I am:

Yale Physics PhD, photographer, advanced skier, amateur diver, filmmaking learner, gravity escapee......

I was a boy without a camera.

The world of physics occupies a majority of my student time. I indulge in thinking about interesting theories: Relativity, Black holes, Time travel, Parallel universe, Schrodinger's cat……, though I'm not a big fan of universal rules or conventions. 

It's a world of rational thinking. It's a world of abstruse languages and secrets. It's a world of harmonious beauty. But anyway, it's not the real world.

Until the first moment I was fascinated by photography, I felt something that could lead me to the real world: emotions. It's not about the things photographed. It's about how that thing looks photographed. If you have to explain a photo, it isn't good enough.

There's no simple way to do such a thing called photography. It is not good pictures that make me a photographer. Life experiences do. All photographers know Ansel Adams' words: we bring to the act of photography all the pictures we have seen, the books we have read, the music we have heard, the people we have loved. 

For years, I keep taking different styles of photos and enjoy different experiences in the meantime. 

I never aim at becoming a professional photographer. Camera for me is a tool to learn how to see the world without a camera. The photography itself doesn't interest me. I want only to capture a minute part of reality. I travel a lot in spare time. I meet people outside my home country. I make friends with renowned photographers. I encounter wild animals. I learn different foreign languages. I look up to the sky with my own telescope. I fill myself into every corner of the nature. In photography, there is a reality so subtle that it becomes more real than reality. Ultimately, photography is just like physics. In both of them, seeking truth becomes a habit. The more they tell you, the less you know.

Keep being a better photographer, as life is so dramatic.

Location

Currently live in
Shanghai

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