Huang Fu was a young staff member of the Beijing Youth League when he was sent down to a village near Mizhi in 1957. He lived there with a peasant family for about one year, then settled in Xi’an, where he and his wife taught for more than 40 years. By the 1980s Huang Fu realized that life was changing in Shaanbei, one of China’s “outback” areas. He organized the Shaanxi Folk-life Photography Association, bringing together a number of photographers, to capture the changing life of this area. (See the map accompanying this exhibit for the places referred to.)
Huang Fu’s photographs will be available for sale during this exhibit, along with some beautiful paper-cut art on Chinese mythology and folk-tales, done by women artists in Shaanbei. Ed Krebs has completed a translation of Huang Fu’s book, Roaming the Yellow Earth; these are available in a package. Information on prices will be found alongside the exhibit.
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