This project started in 2013, and I want to end this project by 2025. I'm a freelance photographer, and it's been a decade since I returned from the provinces to document the development of my hometown into an island of heavy industry. For ten years, I have been working with a medium format film camera. Now I live alone in my childhood village. I want to use images to preserve memories and archives for the hometown that is about to be industrialized or urbanized, and discuss the impact of rural urbanization or industrialization on rural traditional culture and the survival and spirit of farmers, so as to explore where the "hometown" of modern Chinese people belongs. The project is now about 70 percent complete. In 2017, I began to publish and exhibit on various media platforms, and achieved good response and effect. Now I want to continue to work on this project. As a young freelance photographer in China, this is a very difficult thing, so I hope to get your support. Thank you very much! I will continue to complete this great project! The scholarships are mainly used for the purchase and development of film, scanning, and transportation. I hope to get funding to help me complete this very meaningful project. The project eventually produced 30 new images and 30 collection-grade prints, which were exhibited in domestic institutions, galleries, photography festivals, and published in professional photography magazines. Thank you very much!
