After decades of work, he built a statue of a mountain

Mondo History Updated on 2024-02-01

Changbai Mountain is the hometown of photographer Gao Pengfei, the place where he once worked for a long time, and the pure land of his beloved soul, as well as the palace of his inseparable concern and artistic creation. He has been engaged in photography for nearly 50 years, has been photographing this mountain, through unremitting efforts and practice, has laid a solid foundation for his lifelong pursuit of photographic art, constantly surpassing himself, the pursuit of more lofty and broad, day by day perfect.

Gao Pengfei seems to have a kind of responsibility, mission and responsibility, his soul of light and shadow is tied to Changbai Mountain, and the mysterious, sacred, majestic, broad and soul of Changbai Mountain are displayed to the world in the form of artistic photography. Use a lifetime of photographic art life to photograph Changbai Mountain, and use the latest and most beautiful pictures to promote Changbai Mountain. He is diligent, persistent, and his love for Changbai Mountain and his love for Changbai Mountain are deeply integrated into his blood and dreams. Every light and shadow of Changbai Mountain can inspire his creation and ignite his passion for creation. Strange light and shadow, mostly in the far away, morning light and twilight shadow, often accompanied by stars and moon. Landscape photography is very hard and dangerous, in order to shoot the "white hair wind" and "big smoke bubbles" of Changbai Mountain, I once froze my fingers in the severe cold of more than minus 40 degrees; Often climb the ice and snow, trek through mountains and rivers, get up early and be greedy for darkness, sleep in the open, and go through a lot of hardships, just to make the Changbai Mountain in my heart more wonderful and more spiritual. Its hard work is difficult to express in words. His works are filled with the intoxicating charm and soul-stirring soul of Changbai Mountain, as well as the infinite attachment and deep affection for this holy place with the lens. This is his eulogy to the scenery of his hometown, his love for the Changbai landscape, and the picture in which he turns all his feelings into the language of the camera and externalizes all his inner shocks. The pictures, which are known for their magnificent style, reveal the bearing and mind of a photographer, and show his thinking about the landscape itself and the cultural heritage inside and outside the landscape.

In Changbai Mountain, a natural studio that connects the sky and the earth and contains all things, his lens is used freely, using images to travel through time, using his soul to understand objects, and through capturing and freezing again and again, he fully appreciates and feels the natural charm of Changbai Mountain's original ecology, which is fascinating and fascinating. In addition to playing an important role in the actual tourism promotion and image display, the image scroll that has been taken on this mountain for several years has also retained the beautiful scenery of Changbai for us, allowing us to discover the traces of time and the impact of human activities on the ecology. The scenery from the heart has its poetic side, but the illustrative function will be disseminated, in today's tourism boom, in the trend that everyone is seeking a pure land, so that Changbai Mountain is remembered by more people, circulated, yearned for, and stopped.

Gao Pengfei has worked hard for decades to build a statue for a mountain and take a photo for a hot land, and his hard work will surely be rewarded by this holy mountain. This is exactly the affection of green leaves for roots, and this is the friendship of photographers for a mountain.

Gao Pengfei is a member of the Chinese Photographers Association, a member of the China Art Photography Society, a member of the China Press Photography Society, a member of the China Photographic Copyright Association, the president of Changbai Mountain Vision magazine, a consultant of the Jilin Photographers Association, the chairman of the Changbai Mountain Photographers Association, the honorary chairman of the Jilin Provincial Prosecutors Federation of Literary and Art Circles Photography Association, a visiting professor of the School of Art of Jilin University, and a visiting professor of the Academy of Fine Arts of Yanbian University.

He has published photography collections such as "Changbai Mountain", "Sacred Changbai", "Dream Changbai", "Altay Reflection", "Impression of the American West", "Impression of Australia", etc. He has participated in or held nine solo photography exhibitions of "Scenery of Changbai Mountain" at home and abroad. He has published more than 1,000 photographic works and won more than 120 awards in various photography exhibitions and photography competitions at home and abroad.

The author is the chairman of the Jilin Photographers Association).

Author: Zheng Chunsheng.

Editor in charge: Chi Ruibing.

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