The result was neither documentary photography nor a foreigner's fascination with the exotic, just a remarkable individual's engagement with what he saw.
The NTNU Museum of Natural History and Archaeology is hosting a documentary photography exhibition about Daming.
To break up the fixed and to deepen the knowledge are the phases for Chinese documentary photography to acknowledge a higher development.
This year he was recently awarded the Hou Dengke documentary photography prize, as well as voted best new photographer at the Dali International photography Festival (2011).
Chinese documentary photography is developing with the local special features and national personalities.
Led by documentary photography, the horizon of photojournalism has been continuously enlarged, which gave birth to a large number of representative photo-reportages.
Hou Dengke's documentary photography of rural subjects and the important factors for forming the style are sorted out in the second part.