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Posted by sonia on October 18, 2008 in Aids

Zhao Tielin: shoot a 15 “Miss”

Lu Xun once sighed, very few dare to China Fuzhao tears and the bodies of traitors of the people. This to be fair, like Zhao Tielin such courage to defy world opinion and “Miss” as the sister who, for fear also rare.

Modern people to “Miss” is not cast aside by the impact of “Miss” the existence of this group – according to official statistics, China’s approach to all types of “Miss” more than 6 million – this is only the official figures.

Zhao Tielin shot 15, “Miss,” he call them “girls.” Quansuo or those in the dark, damp rented rooms, or on a small number of foreign hotel at the time the door, or in a city usually tacit a dark-red-light district under the lights hovering, and hope to migrant workers, Mangliu, foreigners and Upstart girls who follow his “Focus on the survival – Wandering in the city the edge of the girls”, “alternative life – a photographer in the eyes of real-world”, “Lens in the society”, “invisible “And other books and hundreds of thousands of words of the documentary text, re-entered the people’s vision.

Zhao Tielin photos and no special photographic techniques, have not deliberately gorgeous screen, all the lenses are simple even a rudimentary disclosed, showing a one of those girls or innocent, or naive, or bewitching face. In these on the “Miss” photos and text, Zhao Tielin infusion of compassion.

“New Weekly”: How do you begin to enter this field »

Zhao Tielin: I was in business, in the course of doing business, I found a song and dance halls in these girls. Because I have very strong feeling of classical literature, thought there are no Li Xiangjun, or Du Shiniang such a person, later identified. I immediately sensitive, and found that this is a creative source or material, on trying to do it out. So from the beginning of 1990 in Zhengzhou, has been in the film.

“New Weekly”: Do you feel that you make in the process of how to play a role »

Zhao Tielin: First of all is not spectators, they make friends and I, Accommodations and Dining together. I was no economic status, my own life it is very difficult, to eat when they called me: “Lao Zhao, down to eat!” I down and eat them one. But I think there is still another addition to the existing Zhao Tielin, he cold-shouldered by observation, all the things recorded. A photographer and write the work should be reflected in the world, I do so only in the accumulation of material.

“New Weekly”: health, you see, they are not very oriented » For instance, suffering from venereal diseases, AIDS is not in the majority »

Zhao Tielin: 60 percent of those girls probably 70 percent are sexually transmitted diseases, AIDS but as far as I know not many. Because from a scientific perspective, AIDS through sexual transmission and infection is not in the majority, only because we played up the publicity on this much, this is in fact in order to control the sex industry and the expansion of the epidemic.

These girls seldom come into contact with foreigners, but also pay attention to protective measures comparison, the general one to two months will be fixed to the hospital for a gynaecological examinations, but usually only check sexually transmitted diseases, few investigations AIDS, the general hospital gynaecological examination will not include AIDS.

“New Weekly”: they all use condoms? »

Zhao Tielin: general pick, they will be required to use condoms, condoms are provided by their own, if guests do not want to use, they prefer to do this business, or not sexual contact, use other means to meet the needs of the guests . However, there are very few girls as long as guests to the more money, do not have, such a situation is not the majority, but certainly an increase in sexually transmitted diseases or HIV infection risk.

Besides the condoms have now failed, it is easy to break, so that the use of condoms is not safe. As for AIDS, many girls even had the disease itself does not necessarily know that, because of its incubation period is too long.

“New Weekly”: that is their life, Guo Dehao? » Revenue how kind »

Zhaotie Lin: Of course not, in fact, they are mostly eager for a good life skills on this trip. Although the income is not less, but often have to feed the children, and even her boyfriend. Some girls were forces in control of the triad, a person’s income to support a number of men, to catch up with the unhappy men, but also was beaten and kicked.

“New Weekly”: life unsatisfactory, but also by being spurned by mainstream society, in the community no good, why this group has always existed? »

Zhao Tielin: Speaking from 1949, when the new China, the first on the eradication of the prostitutes, but such destruction is a protected. Overnight, on the truck to the station for posts, doors一, all prostitutes are on the train, immediately after the medical check-ups, occupational arrangements. I think this career is for them to solve this problem the key.

If you do not allow her this, you have to let her do that, we can not do nothing for her, she wants to eat ah. Therefore, as they are now, if Miss hosted by the public security organs, up to Chongcaojiuye after she had to, or to eat. Ultimately, this is a moving body being out of the social problems, is not a simple solution which can be completely resolved had the same, I still would like to take a long time.