The April Photo Society leaving my mother

leaving my mother

Text: Victoria Jonathan and Bérénice Angremy

thread sewn perfect bound

during his first and a second visit in July 2017

we acquired the rest of the archive and decided to honour its protagonists in this publication

The April Photo Society leaving my motherThe April Photo Society is the very first non governmental organisation of photographers established after the Chinese Cultural Revolution. From the late 1970s to the early 1980s, the society presented three groundbreaking exhibitions to introduce new ideas and skills of photography to the Beijing audience. Among these, the first exhibition held at the Zhongshan Park on April 1, 1979 is generally acknowledged as a landmark event in the history of