Like A Father Like A Mountain

• Prize
  Bronze in Portfolio/Personal
• Photographer
  Pan Wang
• Agency / Studio
  Wangpan Photoing
• Technical Info
  Medium Frame Film Camera
• Photo Date
  2017-2021

To me, the great Qinling in China is more than a mountain range, it’s the embodiment of a father. In fact, Daqinling is referred to as ‘father mountain’. When I was a child I looked at the boundless mountains and asked the elders to explain where they began and ended, but there was never an answer. My father died when I was five, but I remember him taking me to Qinling on his bicycle to visit relatives and friends. Images of this constantly flash in my heart. After he died 30 years later , I became a father too, and at the same age of him,I began to photograph the Qinling, eventually spending