Common does not mean truth, however, in this era, it creates a lot of lies. We all know that common forms are communication tools, and have a great social responsibility. When this responsibility becomes disordered, dishonest, and conceptual, artists should stand up and protect its existence, and subsequently, create a "truthful format".

What we photograph is the visual wor’s cultural scene. Today scenes are already common forms. We found this form, which enters into politics, business, education, religion and all the details of our lives, becoming a common language. Contemporary art has the same kind of disorder. Personal freedom and aesthetic principles are multiplied; mediums and ideas become conceptual. Therefore, we believe it is necessary to treat the result of the visual world, for instance, photography, as an object of investigation; to photograph and extract from it a more explicit attitude, so to let it appear as a purer ideal.

Photograph the scenes of the visual world; photograph the works of photographers‘.

Liu Xinhua, Wang Lang
July 15, 2006