Characters experience white thorns

His experience is also quite complicated. Born in 1974, majoring in garment engineering, proficient in the texture of various fabrics; With the rise of the Internet, he turned to be a web designer, proficient in computer operation; Because I often post on the forum to castigate the current abuses, I was poached by the newspaper and became a full-time writer; Writing, he picked up the camera again.

Since 2004, when he has nothing to do, he likes to walk around the villages in Shenzhen with his friends and cameras. "The most representative of Shenzhen is not the towering Wang Di Tower, nor the civic center in the central area, nor the stock, nor Shekou, nor the so-called Shenzhen speed-the most like Shenzhen is the village in the city."

Walking in the alley of the village in the city, the "handshake building" cuts the sky long and narrow. It is hard to believe that the narrow, damp and dark rental houses are only a few steps away from the magnificent office building towering into the sky. "For a while, when I had a stroke in the city, I came in the rain and went to other people's homes, begging them to open the most private space for me and take pictures of their houses." Bai Xiaozhi recalled.

Gradually, he found that if he extended his attention from the village in the city to the whole city, he would get more different results. After 2006, more people were added to his urbanization photos. These people are naturally distributed according to the income gradient: there are successful people living in villas by the lake, middle-income families living in closed communities, small white-collar workers living in urban villages, and industrial workers living in couples' rooms in industrial areas; There are big families in it runs, families with more than five people, Dink families who have suspended their generation, and even individual families who pursue celibacy ... From the perspective of cultural composition, there are southerners, northerners, people with different religious beliefs, cross-cultural families in which the mainland and Hong Kong are married, or China and foreigners are combined.

"China has developed rapidly, and we are all little people in this historical process." Bai Xiaozhi explained another series of his works, Portrait of People in Shenzhen.

He once exhibited in the coastal city of Shenzhen. It is two portraits of a primary school teacher in Tianciwan Township, Jingbian County, Shaanxi Province. His works have 400 million pixels. His friend "low fever" sighed: "400 million, my God, how many photos to take, how long it will take to process the splicing in photoshop, and how big a hard disk to install! How to get this thing to the inkjet company and how to print it? "

In the eyes of many people, this practice of making photos accurate to pixels is extremely boring. But Bai Xiaozhi believes that this is the best way to commemorate and express those vital events and people.

Later, he expanded the shooting scope of "Cities and Urbanization Seen" to the whole country and even the whole world. White-collar workers from Vanke Earth Building in Guangzhou, villagers from Xiang 'e Township in Mianzhu, Sichuan, farmers who planted mountain products in Ningxiang Mountain Area of Hunan, cave villages and cheung chau island citizens all appeared in his lens. Even when he went abroad, he never forgot to walk among the people and enrich his photographic subjects.

When filming the peasant families after the Wenchuan earthquake, Bai Xiaoci found that the local school building urgently needed high-standard design schemes. He contacted a non-profit organization "Folk Recycling" active in Shenzhen, actively collected the demand for school building construction in the disaster area, organized design competitions and optimized design drawings. After seeing this news, some architectural design firms joined in and successfully formulated seven high-end design standards for school buildings after the earthquake. So far, seven schools have been built according to these standards, and the design style of each school is different.

Bai Xiaoci is also committed to fighting for the "right of way" for bicycles in the city. In Shenzhen in 2008, the number of cars has exceeded 654.38+200,000. A citizen who lives in Buji did an experiment. It takes less than 40 minutes to go to work by bike from home, but it takes more than an hour to drive. However, the realistic trend is to widen the driveway and marginalize the bicycle lane, and then a vicious circle will continue until the bicycle finally loses the right to the road.

That year, Bai Xiaoci bought a folding bicycle, and often rode to work, bought food, went to dinner and kept fit. On the streets of Shenzhen, under the office building, and in the subway, there have been scenes in which he had a fierce dispute with the security guard to use his bicycle.

In order to win the right of way, Bai Xiaozhi uses bicycles more frequently. "Since you can solve a parking space for the car, as your consumer, you should also solve a parking space for my bike." He said so strongly again and again. Facts have proved that this kind of effort is effective. In the area where Bai Xiaozhi often goes, bicycle traffic is no longer a problem, and even the security guards will lift the bar that was originally raised for the car.

In the 2009 Shenzhen Biennale, Bai Xiaoci cooperated with several friends of the "Moon Star City" project to put 200 bicycles in the area of 6 square kilometers in Shenzhen Overseas Chinese Town, and managed the outlets with wireless GPRS for free use by the citizens. When interviewed by various media, Bai Xiaozhi repeated a slogan every time-equal road rights.

Later, in a semi-official gathering, Bai Xiaoci successfully brought a "letter from Garcia" protesting that bicycles were not allowed to enter the Shenzhen subway to a leader. After that, cyclists can ride bicycles and take the subway. In March of the following year, during the two sessions in Shenzhen, Bai Xiaozhi and his friends even successfully submitted to the government a proposal on increasing bicycle lanes in cities through democratic parties.

After being given the titles of citizen intellectual, documentary producer, columnist and internet expert. Bai Xiaoci emphasized that his most important title is "a pure photographer".

Talking about his series of portraits of the government building, Bai Xiaoci said: "Standing in front of the government building, I often feel like a tiny ant."