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Qinfa Ye chinaPhoto © Qinfa Ye
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Old man
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about the photographer
Based in Ningbo, China, I am a teacher teaching English to Chinese students in Ningbotech University. I started an interest in photography 35 years ago, when I was a sophomore in Hangzhou University, which was merged into Zhejiang University in 1998. In those days, I couldn't afford to buy a camera and could only occasionally borrow one from my friend to fulfill my desire of photographing. I did't really resume my hobby until 2007, when I bought my first portable digital canon camera for a half-month trip to the United States. Initially, I focused my subjects on landscapes. After I got my Canon Mark II in 2010, I shifted my focus to documenting mainly people of my city and villagers around it. Often on weekends, I would spend a day strolling over a dozen kilometers down the main streets and backstreets, cruising a square or a park hunting for any target attractive to me. I am especially interested in shooting candid portraits. I strive to understand and capture their soundless and wordless thoughts and feelings revealed by their postures and facial expressions. Over the decade, I have visited so many times Sun Yat-sen Park in my city, which is often full of visitors and activities (hard to imagine if you never witnessed it), that I have become an ignored photographer. That's a grand help, for I can walk around at will shooting the realest undisturbed portraits. Besides portraits, I also shoot street photos. China is undergoing unprecedented transformation. Photographers have the responsibility to take as many memories of today as possible to generations of tomorrow.back to gallery