Huang Heren in Huang Heren's lens

Huang Heren, a large-scale documentary photography collection published by Chaohua Publishing House, won the Excellence Award in the 5th National Book Fair. This photo album contains 480 documentary photographs created by Zhu Xianmin with the theme of "Huang Heren". Zhu Xianmin was born on the bank of the Yellow River and has published six documentary photo albums with the theme of "Huang Heren". Huang Heren shows the national spirit of the industrious and intelligent people in China, covering 750,000 square kilometers from the source of the Yellow River to the estuary, and depicts the simple and simple lifestyle of the people in China on both sides of the Yellow River. Under the impetus of reform and opening-up, Zhu Xianmin's documentary photography idea of "Huang Heren" has sprouted and generated passion.

In the late 1970s and early 1980s, a large number of his "Huang Heren" photographs appeared constantly and were published in professional photography journals at home and abroad. 1988, French photographer Cartier-Bresson wrote an inscription for his work: The eye of truth always faces life. The art of photography is to find, discover and truly and artistically record the performance objects that conform to one's own aesthetic feelings, social spirit, characteristics of the times and understanding of life from real life, and transform them into organic forms. As photographers, we should stand at the forefront of China's excellent traditional culture, record great historical changes, spread advanced culture and cultivate and carry forward the national spirit. Huang Heren is the most representative creative subject of national spirit, and it is the noble spiritual character and behavior of many ordinary Yellow River people that influences and pushes our nation forward. Zhu Xianmin interprets his own photography concept like this: "Photography will have strong vitality only if it truly records life and emotions, and photographers can shoulder the social and historical mission only if they face life directly."

For more than 30 years, Zhu Xianmin has been wandering on both sides of the Yellow River. He implanted the connotation of humanistic spirit into his "Huang Heren" photography, which truly recorded the humanity, humanity and culture of people on both sides of the Yellow River. In the creation of Huang Heren, Zhu Xianmin paid attention to the originality and originality of the picture, and he tried to show the novelty and uniqueness of the photo composition from perfect angle. He tried to freeze ordinary characters and scenes in an instant in exchange for the strongest collision with the reader's vision; He doesn't stick to photography skills and darkroom processing, trying to interpret the subtext of photos with rich picture content; He tried to use the widest freehand brushwork. ; "The Yellow River with nine twists and turns, Wan Li sand, stormy waves, and heaven remains our neighbourhood." It is the photographer's unremitting efforts, continuous progress and painstaking efforts that have created the magnificent Yellow River epic Huang Heren.

Whether it's the vast and desolate plateau, the magnificent and simple Central Plains or the colorful downstream, it's all condensed into the epitome of human social history, the portrayal of the ancient culture of the Yellow River and the symbol of national spirit in Zhu Xianmin's lens!