Li photography

The closest moment to death,

In Daocheng Aden.

He was born in 1997.

From Zhaoqing, Guangdong,

I like reading and traveling.

20 19 10/month, 1 1, he finally set foot on the Sichuan-Tibet line and saw mountains different from Lingnan hills. The sight of snow covering the wilderness and mountains and rivers shocked him.

Good scenery is accompanied by danger. On the way around the steep cliff, Li's altitude sickness became more and more serious. He lacks oxygen, vomits and has a splitting headache. Halfway up the hill, he almost thought he was going into shock, his feet were getting heavier and heavier, and it was more and more difficult to breathe.

While resting on the Pearl Sea, fine snow fell in Aden, Daocheng. This is the first time Li has seen snow. Snowflakes blowing on his face reminded him of many important people, the time he spent together, many expectations for the future and dreams of the past. With this feeling, he held the railing and insisted on walking to the foot of the mountain, out of danger.

After this experience, Li Yiran resigned, returned to his hometown of Zhaoqing and set up a photography studio to put his creative ideas into practice for many years.

202 1, a set of photos taken by Li is becoming popular. The theme is his grandmother. He shot this seemingly ordinary Guangdong old man in the style of fashion blockbuster, which made people discover the unique beauty of the country and the old man.

At present, his account has 730,000 fans and has been praised by nearly 6 million.

The parting moment when the shutter is pressed.

Li yearned for freedom since he was a child, and there were always many wild fantasies in his mind.

Before going to primary school, he lived in the country with his grandparents and great-grandmothers. Grandma sometimes takes him to work in the fields, which also gives Li a lot of energy and time to explore nature. When the weather is fine, he and his friends go to the rice fields to catch frogs, eels, fish, jump rope and play football.

Free days end at the beginning of primary school. His parents took him to Dongguan. He felt monotonous in this seemingly busy city. He often thinks, what are grandparents doing in the country? Will they feel lonely without him around?

Li and grandma

When he was a sophomore, Li fell in love with photography, and his family bought him his first digital camera for 2000 yuan, allowing him to explore freely. When he graduated from high school, they spent nearly 7 thousand yuan to buy him the first SLR camera. However, at that time, some relatives said that Li was only hot for three minutes and squandered money. Fortunately, his parents supported him without hesitation.

Li has been very sensitive to color since childhood. When he was a child, he looked at the starry sky on the roof of his grandmother's house and had a strong and pure feeling in his heart. When he picked up the camera, that feeling came back.

Shortly after graduating from college, a scenic spot in Jae-Il Lee found a job as a photo librarian. The dormitory is surrounded by a sea of flowers, and the lake is in front. The salary is not high, but it is better than leisure. He can continue to study, learn photography and travel from time to time. But soon, he found that this job was never what he wanted.

Li often thinks of his childhood at this time. Grandma is old. How long can he stay with her? One or two years after graduating from college, he experienced the departure of some relatives and friends. Li hopes to record those people and moments with photos and videos, and "fight" those moments that are forgotten and disappeared.

These experiences and feelings were later adapted into a micro-movie "Grandma's Photo". In the film, grandma's good friend Asibo died suddenly. The old man didn't take any photos, and there was no material suitable for taking pictures.

Grandma thought of herself and asked her grandson, who is good at photography, to take a group of photos for her in case of emergency.

Tik Tok Creator's Microfilm "Grandma's Photo" Stills

Shoot a fashion blockbuster for grandma

In 2020, Li finally decided to resign. He returned to his hometown, hoping to spend more time with his family and set up his own photography studio. In fact, long ago, he planned to shoot a series of videos for his family. Years of self-study and reading have accumulated a lot of artistic inspiration. He is eager to turn them into reality.

Li's studio is on the second floor of his parents' home. This is the room where he lived in his sophomore year, and there are still cartoon characters he collected in his senior year. Many people in his hometown think that he can't be a great man. "Hobbies can't be eaten." Only his parents and grandmother supported him unconditionally.

An animation studio in Jae-Il Lee.

Li was really hard at the beginning of his business. In order to make a living, he took many wedding photography projects. Although his salary is higher than his previous job, he is often very tired. Sometimes he has to drive all day and take the rugged mountain road to shoot in another town. Photography seems to be no longer a hobby and art, but a simple job. He thought at that time, if he couldn't make it, he would go to work again.

10, everything changed when he sent his grandmother's photo to Tik Tok.

Grandma in the picture is wearing a red sweater, standing under the unique blue sky in Guangdong, like a supermodel. This video has been played more than 6.5 million times and won 260,000 likes.

Netizen comments, full of high feelings. Some netizens even said that it reminded him of an international high-end brand.

In fact, Li filmed the daily life in rural Zhaoqing, but from a different perspective. What inspired him was that in high school, grandma wore a red sweater, put dried sweet potatoes in a green basin and worked under the blue sky, much like a popular fashion blockbuster at that time. After several years of unremitting self-study, he finally turned his initial inspiration into a work.

In the following year, Li successively took different styles of fashion photos for her grandmother. Many photos are very popular in Tik Tok, and media interviews follow.

In one of the short videos, grandma wears her usual clothes, does farm work on the balcony, and turns around and becomes a fashion cover girl. The video received 6.5438+0.24 million likes in Tik Tok, with more than 34 million views.

His Tik Tok has also received many business cooperation, and his income has more than tripled, and he can even give his grandmother living expenses. Even the family members who were most opposed to him expressed their support.

Only Li knows that behind his reputation is his persistence and hard work in 1978. "Today's achievements and results may be that it took him countless days and nights, even long-term loneliness, extreme concentration, a lot of reading, cynicism and questioning, to achieve a firm self." He wrote.

In the micro-movie "Grandma's Photo", the photos taken by grandchildren for grandma became popular on the short video platform, and the praise of netizens made the elderly grandmother eliminate many doubts.

More importantly, photography has become a way for her and her grandchildren to communicate and understand each other, while Li rediscovered happiness and interest in the camera and gained more insights into herself, her family and photography.

Tik Tok's series of micro-movies "Respect Yourself" may be due to these moments of epiphany and openness.

Tik Tok Creator's Microfilm "Grandma's Photo" Stills

In fact, whether he is famous or not, he will do it.

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