1990年，有一位老人写下了四个大字，中国基础教育大发展的齿轮开始转动。1991年，有一位摄影师拍摄到了一双大眼睛，千万中国孩子的命运从此开始转变。

快门按下不用一秒，35年来，他的相机仍在曝光。他的镜头，始终聚焦于个人命运的具象承载-那些被生活裹挟却又顽强闪烁的个体生命，因其对个体生存状态的深切关怀与精准捕捉，超越了单纯的视觉呈现，升华为个体命运的共情体认，并由此编织入中国社会系统化发展的宏大叙事之中。他让我们看到，宏大的历史进程，其根基正是由无数具体而微小的生命选择与坚韧所构筑。

解海龙的希望工程系列作品以纪实摄影形式聚焦中国农村教育问题，其中最具代表性的是1991年创作的纪实摄影作品《大眼睛》系列照片，以安徽省金寨县乡村女童苏明娟为拍摄对象，通过特写镜头展现其充满求知欲的凝视神态，成为希望工程标志性纪实摄影作品。此次展览展出了解海龙多幅代表作品，旨在通过穿越时空的影像，带领观众思考自身在时代中的位置与力量，共同探寻照亮前路的精神之光。

解海龙，中国摄影家协会原分党组成员、副秘书长，中国文艺志愿者协会顾问，世界华人摄影联盟副主席，宋庆龄基金会理事。其作品在国内外摄影界获得了广泛的赞誉和高度的认可。其中《我要上学》（大眼睛）被评为建国以来最令人记忆深刻的10幅照片第一位，还被中国美术馆等各级机构收藏。解海龙的希望工程系列作品多次入编重要摄影画册，其作品在摄影艺术价值和历史意义上都得到了国内外的广泛认可，是中国最具国际影响力的艺术家之一。

In 1990, an elderly man wrote down four bold characters, and the wheels of China's basic education development began to turn. In 1991, a photographer captured a pair of big eyes, and from that moment, the fate of millions of Chinese children started to change.

It took less than a second to press the shutter, yet for 35 years, his camera has never stopped exposing. His lens has always focused on the tangible carriers of individual destiny—those lives swept along by circumstance yet flickering with tenacity. Through deep empathy and precise capture of their existential conditions, his work transcends mere visual documentation, rising to a resonant recognition of individual fate, and in doing so, weaves itself into the grand narrative of China’s systematic social development. He shows us that the vast sweep of history is built on countless small, concrete choices and acts of resilience.

Xie Hailong’s Project Hope series uses documentary photography to spotlight rural education issues in China. The most iconic work is the "Big Eyes" series, created in 1991, featuring Su Mingjuan, a young girl from a village in Jinzhai County, Anhui Province. The extreme close-up of her gaze, brimming with longing for knowledge, became the defining image of Project Hope. This exhibition presents a selection of Xie Hailong’s representative works, inviting viewers to reflect on their own place and power in this era through images that transcend time, and to seek together the spiritual light that illuminates the way forward.

Xie Hailong is former Party Group Member and Deputy Secretary-General of the China Photographers Association, Advisor to the China Literary and Art Volunteers Association, Vice Chairman of the World Chinese Photography Alliance, and Board Member of the Song Ching Ling Foundation. His works have earned widespread acclaim and high recognition in photography circles both in China and abroad. Among them, "I Want to Go to School" (Big Eyes) was ranked first among the ten most memorable photographs taken since the founding of the People's Republic and has been collected by the National Art Museum of China and other institutions. Xie’s Project Hope series has been featured repeatedly in major photography albums, and its artistic value and historical significance are widely acknowledged internationally, making him one of China’s most globally influential artists.