Pictures of Zhou Mi in their series “where flows the Ganges”.
Mi Zhou Mi Zhou was born in China in 1962. Before becoming a photographer, he’s 13 years as a field engineer in the homeland and 7 years as an art Director in an advertising Agency in new York. The beginning of a photographic career, Chou associates since moving to San Francisco in 2004. Then he started working as a freelance photographer, but mainly it is personal projects.
Photography has interested Mi Zhou in childhood. Irresistible curiosity caused his father’s old camera, stored in a box in the corner of the house. In 1984 he got his first camera, and as soon as they had free time, shooting the lilies in the Park, sunset over the Yangtze, and the crowd of people on the street.
After arriving in the United States in 1995, Zhou focused on people:
“Watching, I wanted to read their thoughts; he watched their silhouettes, I wanted to trace its origin and fate. Each click of the shutter I threw the network from my soul, capturing all touched me, and carry it home like newly found treasure. A fleeting moment frozen in time; eternity. Now it is possible.”
Mi Zhou admits that impress it can even random picture of an unknown author, and as for photo artists it produces such iconic authors as Josef Koudelka, sebastião Salgado, James Nachtwey, Mary Ellen mark and Henri Cartier-Bresson.
Zhou prefers analog technology of capturing an image. “I especially like the black and white film. I assure you that, looking at the film grain, you can feel the texture of time and life. It’s like classical music, there are no new genres of music that can replace the classics, it is eternal”.
While traveling along the Ganges river, he was shot on a camera Leica M6S and used 24 and 35 mm lenses. Shots combined in the series “where flows the Ganges”.
