Rebirth of top photographers

Chapter 275 Alternative Childhood (Colorful)
In the lavender field, the dummy children are running and having fun.

The closest thing in the picture is the side face of a blond dummy. Looking forward, you can see four children evenly distributed in the lavender field. They are either running forward or backward.

It presents a scattered but orderly beauty.

After Chen Pingsheng and Huang Liao finished taking photos of the lavender field, they returned to Lao Bulu's villa.

Because the kid Yoris who was promised before is waiting in the villa.

Today’s photo shoot is of him and the dummy.

The first picture is in front of a graffiti wall near the town. The wall is covered with various patterns, including houses, portraits, flowers, and various fantasy elements.They were arranged by the painter all over the wall, forming a fairy-tale graffiti.

In front of the graffiti wall, there is a table with watermelon, champagne and pastries on it.

The dummies on both sides seemed to be having a celebratory banquet. They were singing and dancing in different shapes, but their expressions were all cheerful.

As for Yoris, he followed Chen Pingsheng's instructions, lying on the ground and eating watermelon.

"Crack!"

Chen Pingsheng released the shutter, and Huang Liao, standing aside, said: "It's like the last supper."

"It's a bit similar." He smiled and then led a few people around.

The next photo to be taken is more troublesome.

First, they're going to set a house on fire...

"Old Bulu, are you sure this is really okay?" Chen Pingsheng looked at the house with only wooden piles left on the hillside. He heard from Old Bulu that there used to be a family here, but later the family moved away, so everything was left behind. All taken away.

The original house did not last long before it became a ruin due to the weather.

At this time, the only wooden piles left on the ruins were poured with gasoline by Old Blue, preparing to light them on fire.

"There's a fire on the mountain, the police station at the foot of the mountain." Huang Liao said a witticism in Chinese, and then the two of them just watched the gasoline being poured out by Old Blu.

After Chen Pingsheng waited for Old Blue to come over, he walked to the wooden pile with a burning firewood.

After turning back to make sure that the three people were far away and would not be harmed, he approached and lit the gasoline.

"call!"

Instantly, along with the sound of wind, red flames rose up.

Chen Pingsheng stepped back and came to the camera.

Not far in front of him, there were three dummy children holding wine glasses. They were wearing flowery shirts and their backs were facing the burning stake.He was looking at the air on the right, as if he was communicating with someone.

Joris came over and filled the void on the right with a wine glass.

In the viewfinder, when Joris fixed his movements, Chen Pingsheng couldn't even tell who was the real person.

"Crack!"

Regarding this work, Chen Pingsheng's idea is not just a fantasy or complement from his childhood.

Instead, childhood is used as a carrier to present a common time and space that can be understood and imagined by everyone.

There is not only innocence here, but also the complexity, shape and cruelty of the adult world.

But when these are shown through the theme of childhood and through dummies, it becomes even more shocking.

For example, in the current photo, a delicate mannequin wearing a shirt and tie stood in front of a large number of mannequins and gave a speech.

There was a little smoke around him, and several microphones stood near his mouth.

Under Chen Pingsheng's lens, these people and mountains are compressed into the lower third of the frame, and the rest is all blue sky.

It looks very much like the photos taken during foreign speeches, with both a sense of oppression and political metaphors in them.

In the next picture, the picture changed to a blue tone. A row of mannequins stood in a row on the edge of the pool with hands on each other's shoulders, seeming to imitate the picture of a mannequin transforming from an ape to a human, and then to an old man. Human height chart from top to bottom.

Just like that, I took pictures from morning to night.

However, Huang Liao felt that the most amazing photo taken today was the second one in the lavender field.

Chen Pingsheng placed all the mannequins on the ground around a white flag, so that from the outside, you can only see the children's heads faintly among the lavender bushes, and the direction they are looking up.

Huang Liao didn't know what it meant, but felt that the white flag seemed to be a metaphor for something.

war?Or failed?Or surrender?

Huang Liao felt that there were too many things to ponder in it.

For the first time, she felt that participating in filming was a mental effort.

In the next few days, they kept shooting on the hillside. Chen Pingsheng's creative ideas became more and more tricky, and his creativity became more and more difficult.

For example, there are dummies near the swimming pool, female dummies in the garden, and dummies exploring with ropes in the cave.

There is also one of the most shocking photos.

Yoris stood in the center of the picture, facing the camera at close range, his face was covered in black and gray, and he was also wearing a black vest and torn shorts.

He looked directly at the camera, with the burning earth behind him. Among the weeds on the ground were the remains of dummies, their broken limbs, and their heads.

Black smoke billows straight into the sky, like a land that has been conquered.

Everything seemed desolate and cruel, and the war between the dummy and the children was so real that Huang Liao and Lao Bulu could not forget it for a long time after watching it.

Until it started to snow in the mountains of Luberon.

Chen Pingsheng and Huang Liao sat by the window, looking at the heavy snow falling outside, covering the originally brown land with a layer of white clothes.

Old Blue was tidying up his flowers and plants in the yard.

In fact, it doesn't take long to plant. It is estimated that it will take a few months before green life is born.

"It's snowing, do we still need to continue shooting?" Although the weather had turned cold before, they thought they could finish shooting before it started to snow, but they didn't expect a sudden heavy snowfall.

Chen Pingsheng nodded, holding the coffee in his hand: "It's okay, I also have scenes prepared for shooting in the snow."

Huang Liao felt that Chen Pingsheng was really unusual. Everything at any time seemed to be in his plan, and the shooting would not be delayed by any unexpected situation.

This is undoubtedly a very comforting characteristic, and she wants to be such a photographer.

However, Chen Pingsheng himself didn't seem to be aware of his own advantages. Maybe for him, this was a basic operation and he didn't think it was anything worth showing off.

The snow fell for a long time before it stopped, and Chen Pingsheng and Huang Liao were not idle either.

Instead, mannequins were placed in the room to create a killer situation.

The female dummy was lying on the bed, and the male dummy wearing a gray sweater held a pistol in his hand, stood in front of the white gauze curtain and pointed the gun at her.

Although Huang Liao knew there were no bullets inside, she still felt some unspeakable mixed emotions when she saw this scene.

Is this childhood?
This is indeed childhood.

Childhood does not mean happiness, nor does it mean the absence of fights and confrontations.

Those children often learn to deal with problems the way adults do, even more intensely.And the scenes children fantasize about are often equally weird and bizarre.

After taking this photo, Chen Pingsheng and Huang Liao came outside, looked at the soft snow, and said, "Let's build a snowman and come out."

"Snowman?" Huang Liao was a little stunned, but then became excited again.

Speaking of which, she had never built a snowman with her own hands. Before, she had watched short videos where people used a lot of snow to build snowmen of different shapes.

Pity her, a southern child, who has never even seen heavy snow a few times.

And where can a snowman be made from the thin white snow on the ground?

So when Chen Pingsheng mentioned this, she immediately became happy. Maybe she will have a snowman of her own soon.

Chen Pingsheng first rubbed a small snowball with his hands, then threw it to the ground and rolled it back and forth.

"What are you doing?" Huang Liao was curious. Everything was new to her.

"It's faster to make a snowball this way. Look, it's already grown several times." The snowball in Chen Pingsheng's hand has grown visibly larger, and the place where it rolled has become shorter.

"So that's it, then I'll get one too." Huang Liao rolled the snowball according to Chen Pingsheng's method.

As the snowball got bigger and bigger, the two people soon changed from running with the snowball to pushing the snowball away.

It took a full 10 minutes for Chen Pingsheng to turn the small snowball in his hand into a large snowball with irregular shapes.

Seeing that they were about the same size, he used a shovel to trim the shape of the snowball, and then looked at Huang Polygonum.

Her snowball has also reached an acceptable size.

"Okay, Huang Liao, come on, let's pile this demand half a person high." Chen Pingsheng called Huang Liao, and the two of them worked together to roll the big snowball.

Because the snowball is so heavy, it picks up a patch of dirt every time it hits the snow.

At this time, Chen Pingsheng will shovel away the soil and continue pushing.

Finally, after working for a long time, Chen Pingsheng and the others harvested the body of a snowman half a person tall.

Then they used Huang Polygonum's small snowball as the snowman's head and pressed it on.

This time the snowman looks more stylish.

Chen Pingsheng later brought a pair of halved potatoes and a carrot from the kitchen and mounted them on the snowman's face.

"Hahaha!" Huang Liao laughed immediately after seeing the effect, feeling a little funny.

"There's still something missing." Chen Pingsheng tied his blue scarf on the snowman, and inserted a broom into one side of the snowman, which looked like a hand.

"Add another hat." Huang Liao also contributed a straw hat.

Just like that, the snowman is finished.

While Huang Liao kept taking pictures with his camera, Chen Pingsheng took out the mannequin. Of course, he didn't build a snowman just because he wanted to play in the snow.

When Huang Liao saw his actions, she understood immediately, but she did not feel disappointed. Instead, she naturally started to help Chen Pingsheng deal with the dummy.

"Crack!"

Soon, two more photos were taken.

One picture shows a group of mannequins wearing blue clothes, surrounding the snowman, protecting it as if it cannot be destroyed.

The other picture shows a group of naughty mannequins holding snowballs in their hands and constantly hitting the snowman. Even though the dummies in blue tried their best to block it, the snowman was still hit by the snowball and turned into a snowman. It looked like it was on the verge of destruction.

These two photos correspond to each other and constitute a very important element in childhood.

Dissensions among small groups.

When everyone was young, there was a group of naughty and mischievous children who ganged up to bully the honest children. Some of them would correct themselves when they got older, while others would continue this habit and become "social people" with the killer look in front of the junior high school. ".

This kind of person is not necessarily bad, but it is indeed easy to leave some violent trauma to his peers.

Chen Pingsheng suffered a similar loss when he was a child, so he remembers this particularly well.

The filming of the album became more difficult as the weather became colder, but it also gradually came to an end with the flying snowflakes.

The last photo taken on the snowy slopes was officially completed in the afternoon a few days later.

It was a shattered dummy.

Her face was broken into several pieces and lay on the ground, next to white artificial flowers and a string of English letters with no specific meaning.

These fragments look very beautiful on the white snow. This is the position specially placed by Chen Pingsheng.Each fragment is clear and distinct, without overlapping each other, as if a human being has been dismembered and arranged neatly, giving it a strange sense of order.

Through the viewfinder, Huang Liao could see that the picture was limited to the surroundings of the fragmented dummy. Apart from white and yellow, no other cluttered background could be seen.

This further highlights the texture of the dummy fragments.

It also reminded her of the photo of the burning dummy taken by Chen Pingsheng after burning the wooden stake.

The child-shaped dummy was discarded on the weeds and allowed to be burned by the flames until it was burned to a black state, surrounded by traces of white dust. It looked very tragic.

This undoubtedly corresponds to the fragment dummy.

The album "Blue's Long Vacation" uses many corresponding techniques, and there are many stories shot in multiple shots.

It is different from Chen Pingsheng’s previous works.

It is a brand new subject that no one has ever imagined or photographed.

Huang Liao was suddenly curious about what kind of reaction this album would have when it was published.

However, apart from lamenting Chen Pingsheng's creativity, these people probably can't think of any other comments.

After the filming of the album was completed, Chen Pingsheng and Huang Liao said goodbye to Lao Bulu and prepared to leave Paris.

Old Bleu planned to spend a quiet winter here before returning to France.

So in order to thank Chen Pingsheng for taking the photo, he specially cooked a sumptuous meal.

Pizza and roast turkey.

Well, although Chen Pingsheng felt that his stomach was not very adaptable to these things, he still accepted Old Blu's wishes.

After carrying his luggage and boarding the plane back to China with Huang Liao, Chen Pingsheng was finally able to have a good sleep as he wished.

He actually hadn't slept well during this period. After all, those dummy friends were really scary at night, especially when he got up in the middle of the night to go to the toilet. Chen Pingsheng didn't dare to look back.

I was afraid that the dummies hanging on the wall would look strange.

Fortunately, everything went well.

Chen Pingsheng fell into a sweet sleep with the expectation of new works.

And just when he returned to China, a piece of news spread back to China from abroad.

(End of this chapter)