Two visitors walked past the photograph “For Health” at Shancheng Lane, Yuzhong District.

There is a teahouse operated by several young people near to the photograph “Girl and Recycling Gifts”.

The photograph “Window” blends almost imperceptibly into the old house.

CHONGQING (CQNEWS) -- There is a window in the mottled and old wall, and the aged lady behind the window is so different with the nearby young lady with fashion style. You can see a “pedestrian riding a bike” or “butcher selling pork” while climbing the steps. As one of the 2018 Chongqing (International) Image and Video Culture Festival series, Shancheng Footpath Outdoor Image and Video Exhibition makes viewers experience a different Chongqing with photographs that blend into old buildings, these photographs are interesting and have a sense of era.

The Shancheng Footpath Outdoor Image and Video Exhibition has been held in Shancheng Lane, Yuzhong District. Shancheng Lane, formerly named Tiandeng (literally meaning light from sky) Lane, was the residence of military generals in the Ming and Qing Dynasties. After Chongqing opened its port, French missionaries built churches, hospitals and schools here and also set up the lampposts to light roads when night comes, thus it received the name of Tiandeng Lane. This Shancheng Footpath Outdoor Image and Video Exhibition brings a unique charm to Chongqing.

Along the footpath, you can see a girl in red is looking at the entrance of the lane in front of the courtyard of a teahouse; a motorcycle carrying 3 people is rushing to you while turning a corner; an old man beside the grocery store who carries an old hen in his right hand and grasps a newspaper in his left hand is walking powerfully… These lively works, integrated with the surrounding buildings, have attracted visitors to take pictures.

"This exhibition uses high-precision giclée. The photographs are made on waterproof document paper, and then glued on the surrounding buildings." The staff of the curatorial team told that the audience can visit the exhibition while they are arranging it because it is an outdoor space exhibition.

"Every city has its mother city, and every mother city has its own memory and taste." The current exhibition is to show the works of Liu Tao, a photographer from Hefei. The exhibition plans to select 8 photographers from Guangzhou, Fuzhou and other places in China for joint exhibition by their photographs of their own cities. Among them, there are works about Chongqing in the 1990s by a German photographer. (Translated by Jiang Yuling, Fathom Language Limited)