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China through the lens

By Zhang Kun (China Daily)    08:09, August 09, 2013
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Some of Liu's most famous photographs reveal details of Chinese people's daily lives — how they live, leisure and love. (Photo by Liu Heung Shing)

Chinese-American photographer Liu Heung Shing has been capturing China with his camera for more than 30 years.

It has been 30 years since Chinese-American photographer Liu Heung Shing published his photography book China after Mao. The Pulitzer-prize winner is presenting, for the first time in China, 115 of his pictures at China Art Museum in Shanghai, until Aug 27. The exhibition China Dream, Thirty Years spans a 35-year period of observing the country through his camera lens. China has experienced unprecedented 30 years of drastic changes and development, the photographer says. For many people in China, this has been a period of dreams come true.

The country is like a giant ship moving in a new direction since 1978, when China started to focus on economic development and open up to the world. Liu has witnessed and captured the country's transformation from collectivism to individualism.

Liu's pictures take up two exhibition halls on the ground floor of the museum. The curator has arranged the exhibits in a way that in one of the halls, images focus on collective life of China, while the other features diverse personalities and individuals.

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(Editor:DuMingming、Ye Xin)

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