2005 Pingyao International Photography Festival
Chinese Farmers Testimony
A free online exhibition of Hou Yimin's long-term work on Chinese farmers, winner of the 2005 Pingyao International Photography Festival Project Creation Grand Prize.
Enter first. No account, no payment, and no credit card before viewing.
Curatorial Order
The exhibition begins with the farmers.
This page now begins with the subject itself: hardship, land, children, debt, hunger, school, and the dignity of people who are usually not allowed to speak in history.
On The Same Planet no longer stands in front of the farmer's testimony. It comes after the exhibition, as a quiet epilogue: not a decoration for suffering, but a way to leave the visitor with a shared sky.
Free entry
Every visitor may enter the farmer's exhibition first.
The after-viewing epilogue and drawing appear only after the visitor has had a chance to enter the exhibition.
How to View
Start with the testimony. Stay with the work.
No payment screen blocks the visitor.
The guided version carries the viewer through the photographs and text.
Only after viewing does the visitor meet On The Same Planet, the drawing, and optional support.
After the Exhibition
Despite the hardship, we share the same sky.
After the farmer's testimony, this work becomes an ending rather than a cover. It gives the visitor a way out of helplessness without softening the truth they have just seen.
The viewer appreciation drawing and the On The Same Planet story now belong here, at the end.