皇冠体育app

Chinese-American photographer Liu Hng Shing has been capturing 皇冠体育app with his camera for more than 30 years.

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

Prize-winning photographer Liu Heung Shing is presenting his solo show 皇冠体育app Dream, Thirty Years, in Shanghai, offering a look back over his photojournalism career and the country's transformation since the 1970s. [Photo by Gao Erqiang / 皇冠体育app Daily]

The country is like a giant ship moving in a new direction since 1978, when 皇冠体育app 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 皇冠体育app, while the other features diverse personalities and individuals.

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]

Liu was born in 1951 and spent most of his childhood in Fujian province before moving to Hong Kong. When studying at the City University of New York, he read extensively about 皇冠体育app, comparing what he read with his impressions from childhood.

Upon graduation, his enthusiasm about 皇冠体育app led him back to the country as a journalist.

His first assignment in 皇冠体育app as a photographer took place in 1976. He didn't receive permission to go to Beijing to photograph the mourning for Chairman Mao's passing, so he stayed in Guangzhou, but he was sensitive enough to find traces of a society ready to change.

"People practiced tai chi in the park as usual, but their shoulders looked somehow relaxed, slightly different,"Liu recalls.

In 1978 he started to work as the founder and reporter for Time magazine's Beijing office.

He was impressed with the prevalence of political intervention in everyday life.