Photo album captures touching moments in China's COVID-19 fight
2020-04-30
The cover of the photo album
100 Photographers Focus on COVID-19.
A newly published photo album sheds light on some of the indelible moments in Chinese people's tenacious fight against the novel coronavirus.
The album, titled 100 Photographers Focus on COVID-19, is a collection of 356 images taken by more than 200 photographers across the country, many of them captured on the front lines of fighting COVID-19.
The cover features a medical worker with deep imprints left on her face from wearing mask and goggles for a long time. The photo offers a glimpse of the arduous efforts made by the more than 42,000 health workers sent to Hubei province, the area hit hardest in China by the virus, to help their local peers cure COVID-19 patients.
Li Ge, a veteran photographer who led the program that recorded the images of each and every of the medical workers aiding Hubei, said: "They are not only over 42,000 portraits, but also over 42,000 stories, and over 42,000 times of our hearts getting touched." Some of the medical workers' portraits are included in the album.
Xu Zugen, chairman of the China Photojournalists Society, said in the face of big disasters, photojournalists throw themselves to the front lines, no matter what they face is visible gunfire or invisible virus.
The album is compiled by China Daily and published by China Pictorial Press.
Community workers check temperature for residents at Sanyanqiao Street, Wuhan, Hubei province, on Feb 29, 2020. [Photo by Zhan Song/For China Daily]
A patient surnamed Zhu who has recovered from his infection of the novel coronavirus sees for the first time how the doctors and nurses look like in Wuhan, Hubei province, on March 31, 2020. The doctors and nurses from the Second Xiangya Hospital of Central South University in Changsha, capital city of Central China's Hunan province, left for home that day. [Photo by Li Ge/For China Daily]
People observe social distancing for a free haircut at a residential estate in Wanning city, Hainan province, on Febr 24, 2020. This day on Chinese lunar calendar is traditionally a day people get their hair cut after Spring Festival. [Photo by Liu Zhankun/For China Daily]
Pulling vegetables into a home in a community in Chaoyang District, Beijing, on Feb 27, 2020. [Photo by Wang Wenyang/For China Daily]
Patients infected with the novel coronavirus are sent to Wuhan Huoshenshan Hospital on Feb4, 2020. It was the first day that the newly-built hospital started to receive patients. [Photo by Xiao Yijiu/For China Daily]
A look inside Wuhan Sports Center, which was transformed into a makeshift hospital to treat novel coronavirus patients, in Wuhan, Hubei province, on Feb 17, 2020. [Photo by Xiao Yijiu/For China Daily]
A Yun-20 transport plane sends PLA medical workers to Wuhan Tianhe International Airport, Wuhan, Hubei province, on Feb 17, 2020. [Photo by Wei Lai/For China Daily]
Dancers of the Shanghai Ballet in Shanghai on March 2, 2020. [Photo by Tang Yanjun/For China Daily]
A boy plays on a scooter in front of Wumen Gate of the Forbidden City in Beijing on Feb 25, 2020. [Photo by Lu Shiyue/For China Daily]
