镜头与建筑空间相伴

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张骑麟

Zhang Qilin

建筑与空间摄影师。从事专业建筑与空间摄影12年，中国摄影家协会会员，美国PPA职业摄影师协会会员，曾获2015金瓦奖杰出行业推动奖、美国Gettyimage（华盖）中国区年度摄影师大奖，两次荣获美国《国家地理》摄影比赛奖项。

Qilin Zhang, an architecture and space photographer,has been engaged i n professional architecture and space photography for 12 years. As a member of China Photographers Association and Professional Photographers of America Association, Zhang has won many awards, such as the Industry Promotion Award of JINWA Prize, the American Gettyimage Photographer of the Year Award of China and the National Geographic Photo Competition Awards of the US.

2018年3月7日，下午两点半，晴朗的天。在四川成都的一条街道上，张骑麟架起三角架，放上相机，弯着身子，右手扶着相机调着焦距，眼睛直直地望着取景器里的景色。

几天后，在三亚，他换上黑色短袖，还是拿着相机，望向沙滩和蔚蓝的海岸。

他步履不停，不是在拍照，就是在去拍照的路上。张骑麟的主业是建筑摄影，十多年来，他通过镜头与冰冷的建筑空间线条对话，而他的心却是热的。

On March 7, 2018, at 2:30 pm, the weather was fine. On a street in Chengdu, Sichuan province, Zhang set up a tripod, put on his camera and bent over. He put his right hand on the camera to adjust the focus and infatuatedly looked at the view in the viewfinder.

A few days later, in Sanya, Hainan Province, Zhang was in a black T-shirt. He still held his camera, staring at the white beach and the blue sea.

Zhang loves taking pictures and he never stopped his steps. He is either on the way to taking pictures or he is taking the picture. Architectural photography is his main business. For more than a decade, he has worked with these lines of architectural space through his lens. Although these lines are static and inanimate,he is always passionate.

偶然发生的必然选择 The Inevitable Choice by Chance

2004年，张骑麟从重庆师范大学摄影专业毕业，摄影原本只是他的爱好，因此他选择了平面设计，其中一个东家是《城市黄页》杂志。在那里，他偶尔会“兼职”拍摄城市建筑图片。一次机缘巧合，朋友请他拍摄一些样板空间，效果非常满意。

渐渐地，找张骑麟拍摄建筑的人多了起来。2007年，他辞掉工作，专心研究空间建筑摄影。十年过去，他成了国内首屈一指的建筑及空间摄影师，这才说服了自己摄影之于他不止爱好那么简单。

偶然的背后，还有着一些必然。

“我记得很清楚，上幼儿园时，我看书只看漫画书和彩色连环画，妈妈见我喜欢画画，就教我画简笔画。从小学一年级开始学习色彩和素描，一直到高中。”这让张骑麟渐渐形成了对美的评判。

“建筑空间摄影需要从大空间里去发现一小块最好看的，找到最美的角度。”儿时的“天赋”，如今反哺着他对身边事物的观察和感知。

Zhang majored in photography and he was graduated from Chongqing Normal University in 2004. Back then, photography was just a hobby for him, so he chose to be a graphic designer. As a graphic designer, he was once worked for the magazine-Look Yellow Page, where he occasionally took pictures 0f city buildings for a parttime job. One day, his friend asked him to take some pictures of sample space as a favor, and he did a fantastic job.

Gradually, increasing people come to him for architectural photography. In 2007, he quitted his job in order to devote himself to the study of space architecture photography. Ten years later, he has become one of the most famous architecture and space photographer in China. It is his current success that convinced him that photography was more than just a hobby.

What is behind the contingency is the inevitability.

Zhang said, “I clearly remembered that when I was in kindergarten, I only read comic books and colorful comic strips. My mother figured out that I like painting, so she taught me how to draw simple pictures. I started to learn colors and sketches from the first grade of elementary school to high school”.This allows Zhang to gradually form the aesthetic standard.

“When shooting architectures and space,photographers have to find a small but beautiful angle with best views from a large space”,Zhang said. The efforts he made in the past have strengthened his ability to observe and perceive things around him.

与冰冷对象的“交往” The Contact with the Inanimate Object

2007年，建筑及空间摄影似乎是一片空白，那时普遍流行写真、人像、婚纱摄影等。“曾经有近半年时间，没有一个人找我拍照。我只能靠做些设计维持生活。”但张骑麟不想放弃，“只要有一个人找我拍，我就要拍好。”

为了等到一束最适合的光，他愿意站在相机旁苦等四小时；为了利用好一个绝佳机位，他可以在60层的高楼顶上作业，直到电梯停运，最后不得不徒步走下来；为了一张完美的照片，他能够目不转睛在电脑前坐上数小时修片……

今年年初，他去拍摄张家口太舞滑雪场祟礼威斯汀源宿酒店。“室外零下29℃，带去的衣服，能穿的都穿上了，还是冷。拍摄至少要半个小时。我在外面拍几分钟后，进到屋内，身体暖和了再出去拍，前后拍了四次才完成。”他说这不叫“苦”，而是“酷”。

耐得住冰冷的境遇，才能收获温热。

“这是美国IAC 总部大楼，我专门等到黄昏了，人群都走了才拍。你看，建筑物的玻璃上反射着橘色的光……这是西班牙阿格坝大厦，晚上拍的，像一个子弹头，建筑物紫色的灯光很漂亮……”张骑麟露出慈父般的眼光，说个不停。

In 2007, architecture and space photography seemed to be a blank space. At that time, photos,portraits, and wedding photography were very popular. “I have undergone that no one has asked me to take pictures for nearly half a year. I could only rely on my designs to maintain my life”, said Zhang.However, Zhang never gave up. “As long as there is one person who asks me to take pictures, I will spare no efforts.”

In order to wait for the most suitable light, he was willing to stand by the camera for four hours;in order to find a perfect location to photograph, he could work on the top of a 60-storey building until the elevator stopped running and he had to walk down; for a perfect photo, he could sit in front of the computer for hours to fix the film...

Earlier this year, he went to photograph the Westin Element Chongli Hotel, near Taiwu Ski Resort in Zhangjiakou. Zhang said, “The outdoor temperature is minus 29 degrees Celsius, although I have worn all the clothes I have, I still felt so cold.The shooting takes at least half an hour. I stayed at outside for a few minutes, and then I walked into the house. After being warmed up, I went out and continue to photograph. I repeated this cycle four times until I finished my job”. He also said that this is not called “coldness” but “coolness”.

The present success comes from the past efforts.

“This is the IAC headquarters building in the United States. I did not start shooting until the dusk came and the crowd dispersed. You see, the orange light was reflected on the glass of the building...This is the Torre Agbar in Spain, which was taken at night.Don’t you think that it looks like a bullet? The purple lights of this building are very beautiful...”Zhang kept saying and looked at these pictures with the infinite tenderness.

展现个性与生命 The Embodiment of Personality and Life

空间与建筑往往是静态而庞大的，考验着摄影师与拍摄对象的沟通能力。每次拍摄前，张骑麟一定会去设计师那里，听空间的故事。

四年前，重庆市设计院原院长李秉奇找到张骑麟，请他拍摄其设计的重庆市政府大楼。“李院长和我聊了一个小时，告诉我市政府大楼为民国风，灰色外立面，屋顶是一大特色，借鉴了巴渝传统的吊脚楼坡屋顶，屋顶雕刻的镂空花纹遮住空调，所以从外面看不到空调。”

张骑麟相信，每一个建筑空间都有魂，这个魂就是设计师倾注心血的细节。坡屋顶就是用照片展现市政府大楼的切入点。为了寻找好的拍摄机位，他在大楼对面的大礼堂附近，爬上了一个广告牌的脚手架……这张照片，也许助推了重庆市政府大楼成为重庆唯一获得全国金奖的建筑物。

“我喜欢高迪的圣家族大教堂，他一生的精力都在里面，每一个细节都非常考究，很感人。”对建筑大师的敬仰，让张骑麟对自己的摄影有更高的要求，不但要拍出建筑本身的层次、质感、色彩和环境，“更重要的是表现建筑的个性与生命。”

实现这一点，他所理解的要义是坚持真实。“在真实的基础上，再感性地理解。色彩、明亮程度、构图，这些元素都带有感性色彩，组合起来就让照片多了一点艺术气息。”

Space and architectures are often static and huge.This means that the photographer must have a full understanding of the object. Therefore, Zhang would always pay the designer a visit before he started to take pictures.

Four years ago, the former president of Chongqing Architectural Design Institute, Li Bingqi came to Zhang and asked him to photograph the building of Chongqing municipal people’s government he designed. “President Li talked with me for an hour. He told me that this building was built in a republican-period style with a grey facade.The roof is very characteristic. It borrows from the traditional roof of stilted building prevalent in Sichuan and Chongqing areas. The hollow patterns carved on the roof cover the air conditioner, so no air conditioner can be seen from the outside.”

Zhang believes that every architecture has its soul and this soul is the very detail that the designer devoted all his efforts. The pitched roof is the entry point to show the building of Chongqing municipal people’s government by pictures. In order to find a good location to photograph, he climbed a billboard scaffold near the auditorium opposite the building... As a result, this photo may have helped the Chongqing Municipal Government Building become the only building in Chongqing that won the National Gold Award.

“I like Basilica and Expiatory Church of the Holy Family designed by Gaudí. He devoted his lifelong energy to it. Every detail is very elegant and touching”, Zhang said. Out of the admiration to great architects, Zhang formed high requirements for his photography. I should not only present the level,texture, color, and environment of the building, but also show “the personality and life of the building”.

To achieve this, he believes that maintaining original shape is the most important thing. On the basis of maintaining original shape, we should try to perceptually understand the building. Color,brightness, composition, all these elements are perceptual. The combination of them makes the photo a bit more artistic.