a service job, I have no reason not to do it better." However, there was no complaint in Zhang Yu's words. On the contrary, he said very humorously: "The organization never gives me time to study." Now as the vice-chairman and secretary of the Fujian Provincial Federation of Literary and Art Circles and the vice-chairman of the China Photographers Association, he is committed to the development of the photography industry in Fujian Province every day. He hopes to build a "Fujian Photography" environment that is beneficial to Fujian's photography industry and create an atmosphere of "popular art". He said: "Instead of one or two professionals, I would rather see the public pick up cameras."

Zhang Yu's passion and persistence in art are always full of confidence and expectations. He said: "After so many years Since then, I have always humbly consulted artists from all walks of life with the mentality of "learning from nature, and being able to be my teacher". Once I was relieved of the administrative burden on my shoulders, I could really create freely.

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