The 28th National Photography Art Exhibition Selection Announced Datong Photographer Ren Yanlong's works were selected

One of the group photos of "Retaining the Clouds of History with the "Pulp" of the Great Wall" (provided by the interviewee)

The 28th National Photography Art Exhibition, which is held every two years and attracts the attention of photographers across the country, has been announced for two rounds of selection and 7 days, and the results of the selection have been announced a few days ago, and a total of 299 works have been selected. Datong photographer Ren Yanlong's work "Retaining the Clouds and Smoke of History with the "Pulp" of the Great Wall" stood out from many photographic works and successfully made the list, which is also the only work selected in Datong City. The work was selected for the Long-term Attention Section of the Documentary Category, and consists of 28 photographs of the Great Wall. The exhibition will be unveiled in November in Linhai City, Taizhou, Zhejiang Province, and will be reviewed by photographers from all over the country.

Photographer Ren Yanlong is a member of China Railway and Shanxi Photographers Association, and vice chairman of Datong Photographers Association. After work, he loves The Great Wall photography, and for decades, he insisted on an ancient castle, a group of photos, and a story, and took more than 100,000 photos, just to record the long and thick Great Wall culture. His works take the spectacularness and vicissitudes of the Great Wall as the scripture, and record the life, old age, illness, death, joy and sorrow of the villagers of Biansai who have been in solidarity with the Great Wall for generations along the line, and comprehensively present the unique cultural charm and spiritual temperament of the Shanxi Great Wall. Previously, his 36 photographic works "The Relics of the Great Wall" appeared at the 12th China Photography Art Festival, and his 136 great Wall-themed works composed of the theme photography exhibition "At the Foot of the Great Wall is the Hometown of the Great Wall of Shanxi" has been exhibited in 10 cities in China and abroad, and his photographic work "Aerial View of Datong Great Wall Castle" won the first prize of the "Aerial View of Shanxi" Aerial Photography Competition.

The National Photography Art Exhibition is the largest and highest artistic photography exhibition sponsored by the China Federation of Literature and Art and the China Photographers Association, and is one of the most authoritative photography competitions in the Chinese photography industry, also known as the "National Exhibition". The 28th National Photography Art Exhibition selected the best of more than 290,000 works (more than 100,000 pieces) from the submitted works, and finally 299 works were selected.

Source: Datong Evening News

Editor: Xu Zihui