The collection "The World of Mortals" of Hu Wugong mainly records evolution of rural life in more than three decades in Shaanxi Province, China. Through the plain pictures, reveal the profound reality of the state of the period. These pictures of Shaanxi, full of Humanism concerned, provide the most reliable information on the original for sociologists, historians, folklorists and artists to study the folk of Shaanxi Province.


Hu Wugong

Professor and Ph.D supervisor of Architecture School of Xi'an University of Architecture and Technology
President of Shaanxi Photographer Association

Hu Wugong was born in 1949 in Xi'an, and began his career as a photographer in 1969. Hu's photo "When Flood Hit" was awarded "best news photo" in China. He has held a series of photography exhibitions all over China and was announced "outstanding contributor" by China Photographers Association in 2006.