Wu Zhongxing was a member of Black & White Photography Society. The society was one of the most influential photographic groups in the 1930s. Its members included Sha Fei (at that time named Situ Huai), Wu Yinxian, Ao Enhong and Wu Yinbo who were famous photographers, and Ye Qianyu, a notable painter. Besides of exchanges with these friends, Wu Zhongxing also absorbed nutrition from various literature and art fields, such as classical literature, poems, paintings, gardening, and bonsai, and consequently developed a deep understanding on the rule of artistic creation, i.e., expressing one’s feelings through sceneries and objects. Most of his photos were about natural landscape, animals, still life, humans, flowers and plants. Wu Zhongxing didn’t have much time travelling, so the majority of his photography was based on the beautiful landscapes in the south of the Yangtze River. He always took pictures about the same thing from varied angles with different expression styles. Wu once said, “I want to take pictures that other people cannot take and that I cannot take the next time.” It became his motto about photography for his whole life.

(Edited by Su Wenxiang, Xu Chongbao, Huang Si, 2015)