With the younger aesthetic and demand, online “beauty camera” and “beauty filter” emerge one after another, offline “Photo Gallery” and “certificate photo gallery” are lined up, but the style of beauty is more and more unified.
The former photo studio has a space of several square meters. A square stool and a camera can take all the years.
How long haven’t you been to a photo studio?
What about the photo studio that took the first picture of your life?
This time, I’ll take you to see the story in the old photo studio in Suzhou.
In su’an new village, there is an old-fashioned photo studio that has been open for more than 20 years. Whether it’s a wedding anniversary photo or a family photo on New Year’s day, people in laoxincun love to take photos here.
Twenty one years ago, master Yang, 64, retired from Shanghai photo agency and returned to Jiangsu. As a senior technician of the photo agency, photography is a hobby that master Yang can’t give up. Therefore, with the encouragement of the whole family, su’an photo studio was born.
Master Yang has worked in Shanghai photo agency for decades. His professional aesthetics and excellent technology have made the photo studio prosperous as soon as it opened.
The workshop in the inner room is only a few square meters, with a computer and several square stools. There are wedding photos hanging on the white wall. After more than 20 years, it is still full of “advanced feeling”. In the age when wedding photo studios were not popular, there were few photo studios that could take wedding photos.
Not only professional makeup stylists and enough clothing and jewelry but also background walls and lights in line with the atmosphere. In order to encourage Mr. Yang Fu’s confidence in taking wedding photos, almost the whole family went out at that time. Su’an photo studio witnessed the happy moment of couples getting married around the new village.
In addition to the old photos on the four walls, there are many old objects in the photo studio to witness the traces of years.
The rust and cracks on the edges and corners of the first electronic plastic sealing machine used by su’an photo studio are like a crack in time, filled with the past glory of the photo studio.
Old photos in the film age need to be soaked in liquid medicine and then dried. This old wet photo dryer takes you back to the “year” of darkroom printing in one second.
The paper cutting knife, which has not retired for more than 20 years, has been covered with mottled marks on the scale and table, but its flexibility is no less than that of that year. Although the scale has been worn, it has already been printed and engraved in master Yang’s heart.
The paintbrush and toner paper used by master Yang when he worked in Shanghai photography and picture agency are also treasured on the desktop. It is not easy to have a color photo in the era of more black-and-white photos, which requires the photographer to spend a lot of energy on meticulous coloring with a paintbrush.
When it comes to the skill of photo coloring, teacher Yang Fu’s face is full of pride. On behalf of the Shanghai photo agency, he went to Beijing to color the portrait of Chairman Mao, and left the color he painted in Beijing Military Museum and the red sun exhibition hall.
This is not only a brilliant achievement in his photography life but also a colorful memory that will never fade in his mind.
Besides the photographer, master Yang is also a photo restorer. Speaking of the old profession that is gradually disappearing in Suzhou, photo restorers must be one of them.
Photo restorers not only need to have the foundation of painting and skillfully use the drawing software, but also need to have an extremely rich imagination to repair a damaged photo naturally.
A photo needs to be repaired for a whole day or even longer. Now few people have such patience to do this business.
Today, 85 year old master Yang still uses the oldest version of PS. after su’an photo studio had the first computer, the whole family helped him explore and learn PS. It is precisely because of the atmosphere of family love that the photos repaired by master Yang are also full of warmth.
This is a yellow old-fashioned certificate photo. The man’s eyebrows and eyes on the original film have long been blurred. The man’s exquisite temperament can only be judged from his meticulous big back.
In the photos recovered by master Yang, the man’s eyebrows and eyes are handsome and clear, the buttons of the robe are neat, and the exquisite temperament is more prominent.
This is a photo sent by an old grandmother for restoration. It is the only souvenir left by her and Murakami’s childhood playmates. The photo has turned yellow, damaged and incomplete.
By the hand of Mr. Yang Fu, the composition was repaired and color was added. For grandma, the unforgettable friendship years seemed to have been restored.
A gray-haired grandfather came with this child’s photo. He took the initiative to su’an photo studio to find master Yang, just to restore his childhood appearance.
Some people have gray hair and just want to see their young face; Some people find the only photos left after their parents die and want to leave a thought; Some people want to repair the broken time perfectly
For customers, from black and white to color is the distance from black hair to white hair. For master Yang, making black and white vivid is both fun and warm.
He entered Shanghai photo agency in his 20s and stuck to su’an photo studio at the age of 85. Mr. Yang Fu has been in photography for more than 60 years. Witness black-and-white to color, film to digital… This love has also infected many people. Master Yang’s grandson is deeply interested in photography under the influence of his grandfather since childhood. At the age of 25, he gradually took over his grandfather’s photo studio.
He inherits his love with love. Although master Yang is young, he has many ideas. He analyzed the reasons for the popularity of “the most beautiful certificate photos” and “hippocampal body” in the market, constantly learned new photography technology, and added new imported machines, so that this old photo studio has regained its vitality!
Inheriting his grandfather’s concept of pursuing natural beauty, master Yang has changed new technologies and machines on this basis, but the shooting price of the photo studio has hardly increased. Today, the price of a set of certificate photos is generally tens of hundreds of yuan, and the price of refined certificate photos in su’an photo studio is still 20 – 25 yuan.
In the small photo studio, there are two computers, one for each of our grandparents and grandchildren.
Master Xiao Yang is also learning to repair photos recently. He wants to inherit his grandfather’s technology and continue to walk in the industry he and grandpa love. He wants to make this old photo studio keep pace with the times, keep up with the forefront of the trend, and become the most special existence in the wind in this lonely era.
Su’an photo studio has existed in the old new village for 21 years and has also witnessed the stories of several generations in su’an new village.
Last century, the beautiful girls who worked in the factory recorded their cardamom years here; From the prime of youth to the old age with white hair; From newlyweds to family reunion
There are too many happy moments recorded in one photo studio.
The old-fashioned is not outdated. Just like the su’an photo studio, the old-fashioned appearance has the core of continuous exploration and learning.
Here, the old photo studio will not disappear, love will always be inherited, and the happy moments of Suzhou people will always be recorded!