travel starts with photography

Chapter 147 Double Surprise
"Ladies and gentlemen, Léa Seydoux is the host of the 26th French Winter Photo Festival!"

Before Chen Xing could find the organization in the crowd, he heard such a sentence from the stage, and then there was an ear-piercing noise in the venue, as if a certain big-name star had appeared on the stage, but Chen Xing had never heard of this name.

Maybe fire only in France?
Looking towards the stage, a woman in a long white dress showing her entire back walked onto the stage with a microphone and a smile.

This temperament is not believed by anyone who is not a star.

"I didn't expect Mesut to find her to host."

"Does she have time? It seems that she does. I haven't heard of any movies she's making this year."

"I really like her performance in 007. What attracts her most is a kind of French feminine beauty. She has both the innocence of a child and the maturity of a woman. Sometimes she looks like a teenage girl. Sometimes it is graceful and graceful, with a mature woman's breath blowing over my face."

"I still like the "Adele's Life" filmed when she first debuted, she has such a good figure..."

On the stage, Leiya raised the microphone and said: "This year the organizing committee hired me as a female host. I probably know why. Maybe it's because I think it's cheaper to hire a female host than a male host."

Chen Xing was looking for her information on the search software.

Then I knew she was joking.

This woman is indeed not well-known in China, but she is a goddess-level figure in France. It can only be said that the organizing committee spent a lot of money. In order to attract ratings and public attention, she was invited here.

After enlivening the atmosphere for 10 minutes, the host said: "First of all, what we want to announce is the public's choice award of this photography festival."

At this time, it was already inconvenient for Chen Xing to go to someone to talk about things, so he and Salonia found a place to stand and listen to the announcement of the awards, and waited until the awards ceremony was over before going to the group of senior brothers and sisters.

The public's choice award is selected by the audience after all the works are shortlisted and the photos are posted on the official website.

Everyone knows which one is the winning work of this work.

"Congratulations, Edward, Perkis "The Aurora of Ny-Ålesund""

Edward Pelkis is a British citizen. Chen Xing also likes the aurora photos he took. Over the small town, the aurora showed a spiral upward trend, which was different from the aurora he had seen on the Internet before.

This kind of awards show seems to generally have more chatter than awards to be announced.

Otherwise, there are only a few awards in this kind of photography festival, and if it is announced in a short period of time, the show may be declared over soon.

So everyone was in a joyous and casual atmosphere, and the award ceremony proceeded slowly.

"...The next thing we are going to announce is the Best Story Award. Countless stories happen every year in this world, and only a very few of them can be recorded in time. The magic wand in the photographer's hand can make these stories spread for hundreds of years. , or even longer."

Leia opened the card in her hand and took a look.

"The winner of the Best Story Award at the 2021 French Winter Photography Festival is Xing Chen's "The Climber of the Snow Mountain"!"

Chen Xing didn't realize it for a while. He came to this party just to feel the atmosphere. After all, he just handed in his work yesterday, so how could he have himself in the selection the next night?
Am I right?
On the contrary, Saronia was more excited than Chen Xing. She shook Chen Xing's arm, but when she found that there was no response, she shook it harder.

"You have won the prize!!"

Chen Xing patted Salonia with his right hand to comfort her, and hurried to the stage.

He was completely dumbfounded.

The only sober thought is that Léa Seydoux smells so good, which is different from the perfumes she smelled on the street before, but it also makes Chen Xing feel unreal.

"I have to tell the truth first. I didn't expect that I would win an award. I am very grateful to the organizing committee for loving me and my companions who climbed the snow mountain with me. Because of you, I finally got this award." The appearance of a piece of work—by the way, I have to thank a certain photographer named Zhang, without you, maybe I would not be standing here, thank you all!"

"well said!!"

"Resist art thieves!"

Those who didn't come over these two days asked their companions what was going on, and after knowing the details, they began to support Chen Xing.

Some photographers in Huaxia watching the live broadcast on Youtube also sighed for what happened to Zhang Richao.

This person has been in the industry for ten years, and he still has some friends in China. No matter how bad his character is, as long as he knows how to pretend, he will get along well in the same circle. After the incident was exposed yesterday, someone even posted a message on Weibo saying that Zhang Richao is not such a person.

But as the evidence became more apparent, those who tweeted also deleted their comments.

Although the editors of Nanfang Daily are not in the photography circle, they are also paying attention to this matter because their affairs are such a big deal.Seeing that Chen Xing whipped Zhang Richao's corpse again at the awards party without mercy, he shook his head and said.

"Young people nowadays are so ruthless. Then who, you tell Zhang Richao to go to the finance office to settle his salary, and let him go home and rest temporarily."

If his words were known by netizens, they would probably reply.

"Not ruthless or post-zero?"

The young people in China’s new era will not be spoiled by anyone. Office culture can control the post-80s and even some post-90s, but definitely not the post-00s. Is it possible that this age can’t afford to eat?
Back to Chen Xing, he was walking down with a trophy with a small camera on it. People along the way were applauding and congratulating him along the way.

This was followed by the most notable gold and silver awards.

The silver award was won by a German photographer, and the gold award was won by Dennis.

After Chen Xing got off the stage, he thought about it a lot, and he felt that it would be best for him to win this story award. The one who can shoot portraits with this kind of storytelling, and also lead to a movement, is the photo of Chen Xing. up.

Color talent and scenery talent can produce blockbuster movies.

In the future, I will pay more attention to where there are photography competitions. Isn't this faster than becoming famous on the Internet?
After a while, Chen Xing found the senior sister who took the documentary photography, and asked, "If I want to sell this kind of photo to a magazine, how much will it be?"

"What magazine?"

"It seems to be called Purple"

"Oh? They want to buy your work? It's a good thing, but maybe the money won't be much, and your current reputation hasn't reached the level that requires them to make concessions."

"Is this magazine famous?"

"He is one of the best travel magazines in France. If they use your work, at least you will be famous in the French travel circle. The quality of your climbing is worthy of praise."

She and Chen Xing introduced several galleries, and said, "You don't need to look for them deliberately. It is estimated that many gallery owners will come to you in the next two days. By then, you will find the best salary in the few galleries I mentioned. That's enough."

Some small galleries may have good word-of-mouth, but if they are not strong enough, they will easily entrap the contracted photographers. This is also the same for the senior sister. When she first debuted, because she was an art student and changed careers, she didn’t understand anything. She wasted a few years in vain. .

"By the way, don't publish your work on other websites, or your work will be easily stolen just like this time. You can make your own website and put some of your best photos on it. Don't worry about whether people will find it, people who need it will definitely find your website."

"Thank you, sister."

Chen Xing has a good impression of this senior sister in her thirties. This affection is definitely not the emotion of men and women before, but a feeling of intimacy. Maybe this is what others feel when they face themselves?
In the next hour, Chen Xing got a business card that was two centimeters thick.

Most of them are photographers, as well as galleries, curators, models... don't look at some of them that Chen Xing can't use, but who can say that an artist who can win an award in this kind of photography festival at such a young age in the future? Qing?
The earlier you get to know each other, the earlier you accumulate contacts.

In novels, the dog's eyes look down on people, and the things that look at the dishes have become less and less common with the development of the times.As long as he still has such thoughts, then at least this person will never go far in his career, and it is impossible for him to enter this kind of party.

Chen Xing's alcohol capacity was not good, and he couldn't stand it when he drank around eleven o'clock, and left the hall with Sharonia.

After entering the elevator, Chen Xing pressed 11, and glanced at Sharonia twice indiscriminately.

He didn't open a room for Saronia, which meant that Saronia could only live in her own room after going up to the 11th floor.

Well, it looks like I can sleep well tonight.

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Chen Xing's visa expired on December 12. Unfortunately, Chen Xing missed the opportunity to spend the foreigner's New Year in France, and then return to China to celebrate the New Year again.

However, when he returned to Paris, he could already feel the enthusiasm of the French for Christmas.

It was still that cold day in Paris, without the pleasant climate of southern France at all.But the white and red decorations on the streets are at least twice as large as when Chen Xing left Paris. There are polar bears in the window of the clothing store, and Christmas trees in the large shopping mall.

The children on vacation happily played chasing games on the street, using pedestrians as roadblocks to avoid their partners, full of childlike fun.

But if you're that roadblock, it's a headache.

Chen Xing raised his hand holding the packing bag, waited until the children continued to run forward, then went to pick up the luggage, and took the car to the airport.

Originally, he was supposed to return to Paris yesterday, but he stayed in Nice for another day due to some personal reasons. In addition to accompanying the friends he just met, Chen Xing also handled the contract for the use of his works by "Purple" magazine.

Chen Xing of the gallery has to think again, after all, he will come to Paris to study next year, so he is not in a hurry to sign the contract now.

It usually takes several years to sign a contract. A good agent can plan the best career path for you. If it is not close, or the agent you signed does not value you, then you have to accumulate your works for several years.

When I exited the customs, it was not as strict as when I entered the country. I just checked Chen Xing's luggage briefly, and then wasted a lot of time in confirming whether the gifts Chen Xing bought were genuine.

After getting on the plane, Chen Xing opened his notebook and looked at the material he had taken during this period.

Airplanes are now becoming more high-tech. He always thought that all airplanes cannot use mobile phones or connect to the Internet, but these international airlines can not only connect to the Internet, they also provide WiFi signals.

It took half an hour for Chen Xing to sort out all the photos.

If Chen Xing was to rate this trip to France, he would be able to score [-] points. Not to mention the scenery he saw and the photos he took, he was admitted to the world's top art school and won the French Winter Photography Festival Award. Chen Xing could score [-] points.

And both of these events were unexpected surprises.

It's like you bought the Argentine champions when you were drunk, put the tickets in your clothes, and when the World Cup is over, you suddenly realize that you bought their victory... It's numb to win.

Chen Xing had the idea of ​​writing a travelogue again.

He wanted to write before, but he couldn't write because of poor writing skills, so he finally gave up.

Now that he has a talent for writing, it was so easy to write more serious travel notes before, but now it’s easier to write travel notes that are posted on his feed, isn’t it easier?
He will definitely not upload the original photos, only the compressed ones with watermarks.

He wrote this travel note very smoothly. He wrote down a small part of his travel experience in France after three hours on the plane.

While Chen Xingfei was in the sky, the chess and card room in Chen Xing's hometown received an inexplicable package.

Chen Ma is not very curious, and nothing can stop her eating melon seeds and watching dramas, but after her husband tore open the package, she still found it a bit strange to see a red book out of the corner of her eye.

"Is this a book?"

"Well, there's another envelope."

Hearing the envelope, Chen Ma became a little interested and said, "There should be money inside, right?"

"do not know."

Chen Jiannan took out a letter from the bottom of the book, saw his son's name written on the envelope, and frowned. He felt that the matter was not simple. Could it be that his son had contributed to this magazine?

He hesitated for a while whether to open it to read, but Chen Ma didn't want to keep his son's right to privacy, so she took the envelope and opened it to read.

There are 20 yuan and a piece of paper inside.

Huaxia National Geographic Magazine.

Manuscript notification.

Comrade Chen Xing: Your article "Ancient Village in Southern Yunnan: Thousands of Mirrors Reflect the Smoke" has been accepted by our journal and will be published in the first issue of "Huaxia National Geographic" magazine in 2022.

In fact, the manuscript notice was sent to the author in advance, but when did Chen Xing hand over the manuscript to the magazine?They didn't have much time to prepare, so they could only send it to Chen Xing along with the trial issue.

Generally speaking, Chen Xing's mail in China is the mahjong parlor at home.

After all, only major logistics companies like this will deliver the goods to your door. Otherwise, if you encounter a courier company that is far away, you will have to walk half an hour to pick up the courier in winter, and you will lose the mood of unpacking the courier.

　The fever is gone, but cough, the lung cough hurts
　　
　
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