Chinese zen photography Gao Qing da quan

Xiao Lin is his screen name, formerly known as Lin Dihuan. This young photographer in his thirties is very popular on the Internet recently, and many media have reported his travel photography experience. People pay more attention to his humanistic photography. Kobayashi did take many excellent photos of humanism, but it is also worth paying attention to his photography of everything in the world, including scenery. For example, the quiet and elegant films in his new book "Time Reflects Painting-Twenty-four Solar Terms in the Lens" let people see the aesthetic feelings of the farming society. Talking about this kind of film, Kobayashi talked about his understanding of landscape photography. He said that in the past few years, there was a great criticism of landscape photography, and cultural circles generally attached importance to humanistic photography, thinking that landscape photography was divorced from reality, stereotyped, lacking innovation and realistic care, hurting national vitality and could be abandoned. In fact, landscape photography is often something more "China", because the philosophy of harmony between man and nature pursued in China's traditional culture, coupled with harsh and cruel autocratic thought, led to the mainstream of China painting after the Yuan and Ming Dynasties, and the landscape painting with rough brushwork, advocating antique and not thinking about innovation became the ink play of literati. This China spirit originated in the field of photography and became landscape photography. From this point of view, people who shoot landscapes do not hide silent protests against reality in their minds. Landscape photography is just a release for people to escape from the secular world. It is precisely because of his profound understanding of this traditional culture that Kobayashi believes that landscape photography is definitely not a simple natural scenery, but a relationship between man and nature. "Fortunately, I didn't come to this mountain alone." Even if there were no people in the landscape photo, the photographer's choice of a mountain and a tree revealed the unique understanding of the interaction between man and nature. For a person who has no knowledge of Buddhist culture, it is hard to imagine that he can shoot Zhang Fu's Zen works. The word Zen is indeed the rich temperament of most photos in this book "Time Pictures-Twenty-four Solar Terms in the Lens", with both words and pictures. Take this one for example: Some dead leaves in the picture seem to be out of focus on purpose. It seems that the place where they fall is not the ground, but the rice paper. This simple photo has a distant taste, just as the author wrote: "The ginkgo tree in Zhang Jingjiang's former residence/yard in Baoshishan, Hangzhou has been planted for hundreds of years/I wonder if it was planted by the owner himself/the leaves fell on the white canvas canopy/whizzed gently/then flipped gently/the sound seemed to come from the distant Republic of China." The picture has ancient meaning, and the poem with it has haiku style. Kobayashi said that the 24 solar terms in the time picture are just a carrier. In fact, he just wants to write down the trivial details of his life. It is the memories of these details that make up our life, perhaps dull but rich. So, this is not an album. The appearance of photos in the book is only used to awaken memories and return to the old times. Xiao Lin's lifestyle is also very old. He likes hiking. He said that he would often go to another part of the city by bus, and then he began to walk a small street. This is especially true when going to a strange city. When the reporter wrote this report, Xiaolin was taking part in a photography activity in Nanning. He wrote in Weibo, "Every time I go to a strange city, I am used to walking through the city once, so I won't get lost next time, so I have walked about 100 cities. It is sunny in Nanning today, and I am going to spend a day walking vertically. Baidu map tells me that the whole journey is about 15 km. " There is never a shortage of tourists in a hurry on the great rivers and mountains, but do we need such observers who measure every street and alley in the city with their feet? He loves Chinese calligraphy and spends an hour or two practicing calligraphy every day. Huang Yongyu once mentioned in his prose that it takes a whole morning for Master Hongyi to write banners, while Kobayashi has such a quiet and slow mood when writing. It seems that he is not practicing Chinese characters, but practicing that short time forgotten by modern life.

[Excerpted from Yangcheng Evening News 20 13 12.7 b7]