Meeting Myself Coming Back

• Photographer
  WEI WU, United Kingdom

How to understand the flow of a river?

In the summer of 2016, I returned to Chengdu, my hometown, and
spent three months walking over 300 km photographing the city’s
mother river, Funan, from source to end. This project explores the
inhabitants' way of life along the river and the relationship
between the people and environment.

This journey is a gift to myself, because it allows me to review the
past, encounter my future and step into the flowing stream of the
present life. It's also a present for all of you, people living by the
river experience their own birth, ageing, illness and death as well
as having pleasure, anger, sorrow and joy in different life stages.
People lead different lives in different places, but we live the same
life like a flowing river.

I hope you can follow the journey of the river with me.